Carl Rogers Quotes

Most of my life, I wanted to be a therapist, but then I just decided that I didn't want to be in charge of giving people advice. I want to know everything there is to know about psychology. But a therapist? No.

You put a tremendous amount of energy, your whole body and soul into something, and you need to win once in a while. Otherwise, it becomes too hard.

My players need to have the feeling that they've pushed themselves to their limits.

The cognitive therapy that takes place in the film Antichrist is a form of therapy that I have used for some time, and it has to do with confronting your fears. I would say that especially the part of the film that has to do with therapy is humoristic because people who know about this form of therapy would know that the character is more than a fool.

Psychiatrists the dominant lay priesthood since the First World War.

What? 'Borderline patients play games'? That what you said? Ernest, you'll never be a real therapist if you think like that. That's exactly what I meant earlier when I talked about the dangers of diagnosis. There are borderlines and there are borderlines. Labels do violence to people. You can't treat the label; you have to treat the person behind the label. (17)

The two main hazards of psychoanalysis: that it might fail, and that if it succeeds, you'll never be able to forgive yourself for all those wasted years.

We do not need to be able to say what "human nature" is in order to be able to say that some training is "against human nature.

I'd do anything to get a performance, short of malice.

In my own professional work I have touched on a variety of different fields. I've done work in mathematical linguistics, for example, without any professional credentials in mathematics; in this subject I am completely self-taught, and not very well taught.

If I wasn't a singer, I think I'd be studying to be a psychologist.

My progress reminded me of the horses in The Whip. They raced at the limit of their speed directly toward the audience. But they raced on a treadmill which canceled out their progress.

The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.

Check the records; there has never been an undisciplined person who was a champion. Regardless of the field of endeavor, you'll find this to be true.

The very effort to forget teaches us to remember.

There are no limits on your dreams if you're willing to work for it.

Always when I come to the field, I try to do my best for other people.

In a general way, the literature of the twentieth century is essentially psychological; and psychology consists of describing states of the soul by displaying them all on the same plane, without any discrimination of value, as though good and evil were external to them, as though the effort toward the good could be absent at any moment from the thought of any man.

If architects want to strengthen a decrepit arch, they increase the load which is laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together. So if therapists wish to foster their patients' mental health, they should not be afraid to increase that load through a reorientation toward the meaning of one's life.

There is a necessary limit to our achievement, but none to our attempt.

However many snaps I play for, when I'm on the field I go 120 percent.

I've done everything but tap dance across the table.

There would be no advantage to be gained by sowing a field of wheat if the harvest did not return more than was sown.

I'm a pretty psycho-obsessed shrink.

How long should you try? Until.