Carl Rogers Quotes
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When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
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The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
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With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.
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People are just as wonderful as sunsets if I can let them be... When I look at a sunset, I don’t find myself saying, 'Soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner'… I don’t try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds.
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The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.
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In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?
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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.
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The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
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The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
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I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.
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It is the client who knows what hurts, what directions to go, what problems are crucial, what experiences have been deeply buried.
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Managers today come up against a few more communication barriers. One is the pressure of time. Listening carefully takes time, and managers have little of that to spare. In today’s business culture especially, with its emphasis on speed, already pressed managers may give short shrift to the slower art of one-on-one communication.
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In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.
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If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning.
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'What I am is good enough, if I could just be it openly.'
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Facilitative attitudes (and skills) can help a therapist gain entry into the group
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There is in every organism, at whatever level, an underlying flow of movement toward constructive fulfillment of its inherent possibilities.
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Don't be the ammunition wagon, be the rifle … knowledge exists primarily for use.