Viscott Quotes

#1. To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. David Viscott

Robert Holden

#2. Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.

David Viscott

#3. You don't have to try, you just have to be.

David Viscott

#4. In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

David Viscott

#5. Frequently, visualization is the key to lose weight. Imagine yourself with your desired body, and work for it. At some point in the future, this wish will come true.

David Viscott

#6. The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.

David Viscott

#7. I can't be under the weight of the character for a 14-hour shooting day. I don't think anybody can do that.

Robert Loggia

#8. People downloading my stories from the bit torrent sites were never going to buy them anyway. It's no money out of my pocket.

Michael A. Stackpole

#9. No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

David Viscott

#10. Take the best action toward your most important goal right now.

David Viscott

#11. Mercy is compassion, kindness, empathy, forgiveness. While grace might be described as blessings and favor from God that we do not necessarily deserve, mercy represents not receiving what we do deserve because of the patience, love, and atonement of the Master.

Brent L. Top

#12. In my house, it is always a scramble from paycheck to paycheck.

Tim Cahill

#13. When you introduce a character and show him for the first time, don't show him fully lit. Don't show him one hundred percent to the audience. Show maybe fifty percent or sixty percent so the audience can fill in the dark spots.

Peter Stormare

#14. Lists today are a way of trying to get through the day, because we are losing a sense of time.

David Viscott

#15. Even those who venture to dip a toe in the pond of risk never allow themselves to get used to the water.

David Viscott

#16. The powerful are self-immunized from even inquiry, let alone punishment for their crimes.

Noam Chomsky

#17. The highest love a person can have for you is to wish for you to evolve into the best person you can be.

David Viscott

#18. Just imagine that you are the person you want to be.

David Viscott

#19. If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

David Viscott

#20. This is really America in therapy, people trying to get themselves together and be whole.

David Viscott

#21. When you respond to an unreasonable person by getting emotional, you give them victory. How do you manage unreasonable people? You dismiss them. Like shadows

David Viscott

#22. If we make it through this, we will be friends. Bonded by trauma.

Eoin Colfer

#23. There is some place where your specialties can shine. Somewhere that difference can be expressed. It's up to you to find it, and you can.

David Viscott

#24. If we are the sum of everything that happens to us, to limit a person's experience is to limit their growth.

David Viscott

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

David Viscott

#26. People now feel time accelerating. Lists allow them to feel some sense of accomplishment.

David Viscott

#27. Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

David Viscott

#28. To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

David Viscott

#29. You can't type what a lesbian is. We're anything and everything. The one thing in common is that we make love to other women. So give up trying to limit us.

Amanda Bearse

#30. Once a person says, "This is who I really am, what I am all about, what I was really meant to do," it is easier to decide how to spend one's time.

David Viscott

#31. Your ultimate goal in life is to become your best self. Your immediate goal is to get on the path that will lead you there.

David Viscott

#32. The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.

Walt Whitman

#33. I had my father, and he was an amazing man and an amazing role model, so I always wanted to mirror that.

Lance Gross

#34. If your life is ever going to get better, you'll have to take risks. There is simply no way you can grow without taking chances.

David Viscott

#35. The original lists were probably carved in stone and represented longer periods of time. They contained things like 'Get More Clay. Make Better Oven.'

David Viscott

#36. Lists have always implied social order.

David Viscott