David Viscott Quotes

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

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

Lists have always implied social order.

- David Viscott

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

- David Viscott

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

- David Viscott

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

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

- David Viscott

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

- David Viscott

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

- David Viscott

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

- David Viscott

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

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

- David Viscott

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

- David Viscott

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

- David Viscott

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

- David Viscott