David Viscott Quotes

You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be.

David Viscott

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• Let's talk about Connie Britton, who I love. I don't know of a person who doesn't love her, I don't know a man or woman who doesn't have a crush on her, she's the most fabulous person in the entire world, and she's such an incredible actress, and so sweet, and I love her.

  

  Maggie Carey
  • World
  • Know
  • Person

• It's nice to have some distance with your family. As long as you're closer to them by love.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Long
  • Family
  • Love

• I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Will
  • Conquered

• If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Reading
  • Listening
  • Gift

• Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Place
  • Start
  • Questions

• Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Remember
  • Poetry
  • Tired

• 'I Will Follow' is a celebration of life. Sometimes when you lose something, you understand its value more than when you had it. The same is true for life.

  

  Salli Richardson
  • Life
  • True
  • Value

• My first album is like a terrible John Hammond album, with drums.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Like
  • First
  • Terrible

• When your dreams include service to others - accomplishing something that contributes to others - it also accelerates the accomplishment of that goal. People want to be part of something that contributes and makes a difference.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Service
  • Dreams

• I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Like
  • Famous
  • Two

• I was just doing bits and pieces of acting in the U.K. I'd been in the film 'Breaking and Entering' - Anthony Minghella gave me my start and I miss him dearly. Then I made the trip out to L.A., during one of their pilot seasons, which was when they were developing 'Gossip Girl,' and I auditioned, and things came together.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Together
  • Girl
  • Gossip

• I don't understand why you have to wear a wedding ring to warn people off. You should be able to be faithful to that person without anything on your body to show that you are with someone.

  

  Sam Smith
  • People
  • Why
  • Body

• Modeling isn't really a tough job. Acting is much harder: so much prep and changing your look and mannerisms. It's a more difficult lifestyle being a model. I traveled all the time. Although, now I wonder, because I travel all the time for acting, too. So they both have their difficulties.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Time
  • Job
  • Wonder

• In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Win
  • Lose
  • Cards

• It is time to be old, To take in sail: - The god of bounds, Who sets to seas a shore, Came to me in his fatal rounds, And said: 'No more!

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Time
  • God

• The manifestation of the Divinity must be understood to be in greater degree in those who are honoured, respected, and obeyed by a large following, than in those who have gained no such influence.

  

  Ramakrishna

• The Church was the preserver of the remnants of intellectual culture, the sole schoolmistress of the raw peoples. Her clergy long had almost a monopoly of education, and were the secretaries of the nobles, the chancellors and prime ministers of kings.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Long
  • Culture
  • Education

• It is impossible to persue this nonsense any further.

  

  Karl Marx

• Ever since I was a little kid, I loved being the centre of attention. I think it's part of the reason why I loved skating. You're literally in a fishbowl. You're in the middle of the ice by yourself, and the world is watching.

  

  Kaetlyn Osmond
  • World
  • Why
  • Attention

• Labor is the fruit of civilization, not the basis of it.

  

  Alexander Crummell
  • Civilization
  • Labor
  • Fruit

• Mention the name George W. Bush in mixed company, and you're likely to spark a lot of debate and emotion - hot and cold, good and bad. Not a lot of neutral reaction. He was elected in the most controversial contest in American electoral history and governed during one of the most tumultuous decades.

  

  Mark McKinnon
  • Good
  • American
  • History

• When I did '1,2,3,4' on 'Sesame Street' they'd rewritten the song and made it about counting. At first, I balked. I was like, 'Counting to four? That's where we're going with this?' Then they sent me appearances by other people like James Blunt doing 'You're Beautiful' as 'My Triangle.'

  

  Feist
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Song

• I grew up in Oakland and Berkeley, California.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Up
  • California
  • Berkeley

• You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be.

  

  David Viscott