T. Harv Eker Quotes

I remember reading an article about this idea of borderline personality disorder, which is reality producers try the find people who are sort of flamboyantly anti-social in these certain ways, because what happens when you put them around other people is they drag everyone down to their level. I feel like I'm watching this disgraceful race to the bottom.

I know what it's like to start something and have it suddenly grow out of control. And you want to get rid of it, because it's hurting you and everyone else around you, but every time you try to do that, it consumes you again.

When you surround yourself with the wrong people it's going to backfire every time.

Avoid the poison in your life that brings you turmoil.

Don't untie me," she said, "no matter what happens or how much I plead. I'll want to go straight over the edge and drown myself." "Are you trying to tempt me?" "Ha-ha.

I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game. Whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time.

The ones who don't do anything are always the ones who try to pull you down.

There's nothing worse than poisoning our children's minds.

I want to be the victim of his errors.

When you invest your time and energy in stuff that drags you down, you die a little bit every day.

I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.

Sometimes too much tolerance can kill you. If you are tolerant of people poisoning themselves to death they will drag you down. They will ruin your life by being intentional obstacles to your dreams.

She wanted, with her fickleness, to make my destruction constant; I want, by trying to destroy myself, to satisfy her desire.

Ill customs and bad advice are seldom forgotten.

Trouble can often be traced to a single strong individual — the stirrer, the arrogant underling, the poisoner of goodwill. If you allow such people room to operate, others will succumb to their influence. Do not wait for the troubles they cause to multiply, do not try to negotiate with them — they are irredeemable. Neutralize their influence by isolating or banishing them. Strike at the source of the trouble and the sheep will scatter.

I don't want to sound like a heroic woman or to seem full of myself, but I do have a core of trust that I'll figure things out and find my way. And if whatever I try is not a good experience, even that is a good experience. If something turns out lousy, it's interesting.

I don't want to be Oprah [Winfrey], I'm not trying to be Barbara Walters, but we can all do better.

I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held.

I don't want to be a victim. I don't want to disappear into the darkness.

I always try to be open to whatever the universe wants from me.

Calumny is a vice of curious constitution; trying to kill it keeps it alive; leave it to itself and it will die a natural death.

I do want to direct, eventually. I don't know if it will be a short film or a music video or a feature, but I know that I want to at least try it and see.

I've always believed that if you want to really try and make a great film, not a good film, but a great film, you have to take a lot of risks.

There's nothing like having a sympathetic reader who asks the right questions, who understands what you're trying to achieve and only wants to make it better.

Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.