The next time anyone is inclined to sneer at the basics as "traditional," I suggest he or she visit with a 12th -or even a sixth-grader who can barely read, write or compute and look at the pain and frustration on that student's face


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ALBERT EINSTEIN
No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency.
ALBERT ELLIS
I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more dire...
ALBERT ELLIS
There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equa...
ALBERT ELLIS
Let's suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about...
ALBERT ELLIS
I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that&#...
ALBERT ELLIS
I get people to truly accept themselves unconditionally, whether or not their therapist or anyone lo...
ALBERT ELLIS
I had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with who...
ALBERT ELLIS
People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness.
ALBERT ELLIS
People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and tha...
ALBERT ELLIS
People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.
ALBERT ELLIS
If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic.
ALBERT ELLIS
Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional.
ALBERT ELLIS
I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every c...
ALBERT ELLIS
For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.
ALBERT ELLIS
Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world.
ALBERT ELLIS
There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must ...
ALBERT ELLIS
By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas...
ALBERT ELLIS
You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct ...
ALBERT ELLIS
The art of love is largely the art of persistence.
ALBERT ELLIS
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop question...
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless.
EDWARD ALBERT
What's interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, i...
ALBERT BROOKS
Physical misery is great everywhere out here Africa. Are we justified in shutting our eyes and ignor...
ALBERT SCHWEITZER
Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so...
ALBERT SCHWEITZER
The great fault of all ethics hitherto has been that they believed themselves to have to deal only w...
ALBERT SCHWEITZER
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
ALBERT SCHWEITZER
I must interpret the life around me as I interpret the life that is my own. My life is full of meani...
ALBERT SCHWEITZER
Courage is just fear plus prayers plus understanding.
EDDIE ALBERT
Usually in features, I'm the lead. I consider the director the captain, but I consider myself th...
EDDIE ALBERT
I always knew I would act. It was just a matter of time.
EDDIE ALBERT
If I wasn't Eddie Albert's son, I'd be someone else's. It gave me a chance to do a l...
EDDIE ALBERT
What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, no...
EDDIE ALBERT
I always thought I was a singer, but I really am not.
EDDIE ALBERT
I was not really as good as I should have been.
EDDIE ALBERT