George Kelly

Psychologist American 1905 – 1967

American psychologist who developed personal construct theory and fixed role therapy.

368 quotes

"What we call talent is simply the ability to see possibilities others miss."
Art
"Patience is the discipline of allowing alternative constructs to emerge."
Patience
"Kindness begins when we attempt to understand another's personal construct system."
Kindness
"The greatest strength is the flexibility to change one's fundamental beliefs."
Strength
"We are imprisoned only by the constructs we refuse to question."
Freedom
"Beauty exists in the harmony of how we construct and reconstruct meaning."
Beauty
"Work becomes fulfilling when it aligns with our deepest personal constructs."
Work
"The most profound learning happens when our expectations are violated."
Knowledge
"Time is not a prison but a canvas for reimagining ourselves."
Time
"Grief is the price we pay for having loved within a particular construct of the world."
Death
"Inspiration arises when we glimpse a more comprehensive way of understanding."
Inspiration
"A healthy relationship allows both partners to evolve their constructs together."
Relationships
"Solitude is valuable when it gives us space to revise our understanding of ourselves."
Solitude
"Gratitude is acknowledging that others have enriched our construct of reality."
Gratitude
"Adventure is stepping into situations where our familiar constructs no longer apply."
Adventure
"Technology is only as wise as the constructs of meaning we bring to it."
Technology
"History teaches us the constructs by which previous generations made sense of chaos."
History
"Literature is the exploration of alternative ways of constructing human experience."
Literature
"Political conflict arises from incompatible systems of personal constructs."
Politics
"War represents the ultimate failure of imagination to construct shared meaning."
War
"Motivation flows from believing that your actions can bring about anticipated outcomes."
Motivation
"Justice requires understanding how different people construct their moral worlds."
Justice
"Faith is the willingness to act based on constructs we cannot yet fully verify."
Faith
"Happiness is the fluid experience of successfully navigating life with our current constructs."
Happiness
"Money has only the meaning we construct for it in our personal value systems."
Money
"Health is when body and mind share consistent, coherent patterns of meaning."
Health
"A person's behavior can only be understood through their own construct system."
Philosophy
"The question is not what reality is, but how we interpret it."
Wisdom
"We are all architects of our own understanding, building with the materials of experience."
Life
"Courage is the ability to act despite uncertainty about our constructs."
Courage