Adler Quotes
The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.
People may be said to resemble not the bricks of which a house is built, but the pieces of a picture puzzle, each differing in shape, but matching the rest, and thus bringing out the picture.
The imagination is closer to the actor than real life-more agreeable, more comfortable.
Your job as actors is to understand the size of what you say, to understand what's beneath the word.
It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes.
If you wish to educate a child who has gone wrong, then you must, above all, keep your attention fixed on the intersection of two charmed circles.
We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn.
By taking elements you observe in life, you can develop qualities in your acting life that you don't ordinarily call upon in your personal life.
The theatre-acting, creating, interpreting - means total involvement, the totality of heart, mind and spirit.
Throughout my early career, I would write from five to ten in the morning every day before going to my office, a habit that has stayed with me since.
To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.
Act so as to encourage the best in others, and by so doing you will develop the best in yourself.
The actor must be full of passion. If he's too cool he's better off as the manager of a company, not someone who appears on the stage.
People will make judgments before you even speak based on the way you look. Most definitely your physical appearance matters. The way you dress, your hygiene - it all matters.
Lyda was an exuberant, even a dramatic gardener.... She was always holding up a lettuce or a bunch of radishes with an air of resolute courage, as though she had shot them herself.
You can have all the riches and success in the world, but if you dont have your health, you have nothing.
The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.
If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love.
I believe that adversity and negativity can be an amazing fuel towards personal success.
Used throughout a room, orange can become surprisingly neutral, and yet it can be bright and mood-enhancing.
Too many facts are often as much of an obstacle to understanding as too few. There is a sense in which we moderns are inundated with facts to the detriment of understanding.
Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.
War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.
In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family.
The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.
The unique personality which is the real life in me, I cannot gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others.
The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.
Only hidden and undetected oratory is really insidious. What reaches the heart without going through the mind is likely to bounce back and put the mind out of business.
Tears and complaints - the means which I have called water power - can be an extremely useful weapon for disturbing cooperation and reducing other to a condition of slavery.
