William Glasser Quotes

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• You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.
• The more a person perceives that he/she is loved, the less they will interfere with the lives of others.
• The answer lies in preventing failures not in looking for better ways to fix the children who are failing.
• To focus on discipline is to ignore the real problem: We will never be able to get students (or anyone else) to be in good…
• 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…
• 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,…
• No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working for competence.
• We can pay teachers a hundred thousand dollars a year, and we'll do nothing to improve our schools as long as we keep the A,…
• Unlike the weak, the strong neither give up nor are driven by pain into rash or stupid behavior. They don't like pain any more than…
• There is plenty of competition in a Glasser Quality School in that there is winning but no losing.
• Too many of us fail to fulfill our needs because we say no rather than yes, yes when we should say no.
• What we get, and all we ever get, from the outside is information; how we choose to act on this information is up to us.
• The ultimate use of power is to empower others.
• Sex is on the minds of most people, especially those who shouldn't be having it.
• A friend of mine, a dedicated golfer, shot a hole in one playing by himself. Disaster.
• What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can…
• We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.
• It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice.
• 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…
• Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.

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