albert-ellis Quotes About thinking

“Thinking rationally is often different from "positive thinking," in that it is a realistic assessment of the situation, with a view towards rectifying the problem if possible.”

Ifs Thinking Different Problem Views Brain Situation Positive Thinking Realistic Assessment

Author:Albert Ellis

“Reality is not so much what happens to us; rather, it is how we think about those events that create the reality we experience. In a very real sense, this means that we each create the reality in which we live.”

Thinking Mean Real Reality Happens Events

Author:Albert Ellis

“Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency. Had I not been a therapist, I would have been an efficiency expert.”

Thinking Has Beens Experts Genes Efficiency Therapists Inefficiency

Author:Albert Ellis

“We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.”

People Thinking Feelings Today Past Can't Change Can't Change The Past

Author:Albert Ellis

“The Freudian tradition will never completely die because it has a few good points. For example, people have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware. Most of cognitive therapy has now adopted a similar idea. On the other hand, the relationship part of psychoanalysis - where you must have a deep, emotional relationship with the client - will, I think, get kicked in the teeth one of these days.”

“By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed with them because, again, I don't care too much what other people think.”

People Thinking Ideas Care Able Too Much Succeed Don't Care Caring I Don't Care Not Caring Caring Too Much

Author:Albert Ellis

“I teach people to be flexible, scientific and logical in their thinking and therefore to be less prone to brainwashing by the therapist.”

People Thinking Teach Logical Flexible Therapists Brainwashing

Author:Albert Ellis

“I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs. In that sense, psychotherapy belongs in the schools.”

Thinking Needs Children School Teach Psychology Overcoming Psychotherapy Disturbance School System

Author:Albert Ellis

“People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness. They always have the power to think, and to think about their thinking, and to think about thinking about their thinking, which the goddamn dolphin, as far as we know, can't do. Therefore they have much greater ability to change themselves than any other animal has.”

People Thinking Knows Ability Animal Greater Upset Dolphins Ability To Change

Author:Albert Ellis

“There are three musts that hold us back: "I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy." And I sometimes think that as long as we keep the second must, which is socially learned, then some screwballs 100 years from now will manufacture atomic bombs in their bathtub and maybe annihilate the whole human race because they demand that the rest of the world must agree with their dogmas. When we don't agree, they may zap us.”

Thinking World Years Humans Wells May Long Sometimes Whole Three Easy Race Demand Treats Agree Human Race Bombs Dogma Atomic Bomb Bathtubs

Author:Albert Ellis

“If the Martians ever find out how human beings think, they'll kill themselves laughing.”

Ifs Thinking Humans Human Beings Laughing Martians

Author:Albert Ellis

“If human emotions largely result from thinking, then one may appreciably control one's feelings by controlling one's thoughts - or by changing the internalized sentences, or self-talk, with which one largely created the feeling in the first place.”

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Author:Albert Ellis

“People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness. They always have the power to think, and to think about their thinking, and to think about thinking about their thinking, which the goddamn dolphin, as far as we know, can't do. Therefore they have much greater ability to change themselves than any other animal has, and I hope that REBT teaches them how to do it.”

People Thinking Knows Ability Animal Teach Greater Upset Dolphins Ability To Change

Author:Albert Ellis

“You mainly feel the way you think.”

Thinking Way Feels Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Book:Stress Counselling: A Rational Emotive Behaviour Approach

Source: Stress Counselling: A Rational Emotive Behaviour Approach

“In fact most of what we call anxiety is overconcern about what someone thinks of you.”

Thinking Facts Worry Anxiety Think Of You

Author:Albert Ellis

“You have considerable power to construct self-helping thoughts, feelings and actions as well as to construct self-defeating behaviors. You have the ability, if you use it, to choose healthy instead of unhealthy thinking, feeling and acting.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Self Helping Use Feelings Action Ability Acting Healthy Behavior Constructs Unhealthy Self Defeating Behavior

Book:Overcoming Destructive Beliefs, Feelings, and Behaviors: New Directions for Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy

Source: Overcoming Destructive Beliefs, Feelings, and Behaviors: New Directions for Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy

“By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed.”

People Thinking Ideas Kids Able Too Much Wise Succeed Caring Bullying Not Caring Caring Too Much Importunate

Author:Albert Ellis

“I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition.”

Thinking Humans Conditions Human Condition Unfair Screwed Up

Author:Albert Ellis

“I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs.”

Thinking Needs Children School Growth Teach Psychology Overcoming Psychotherapy Disturbance School System

Author:Albert Ellis

“We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.”

People Thinking Feelings Today Past Teach Upset Can't Change Can't Change The Past

Author:Albert Ellis

“Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency.”

Thinking Genes Efficiency Inefficiency

Author:Albert Ellis

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