Polster Quotes

#1. A new question for the psychotherapist to ask is whether a theory can go beyond mere effectiveness in achieving either a so-called cure or even personal growth into its implications for the nature of an evolving society.

Erving Polster

#2. When we talked, I talked about me, you talked about you, when we should have talked about each other.

Jean-Luc Godard

#3. High-quality food is better for your health.

Michael Pollan

#4. Barney Kessel is definitely the best guitar player in this world, or any other world.

George Harrison

#5. To this pass Christianity has come There is no God, and Jesus is his son.

Irving Layton

#6. Who are you when you are no longer who you are? What do you do with a self that is no longer your self? If you don't know who you are, how do you go on living? If you cannot live as yourself, who and what is it that you are living for?

Sally Brampton

#7. As far as physical health goes, I try to eat in a balanced way, sleep enough, and stay active.

Maria Canals Barrera

#8. Therapy is too good to be limited to the sick.

Erving Polster

#9. The day had been spent in the expectation of these hours, and now they were crumbling away, becoming, in their turn, another period of expectancy ... It was a journey without end, leading to an indefinite future, eternally shifting just as she was reaching the present.

Simone De Beauvoir

#10. Boston has a lot of European qualities to it, and one of them is the charm of its above-ground trollies.

David Walton

#11. By early 2004 Tickle had become the second-largest social network after Friendster, with two million members actively connected to others and exchanging messages.

David Kirkpatrick

#12. The paradox is that, while a concern with past and future is obviously central to psychological functioning, to behave as though one were indeed in the past or future, as many do, pollutes the lively possibilities of existence.

Erving Polster

#13. I suppose I've always been attracted to this sort of outsider in general - in literature, in music, politics, whatever - and to the person that is able to be relentlessly themselves. I don't think that I have that quality, that strength of mind.

Cillian Murphy

#14. Theory and knowledge remain suspect, not because of inherent worthlessness, but because of their historic isolation from action. Without theoretical orientation, however, action is vulnerable to oversimplified and glib imitativeness-even mimicry-and to the use of the gimmick.

Erving Polster

#15. Fascination is a key to productivity; it unites experiences; it is even its own reward.

Erving Polster

#16. A good basic selling idea, involvement and relevancy, of course, are as important as ever, but in the advertising din of today, unless you make yourself noticed and believed, you ain't got nothin'.

Leo Burnett

#17. We want to hear the story first and let the meaning unfold, rather than to be present with expectations of a certain significance into which all behavior is then fitted.

Erving Polster