Jamie Smart > Quotes

“Despite the sale of millions of copies of "How to.." books and programmes each year, very few people take actions and put what they learn into practice. Here´s why. The "how to..." book has usually been written by someone who accomplished something of value. They then capture the steps they took to accomplish it in book, training course, or multimedia programme. Innocently, they´re sharing the symptoms of their accomplishment, but not the causes. If the symptoms are like apples, the causes are the tree that grew them. When people buy "how to" books and programmes, they´re unknowingly trying to glue someone else´s apples onto their tree, without realizing an essential fact: it doesn´t work that way!”
― Jamie Smart, Clarity: Clear Mind, Better Performance, Bigger Results

“Clarity is what a person’s psychology is always endeavouring to return to. Innate clarity and resilience are always shining a beacon, even when a person seems hopelessly lost…”
― Jamie Smart, Clarity: Clear Mind, Better Performance, Bigger Results

“100% of our feeling is arising from THOUGHT in the moment”)”
― Jamie Smart, Clarity: Clear Mind, Better Performance, Bigger Results

“When you listen deeply, and allow a connection to emerge, the resulting conversations can be profound, creative and extremely useful.”
― Jamie Smart, Clarity: Clear Mind, Better Performance, Bigger Results

“When another person feels connected to you, they’re much more likely to see where you’re coming from, hear what you have to say and be impacted by what you’re sharing with them.”
― Jamie Smart, Clarity: Clear Mind, Better Performance, Bigger Results

“Your understanding of how life works has more influence than any other factor over your experience of life, and the results you get.”
― Jamie Smart, Clarity: Clear Mind, Better Performance, Bigger Results

“Like a football being held underwater, as soon as you let go, it rises to the surface. And like the grass pressing up through the cracks in a city pavement, your resilience and clarity is always doing its best to find its way through the paving slabs of your superstitious thinking.”
― Jamie Smart, Clarity: Clear Mind, Better Performance, Bigger Results

“Yes… Obviously!” I replied. I'd just finished explaining to one of my mentors why it was so vitally important that I achieve a particular objective. “That means you don't understand where your security and well-being come from,” he told me. “Your happiness, security and OK-ness don't come from outside you, so they're not vulnerable to anything outside you.”
― Jamie Smart, The Little Book of Clarity: A Quick Guide to Focus and Declutter Your Mind

“The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think.” Gregory Bateson, Epistemologist”
― Jamie Smart, Clarity: Clear Mind, Better Performance, Bigger Results

“Social media has transformed our world into one great big small town, dominated, as all vibrant towns used to be, by the strength of relationships, the currency of caring, and the power of word of mouth.” Gary Vaynerchuk, Entrepreneur and social media specialist”
― Jamie Smart, Clarity: Clear Mind, Better Performance, Bigger Results

“We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.” Galileo Galilei, Astronomer, physicist and mathematician”
― Jamie Smart, The Little Book of Clarity: A Quick Guide to Focus and Declutter Your Mind

“You already are what you've been searching for until now. . . There's nothing to search for – you've already got it; you already are it. There's nowhere to get to – you're already here… You don't need improving, fixing or developing – who you already are is the all‐encompassing energy behind life!”
― Jamie Smart, Clarity: Clear Mind, Better Performance, Bigger Results: 2nd Edition

“You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.” Richard Branson, Entrepreneur, founder of Virgin Group”
― Jamie Smart, Clarity: Clear Mind, Better Performance, Bigger Results

“Boja’s”
― Jamie Smart, Flember: The Secret Book

“People tend to think, speak and act as though their thoughts have the same qualities as the material world…”
― Jamie Smart, Clarity: Clear Mind, Better Performance, Bigger Results

“Our feelings, states and emotions can’t possibly come from anywhere other than THOUGHT, because our experience is mind‐made. We live in an inside‐out world, and all our experiences (the ones we like and the ones we don’t) only ever come from within, 100% of the time. Period.”
― Jamie Smart, Clarity: Clear Mind, Better Performance, Bigger Results: 2nd Edition