1
2
3
5
8
12
20
33
52
83
133
213
340
543
867
1384
2208
3346
3522
5430
5431
5432
5433
5434
5443
5619
6757
7581
8098
8422
8625
8752
8832
8882
8913
8932
8945
8953
8957
8960
8962
8963
8964
8965
▲
▼
| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7fd5f17 | The treatment must fit the malady and the malady is not alcoholism or addiction, or addictive drugs and alcohol. Once the correct cause is diagnosed, healing will take place and hoped-for cure will come about. | addiction-cure addiction-treatment addictive-drugs alcohol-abuse alcohol-rehab chris-prentiss depression drug-abuse drug-rehab health holistic-healing passages-malibu passages-ventura | Chris Prentiss | |
| ca718ad | Although you may have never sat down and defined what your philosophy is, it is fully operative and working in your life at all times. It deals with what you believe about the world in which you live, about its people and events, about how you affect them. | life life-and-living philosophy zen zen-and-the-art-of-happiness | Chris Prentiss | |
| 7a165b4 | Even the worst outcome we can imagine will ultimately benefit us. It is because of that law of favor-ability that the Universe is able to continue and we are able to bring about the fruition of our plans. | doubt i-ching universal-law wu-wei | Wu Wei | |
| ae9533f | When you change the way you see and interpret events, suddenly everything will be different for you. Everything will make sense. | chris-prentiss inspiration inspirational life passages-malibu passages-ventura perspective philosophy | Chris Prentiss | |
| aa31634 | Every belief that you hold manifests itself in some manner by either causing you to take some form of action or by preventing you from taking action. If you don't believe something is possible, you won't even attempt it. | happiness life metaphysics philosophy zen zen-and-the-art-of-happiness | Chris Prentiss | |
| b18ead5 | The way to heal your relationship is to look for the underlying conditions in yourself and in your partner that have caused your relationship to go off track and then to seek out the guidance you need to heal yourself. The Laws of Love will give you that guidance. | relationships the-laws-of-love | Chris Prentiss | |
| 5aeb05c | Stress comes from the way you relate to events or situations. | life philosophy stress stress-management zen zen-and-the-art-of-happiness | Chris Prentiss | |
| 4205ebb | If you allow disagreements and arguments to escalate, you are making the bone of contention of whatever you are heatedly arguing about more important than your relationship. | inspiration life love relationships self-help the-laws-of-love | Chris Prentiss | |
| 6ef74cc | We like to take credit when we get a new idea, as if we originated the idea in our brain, but what we actually did was no less extraordinary: we channeled the idea. | creative ideas inspiration life new-ideas read reading writing | Chris Prentiss | |
| b2a9c9c | You use your brain much as you would use a radio crystal; you tune in different frequencies. | ideas inspiration life new-ideas quotes | Chris Prentiss | |
| 2b30b9d | Believe that is cure is possible for you. Discover and heal the underlying causes with a holistic recovery program. Adopt a philosophy based on what is true in the Universe. | addiction-cure addiction-free addiction-treatment-center alcohol-addiction-treatment change change-the-world chris-prentiss curing-addiction drug-addiction-treatment freedom good-books happiness healing health holistic-health holistic-treatment inspiration inspire life non-12-step non12step passages-malibu passages-ventura philosophy recommended-reading renew self-help self-improvement sober sober-living sobriety treatment-program universe wisdom | Chris Prentiss | |
| 4e05711 | It is ethanol that everyone is after when they drink alcoholic beverages. That is what gives us the euphoric feeling, and that is what all vendors of alcoholic drinks are selling. | addiction-and-recovery addiction-treatment-center alcohol alcoholism holistic-treatment passages-malibu passages-ventura | Chris Prentiss | |
| 0633b56 | We know that you don't want to be a drunk and you don't want to be hooked on addictive drugs. You do it because you can't cope with your life without some sort of support, even if that support is damaging. | addiction-treatment-center alcohol-abuse alcohol-rehab chris-prentiss dependency drug-abuse drug-rehab passages-malibu passages-ventura pax-prentiss recovery | Chris Prentiss | |
| dca1b95 | The events that occur in my life are workout situations. They are there for my benefit so I can become strong and gain wisdom and information by working my way through those situations. | addiction-and-recovery addiction-free chris-prentiss chris-prentiss-quotes guilt happiness joy life love pain passages-malibu passages-ventura peace philosophy philosophy-of-life wisdom | Chris Prentiss | |
| 17d0104 | Whatever you now do, whatever you now believe, whatever your current circumstances may be, you are perfectly equipped and fully capable of fulfilling your needs and desires. | chris-prentiss life non-12-step passages-malibu passages-rehab passages-ventura quotes | Chris Prentiss | |
| 36e7e05 | If you feel depressed for an hour, you've produced approximately eighteen billion new cells that have more receptors calling out for depressed-type peptides and fewer calling out for feel-good peptides. | depression happiness mindfulness philosophy zen zen-and-the-art-of-happiness | Chris Prentiss | |
| f4bf595 | It is more important that we listen to others than to always be speaking, for in that way we learn what there is to know. We should be easy to talk to, and grateful for new information. | grateful knowledge learning listening wu-wei | Wu Wei | |
| 60c10bd | What we call coincidences, accidental and remarkable events occurring at the same time, are actually circumstances and events that have come into your life to serve a purpose- and that purpose is to benefit you. | chris-prentiss inspiration inspirational life life-purpose non-12-step-program passage-ventura passages-malibu perspective philosophy quotes | Chris Prentiss | |
