Joseph O'Connor > Quotes

“If you go through the world looking for excellence, you will find excellence. If you go through the world looking for problems you will find problems. Or as the Arabic saying puts it, “What a piece of bread looks like depends on whether you are hungry or not”.”
― Joseph O'Connor, Introducing NLP: Psychological Skills for Understanding and Influencing People

“Excellence is all around, sometimes so obvious that we miss it.”
― Joseph O'Connor

“The best way to find out what you are capable of is to pretend you can do it. Act “as if” you can. What you can't do, you won't. If it really is impossible, don't worry, you'll find that out. (And be sure to set up appropriate safety measures if necessary.) As long as you believe it is impossible, you will actually never find out if it is possible or not.”
― Joseph O'Connor, Introducing NLP: Psychological Skills for Understanding and Influencing People

“People who mind read usually feel they are right, but this does not guarantee they are. Why guess when you can ask?”
― Joseph O'Connor, Introducing NLP: Psychological Skills for Understanding and Influencing People

“Outcomes ‘come out’ when we achieve them, hence the name, and the first step towards achieving them is to think them through carefully.”
― Joseph O'Connor, NLP Workbook: A Practical Guide to Achieving the Results You Want

“By setting an outcome we become aware of the difference between what we have and what we want. This difference is the ‘problem’. When you have set an outcome and are clear about your desired state, then you can plan to make the journey from one to the other. You become proactive, take ownership of the problem and start to move towards a solution. When you do not know what you want, there are many people who are only too delighted to set you to work getting their outcomes.”
― Joseph O'Connor, NLP Workbook: A Practical Guide to Achieving the Results You Want