"If I, the group leader, expect you, the group member, to be weak, then I elicit the weak part of you. If I expect you to be able to cope, I elicit your strength."

-- William Schutz

#Leader Quotes #Groups Quotes #Able Quotes

“You can stroke people with words.”
“It's impossible to play a run with as much feeling as a single note. I've never been so much into runs as making single notes cry.”
“Everyone should own a piece of the wealth-producing capital of this country, but not everyone can be a manager. Or should be.”
“I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.”
“It was a harder day's journey than yesterday's, for there were long and weary hills to climb; and in journeys, as in life, it is a great deal easier to go down hill than up. However, they kept on, with unabated perseverance, and the hill has not yet lifted its face to heaven that perseverance will not gain the summit of at last.”
“In real life, you just work for the ordinary self, but in the front of audience you become the superself. That's a completely different thing.”
“I think that was when the headmaster realized he had lost; he realized then that he was finished. Because, what could he do? Was he going to tell us to stop praying? We kept our heads bowed; and we kept praying. Even as awkward as he was, the Rev. Mr. Merrill had made it clear to us that there was no end to praying for Owen Meany.”
“Death is a stage in human progress, to be passed as we would pass from childhood to youth, or from youth to manhood, and with the same consciousness of an everlasting nature.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 177), 1895.

You may also like:

Albert Ellis
Psychologist
Alfred Adler
Psychotherapist
Eric Berne
Author
Erich Fromm
Psychologist
Erik Erikson
Psychologist
Frederick Salomon Perls
Psychiatrist
Karen Horney
Psychoanalyst
Shirley Polykoff
Sigmund Freud
Neurologist