Richard Bandler Quotes

Quotes from Dr Richard Bandler, creator of NLP

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

"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."

“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”

“Physics changes, but reality stays the same”

"People always tell me with absolute certainty that they don't trust themselves"

All we are ever doing is putting things together or taking things apart…”

"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!”

“If your world isn't moving a hundred times faster than your client, then you're not going to see the other person's patterns. You won't have the time to observe them or replay their behaviour to detect their patterns.”

“The evolution isn't over. We are the experience that the universe is having.

“Disappointment requires adequate planning”

“Brains aren't designed to get result; 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.”

"In High School I flunked English Language and Public Speaking. NLP was my revenge!"

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

"Ho hum, more pleasure!"

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...

You know what ? Certain people think they will fell good if certain things happen... The trick is : you have to feel good for no reason...
But I'm sure of something, if you make you feel bad, you'll make bad decisions.
Remember, it's your own body, your own brain. You're not a victim of the universe, you are the universe.
If you can't enjoy what you have, you can't enjoy more of it.

Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.

I don't have to be an expert to use something. All I have to do is to use it.
- I'm depressed- How do you know that ?- I'm sorry ?- You don't have to be sorry. How do you know, maybe are you happy !- I don't think so.- Are you sure ?- Yeah- Are you sure enough to be unsure ?- As a matter of fact of fact, I'm am.- Good, so you are certain you have doubt

Peoples tell me with absolute certainty they don't trust themselves. Or they tell me that they decided absolutely that they can't make good decision.
You know what, it's impossible for anyone to tell you anything that's a generalisation about themselves that won't destroy itself including that one...

I have news for you, God made me forgive you but I'm not going to. To me I don't want to be forgiven, I want to do better. See, one people tell me "I'm really sorry". I go "Fuck you", just do better. Don't tell me so I have to make you feel better.

I made the door in my house left-handed, because I'm left handed. When people come in, they push the door the wrong way, and hit themselves on the door. And you know what ? People keep harder and harder to do it ! When something doesn't work, try the same thing harder !

I work with kids taht are lysdexic

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

It's not impossible; it's the way I make that don't make it happen.

Don't ever to busy to be alive...

Memories are like holograms : you recreate in your head the whole image of something which isn't there.
Against what do they check your vision ? Against the most-non natural thing : a letter chart. You don't find them in nature. You don't go in the forest and see an 'E'.

When you are altering submodalities, you are already in some time distortion, the way you organize time a certain times versus others allows you to change those submodalities.

If you want to test the submodality shift between something you're sure, and something you're not, choose this fact : 'Doing in waking time every trance phenomenon I can do in trance'.

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

How much pleasure can you stand?

"- I'm depressed..."
If you ask about what, and he answers "I don't know !", you're stuck. Ask "How do you know ?". Always ask about the biggest chunk.
If you can't get all that stuff you learned back to the store and get a refund, then you haven't integrated it !

So, hypnosis doesn't exists... And the way, what's your name, I don't remember. And what was so important for you not to forget. NOW !

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