Psychologist Quotes

"Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights."

"In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader."

"You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living."

"In those days I was new to covers; merely felt pleased that a story of mine had been honored. I later met Rogers who did some of my early covers and I was impressed with him."

"Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children."

"The encouragement I got from Campbell was a quick check and praise. Once the Space Beagle was launched on its mission, it seemed natural for it to breed additional thoughts."

"It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than I should in terms of the usage of the English language."

"Well, first of all, going off with dianetics was based upon a thought of mine."

"I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things."

"My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior."

"But, somewhere in there, I did have the thought that this really fits in with my thinking about what I wanted to do; with what has to be done by a writer in order to stay alive as a writer."

"It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again."

"I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old."

"I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories."

"I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way."

"If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life."

"The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior."

"What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization."

"What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself."

"If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail."

"The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness."

"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself."

"The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short."

"Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth."

"Rioting is a childish way of trying to be a man, but it takes time to rise out of the hell of hatred and frustration and accept that to be a man you don't have to riot."

"One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king."

"But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication."

"If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up."

"All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization."

"With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It's made up of pioneers, the beginners. That's where the action is."