David Viscott
David Viscott
David Viscott, was an American psychiatrist, author, businessman, and media personality. He was a graduate of Dartmouth, Tufts Medical School and taught at University Hospital in Boston. He started a private practice in psychiatry in 1968 and later moved to Los Angeles in 1979 where he was a professor of psychiatry at UCLA. He founded and managed the Viscott Center for Natural Therapy in Beverly Hills, Newport Beach and Pasadena, California...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPsychologist
Date of Birth24 May 1938
CountryUnited States of America
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.
To love and to be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.
You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be.
Take the best action toward your most important goal right now.
Just imagine that you are the person you want to be.
Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.
Many risks fail because they were not taken in time. Too many risks are postponed until unnecessarily elaborate preparations are made. This does not mean that one should say, Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead! That is foolish and self-destructive. . . . But don't sit back waiting for the perfect moment. It almost never comes.
Lists today are a way of trying to get through the day, because we are losing a sense of time.
Frequently, visualization is the key to lose weight. Imagine yourself with your desired body, and work for it. At some point in the future, this wish will come true.
Once a person says, "This is who I really am, what I am all about, what I was really meant to do," it is easier to decide how to spend one's time.
In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.