William Glasser Quotes
We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.
Quotes to Explore
-
A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
-
Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.
-
I love to push myself.
-
You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.
-
The thing that I have to stay away from is sweets. I have a horrible sweet tooth. It's just the worst.
-
Well, I was a big fan of the book and therein a huge fan of the girl Precious. And so I felt like I knew this girl. I felt like I'd grown up alongside her. I felt like she was in my family. She was my friend and she was like people I didn't want to be friends with.
-
I feel like sleep is the most important thing. I notice in my body, when I don't get enough sleep on a consistent basis, how I am dreary, or my mood changes, or I'm not as focused.
-
If I have a Sunday free, I'll go up the coast and spend some time on the beach. I scuba dive and swim and sail. A lot of the things I like are around the water.
-
I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
-
I have perfectly symmetrical ankles.
-
Lupe Fiasco is kinda cool. I like him a lot.
-
Successful ventures in business or philanthropy are built around great teams who can help us overcome tremendous challenges - and have the right experiences and relationships to do so.
-
Health care is the No. 1 concern of small businesses and the status quo is untenable.
-
I was not really as good as I should have been.
-
I think most people's careers in theater are based on delusion. It's just that mine started early.
-
I think that in the end, a talk show is a very different animal.
-
Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.
-
We lived many lives in those whirling campaigns, never sparing ourselves; yet when we achieved, and the new world dawned, the old men came out again and took our victory to re-make in the likeness of the former world they knew.
-
I love writing.
-
Especially look to those sins to which your crosses have some reference and respect. Are you crossed in your goods? Think if you did not over-love them and get them unjustly, or if in your children, see if you did not over-love them and cocker them, and so in all things of like kind. In what God smites vou, see if you have not in that sinned against Him, and so frame to lament your sins and to seek help against them.
-
Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought.
-
In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed.
-
While big business gain subsidies and political access, small businesses drown in red tape, and individuals now risk being classified as terrorists for complaining about it. Economic globalisation is about homogenising differences in the worlds' markets, cultures, tastes and traditions. It's about giving big business access to a global market.
-
We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.
