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
To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.
Your ultimate goal in life is to become your best self. Your immediate goal is to get on the path that will lead you there.
You don't have to try, you just have to be.
If we are the sum of everything that happens to us, to limit a person's experience is to limit their growth.
This is really America in therapy, people trying to get themselves together and be whole.
People now feel time accelerating. Lists allow them to feel some sense of accomplishment.
The original lists were probably carved in stone and represented longer periods of time. They contained things like 'Get More Clay. Make Better Oven.'
Even those who venture to dip a toe in the pond of risk never allow themselves to get used to the water.
There is some place where your specialties can shine. Somewhere that difference can be expressed. It's up to you to find it, and you can.
The highest love a person can have for you is to wish for you to evolve into the best person you can be.
If your life is ever going to get better, you'll have to take risks. There is simply no way you can grow without taking chances.
Lists have always implied social order.
You are the only one who has to live your life.
When you respond to an unreasonable person by getting emotional, you give them victory. How do you manage unreasonable people? You dismiss them. Like shadows