Cognitive Behavior Therapy Quotes

#1. Our thoughts have prepared for us the
happiness or unhappiness we experience.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#2. No one can escape life's pain. That's life.

Pierce Brosnan

#3. I specialise in taking teams of designers, psychologists, usability experts, sociologists and ethnographers into the field. It's called 'corporate anthropology,' but personally I'm more comfortable with 'design research,' because I'm not an anthropologist by training.

Jan Chipchase

#4. I've always stayed really close with my mother and my father.

Nicole Richie

#5. A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each other, like the two weights pulling at the arms of a pair of scales.

Rudolf Arnheim

#6. When I go on and listen to the stuff on the websites, I can't tell, it all sounds like the same band, like they should all be in one band together.

Marnie Stern

#7. Someone's got to do some more research, but I would really like to know: when a CBT therapist really gets distressed, who does he go see?

Irvin D. Yalom

#8. The language of love letters is the same as suicide notes.

Courtney Love

#9. You, Declan, are sexy as hell."
He leaned in and kissed the top of her breasts. "And how sexy is that?"
"Think of the heat down there in hell. You are seven times hotter than that.

Carolyn Brown

#10. Acceptance and commitment therapy, a variant on cognitive therapy, attempts to teach people to accept rather than change their emotions and make decisions within the context of what they value, as opposed to letting negative feelings control their behavior.

Joseph E. Ledoux

#11. I built private sector jobs all my life.

Rick Scott

#12. Since the Renaissance, a concept called 'progress' has been baked into our society. Progress - founded on an accumulation of knowledge through experience (and in the case of science, through experiment). To build on the past rather than endlessly relive it. That's what separates us from the beasts.

Seth Shostak