Albert Ellis

People are terrified of other people or difficult projects because they tell themselves that they could fail or be rejected. Failure can…

— 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…

— Albert Ellis

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

— Albert Ellis

I would like to be remembered as one of the individuals who founded, ideologically and practically, cognitive behavior therapy and who pioneered…

— Albert Ellis

Let's suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about what to tell yourself about…

— Albert Ellis

In the old days we used to get more referrals, because people had insurance that paid for therapy. Now they belong to…

— Albert Ellis

Beginning in the 1960s, many studies showed that people who hold what we call irrational beliefs are significantly more disturbed than when…

— 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…

— Albert Ellis

Being assertive does not mean attacking or ignoring others feelings. It means that you are willing to hold up for yourself fairly-without…

— Albert Ellis

Much of what we call emotion is nothing more or less than a certain kind - a biased, prejudiced, or strongly evaluative…

— Albert Ellis

We'd better work hard on getting rid of that must - Other people must do what I want them to do!" It's…

— Albert Ellis

I had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with whom they were compulsively in…

— Albert Ellis