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I started to call myself a rational therapist in 1955; later I used the term rational emotive. Now I call myself a rational emotive behavior therapist. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#call #emotive #i #later #myself

I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it and practiced it. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#directive #foolishly #forms #freudian #i

Many psychoanalysts refused to let me speak at their meetings. They were exceptionally vigorous because I had previously been an analyst and they were very angry at my flying the coop. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#angry #because #been #exceptionally #flying

Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#bring #closer #getting #good #rational

I felt that if there wasn't going to be a good opportunity, then I would just go back to second units which I love, keep working with great directors, keep learning and knowing that the opportunity would come when the time was right. ↗

— David R. Ellis

#come #directors #felt #go #going

I went to college in Vermont, and then stayed in the East Coast. ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

#college #east #east coast #i #stayed

People don't listen when you lecture. No one wants to be talked down to or scolded. ↗

— Scott Thompson

#lecture #listen #people #scolded #talked

En effet: je mourais déjà. Je venais d'apprendre cette nouvelle horrible que tout humain apprend un jour ou l'autre: ce que tu aimes, tu vas le perdre. "Ce qui t'a été donné te sera repris." Face à la découverte de cette spoliation future, il y a deux attitudes possibles: soit on décide de ne pas s'attacher aux êtres et aux choses, afin de rendre l'amputation moins douloureuse; soit on décide, au contraire, d'aimer d'autant plus les êtres et les choses, d'y mettre le paquet - "puisque nous n'aurons pas beaucoup de temps ensemble, je vais te donner en un an tout l'amour que j'aurais pu te donner en une vie. ↗

— Amélie Nothomb

#loss #love #attitude

Unless you're the director on the movie, or putting up the money for the movie, you really don't have a lot of control. ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

#director #lot #money #movie #putting

Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour. ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

#cocktail #easy #find #hour #i