William Glasser Quotes

It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice.

William Glasser

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• Misery

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• The whole of our national sport is not doing very well.

  

  Ted Dexter
  • Doing
  • Very
  • Well

• Ethiopia is such a great country, beautiful place.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Great
  • Country
  • Beautiful

• That's the way I work and one day I won't have the energy to do it, so I think it's always good to make the most of your life and living as much as possible.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.

  

  Oliver North
  • You
  • Trust
  • Information

• I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Human
  • Try
  • Emotions

• From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always wanted to be an artist, but my parents were divorced, and my dad really wanted me to play sports, and that's how I got to see him. He would come pick me up or take me to practice, and he was always at my games.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Dad

• I got to say 'Hi' to Dolly Parton, which my mom thought was kind of cool.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Mom
  • Cool
  • Thought

• The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • People
  • World
  • History

• Often times, we think of girls as soft and vulnerable. And we don't really think of them as possibly being the solutions to some of the world's toughest problems, but they really are.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • World
  • Think
  • Problems

• French men can be very tough too, you know... Real bad boys move in silence, as we know, so you don't have to be loud and muscular to be scary, actually.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Men
  • Real
  • Bad

• You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Guy
  • You
  • Crazy

• Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die.

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • Heart
  • Man
  • Die

• I love biographies. I read Patti Smith's 'Just Kids.' I'm into that time frame in New York, the '70s and '80s. In art school, I read 'Close to the Knives,' the autobiography of the artist and AIDS activist David Wojnarowicz.

  

  Barry McGee
  • School
  • Art
  • Kids

• I don't go to the gym because I don't have time, but I do Pilates workout DVDs for 20 minutes or more every day at home.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Time
  • Home
  • Day

• I am going to Rio with a chance of a medal.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Chance
  • Medal
  • Rio

• Those who live are those who fight.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Live
  • Fight
  • Those

• Seeing a new play in a first-time production is so exciting - when it's good, you want to shout from the rooftops.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Time
  • Good
  • Want

• Murder is about power and the more powerful women get the more it will change the good that they do and the bad that they do.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Good
  • Women
  • Power

• Certainly when you do a work for a public space, you lose control.

  

  Alfredo Jaar
  • Work
  • Control
  • Public

• President al-Assad and his army are the only force that actually fights ISIS.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Fighting
  • President
  • Army

• Self sufficiency appears to be a worthy goal, but it's now impossible if you want to actually get anything done. All our productivity, leverage and insight comes from being part of a community, not apart from it. The goal, I think, is to figure out how to become more dependent, not less.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Done
  • Community
  • Goal

• To the end, I will remain a child of Europe, of worry and of shame. I have no message of hope to deliver. For the West, I do not feel hatred. At most I feel a great contempt. I know only that every single one of us reeks of selfishness, masochism and death. We have created a system in which it has simply become impossible to live, and what's more, we continue to export it.

  

  Michel Houellebecq
  • Children
  • Impossible
  • Hatred

• It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice.

  

  William Glasser
  • Choices
  • Impossible
  • Awareness