Andy Cope > Quotes

“Here’s the truth. Being a positive, effervescent, inspired human being is hard work. But it’s not half as exhausting as being miserable.”
― Andy Cope, Happiness: Your route-map to inner joy

“don't look up to them, look into them”
― Andy Cope, The Art of Being a Brilliant Teenager

“It’s safe to say that positive thinking won’t let you do ‘anything’. However, it is even safer to say that positive thinking will let you do ‘everything’ better than negative thinking will. Positive thinking will let you use the ability which you have, and that is awesome.”
― Andy Cope, The Art of Being Brilliant: Transform Your Life by Doing What Works For You

“Ultimately, this whole book is about language. Get the communication right and the results will follow. Remember, of course, that the most important person you ever communicate with is yourself!”
― Andy Cope, The Art of Being Brilliant: Transform Your Life by Doing What Works For You

“There’s nothing more important that you’ll ever do than spread positive, upbeat, energetic, passionate vibes. You’ll feel better for it. And, crucially, those around you will respond in a positive manner.”
― Andy Cope, The Art of Being Brilliant: Transform Your Life by Doing What Works For You

“What if your aim was to enjoy the week? Or what if your primary reason for getting out of bed on Monday morning was to inspire people?”
― Andy Cope, The Art of Being Brilliant: Transform Your Life by Doing What Works For You

“If all else fails, just try and live up to being the person your dog thinks you are.”
― Andy Cope, Zest: How to Squeeze the Max out of Life

“There are no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ values, just different values (although I’m really struggling to justify ‘dishonesty’ as a valid value). Your values will be driving your behaviour and the results”
― Andy Cope, The Art of Being Brilliant: Transform Your Life by Doing What Works For You

“As adults we have possibly lost touch with one of the greatest gifts we have – the gift of curiosity. Have you noticed that children can get really curious about anything new? They can watch a beetle crawling on the ground for what seems like an age, totally involved in what they’re doing, observing its every movement, wondering what will happen”
― Andy Cope, The Art of Being Brilliant: Transform Your Life by Doing What Works For You

“Some people say they think negatively because their lives are rubbish. Wrong. Their lives are rubbish because they think negatively!”
― Andy Cope, The Art of Being Brilliant: Transform Your Life by Doing What Works For You

“In the grand scheme of things as our planet hurtles through space, spinning on its axis, we are completely and utterly insignificant dots of life flickering on a tiny rock, lost among billions of other tiny rocks in the solar system. On this grand scale our lives are over in the blink of an eye. In this scenario, our insignificance is staggering. But to all those we live and work with (and our children in particular) we are incredibly significant because we form part of their world. We are shaping their character, forming their belief systems and affecting their quality of life. Boy are we significant!”
― Andy Cope, The Art of Being Brilliant: Transform Your Life by Doing What Works For You

“The internet sets clickbait traps, tempting you in because, come on, who doesn’t want to know what their favourite soap star from the 1980s looks like now? You won’t believe it, right? So you spend 20 minutes clodhopping through a maze of clickbait trash, accidentally clicking an advert or two on your way through the minefield, and the end result is, well, not quite as truly amazing as the headline said. She looks kind of the same but a bit older. Meanwhile, 20 minutes of your life have ebbed away and you feel the need to go and have a shower to scrub away the stench of gullibility.”
― Andy Cope, Shine: Rediscovering Your Energy, Happiness and Purpose

“The horses are now back to their normal weight, their coats shining and energy restored. If you saunter past their field there is now a sign that says, ‘We only eat apples and carrots’. The message is simple and positive. It focuses on what we want to happen rather than what we don’t want. And, best of all, it works.”
― Andy Cope, The Art of Being Brilliant: Transform Your Life by Doing What Works For You

“We all carry a spark. How many people can we light up (in the nicest possible way, not the pyromaniac kind of way)?”
― Andy Cope, The Art of Being Brilliant: Transform Your Life by Doing What Works For You

“Your online persona is the real-world equivalent of Harry Potter’s invisibility cloak. Once unseen you become imbued with magical powers, aka the ‘online disinhibition effect’ (ODE). Individuals are bolder, less inhibited and more confident. In related news, psychologists have reported on the rise of the ‘e-personality’, your online presence that amplifies the self-centred nature of human beings. This has led to an ‘epidemic of narcissism’ that manifests in a disinterest in the lives of others. With empathy on the decline and the ‘me me me’ yelp of narcissism on the rise, there’s a dark side brewing. There’s an awful lot of awfulness, online bile spitting, Twitter death threats, cyber bullying and trolling. Once cloaked you can say what you like to whomever you like. You can cause huge upset by saying ​poisonous things from under the cloak of invisibility that you’d never dream of saying to someone’s face. Because in the flesh and blood world, you’re a nice person, right?”
― Andy Cope, Shine: Rediscovering Your Energy, Happiness and Purpose

“We naturally assume people have the same values as us. This is the reason that you can’t understand some people’s actions.”
― Andy Cope, The Art of Being Brilliant: Transform Your Life by Doing What Works For You

“Anything you want, you have to create, and that includes your world, starting inside-out.”
― Andy Cope, Happiness: Your route-map to inner joy

“10% of life is made up of what happens to you. 90% of life is decided by how you react to the 10%.”
― Andy Cope, The Art of Being Brilliant: Transform Your Life by Doing What Works For You

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― Andy Cope, The Little Book of Being Brilliant