Esther Hicks Quotes

What distracts us will begin to define us. We don't need to swing at every pitch.

Anybody can play decent golf like me, but people trip on their own minds. They need to create a little distance between what they think and what they do.

I don't focus well angry.

Discipline enables you to think first and act second.

I've learned to check the hasty words that rise to my lips, and when I feel that they mean to break out against my will, I just go away for a minute, and give myself a little shake for being so weak and wicked.

I learned long ago to focus on things you can control and don't even pay attention to things you don't.

When we are fully conscious and aware, we actually know when we are about to overreact. When we are mindful, we have the mental space and are aware of when our moods change. When we are mindful, we are aware of when our mental models are being challenged and when expectation does not meet with reality, which can trigger an emotional response.

I wish I were stronger in areas. Not so consumed or distracted.

When a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master, but lies at the mercy of fortune: so much so, that he is often compelled, while seeing that which is better for him, to follow that which is worse.

If you get into emotions, then it disturbs your work. Sometimes you focus on what's less important and not the main thing.

Now, I don't sweat the small stuff, just the things that really matter.

I think one big thing for me that I need to work on is being able to separate my feelings and emotions from my matches.

Discipline yourself. Be conscious of what you think, and what you like. What gets you mad? What gets you in your feelings? Figure that stuff out and take control of it so nobody else can control you.

If - when someone asks me a question, if I could just focus on not joking, I think that would be great, because for some reason, I can't.

Thinking is a momentary dismissal of irrelevancies.

Give them your brains, girl, never your guts.

Practice self-discipline and keep emotions under control. Good judgment and common sense are essential.

A man likes to believe that he is the master of his soul. But as long as he is unable to control his moods and emotions, or to be conscious of the myriad secret ways in which unconscious factors insinuate themselves into his arrangements and decisions, he is certainly not his own master.

While our pulse beats and we feel emotion, let us put off the business. Things will truly seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down. It is passion that is in command at first, it is passion that speaks, it is not we ourselves.

At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door and say,—'Come out unto us.' But keep thy state; come not into their confusion. The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through my act.

Whatever gets your goat gets your attention. Whatever gets your attention gets your time. Whatever gets your time gets you. Whatever gets you becomes your master. Take care, lest a little thing horn in and get your goat

Sometimes, a new toy, a new technology, will focus you. The world is always trying to draw you out, so you always have to remember to go in.

Well, the first thing we do is take our brain out and put it in a drawer. Stick it somewhere and let it tantrum until it wears itself out. You may still hear the brain and all the shitty things it is saying to you, but it will be muffled, and just the fact that it is not in your head anymore will make things seem clearer. And then you just do it.

If you try to get rid of fear and anger without knowing their meaning, they will grow stronger and return.

Be not swept off your feet by the vividness of the impression, but say, "Impression, wait for me a little. Let me see what you are and what you represent. Let me try you."