David D. Burns Quotes

Learning to accept failure on multiple levels is, to my way of thinking, the key to become a world-class therapist. But that means humility, and setting your ego aside, while you develop superb new technical skills.

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• The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Great
  • Business
  • America

• The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I'm the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even if I don't have a cherry.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Good
  • Man
  • Me

• I wouldn't ever pose naked... I'm fine to do bikinis and certainly lingerie if I feel it's done tastefully... cute like Victoria's Secret, but nothing like raunchy or overly sexual.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Done
  • Cute
  • Naked

• There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Magazines
  • Collecting
  • Shift

• Promotions can be seen in two ways - either you hate them, and they're a burden, and you are getting through with it, or you can enjoy them. I decided early on that I was going to enjoy them. I did 43 interviews in a day for 'Kahaani.'

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Hate
  • Day
  • Enjoy

• The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Light
  • Like
  • Spiritual

• I win by submissions, knockouts. There's guys ranked above me, but no one's interested in seeing them fight. They want to see me fight.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Me
  • Win
  • Fight

• Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Good
  • Power
  • Idea

• During my early years, I was mercurially lively, always in motion, spilling over with pranks, impertinent and precocious, and, at the same time, intractably stubborn and angry if anything went against my will.

  

  Edith Stein
  • Time
  • Angry
  • Same

• And I'm a pretty positive person - I don't put a lot of energy into worrying, and I'm not a person who lives in a great deal of fear.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • Great
  • Pretty
  • Fear

• I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.

  

  Laura Linney
  • World
  • Home
  • Greatest

• John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Car
  • Name
  • Media

• I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Give
  • Type
  • Them

• I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Different
  • Long
  • Think

• When boasting ends, there dignity begins.

  

  Owen D. Young
  • Dignity
  • Begins
  • Boasting

• Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe on which all - of which all of humanity can be proud.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • World
  • Power
  • Truth

• I knew I had to write a good screenplay to be taken seriously, and I knew I needed to present Mississippi on visuals instead of just saying, 'Hey I wanted to film it in Mississippi.' It would seem like it was a hometown boy just wanting to be home.

  

  Tate Taylor
  • Good
  • Home
  • Taken

• I've done all these historical epics and chivalrous roles, but there's an odder, quirkier side to me that nobody knows about.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Knows
  • Roles
  • Historical

• All I do is sit at home and watch Netflix.

  

  Kyrie Irving
  • Home

• The World Cup was a huge frustration because I had prepared really hard for it. But in the World Cup there is no formula, no recipe for success.

  

  Kaka
  • World
  • Success
  • Frustration

• I do not find myself making any use of the word sacrifice.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Sacrifice
  • Word

• Learning to accept failure on multiple levels is, to my way of thinking, the key to become a world-class therapist. But that means humility, and setting your ego aside, while you develop superb new technical skills.

  

  David D. Burns
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Learning