Bandler Quotes

#1. The Structure of Magic I by Richard Bandler and John Grinder is a delightful simplification of the infinite complexities of the language I use with patients. In reading this book, I learned a great deal about the things that I've done without knowing about them.

Milton H. Erickson

#2. Physics changes, but reality stays the same

Richard Bandler

#3. Optimism, that is healthy in its application, will inevitably result in better physical and emotional health.

Richard Bandler

#4. You are born with only two fears: fear of falling and fear of loud noise. All the rest is learned. And it's a lot of work!

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#5. Learning is about looking at things differently, making your life a little better everyday.

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#6. Since most problems are created by our imagination and are thus imaginary, all we need are imaginary solutions.

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#7. If you say to yourself 'It's difficult to get up in the morning', 'It's hard to cease smoking', then you are already using hypnotic suggestions on yourself

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#8. If you can't enjoy what you have, you can't enjoy more of it.

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#9. We need to learn to treat our own brain better - understanding how it works will help us do that.

Richard Bandler

#10. Brains aren't designed to get results; they go in directions. If you know how the brain works you can set your own directions. If you don't, then someone else will.

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#11. The fact is that there is nothing wrong with most of us that a good, clean change of attitude and some new skills wouldn't fix.

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#12. Memories are like holograms: you recreate in your head the whole image of something which isn't there.

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#13. It's an attitude that has to do with curiosity, with wanting to know about things, wanting to be able to influence things, and wanting to be able to influence them in a way that's worthwhile

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#14. How much pleasure can you stand?

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#15. The meaning of a communication is the result you get.

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#16. People wait for something to happen in order to be happy; the key is to be happy regardless.

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#17. Most people plan by disaster. They think of what can go wrong and then they master it.

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#18. Sometimes people say,' One day you are going to look back at this and laugh.' My question is:' Why wait?

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#19. We take the very best of what people do, synthesise it down, make it learnable and share it with each other - and that is what the real future of what NLP will be and its gonna stay that way!

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#20. The best thing about the past is that it's over. The best thing about the future is that it's yet to come. The best thing about the present is that it's here now.

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#21. There are no failures - only feedback.

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#22. You can't change people by removing something. You must create a void and then fill it ...

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#23. Do you want to know the easiest way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences of someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

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#24. You can stop anything but a person with a good attitude.

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#25. Evolution isn't over. We are the experience that the universe is having.

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#26. The reason people have problems is that they have too much time to think.

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#27. People always tell me with absolute certainty that they don't trust themselves.

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#28. Make it a habit of always putting stuff in the same place. By doing this, you never waste mental energy trying to figure where you left what you searching.

Scott Bandler

#29. Kate Benson is an expert in applying NLP in the education sector. She is thoroughly organised, highly skilled and the love for what she teaches comes across in her presentations. I guarantee you will have a thoroughly enjoyable experience.

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#30. Understanding why something happened does not help to reduce the problem.

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#31. The currency of living is how you spend the moments of your life

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#32. The worst drug of all is seriousness versus humor and pleasure!

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#33. The truth is, people don't stay the same. People either get better or they get worse.

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#34. If it's worth feeling bad about, it's worthy of amnesia.

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#35. Remember, it's your own body, your own brain. You're not a victim of the universe, you are the universe.

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#36. The greatest personal limitation is to be found not in the things you want to do and can't, but in the things you've never considered doing.

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#37. The easier you can make it inside your head, the easier it will make things outside your head.

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#38. We should all rehearse and practise the positives in our life, rather than doing what so many people do.

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#39. Freedom is everything and Love is all the rest

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#40. NLP is an attitude and a methodology, not the trail of techniques it leaves behind

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#41. I don't think that understanding produces change. Learning produces change.

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#42. Don't re-open old wounds in order to examine their origins. Leave them healed.

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#43. There are all kinds of things we can do in this world to make it a better place but we must start with ourselves.

Richard Bandler

#44. You know what ? Certain people think they will feel good if certain things happen The trick is : you have to feel good for no reason

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