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

William Glasser

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William Glasser
Age: 88 †
Born: 1925
Born: May 11
Died: 2013
Died: August 23
Psychiatrist
Psychologist
Cleveland
Ohio
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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.
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To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.
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The more a person perceives that he/she is loved, the less they will interfere with the lives of others.
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Don't marry someone you would not be friends with if there was no sex between you.
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If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement.
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No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working for competence.
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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.
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When we depress, we believe we are the victims of a feeling over which we have no control.
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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.
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There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
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What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.
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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.
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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.
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