William Glasser Quotes

To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it.

William Glasser

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• I think having imaginary friends is an amazing coping mechanism. It's pretty wonderful, and it makes a lot of sense to me.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Friends
  • Pretty
  • Me

• I hope she misses the cut. She doesn't belong here.

  

  Vijay Singh
  • Hope
  • Here
  • Belong

• It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Time
  • World
  • Art

• 'The Sisters Brothers' has endeared so many prize juries because the Western format has more of a broad appeal and is familiar to readers.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • More
  • Because
  • Brothers

• 'White America' is a syndicate arrayed to protect its exclusive power to dominate and control our bodies.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Power
  • America
  • Control

• Frankly, most of my friends hold very different political beliefs. It's just a funny thing in this country that supposedly you can't sit down and have dinner and enjoy another person's company if you don't have the same beliefs. It's ridiculous.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Different
  • Country
  • Friends

• We have grown accustomed to the wonders of clean water, indoor plumbing, laser surgery, genetic engineering, artificial joints, replacement body parts, and the much longer lives that accompany them. Yet we should remember that the vast majority of humans ever born died before the age of 10 from an infectious disease.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Remember
  • Age
  • Water

• Bitterness is the outcome of a wrong mental movement - the attempt to force external events to conform to internal fantasy. The cure is to see fantasy as fantasy, which will reveal it as neither necessary nor rewarding.

  

  Vernon Howard

• You can't tell yourself that your stress is produced in your head and feel better. You still need to learn how to create a change.

  

  Andrew Bernstein
  • Feels
  • Needs
  • Stress

• I love my job. I love fighting for what I believe in. I love having fun while doing it. I love reporting stories that the Complex refuses to report. I love fighting back, I love finding allies, and - famously - I enjoy making enemies.

  

  Andrew Breitbart
  • Believe
  • Job
  • Fun

• Every trial a man goes through, if he is faithful in that trial and does honor to God and his religion he has espoused, at the end of that trial or affliction that individual is nearer to God, nearer in regard to the increase of faith, wisdom, knowledge and power, and hence is more confident in calling upon the Lord for those things he desires.

  

  Lorenzo Snow
  • God
  • Men
  • Power

• Notwithstanding the poverty of my outside experience, I have always had a significance for myself, and every chance to stumle along my straight and narrow little path, and to worship at the feet of my Deity, and what more can a human soul ask for?

  

  Alice James
  • Experience
  • Soul
  • Chance

• When you become a band and you've got people who want to be a part of your experience or want to get close to you for what you are, not who you are, you have that challenge of trying to find out who's genuine.

  

  Zac Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Trying
  • Experience

• We are not going to have a situation where our education spending goes back to its lowest level since the year 2000 despite a larger population and more kids to educate. We know that the single most important thing in terms of how well we can compete around the world is the quality of our workforce. We can't do that to our kids.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Important
  • Kids

• Success can lead to complacency, and complacency is the greatest enemy of success.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Success
  • Enemy
  • Complacency

• I go in and out of the studio in sporadic periods, I don't go in there for hours on end. I'm looking for that initial vibe, be it from a beat, a sound, a loop, whatever. Nothing is planned, nothig is deliberate.

  

  Liam Howlett The Prodigy
  • Nothing
  • Studio
  • Periods

• What happens when someone throws you against a wall or tells you you're a jackass or puts you down or calls you bad names? It goes into your body. We hold it in our body. If we don't have a way to let that go and release that, it becomes sickness eventually.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Body
  • Names
  • Release

• The only thing worse than the failure of this massive global development experiment, would be its success.

  

  Wolfgang Sachs
  • Development
  • Experiments
  • Massive

• She had a narrow face which could fall into an expression of belligerent suspicion of such power that her teachers said they could feel it even when they were hiding in the staff room. It was her stubbornness, coupled with this expression – and routine everyday low grade racism – that kept her constantly on the verge of a school suspension.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • School
  • Racism
  • Teachers

• A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Enemy
  • Wise
  • Wishes

• To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it.

  

  William Glasser
  • Victim
  • Passive
  • Neurotic