Famous quotes by Psychologists

"Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action"

David Seabury, Psychologist

"The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves"

David Seabury, Psychologist

"Manage yourself first, and others will take your orders"

David Seabury, Psychologist

"Very often we developed a better grasp of the subjects than the over worked teachers"

Albert Bandura, Psychologist

"Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how one is doing"

Albert Bandura, Psychologist

"Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience"

Albert Bandura, Psychologist

"Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others!"

David Seabury, Psychologist

"Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear"

David Seabury, Psychologist

"Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence"

David Seabury, Psychologist

"Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts"

David Seabury, Psychologist

"If you give yourself to your task at once, you won't have to do it twice"

David Seabury, Psychologist

"Coping with the demands of everyday life would be exceedingly trying if one could arrive at solutions to problems only by actually performing possible options and suffering the consequences"

Albert Bandura, Psychologist

"We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today"

Albert Ellis, Psychologist

"Let's suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about what to tell yourself about the abuse"

Albert Ellis, Psychologist

"In the old days we used to get more referrals, because people had insurance that paid for therapy. Now they belong to HMOs, and we can only be affiliated with a few HMOs"

Albert Ellis, Psychologist

"If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic"

Albert Ellis, Psychologist

"If I had been a member of the academic establishment, I could have done other experiments"

Albert Ellis, Psychologist

"I'm very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it-going around the world, teaching the gospel according to St. Albert"

Albert Ellis, Psychologist

"I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my objections. So I finally quit after practicing it for six years"

Albert Ellis, Psychologist

"I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly, I haven't got the time to take the kids to the goddamn ballgame"

Albert Ellis, Psychologist

"I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it and practiced it"

Albert Ellis, Psychologist

"I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs"

Albert Ellis, Psychologist

"I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition"

Albert Ellis, Psychologist

"I started to call myself a rational therapist in 1955; later I used the term rational emotive. Now I call myself a rational emotive behavior therapist"

Albert Ellis, Psychologist

"I hope to die in the saddle seat"

Albert Ellis, Psychologist

"I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19. To get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public"

Albert Ellis, Psychologist

"I had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with whom they were compulsively in love didn't love them back. They were killing themselves with anxiety and depression"

Albert Ellis, Psychologist

"Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency"

Albert Ellis, Psychologist

"By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed"

Albert Ellis, Psychologist

"As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn't hate him. I hated what he was doing!"

Albert Ellis, Psychologist

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