Harry Stack Sullivan Quotes

When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists. Under no other circumstances is a state of love present, regardless of the popular usage of the term.
Harry Stack Sullivan

Love, Person, Another

It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting.
Harry Stack Sullivan

Yourself, Feeling, Acting

Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.
Harry Stack Sullivan

Life, Emotional, Write

There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your unjustifiable optimism.
Harry Stack Sullivan

Fun, Try, Optimism

All of us are much more human than otherwise.
Harry Stack Sullivan

Human, Otherwise

I do not believe that I have had an interview with anybody in twenty-five years in which the person to whom I was talking was not annoyed during the early part of the interview by my asking stupid questions.
Harry Stack Sullivan

Stupid, Person, Talking

If you do not feel equal to the headaches that psychiatry induces, you are in the wrong business. It is work - work the like of which I do not know.
Harry Stack Sullivan

Work, Business, Wrong

What you know about the people whom you know at all well is truly amazing, even though you have never formulated it.
Harry Stack Sullivan

Amazing, Though, Truly

When people approach you angrily, you take them very seriously, and, if you're like me, with the faint suggestion that you can be angry too, and that you would like to know what the shooting is about.
Harry Stack Sullivan

Angry, Seriously, Approach

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Psychologist

Born: February 21, 1892

Died: January 14, 1949

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