106 Quotes by Carl Rogers

It would not take very long to recoup our money, ... It would be a very short payback.

When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.

The relationship which I have found helpful is characterized by a sort of transparency on my part, in which my real feelings are evident; by an acceptance of this other person as a separate person with value in his own right; and by a deep empathic understanding which enables me to see his private world through his eyes.

In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.

Then we got another letter saying, 'OK, we're back in the business. Then we started going back to Lubbock. But then about a week later, around the end of the year, we were notified that they were sending out contract amendments that in our case was going to change our base price for an autopsy -- we had a contract that was only two months old at the time -- that they were going to raise those contract costs over 100 percent.

With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.

In my early professionals years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?

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

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.