Solution Focused Quotations

"Problem talk creates problems - Solution talk creates solutions"

Steve de Shazer (1940-2005)

American therapist and co-founder of the Solution Focused Therapy Model

"Whether we admit it or not, pre-assumptions we have about our clients are spilled over in our interactions with clients in a subtle and not so subtle manner"

Insoo Kim Berg (1935-2007)

Korean-American therapist and co-founder of the Solution Focused Therapy Model

"The classifications made by philosophers and psychologists are like those that someone would give who tried to classify clouds by their shape"

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)

Austrian-British philosopher

"We can do no great things; only small things with great love"

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Austrian composer and musician

“Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions”.

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

German-Swiss-American theoretical physicist

"You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve".

Joanne Rowling (1965)

British writer

“When you follow your bliss, and by bliss I mean the deep sense of being in it…you follow that, and doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors and…where there wouldn’t be a door for anyone else.”

Joseph Campbell (1904 – 1987)

American mythologist, writer and lecturer

“The answers you get depend upon the questions you ask.”

Thomas Kuhn (1922-1996)

American physicist and philosopher of Science

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore... Dream... Discover"

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

American lecturer and writer

"The belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions"

Paul Watzlawick (1921-2007)

Austrian-American psychologist and lecturer

"Every person's map of the world is as unique as their thumbprint. There are no two people alike. No two people who understand the same sentence the same way... So in dealing with people, you try not to fit them to your concept of what they should be"

Milton Erickson (1901-1980)

American psychiatrist and psychotherapist

"The mind's direction is more important than its progress"

Joseph Joubert (1754-1824)

French philosopher and moralist

"If one is truly to succeed in leading a person to a specific place, one must
first and foremost take care to find him where he is and begin there".

Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)

Danisch writer and philosopher.

"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit"

Peter Ustinov (1921-2004)

British actor, writer and dramatist