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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• Impossible
• Awareness
• 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

• There's a difference between wanting to appear confident and actually feeling confident. I think there have been many times when I've overcompensated for how nervous or out of place I feel. I was like that at school.

  

  James Corden
  • School
  • Feeling

• I don't think anyone is qualified to answer questions of eternal fate definitively, much less pinpoint it to a given day.

  

  Jon Meacham
  • Fate

• The 'Lone Star' experience was tough at the time, but it really allowed me to look at things from a 3,000-foot high view. You can think something is the greatest thing in the world, but, as we know, anything can happen. It really taught me that I always want to make choices that I believe in artistically. No one can take that away from you.

  

  James Wolk
  • Time
  • World
  • Believe

• In my experience as an actor over so many years, I don't know when I have been touched so deeply on so many levels as I have been by 'The Leftovers' in my three years there. It is a profound exploration of life, of grief, of loss.

  

  Ann Dowd
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Grief

• 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