David D. Burns Quotes

I had the fear of heights when I was young, along with many other fears and phobias, including the fear of dogs, bees, horses, and blood.

David D. Burns

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• The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

  

  Ovid
  • May
  • Ability
  • Will

• That's what everybody calls me, 'Cheat Code,' because they just throw the ball up to me.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Me
  • Ball
  • Everybody

• If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Great
  • Political
  • Ugly

• I always like to sing along to some depressing, angry Morrissey.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Like
  • Always
  • Angry

• I do constantly get to change the way I look, which is sort of an old-school idea of acting.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • School
  • Change
  • Acting

• If you really want something, it's nerve-racking, but at the same time, I try not to stress myself out about it too much because there are also so many arbitrary things that go into being cast for something - you know, like the color of your eyes, all these things that are kind of out of my control.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • Time
  • Control
  • Eyes

• I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.

  

  B. B. King
  • Good
  • Horrible
  • Chords

• The child is pronounced pretty. I think it quite otherwise.

  

  Salmon P. Chase
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Child

• We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Help
  • Earth
  • Know

• This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.

  

  Yasmine Bleeth
  • Time
  • Fantasy
  • Watching

• When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Death

• The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Business
  • Political
  • Drunk

• What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.

  

  Hans Blix
  • People
  • Me
  • Military

• I don't accept any money, free products, or anything else of value from the companies whose products I cover or from their public relations or advertising agencies.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Money
  • Free
  • Value

• God only made one thing in this world that's perfect - and that's my boxing record.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • World
  • God
  • Perfect

• I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you can't get rid of.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • World
  • Mind
  • Funny

• I think there's always room for more innovation and new things.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Innovation
  • New Things

• Now, what we are not talking about, what you're really coming to, is what compromises one makes so that the listener understands somewhat of what you're doing, what you're trying to express.

  

  Leo Ornstein
  • Trying

• Mr Blawke always reminded me of a heron; I'm not sure why. Something to do with a sense of rapacious stillness, perhaps, and also the aura of one who knows time is on his side.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Time
  • Why
  • Sides

• When you start looking at a problem and it seems really simple, you don't really understand the complexity of the problem. Then you get into the problem, and you see that it's really complicated, and you come up with all these convoluted solutions. That's sort of the middle, and that's where most people stop... But the really great person will keep on going and find the key, the underlying principle of the problem - and come up with an elegant, really beautiful solution that works.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Problem
  • Solutions

• If one hour's work is enough to govern France, four minutes is all that is needed for Italy. There is no nation more easily frightened; even its poetic imagination predisposes it to fear, and they look upon power as on an image that fills them with terror.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Work
  • Power
  • Fear

• I had the fear of heights when I was young, along with many other fears and phobias, including the fear of dogs, bees, horses, and blood.

  

  David D. Burns
  • Fear