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I don't usually read self-help books, but I read a great book by a guy called Wayne Dyer: 'The Power of Intention,' which I loved.
Chris Pine / Actor
Great Book
Intention
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Wayne
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When I look for self-help books for myself, I used to be scared that I was going to pick up a book that would depress me even more.
Vinny Guadagnino / Television Personality
Book
Depressing
Self
Self Help
Myself Me Look
Depress
Myself Look Me
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We are what we are, because of the vibrations of thought which we pick up and register, through the stimuli of our daily environment.
Napoleon Hill / Author
Self Help
Thinking
Vibrations
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I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.
George Carlin / Comedian
Funny
Hilarious
Defeat
Purpose
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Sarcastic
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She
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Go to any bookstore, and you'll see thousands of books on etiquette, which suggests there's a lot of self-help going on. There is hope.
Letitia Baldrige / Expert
Etiquette
Self Help
Bookstore
Thousands
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I actually really wish I had written 'The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying' as an unreliably narrated novel that is also a self-help book.
Elif Batuman / Author
Life Changing
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I consider the indiscriminate propagation of self-help to be morally unacceptable... self-help is the opposite of autonomous or vernacular life.
Ivan Illich / Philosopher
Autonomous
Propagation
Self Help
Vernacular
Indiscriminate
Morally
Unacceptable
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I have had moments where I've had mental-health issues and I've felt like yoga and meditating and reading these Buddhist self-help books actually really help.
Mike White / Director
Yoga
Book
Buddhist
Meditating
Reading
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I went to an extreme for literary purposes because I felt all the self-help books out there were so gooey and Pollyanna-ish and nauseating. It was making me angry.
Robert Greene / American Author
Self Help
Literary
Purposes
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In academe, we ought to temper our criticism of the idea of self-help because, in a more complex way, it is precisely what we offer our students through our teaching.
Amitava Kumar / Writer
Criticism
Self Help
Precisely
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Human beings have kicked around the concept of what individual happiness means for centuries, from the Bible to the ancient Greeks to the 1859 bestseller 'Self-Help.'
Mary Pilon /
Ancient
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Ancient Greeks
Bestseller
Centuries
Greeks
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What annoys me about most self-help books is that they have no tragic sense. They have no sense that life is fundamentally incomplete rather than accidentally incomplete.
Alain De Botton / Writer
Incomplete
Self Help
Tragic
Accidentally
Annoys
Fundamentally
No Sense
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Refuse to ever use the term 'failure' again about yourself or anyone else. Remind yourself that wehn things didn't go as planned you didn't fail, you only produced a result.
Wayne Dyer / Author
Failure
Self Help
Use
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The thing I love most about going to a book store is the self-help section is the biggest section because Americans know we're screwed up. We know it. But we want to get better.
Hamza Yusuf / Scholar
Self Help
Love Better Know
Biggest
Book Store
Screwed
Section
Store
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I worked at a nursing home though high school... There's a lost appreciation for a generation that has so much to tell us when we're so full of self-help books and doctors on TV.
Bonnie Hunt / Actress
Appreciation
Doctors
Nursing
Nursing Home
Self Help
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Music is gathering. Taking our scattered thoughts and senses and coalescing us back into our core. Music is powerful. The first few chords can change us where no self-help books can.
Jane Siberry / Singer-Songwriter
Book
Chords
Core
Gathering
Powerful
Self
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Senses
Scattered
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The ill effects of thought come about when we forget that thought is a function of our consciousness.. an ability that we as human beings have. We are the producers of our own thinking.
Richard Carlson / Author
Consciousness
Self Help
Thinking
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I've experienced several different healing methodologies over the years - counseling, self-help seminars, and I've read a lot - but none of them will work unless you really want to heal.
Lindsay Wagner / Actress
Counseling
Heal
Healed You
Healing
Self
Self Help
Seminars
Experienced
None
Several
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I am not a self-help writer. I am a self-problem writer. When people read my books, I provoke some things. I cannot justify my work. I do my work; it is up to them to classify it, to judge.
Paulo Coelho / Lyricist
Justify
Self Help
Work I Am People
Writer
Judge
Books
Classify
Read
Provoke
Some Things
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What I like about graduation speeches is that they're an opportunity for someone to make sense of their life and to impart that wisdom to someone else. It's like a sanctioned self-help moment.
