Occupation: Psychologist Birth: January 8, 1902 Death: February 4, 1987
Don't be a damned ammunition wagon. Be a rifle!.
With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can..
I was forced to stretch my thinking, to realize that sincere and honest people could believe in very divergent religious doctrines..
The education situation which most effectively promotes significant learning is one in which (1) threat to the self of the learner is reduced to a mi….
We in the West seem to have made a fetish out of complete individual self-sufficiency, of not needing help, of being completely private except in a v….
Openness to all attitudes no matter how extreme or unrealistic they may seem..
The elements in a relationship which seem impossible to share, the secretly disturbing, dissatisfying elements, are the most rewarding to share. This….
I prize the privilege of being alone..
No other person's ideas, and none of my own ideas, are as authoritative as my experience..
The only person who cannot be helped is that person who blames others..
A person cannot teach another person directly; a person can only facilitate another's learning.
Don't be the ammunition wagon, be the rifle... knowledge exists primarily for use..
What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly..
Although the client-centered approach had its origin purely within the limits of the psychological clinic, it is proving to have implications, often ….
It is the client who knows what hurts, what directions to go, what problems are crucial, what experiences have been deeply buried..
What you are to be, you are now becoming..
When a person realizes he has been deeply heard, his eyes moisten. I think in some real sense he is weeping for joy. It is as though he were saying, ….
It is that the individual has within him or herself vast resources for self-understanding, for altering the self-concept basic attitudes, and his or ….
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 wa….
Neurotic behavior is quite predictable. Healthy behavior is unpredictable..
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 ….