4 Quotes & Sayings By Ted Tally

Ted Tally was born in 1933 in Waukegan, Illinois. He attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, earning a bachelor's degree in 1957 and a master's degree in 1958. He earned his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Iowa in 1968 Read more

Tally joined the psychology faculty at the University of Georgia in 1968 and retired as Professor Emeritus in 2011. His research interests included social psychology, personality, career choice, career changes, and cross-cultural issues. Tally has received numerous awards for his research and teaching including the Carl Hovland Award for Career Counseling Research (1993), the Sanford Award for Distinguished Contributions to Career Counseling (1996), an honorary doctorate from Knox College (1997), National Teaching Fellowships from the Society for the Advancement of Career Education (1998) and the American Psychological Association (1999).

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Look out there. Can you feel them? Incredible to think - other human beings out there. You strain your eyes the whole day long, see nothing, hear nothing, still can't believe it somehow - but know it's true. Other warm bodies, hearts pumping blood. That ought to make us feel less lonely, or safer, it seems. Then why is it so shocking? Because - they don't belong here. The possibility of life in this place is more terrifying than the place itself. Can it be that we're really here? . Ted Tally
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Everything is a tool - a boot, a sled, a dog - and a hand, an arm, even a man! If it breaks down you throw it away and you march on! It's brutal, yes! And it's ugly. But anything else is sentiment and it will kill you. Ted Tally
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Playing the game means treating your dogs like gentlemen, and your gentlemen like dogs. Ted Tally