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Albert Ellis Quotes

You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: psychologist
Nationality: american
Birth: September 27, 1913 - July 24, 2007

Topics

Depression You Your Given Therefore

I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four.

Faith Great Together Intelligence Up

I read a lot, very passionately, from the time I was very young, but it was a constant battle; my mother would more or less let me be, but with my father, I was always searching for a place where he wouldn't find me. Whenever he saw me reading, he would tell me to put the book down and go outside, act like a normal person.

Father Mother Time Me Book Reading

I was watching a Storyville documentary called 'Blackfish' about killer whales in captivity. I was emotionally drained by the end. It revealed a real behind-the-scenes truth on what we do with animals.

Truth End Animals Whales Watching

'Five Easy Pieces' got to me pretty good. I remember seeing it and thinking, 'That is so cool. I would love to be able to do that.'

Michael O'Keefe

Love Good Me Cool Thinking Remember

When I arrived at Harvard, I wanted to design a course in political theory that would have interested me, back when I was started out, in a way that the standard things didn't.

Me Design Political Back Way Out

If you're working with someone who you get on with and you're supposed to hate them on the screen, then you get this playful challenge thing where you're trying to one-up each other and that's really interesting. Sometimes it can become like tennis. The harder you hit the ball back, then the harder the hit it back to you.

Challenge Hate Interesting Someone

Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is no faith.

Faith History Story Doubt Belief

The comedians all finished their acts with a song. They would get a certain amount of money from the song publishers and would use that money to pay the writers. None of them paid very much for their comedy material, but it all added up.

Money Song Comedy Pay Up Comedians

The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.

Christopher Lasch

Hope Politics Lie Political New

One of the most persistent images in American urbanism is that of the proverbial city on a hill, as first envisioned on these shores by the Puritan John Winthrop, via the Gospel according to Saint Matthew.

City American Hill First Gospel

I think that affirmative action programs can be very important.

Action Think Important Affirmative

When we cultivate mystical awareness or transcendent identity - which is a natural outgrowth of meditation and other practices - what happens is that we begin to take a witness position on our own lives, and that includes our minds.

Identity Meditation Minds Awareness

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