Aaron T. Beck Quotes

Cognitive therapy seeks to alleviate psychological stresses by correcting faulty conceptions and self-signals. By correcting erroneous beliefs we can lower excessive reactions.

Aaron T. Beck

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• I'm terrified of therapy because I don't want it to mess with my creativity.

  

  Lady Gaga
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• Religious beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honoured.

  

  Isaac Hayes
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  • Religious
  • Beliefs

• In retrospect, I have devoted my scientific life mainly to the question to what extent infectious agents contribute to human cancer, trusting that this will contribute to novel modes of cancer prevention, diagnosis and, hopefully, later on, also to cancer therapy.

  

  Harald zur Hausen
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• The entrenched beliefs many westerners profess about Islam often reveal more about the West than they do about Islam or Muslims.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Islam
  • Beliefs
  • Reveal

• My ideal relaxation is working on upholstry. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture. I do all the upholstery work myself, and it's like therapy.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Work
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• That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Time
  • Dark
  • Personality

• In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor to an institution, nor a movement, nor a set of beliefs, nor a code of action - you are attached primarily to a Person, and secondarily to these other things.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Action
  • Movement
  • Beliefs

• The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management's unexamined beliefs.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Always
  • Management
  • Beliefs

• I regret that I have not written more, shouted louder, and acted out my beliefs.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Regret
  • More
  • Beliefs

• Psychotherapy works, and some types of therapy have been shown to be much more effective than antidepressants over the long run.

  

  Irving Kirsch
  • Long
  • Run
  • Therapy

• Apart from the intrinsic interest of the complex system of beliefs the Puritans carried with them, their lives give a clue to what it meant at the beginning to be American. And the level of scholarship dealing with them has reached a point where it can address the human condition itself.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • American
  • Beginning
  • Beliefs

• The object of poetic activity is essentially language: whatever his beliefs and convictions, the poet is more concerned with words than with what these words designate.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Words
  • Language
  • Beliefs

• I think everybody I've seen has come from some other therapy, and almost invariably, it's very much the same thing: the therapist is too disinterested, a little too aloof, a little too inactive. They're not really interested in the person; he doesn't relate to the person.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Think
  • Therapy
  • Therapist

• For the purposes of the play, it was perfect to be able to use that and the stresses and strains that there were. At the end of the play, the mother realizes the terrible things she had done.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Mother
  • Perfect
  • Play

• When something comes up that attacks people's beliefs, their first reaction tends to be fear.

  

  J. D. Pardo
  • People
  • Up
  • Fear

• If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad.

  

  Hans Eysenck
  • Truth
  • Bad
  • Beliefs

• I think that therapy is great and can be incredibly helpful.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Great
  • Think
  • Therapy

• In 1995, Glaxo bought Burroughs Wellcome and became the presumptive leader in AIDS therapy.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Leader
  • Aids
  • Therapy

• I still have certain goals that I want. Grammies... Other awards... an Oscar one day.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Goal
  • Goals
  • Certain

• Here we are at the very core of the thesis we wish to defend in the present essay: reverie is under the sign of the anima. When the reverie is truly profound, the being who comes to dream within us is our anima. For a philosopher who takes his inspiration from phenomenology, a reverie on reverie is very exactly a phenomenology of the anima, and it is by coordinating reveries on reverie that he hopes to constitute a "Poetics of reverie". In other words, the poetics of reverie is a poetics of the anima.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Dream
  • Wish
  • Present

• This is no time to pick a leader who is weak on the war and wrong on taxes. George W. Bush is a strong leader with the right vision for America.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • Time
  • America
  • War

• Nepotism sometimes can be a lose-lose situation.

  

  Vikram Chatwal
  • Sometimes
  • Situation

• What I consider to be the barometer for what is a rock artist and what is not, is somebody who has a certain element of blues, even a hint of soul or blues music, derivative of African-American blues, folk, spiritual, or gospel.

  

  Ian Astbury The Cult
  • Music
  • American
  • Soul

• Cognitive therapy seeks to alleviate psychological stresses by correcting faulty conceptions and self-signals. By correcting erroneous beliefs we can lower excessive reactions.

  

  Aaron T. Beck
  • Beliefs
  • Therapy
  • Stresses