"If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior."

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This quotation examines the core nature of Change as articulated by William Glasser. Within historical and literary traditions, reflections on Change provide actionable mental models, challenging individuals to evaluate personal ethics, self-discipline, and daily actions.

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About William Glasser

William Glasser was an American psychiatrist. He was the developer of W. Edwards Deming's workplace ideas, reality therapy and choice theory. His innovations for individual counseling, work environments and school, highlight personal choice, personal responsibility and personal transformation. Glasser positioned himself in opposition to conventional mainstream psychiatrists, who focus instead on classifying psychiatric syndromes as "illnesses" and prescribe psychotropic medications to treat mental disorders.

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"Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first."

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"As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families."

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"This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth."

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"If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve."

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More about Change

"The fight is always the same within the Democratic Party, isn't it? The more things change, the more they stay the same."

— Dee Dee Myers
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"No, nothing has changed in my life at all, and nothing would change if I had millions."

— Kinky Friedman
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"The essence of creativity is the belief that a single moment of clarity can change a lifetime."

— Rick Bass
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"People find themselves in ruts all the time. You're in a complacent lifestyle where you work 9 to 5 and then you add a mortgage and kids. You feel trapped, but guess what, brother? You constructed that life. If you're OK with it, there's nothing wrong with that. But if you've got unease, then you've got to make a change."

— Jeremy Renner
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