William Glasser Quotes
We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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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.
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I love to push myself.
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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.
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The thing that I have to stay away from is sweets. I have a horrible sweet tooth. It's just the worst.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I have perfectly symmetrical ankles.
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Lupe Fiasco is kinda cool. I like him a lot.
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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.
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Health care is the No. 1 concern of small businesses and the status quo is untenable.
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I was not really as good as I should have been.
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I think most people's careers in theater are based on delusion. It's just that mine started early.
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I think that in the end, a talk show is a very different animal.
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Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.
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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.
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It is our duty, to ourselves and to our children, to see the new world as it is now.
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My dream is to leave this business on my own terms, and if it were my terms, I would love to do the Royal Rumble. I would love to do Wrestle Mania in New Orleans, because I had so many matches there over the years working for Mid-South. I was in the ring with Muhammad Ali in the Superdome. To close it there would be great.
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I really understand that we have to be sensitive to people's feelings and to their sensitivities, but you also can't be muzzled to tell a story.
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The expansion of the whole cosmos was but the shrinkage of all its physical units and of the wavelengths of light.
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We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.