| a754030 | The word Universe is made up of two Latin words- uni (meaning "one") and versus (meaning "turned into"). It literally means "one turned into." | life metaphysics universe | Chris Prentiss | |
| 60d3c4d | The energy everything is made of is conscious. It's alive. | energy inspiration life metaphysics quotes | Chris Prentiss | |
| c260ac9 | The challenges and changes you meet are, in effect, hand delivered to you by a generous, loving Universe for the purpose of making you stronger and wiser. | inspiration life relationships self-help the-laws-of-love | Chris Prentiss | |
| aab80f3 | Once you look at your problems as "workout situations," they take on a whole new aspect." | inspiration life self-help the-laws-of-love | Chris Prentiss | |
| bcf1f56 | The world actually is a mirror, and as you change, you will see everything around you changing as well as mirroring your changes. | chris-prentiss dependency passages-malibu self-help self-improvement | Chris Prentiss | |
| 9bce623 | The moment you make the internal changes necessary to obtain your goal, the outside world changes instantly. | passages-malibu philosophy philosophy-of-life self-help self-improvement | Chris Prentiss | |
| 00cdb23 | Staying sober is easy once you have been successful in healing the underlying conditions that were responsible for your dependency in the first place. | addiction-rehab addiction-treatment alcohol-rehab california-rehab chris-prentiss drug-rehab malibu-rehab non-12-step non12step passages-malibu passages-rehab passages-ventura | Chris Prentiss | |
| 070048f | It's okay to let go, chere. There's no one here but you and me. | Julie Ann Walker | ||
| 28a898d | Lorean? The Doctor's TARDIS?" "Whose TARDIS?" Thomas asked. "That's right." Mr. Pianova smiled."Blue box and every interior the Doctor has roamed in." "Doctor who?" Thomas asked again, He had never heard anything about a time travelling doctor, and he doubted Mr. Pianova referred to Doctor Franco. "Exactly," Mr. Pianova said, deepening his confusion. So Thomas decided to let it go." | Julian Rosado-Machain | ||
| 84ffb5b | There are traps built into any kind of knowledge gained from observation. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 6757b61 | I was a computer guy with an expensive dream. | Ed Catmull | ||
| 9a9cc2c | Every morning, as I walk into Pixar Animation Studios--past the twenty-foot-high sculpture of Luxo Jr., our friendly desk lamp mascot, through the double doors and into a spectacular glass-ceilinged atrium where a man-sized Buzz Lightyear and Woody, made entirely of Lego bricks, stand at attention, up the stairs past sketches and paintings of the characters that have populated our fourteen films--I am struck by the unique culture that defin.. | Ed Catmull | ||
| 4b82051 | Better to have train wrecks with miniature trains than with real ones. | Ed Catmull | ||
| 70f21a9 | Many of the rules that people find onerous and bureaucratic were put in place to deal with real abuses, problems, or inconsistencies or as a way of managing complex environments. But while each rule may have been instituted for good reason, after a while a thicket of rules develops that may not make sense in the aggregate. The danger is that your company becomes overwhelmed by well-intended rules that only accomplish one thing: draining the.. | Ed Catmull | ||
| 85824c4 | Here's what we all know, deep down, even though we might wish it weren't true: Change is going to happen, whether we like it or not. Some people see random, unforeseen events as something to fear. I am not one of those people. To my mind, randomness is not just inevitable; it is part of the beauty of life. Acknowledging it and appreciating it helps us respond constructively when we are surprised. | Ed Catmull | ||
| c7c9b2b | Driving the train doesn't set its course. The real job is laying the track. | Ed Catmull | ||
| a52255d | But ease isn't the goal; excellence is. | Ed Catmull | ||
| 50e4869 | How do we enable our people to solve problems? Instead, they asked: How do we prevent our people from screwing up? | Ed Catmull | ||
| bef27a8 | If we start with the attitude that different viewpoints are additive rather than competitive, we become more effective because our ideas or decisions are honed and tempered by that discourse. | Ed Catmull | ||
| 6fcdd8e | Fear of change--innate, stubborn, and resistant to reason--is a powerful force. | Ed Catmull | ||
| 00820bd | While Toyota was a hierarchical organization, to be sure, it was guided by a democratic central tenet: You don't have to ask permission to take responsibility. | Ed Catmull | ||
| 60ffc80 | People want decisiveness, but they also want honesty about when you've effed up, | Ed Catmull | ||
| 20179f2 | Only when we admit what we don't know can we ever hope to learn it. | Ed Catmull | ||
| fbdee3a | When experimentation is seen as necessary and productive, not as a frustrating waste of time, people will enjoy their work--even when it is confounding them. | Ed Catmull | ||
| 065ffcd | Candor isn't cruel. It does not destroy. On the contrary, any successful feedback system is built on empathy, on the idea that we are all in this together, that we understand your pain because we've experienced it ourselves. The need to stroke one's own ego, to get the credit we feel we deserve--we strive to check those impulses at the door. The Braintrust is fueled by the idea that every note we give is in the service of a common goal: sup.. | Ed Catmull | ||
| dd17798 | WHILE I THINK the reasons for postmortems are compelling, I know that most people still resist them. So I want to share some techniques that can help managers get the most out of them. First of all, vary the way you conduct them. By definition, postmortems are supposed to be about lessons learned, so if you repeat the same format, you tend to uncover the same lessons, which isn't much help to anyone. | Ed Catmull |