David D. Burns Quotes
It's very rare to have a patient who isn't absolutely delighted when you say, 'I read your feedback. The session didn't go well. You actually got more upset, and I made about three really horrible errors.' If you do that from the heart and not as a gimmick, boy, it's a wonderful thing.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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In my next life, I want to be a housecat. Naps all the time!
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Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
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Earl Nightingale has inspired more people toward success and fortune than any other motivational speaker on the planet.
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Two days after returning from Montreal, I was training again, and I went on to win two more golds at the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
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So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
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I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in a Robert Langdon thriller.
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Gran Metalik was a student in CMLL when I was there as a teenager, and I was in main events and big time matches, so I used to see him in the gym all the time.
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US presidents can make all the commitments and declarations they want until they are blue in the face, in the Muslim world they will always be perceived as partisan.
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I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.
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In general, I think comedy is more difficult to write, to direct, and to act successfully.
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We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.
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When I first got the record deal, I thought it felt like I won the lottery. But I always worked hard at it.
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I travel because I want to know. Books and documentaries will only get you so far. If you want to know, you will have to go.
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What really matters to me is what my peers think.
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I got called 'pretty boy' my whole life.
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Natalie Lyalin is writing some of the best poems in the world. There is an evil in her gorgeous poem-hearts. She must have sold her heart to the devil to write like this—so beautiful, so funny and so strange. Her images stack and stack down the page without spilling, each line such a bombshell you'll start reading backward to the first line. These poems are like babies—they will pop out of trees.
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It's very rare to have a patient who isn't absolutely delighted when you say, 'I read your feedback. The session didn't go well. You actually got more upset, and I made about three really horrible errors.' If you do that from the heart and not as a gimmick, boy, it's a wonderful thing.
