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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Well, first of all, let me say that I might have made a tactical error in not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that really didn't pay off.
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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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Even the greatest actors have had dry spells where they've wondered if they were going to work again.
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It's always wrong of course to say that you can't do this or you can't do that in fiction. You can do anything you can get away with, but nobody has ever gotten away with much.
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I would love to make some kind of film about the witches and the Inquisitions. That would be really fun because I don't think their stories have been told enough.
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Poetry is play. I'd even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football.
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The debt limits have to come down. The whole world of debt has to be changed as far as this country is concerned. We have to create jobs and we have to create them rapidly because if we don't things are just going to head in a direction that's going to be almost impossible to recover from.
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We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.
