Efficiency Quote by Albert Ellis

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

— Albert Ellis

Freud was just a novelist.

— Peter Ackroyd

Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back into myth…

— Ross Macdonald

I admire Freud a great deal as a person and thinker. Despite everything, I find his work very, very rich, but I think that…

— Simone de Beauvoir

I have studied Freud and that kind of thing. I just never thought I would need it.

— Margaret Trudeau

I have therapy. Every day. I read a bit of Freud; I try to be a better person. Every day.

— Art Malik

The ideas of Freud were popularized by people who only imperfectly understood them, who were incapable of the great effort required to grasp them…

— Alfred North Whitehead

Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn't know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they…

— John Irving

I never read Freud. I've never been attracted to anything he has said, and I think he's started a lot of nonsense with psychiatry…

— Bob Dylan

Nobody can read Freud without realizing that he was the scientific equivalent of another nuisance, George Bernard Shaw.

— Robert M. Hutchins

I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it…

— Albert Ellis

Freud: If its not one thing, its your mother.

— Robin Williams