"It is easier to act yourself into a……" — Harry Stack Sullivan

"It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting."

— Harry Stack Sullivan

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15 Quotes by Harry Stack Sullivan

Harry Stack Sullivan has 15 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price…
I do not believe that I have had an interview with anybody in twenty-five years in which the person to…
When people approach you angrily, you take them very seriously, and, if you're like me, with the faint suggestion that…
All of us are much more human than otherwise
If you have to maintain self-esteem by pulling down the standing of others, you are extraordinarily unfortunate.
What I am, at any given moment in the process of my becoming a person, will be determined by my…
The psychiatric interviewer is supposed to be doing three things: considering what the patient could mean by what he says;…
It may be possible through detachment, to gain knowledge that is 'useful;' but only through participation is it possible to…
When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security,…
Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.
If you do not feel equal to the headaches that psychiatry induces, you are in the wrong business. It is…
What you know about the people whom you know at all well is truly amazing, even though you have never…

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More Act Quotes

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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure… — Julian Assange
Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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