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William Glasser (May 11, 1925 – August 23, 2013) was an American psychiatrist.

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Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.

Hardest, Job, Jobs, Teacher, Teaching

Unlike the weak, the strong neither give up nor are driven by pain into rash or stupid behavior. They don't like pain any more than anyone else, but they are not willing to settle for short-term relief if it means reducing their options later. They don't rob Peter to pay Paul, they face reality now.

Behavior, Giving Up, Like, Pain, Reality, Strong

To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it.

Control, Happened, Over It, Passive, Victim

No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working for competence.

Believe, Competence, Hard Work, Unless, Work

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.

Act, Choose, Information

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.

Conference, Good, Next, Peace, Sense, War

Told that the passing grade is a B or competence and that we will help you to get there, students do competent work. The lowest passing grade in the real world is competence. Why do schools accept so much less?

Grade, Real, School, Students, World

You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.

Acquire, Knowledge, School

They have this big book called the 'DSM-IV,' you know, that is supposedly written about crazy people, but I think it is a book that is written by crazy people!

Book, Crazy, Know, Supposedly, Think, Thinking

Without pay, no human being will work up to their ability if he or she is not cared for and respected.

Ability, Cared, Human, Humans, Pay, Respected

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

Day, Learning, Playing, Stop

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.

Happened, Littles, Painful, Past, Today

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.

Act, Attitude, Change, Fade, Fear

We can teach a lot of things, but if the teacher can't relate by talking to a group of friendly students, he'll never be a competent teacher.

Competent, Retirement, Talking, Teach, Teacher, Things

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

Against, Bloody, Choose, May, Stones, Wall

We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.

Application, Educational, Facts, School, Thinking

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

Friendship, Caring, Psychology, Define, Way

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

Lives, Lives Of Others, Love, Loved, Perceive, Person

Using no control and using humor will build a relationship and make a dent to where the client puts the counselor in their quality world and then begins to relate and seek out the counselor. Effective therapy begins with the acceptance of the therapist into the client's quality world.

Acceptance, Make, Quality, Relationship, Seek, World

Running a school where the students all succeed, even if some students have to help others to make the grade, is good preparation for democracy.

Good, Helping Others, Make, Running, School, Succeed

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