Bruce Eric Kaplan /
Graduation
Impart
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Sanctioned
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The Europeans had made two promises to the United States if Marshall Plan help was forthcoming. The first promise was maximum self-help on the part of every country; and second, maximum mutual aid.
Paul Hoffman /
Forthcoming
Marshall Plan
Maximum
Mutual
Promise
Self Help
Aid
Europeans
Marshall
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I'm totally into new age and self-help books. I used to work in a bookstore and that's the section they gave me, and I got way into it. I just loved the power of positive thinking, letting yourself go.
Jason Mraz / Singer-Songwriter
Love
Positive
Age
Book
Letting Go
New Age
Positive Thinking
Self Help
Thinking
Used
Yourself
Totally
Books
Loved
Gave
Got
Letting
Section
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It's no accident that most self-help groups use 'anonymous' in their names; to Americans, the first step toward redemption is a ritual wiping out of the self, followed by the construction of a new one.
Walter Kirn / Novelist
Construction
Groups
Names
Redemption
Ritual
Self
Self Help
Wiping Out
Accident
Anonymous
First Step
Followed
New One
Step
Toward
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Even though it doesn't look like it, I run. On a treadmill. And I bounce around to all the songs on my iPod - the Pixies, Wagner, Richard and Linda Thompson, even books on tape. Just not self-help ones.
Bill Hader / Actor
Bounce
Pixies
Self Help
Tape
Wagner
Richard
Ipod
Linda
Treadmill
Thompson
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Memory enhancement self-help programs abound and promise improved memory performance by the utilization of any number of seemingly unique techniques focused on the context of how information is encoded.
David Perlmutter / Author
Enhancement
Focused
Information
Promise
Self Help
Unique
Utilization
Abound
Context
Number
Improved
Programs
Performance
Memory
Seemingly
Techniques
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I think that there is a tragic misfit at the core of me, and I've just done a lot of work on myself. I love a good self-help book; I've read a ton of them. I love self-help seminars and therapy and all that.
Jenna Fischer / Actress
Book
Core
Self
Self Help
Seminars
Therapy
Thinking
Tragic
Love Work Good
Ton
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I am the first person to go to Barnes & Noble and buy the new self-help book. I like to fill out the surveys, then I get my friends' opinions on how I answered to see if I was being honest with myself or not.
Jessica Simpson / Actress
Being Honest
Book
Noble
Self
Self Help
Surveys
Myself I Am New
Answered
Fill
Opinions
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One reason why it has become harder to promote the beneficial side of emotions such as anger is that the moral vocabulary of good and bad has been replaced by the self-help lexicon of positive and negative thinking.
Julian Baggini / Author
Anger
Beneficial
Good And Bad
Negative
Replaced
Self
Self Help
Thinking
Vocabulary
Positive Good Thinking
Emotions
Promote
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I don't think of literary novels as self-help documents, although literature undoubtedly saved my life when I was young, enabling me to disappear into all manner of stories, to recognise feelings that I felt alone in.
Bill Clegg /
Disappear
Documents
Enabling
Recognise
Saved
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Stories
Life Alone Me
Although
Literary
Manner
Novels
Undoubtedly
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I didn't intend 'Hector' to be a self-help book when I first started writing. I wrote it as a little tale about a psychiatrist, like me, who sets off around the world in order to discover the vital ingredients for happiness.
François Lelord / Author
Ingredients
Self Help
Discover
Intend
Sets
Tale
Vital
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Of all the things that can have an effect on your future, I believe personal growth is the greatest. We can talk about sales growth, profit growth, asset growth, but all of this probably will not happen without personal growth.
Jim Rohn / Author
Believe
Growth
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Pain is important, and changing who you are is difficult, painful, and scary. Most of the self-help industry sees change as this euphoric, liberating thing and tells you that you can be happy all the time. I think the opposite.
Mark Manson /
Euphoric
Liberating
Painful
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Be Happy
Sees
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I don't want to get all self-help on everyone. But I definitely think there was a period in my life where I thought I would feel the same way, forever. And every day felt like 'Groundhog Day,' where I was super, super depressed.
