top of page
.png){kind=small}
"It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Act quotes
"Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven."
"I will act as if what I do makes a difference."
"There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord."
"Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk."
"A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators."
"The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have no right to act, then may we well be termed the white slaves of the North, for like our brethren in bonds, we must seal our lips in silence and despair."
Explore more quotes by Harry Stack Sullivan
"I do not believe that I have had an interview with anybody in twenty-five years in which the person to whom I was talking was not annoyed during the early part of the interview by my asking stupid questions."
"When people approach you angrily, you take them very seriously, and, if you're like me, with the faint suggestion that you can be angry too, and that you would like to know what the shooting is about."
"Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along."
"If you do jot feel equal to the headaches that psychiatry induces, you are in the wrong business. It is work - work the like of which I do not know."
"When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists. Under no other circumstances is a state of love present, regardless of the popular usage of the term."
"There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your unjustifiable optimism."
"What you know about the people whom you know at all well is truly amazing, even though you have never formulated it."
"It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting."
bottom of page