Theresa Rebeck Quotes

I don't know how you can understand other people or yourself if you haven't read a lot of books. I just don't think you're equipped to deal with the demands and decisions of life, particularly in your dealings with other people.

I don't think any one person is the cause of all of someone else's problems.

Don't believe everything you think - or feel.

Whenever I'm trying to understand people that I don't understand, or things in people or even in myself, I'll say, 'When did this negativity get here?' I try to think back to how I was raised to deal with things, and then consider how the person that I'm dealing with grew up.

Until you solve problems like fear individually, resolve why individuals feel the need to believe in whatever, there's really no point in organizations, in things that turn the world into a concept rather than an individual fact.

Let's teach boys at school the personally and economically valuable skills of self-expression and emotional intelligence, of mediation and problem-solving.

They don't teach you just how to be in school. There's no class on that. There's no multiple choice test for Why Do I Feel This Way?

I try not to be overly analytical.

In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

We're not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists of, how you examine your own conscience, how you examine the inner world, how you examine your dreams.

My demons, inner strengths and physical battles have guided me through life.

You can't heal what you don't acknowledge.

I don't read reviews and I don't know what to do with opinions, so I just lose them. They take up space, they become a process of manufacturing a persona, which I want to avoid.

I try to keep it light and positive most of the time, whereas earlier on I didn't always do that.

Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

The constant monitoring of our emotional landscape and personal interactions is a bizarre concept. But it is one that could help many people.

I dislike the word 'self-help.' Self-awareness, yes, but not self-help.

It's very healthy to be aware of your ego.

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Self-awareness is not the same thing as self-approval, any more than imagination is the same thing as day-dreaming.

I just want to live each moment, but it's kind of hard to do that when you are asked to analyze yourself constantly. But it's also good in that you are forced to think about things that you don't ordinarily think about. I think it's strange.

I wanted to try and trace the genuine origins of 'Johnny' and how he so successfully staged this takeover of 'Michael Pennington.' 'Johnny' is a contradiction to who I am as a person. I'm not very good at confrontation, I have a tendency to internalise and to carry things around.

I've met so many leaders who realize that telling your colleagues something that is on your mind is so much easier than keeping it in. Sometimes the things we make up in our heads are not nearly as big a deal as we think.

You can be self-empowered and still learning about how you think about things daily.

Maybe I think too much.