Phil McGraw
Phil McGraw
Phillip Calvin "Phil" McGraw, known as Dr. Phil, is an American television personality, author, psychologist, and the host of the television show Dr. Phil, which debuted in 2002. McGraw first gained celebrity status with appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show in the late 1990s. In 2015, Forbes listed his earnings at $70 million for the previous 12 months, and ranked him the 15th highest earning celebrity in the world...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPsychologist
Date of Birth1 September 1950
CountryUnited States of America
Are you doing what you're doing today because you want to do it, or because it's what you were doing yesterday?
I tell you, if you're in the front row of the parade and you stop walking, pretty soon you're back in the tuba section. And if you want to lead the parade you've got to keep moving.
It's so much easier to tell people what they want to hear instead of what they need to hear.
You must demand nothing less than the best of yourself and for yourself. You must tell yourself that it is not wrong to want it all.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
The difference between winners and losers is that winners do things losers don't want to do.
If you don't know what it is you want - and I mean specifically - then you won't even know when you have it.
Really, everybody sometimes will think about Christmas, Christmases past, like it was a Currier & Ives print, you know, the candle in the window, the snow on the sill, and isn't this wonderful? But the truth was Uncle Harry got drunk, the kids were fighting over the toys, there wasn't enough money, you overate.
Not everybody is some kind of media model.
Now, my body fat runs around 18 percent, which is normal and, you know, kind of in the middle of normal, actually.
As parents we're not nearly as computer literate as our children are.
What I want people to do is what's healthy for them.
I don't care how pumped up or psyched you are to start a new diet or a new program - that emotion will fade.
Nothing's funnier to me than laughing at myself.