Carl Rogers Quotes - Page 3

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• There are as many "real worlds" as there are people!

  Carl Rogers

  Life, Real, People

  Carl Rogers (1995). “A Way of Being”, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I hear the words, the thoughts, the feeling tones, the personal meaning, even the meaning that is below the conscious intent of the speaker. Sometimes too, in a message which superficially is not very important, I hear a deep human cry that lies buried and unknown far below the surface of the person.
  So I have learned to ask myself, can I hear the sounds and sense the shape of this other person's inner world? Can I resonate to what he is saying so deeply that I sense the meanings he is afraid of, yet would like to communicate, as well as those he knows?

  Carl Rogers

  Lying, Feelings, Important

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• Neurotic behavior is quite predictable. Healthy behavior is unpredictable.

  Carl Rogers

  Health, Behavior, Unpredictable

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• It's an awful risky thing to live

  Carl Rogers

  Awful

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• Over the years, however, the research evidence keeps piling up, and it points strongly to the conclusion that a high degree of empathy in a relationship is possibly the most potent and certainly one of the most potent factors in bringing about change and learning.

  Carl Rogers

  Years, Empathy, Degrees

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• there is direction but there is no destination

  Carl Rogers

  Destination

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• Don't be the ammunition wagon, be the rifle... knowledge exists primarily for use.

  Carl Rogers

  Rifles, Use, Wagons

  "On Becoming a Person". Book by Carl Rogers, p. 281, 1961.

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• So, as you can readily see from what I have said thus far, a creative, active, sensitive, accurate, empathic, nonjudgmental listening is for me terribly important in a relationship. It is important for me to provide it; it has been extremely important, especially at certain times in my life, to receive it. I feel that I have grown within myself when I have provided it; I am very sure that I have grown and been released and enhanced when I have received this kind of listening.

  Carl Rogers

  Empathy, Creative, Listening

  Carl Rogers (1995). “A Way of Being”, p.32, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is that the individual has within him or herself vast resources for self-understanding, for altering the self-concept basic attitudes, and his or her self-directed behavior - and that these resources can be tapped if only a definable climate of facilitative psychological attitudes can be provided

  Carl Rogers

  Attitude, Self, Understanding

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• The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.

  Carl Rogers

  Friendly, Facts, Evidence

  Carl Rogers (2012). “On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy”, p.25, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I prize the privilege of being alone.

  Carl Rogers

  Solitude, Privilege, Prize

  Carl Rogers (2012). “On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The kind of caring that the client-centered therapist desires to achieve is a gullible caring, in which clients are accepted as they say they are, not with a lurking suspicion in the therapist's mind that they may, in fact, be otherwise. This attitude is not stupidity on the therapist's part; it is the kind of attitude that is most likely to lead to trust.

  Carl Rogers

  Attitude, Caring, Stupidity

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• You know that I don't believe that anyone has ever taught anything to anyone. I question that efficacy of teaching. The only thing that I know is that anyone who wants to learn will learn. And maybe a teacher is a facilitator, a person who puts things down and shows people how exciting and wonderful it is and asks them to eat.

  Carl Rogers

  Education, Teacher, Believe

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• I believe I know why it is satisfying to me to hear someone. When I can really hear someone, it puts me in touch with him; it enriches my life. It is through hearing people that I have learned all that I know about individuals, about personality, about interpersonal relationships.

  Carl Rogers

  Believe, People, Personality

  Carl Rogers (1995). “A Way of Being”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The elements in a relationship which seem impossible to share, the secretly disturbing, dissatisfying elements, are the most rewarding to share. This is a hard, risky, frightening thing to learn, and it needs to be re-learned over and over.

  Carl Rogers

  Needs, Elements, Impossible

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• The paradigm of Western culture is that the essence of persons is dangerous; thus, they must be taught, guided, and controlled by those with superior authority.

  Carl Rogers

  Essence, Taught, Western Culture

  Carl Ransom Rogers (1995). “A Way of Being”, p.201, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Adults who think that children must be manipulated for their own good have developed the attitude of a controlling parent who lacks faith in himself, the child, or humanity or himself.

  Carl Rogers

  Children, Attitude, Thinking

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• If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning.

  Carl Rogers

  Attitude, Learning, Self

  Carl Rogers (2012). “On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy”, p.292, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Experience is the highest authority.

  Carl Rogers

  Authority, Highest

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• I was forced to stretch my thinking, to realize that sincere and honest people could believe in very divergent religious doctrines.

  Carl Rogers

  Religious, Believe, Thinking

  Carl Rogers (2012). “On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Learning of all kinds goes on best, lasts best, and tends to lead itself on more when it grows out of a real focus of interest in the learner.

  Carl Rogers

  Real, Focus, Goes On

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• The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

  Carl Rogers

  Art, Unique, Essence

  Carl Ransom Rogers (1961). “On becoming a person: a therapist's view of psychotherapy”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• Openness to all attitudes no matter how extreme or unrealistic they may seem.

  Carl Rogers

  Attitude, May, Matter

  "Carl Rogers on Personal Power". Book by Carl Rogers, 1977.

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• When I can relax, and be close to the transcendental core of me, then I may behave in strange and impulsive ways in the relationship, ways I cannot justify rationally, which have nothing to do with my thought processes. But these strange behaviors turn out to be right in some odd way. At these moments it seems that my inner spirit has reached out and touched the inner spirit of the other. Our relationship transcends itself and has become something larger.

  Carl Rogers

  Empathy, Relax, Way

  Carl Rogers (1995). “A Way of Being”, p.147, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• An empathic way of being can be learned from empathic persons. Perhaps the most important statement of all is that the ability to be accurately empathic is something which can be developed by training. Therapists, parents and teachers can be helped to become empathic. This is especially likely to occur if their teachers and supervisors are themselves individuals of sensitive understanding. It is most encouraging to know that this subtle, elusive quality, of utmost importance in therapy, is not something one is "born with", but can be learned, and learned most rapidly in an empathic climate.

  Carl Rogers

  Teacher, Parent, Empathy

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