David D. Burns Quotes
The first principle of cognitive therapy is that all your moods are created by your 'cognitions,' or thoughts. A cognition refers to the way you look at things - your perceptions, mental attitudes, and beliefs. It includes the way you interpret things - what you say. about something or someone to yourself.
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I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.
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I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.
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She's been on more laps than a napkin.
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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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My personality is extremely unbalanced.
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All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
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When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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Police are reluctant to label a murder as a possible serial homicide.
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In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead.
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Of course, there can be serious injustices within free societies.
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I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
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Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
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It is only the forcible propagation of conventional Christianity that makes the agnostic so bitter toward the church. He knows that all the doctrines cannot possibly be true, but he would view them with toleration if he were asked merely to let them alone for the benefit of the masses whom they can help and succour.
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Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.
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A person who suffers from severe locomotor anxiety finds himself in an almost permanent state of mental tension. He wakes in the morning with the anxious expectation of having to go out somewhere in the course of the day.
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If you shift your focus from yourself to others, extend your concern to others, and cultivate the thought of caring for the well being of others, then this will have the immediate effect of opening up your life and helping you to reach out.
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When a man has just been greatly honored and has eaten a little he is the most generous.
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The poet must write as the interpreter of nature and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations, as a being superior to time and place.
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I want to provoke people with thoughts, not by taking my clothes off. It's time to move on from Stripperville.
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I always imagine people give succinct answers. I have no prepared thoughts on what I do.
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The first principle of cognitive therapy is that all your moods are created by your 'cognitions,' or thoughts. A cognition refers to the way you look at things - your perceptions, mental attitudes, and beliefs. It includes the way you interpret things - what you say. about something or someone to yourself.
