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Quotes by Psychologist
"Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable."
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"A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence."
8
"The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity."
8
"I started to call myself a rational therapist in 1955; later I used the term rational emotive. Now I call myself a rational emotive behavior therapist."
8
"Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself."
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"If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others."
8
"We are all in a race for dear life: that is to say, we are fugitives from death."
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"There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community."
8
"I've found that if I say what I'm really thinking and feeling, people are more likely to say what they really think and feel. The conversation becomes a real conversation."
7
"An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea."
7
"Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift... The hangover comes the day after."
7
"Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit."
7
"Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering."
7
"Free yourself from the rigid conduct of tradition and open yourself to the new forms of probability."
7
"However painful it may be for me to accept this conclusion, I am obliged to state it: for the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white."
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"The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare."
7
"The repressed memory is like a noisy intruder being thrown out of the concert hall. You can throw him out, but he will bang on the door and continue to disturb the concert. The analyst opens the door and says, If you promise to behave yourself, you can come back in."
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"In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better."
7
"The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him."
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"Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand."
7
"Genius is one of the many forms of insanity."
7
"Simply put, you believer that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy."
7
"While waiting for a Moses to lead us into the promised land, we have forgotten how to walk."
7
"For a small child there is no division between playing and learning; between the things he or she does just for fun and things that are educational. The child learns while living and any part of living that is enjoyable is also play."
7
"Stories are the single most powerful tool in a leader's toolkit."
7
"There are people who have benefited from therapy without being confronted with the past at all."
7
"Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily."
7
"We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts."
7
"A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted event to occur and thus confirms its own 'accuracy.'"
7
"The belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions."
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"The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change."
7
"It is not what I do, it is the way I do it, that will get me in the end."
7
"The counterpart of the suicide is the seeker; but the difference between them is slight."
7
"I then moved to the University of Western Ontario where I was made a full professor in 1985."
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"Work and love; these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis."
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"If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth."
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"What's done to children, they will do to society."
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"If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia."
6
"I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning."
6
"It's too bad for us 'literary' enthusiasts, but it's the truth nevertheless - pictures tell any story more effectively than words."
6
"Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'"
Love,
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"I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization."
6
"The type of measure used placed constraints on which statistics can be used."
6
"I don't practice, but I am still officially in paediatrics. I keep in touch with journals, and I have a very good data bank of medical information and there is a key thing for a writer knowing where to go. I know where to go to get the information that I need."
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"In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met along the way."
6
"Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters."
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