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Albert Ellis Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Thought Therapy More Than Deeper

I was lucky enough myself to have been in Dad's Army for an episode.

John Leeson

Myself Army Enough Lucky Been Dad

I won't say I'm not fascinated by the way advertising works. I like the sleekness. But a picture in advertising doesn't last too long. They have to work for 30 seconds. And I'd like to reach at least two minutes. This is my goal: to break that two-minute record.

Maurizio Cattelan

Work Advertising Picture Reach Goal

I've never known of Wal-Mart to be a good neighbor in any town it's ever moved into.

Steve Earle

Good Neighbor Never Wal-Mart Moved

My parents were born in 1912; they graduated from college into the Depression. They kept notebooks of every nickel they spent, and these habits of frugality from having grown up so poor never left them.

Roz Chast

Depression Parents College Born Poor

When you don't behave the way liberals think you should, their effort and their intention to control you compounds.

Rush Limbaugh

Effort Control Think You Intention

This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse; and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion.

Joseph Lancaster

Loss Encouragement Reward Punishment

I'd rather fight a buzzsaw than dance.

Johnny Depp

Dance Fight Rather Than

Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after all, the case. What would you begin writing if you knew you would die soon? What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality?

Annie Dillard

Time Writing Die You Person Say

Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war.

Allan Massie

Man War You Know Young Possible

My first job in the States was as a junior fashion editor at 'Harper's Bazaar,' which I enjoyed, but not for all that long because I was fired by the editor in chief, who told me that I was too 'European.'

Anna Wintour

Job Me Fashion Long First Fired

I want to direct in Denmark. I married a writer; my best friend's a writer, so I always wanted to be a writer.

Pilou Asbaek

Friend Best Want Always Writer

I said the screen will kill the reader, and it has: the movie screen in the beginning, the television screen, and now the coup de grace, the computer screen.

Philip Roth

Beginning Grace Television Said Now