Phoebe Bridgers /
Forever
Self Help
Life Day My Life
Life Day Every Day
Definitely
Depressed
Period
Every Day
My Life
Super
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'Focusing' is no conventional repackaging of self-help wisdom. It is at once a manual and a philosophy. It talks about the body's wisdom, the steps of the focusing technique, how to discover the richness in others by learning to listen.
Marilyn Ferguson / Author
Conventional
Richness
Self Help
Steps
Technique
Discover
Focusing
Manual
Talks
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I am not a terrorist, but neither am I a pacifist. I am simply a regular guy from the Palestinian street advocating only what every other oppressed person has advocated-the right to help myself in the absence of help from anywhere else.
Marwan Barghouti / Palestinian Political Figure
Guy
Helping
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All summer, I read fiction because you must read for the pleasure and beauty of it, and not only for research. I don't read thrillers, romance or mystery, and I don't read self-help books because I don't believe in shortcuts and loopholes.
Isabel Allende / Writer
Loopholes
Romance
Self Help
Shortcuts
Summer
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As a business consultant, I am a voracious reader of self-help books, case studies of thriving companies, and the biographies and autobiographies of the world's most successful people. I relentlessly implement the best ideas into my businesses.
Clay Clark /
Biographies
Self Help
Successful People
Relentlessly
Best Business World
Autobiographies
Consultant
Implement
Voracious
Studies
Thriving
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I recommend anybody go to a bookstore, go down the self-help or new-age section, and just walk those aisles. See what book jumps out at you; there's a good chance it's a book you need in your life. That's basically how I find the books that I read.
Tom Araya / Musician
Good Chance
Self Help
Life Good Chance
Bookstore
Jumps
Recommend
Section
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I went through a phase in my 20s when I was overdosing on self-help books, so it was really refreshing to read 'The Alchemist' because it was a novel, but it still had the same wisdom, wasn't patronising and didn't tell you how you should live your life.
Tamzin Outhwaite / Actress
Refreshing
Self Help
Phase
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This is what he has been selling on the 'The Apprentice', through his self-help books, how to - you know, 'Trump 101' or the 'Art of the Deal' or, really, back to 'Art of the Deal'. So almost the more he gets away with, the more he is reinforcing his brand.
Naomi Klein / Author
Apprentice
Self Help
Selling
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Many self-help books give you these neat, tidy formulas that are really illusions. They dupe people into thinking, 'Well if I can just do that, then everything's going to be okay.' My work differs in that I don't offer quick solutions and simple explanations.
John Bradshaw / Educator
Formulas
Neat
Self Help
Solutions
Tidy
Explanations
Differs
Dupe
Illusions
Offer
Quick
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Many people come to self-help material because they feel like something is wrong with them or the way they are. The problem is that anything that tells you how to improve your life is also implying that there is something inherently wrong with you the way you are.
Mark Manson /
Implying
Self Help
Life People Way
Inherently
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Everything I've ever taught in terms of self-help boils down to this - I cannot believe people keep paying me to say this - if something feels really good for you, you might want to do it. And if it feels really horrible, you might want to consider not doing it. Thank you, give me my $150.
Martha Beck / Author
Thank You
Give Me
Horrible
Self Help
Good Believe Me
Boils
Paying
Thank
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The self-help section of national bookstore chains in America is one of the largest sections. In a way, it's nothing new, and in another way, very new. People have always searched for answers; that's why we have religion. People have always been seeking some relief from their own mortality.
Holly Hunter / Actress
Another Way
Answers
Chains
Mortality
Nothing New
Relief
Self Help
Bookstore
Largest
New People
Section
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How any person decides to emphasize strengths and mitigate weaknesses is something people have to figure out for themselves. I'm wary of the self-help literature that suggests there are certain rules. I'm very happy for people to look at my story and say it's possible to achieve many things.
Daniel Tammet / Writer
Literature
Self Help
Look People Rules
Emphasize
Mitigate
Something People
Strengths
Wary
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We live in a very mollycoddled society where the slightest bit of discomfort is seen as wrong, but that discomfort is there for a reason. It's supposed to trigger some form of action, some form of change, a realization of a truth - something, and I think the self-help world has you believing that you should be happy all the time.
Matthew Hussey / Television Personality
Society
Action
Discomfort
Form
Realization
Self Help
Bit
Be Happy
Seen
Believing
Change Time Truth
Wrong
Change Truth Time
Slightest
Supposed
Trigger
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