William Glasser Quotes

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• We learn...
  10% of what we read
  20% of what we hear
  30% of what we see
  50% of what we both hear and see
  70% of what is discussed
  80% of what we experience personally
  95% of what we teach to someone else

  William Glasser

  Inspirational, Education, Reading

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• If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior. In other words, begin to act the part, as well as you can, of the person you would rather be, the person you most want to become. Gradually, the old, fearful person will fade away.

  William Glasser

  Change, Attitude, Fear

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• The ultimate use of power is to empower others.

  William Glasser

  Empowering, Use Of Power, Use

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• What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.

  William Glasser

  Past, Needs, Littles

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• 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, Becoming, Impossible

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• Good or bad, everything we do is our best choice at that moment.

  William Glasser

  Choices, Moments, That Moment

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• We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.

  William Glasser

  Fun, Freedom, Survival

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• To focus on discipline is to ignore the real problem: We will never be able to get students (or anyone else) to be in good order if, day after day, we try to force them to do what they do not find satisfying.

  William Glasser

  Real, Order, Discipline

  William Glasser, M.D. (2010). “Choice Theory in the Classroom”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.

  William Glasser

  Quality, Add, Life Learning

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• If everyone could learn that what is right for me does not make it right for anyone else, the world would be a much happier place.

  William Glasser

  Doe, Would Be, World

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• We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.

  William Glasser

  Choices, Our Lives

  William Glasser, MD (2013). “Take Charge of Your Life: How to Get What You Need with Choice-Theory Psychology”, p.2, iUniverse

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• This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth.

  William Glasser

  Teacher, Heart, Thinking

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• What we get, and all we ever get, from the outside is information; how we choose to act on this information is up to us.

  William Glasser

  Information

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• The day we stop playing will be the day we stop learning.

  William Glasser

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• The more a person perceives that he/she is loved, the less they will interfere with the lives of others.

  William Glasser

  Love, Lives Of Others, Perceive

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• Don't marry someone you would not be friends with if there was no sex between you.

  William Glasser

  Friendship, Relationship, Marriage

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• We may be up against a stone wall, but we don't have to bloody our heads against it unless we choose to.

  William Glasser

  Wall, May, Stones

  William Glasser, MD (2013). “Take Charge of Your Life: How to Get What You Need with Choice-Theory Psychology”, p.122, iUniverse

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• When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.

  William Glasser

  Inspirational, Teacher, Teaching

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• Today much of what we call education is merely knowledge gathering and remembering. Problem solving and thinking, never strong parts of our educational system, have been downgraded in all but a few scientific subjects.

  William Glasser

  Strong, Educational, Thinking

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• Too many of us fail to fulfill our needs because we say no rather than yes, yes when we should say no.

  William Glasser

  Needs, Failing, Should

  William Glasser, M.D. (2010). “Reality Therapy: A New Approach to Psychiatry”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• When we depress, we believe we are the victims of a feeling over which we have no control.

  William Glasser

  Depressing, Believe, Feelings

  "Choice Theory: A New Psychology of Personal Freedom". Book by William Glasser (p. 70), 1997.

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• Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first.

  William Glasser

  Peace, War, Next

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• What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.

  William Glasser

  Teacher, School, Talking

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• Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.

  William Glasser

  Friendship, Caring, Psychology

  William Glasser, M.D. (2010). “Choice Theory: A New Psychology of Personal Freedom”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• There is no real reason to fail a child," "Once children start failing, they begin to believe that they can't do anything. They give up.

  William Glasser

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

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