Alfred Adler Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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- Children,
- Difficulty,
- Feelings,
- Goals,
- Heart,
- Humanity,
- Lying,
- Mathematics,
- Peace,
- Psychology,
- Reality,
- Risk,
- Science,
- Suffering,
- Teachers,
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“The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.”
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“The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.”
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“Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.”
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“Follow your heart but take your brain with you.”
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“Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.”
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“Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.”
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“He used to say to his melancholia patients: "You can be cured in fourteen days if you follow this prescription.Try to think every day how you can please someone.”
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“It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.”
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“To see with the eyes of another, to hear with the ears of another, to feel with the heart of another. For the time being, this seems to me an admissible definition of what we call social feeling.”
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“Overcoming difficulties leads to courage, self-respect, and knowing yourself.”
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“We are not determined by our experiences, but are self-determined by the meaning we give to them; and when we take particular experiences as the basis for our future life, we are almost certain to be misguided to some degree. Meanings are not determined by situations. We determine ourselves by the meanings we ascribe to situations.”
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“Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.”
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“No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.”
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“You can be healed of depression if every day you begin the first thing in the morning to consider how you will bring a real joy to someone else.”
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“An educator's most important task, one might say his holy duty, is to see to it that no child is discouraged at school, and that a child who enters school already discouraged regains his self-confidence through his school and his teacher. This goes hand in hand with the vocation of the educator, for education is possible only with children who look hopefully and joyfully upon the future.”
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“It is very obvious that we are not influenced by "facts" but by our interpretation of the facts.”
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“What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning - and some of them many times over - what do you find? That you can swim? Well - life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!”
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“All failures - neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, and prostitutes - are failures because they are lacking in social interest”
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“A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view.”
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“The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.”
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“We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.”
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“The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex.”
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“There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure.”
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“Play is a child's work and this is not a trivial pursuit.”
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“seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.”
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“There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.”
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“The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful.”
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“It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is fro+m among such individuals that all human failures spring.”
-- Alfred Adler