David D. Burns quote: "A poor self-image is the magnifying glass that can transform a trivial mistake or an imperfection into an overwhelming symbol of personal defeat."

It can be helpful simply to make a written or mental list of the things you do each day. Then give y...
DAVID D. BURNS

I had the fear of heights when I was young, along with many other fears and phobias, including the f...
DAVID D. BURNS

Negative thinking patterns can be immensely deceptive and persuasive, and change is rarely easy. But...
DAVID D. BURNS

Therapy is not to 'talk about' things, but to change the person's life, and to relieve s...
DAVID D. BURNS

Powerful new drug-free treatments have been developed for depression and for every conceivable type ...
DAVID D. BURNS

Practically everybody knows what it's like to feel anxious, worried, nervous, afraid, uptight, o...
DAVID D. BURNS

I have been amazed by the interest in cognitive behavioral therapy that has developed since 'Fee...
DAVID D. BURNS

People who are prone to anxiety are nearly always people-pleasers who fear conflict and negative fee...
DAVID D. BURNS

Perfectionism becomes a badge of honor with you playing the part of the suffering hero.
DAVID D. BURNS

Every time you feel depressed about something, try to identify a corresponding negative thought you ...
DAVID D. BURNS

I'm all for 'tools,' not 'schools,' of therapy. To me, the schools of therapy co...
DAVID D. BURNS

Most people do surprisingly poorly when dealing with a relative who is hurting, depressed, or anxiou...
DAVID D. BURNS

There is no standard 'therapeutic process,' since there are so many different schools of the...
DAVID D. BURNS

Most mental health professionals, including clinicians and researchers, endorse the deficit theory. ...
DAVID D. BURNS

The stereotype of psychotherapy portrayed in popular books and movies is lying on the couch and sayi...
DAVID D. BURNS

One of the most interesting things about the cognitive theory is the idea that anger and interperson...
DAVID D. BURNS

The first principle of cognitive therapy is that all your moods are created by your 'cognitions,...
DAVID D. BURNS

Cognitive therapy is a fast-acting technology of mood modification that you can learn to apply on yo...
DAVID D. BURNS

When two people respect each other, the ability to be vulnerable and to reveal hurt feelings can cre...
DAVID D. BURNS

Depression has been called the world's number one public health problem. In fact, depression is ...
DAVID D. BURNS

Most therapists do not appear to know how to pinpoint and reverse therapeutic resistance - to head i...
DAVID D. BURNS

Depression can seem worse than terminal cancer, because most cancer patients feel loved and they hav...
DAVID D. BURNS

Learning to accept failure on multiple levels is, to my way of thinking, the key to become a world-c...
DAVID D. BURNS

There is no 'ultimate goal of therapy.' Thinking there is some ultimate or universal goal of...
DAVID D. BURNS

That's one of the peculiar things about bad moods - we often fool ourselves and create misery by...
DAVID D. BURNS

When you change the way you think, you can change the way you feel.
DAVID D. BURNS

Kindness is the cause of all anxiety.
DAVID D. BURNS

Cognitive therapy is based on the idea that when you change the way you think, you can change the wa...
DAVID D. BURNS

Perfection' is man's ultimate illusion. It simply doesn't exist in the universe.... If you are a per...
DAVID D. BURNS

We've got some things on the burner. There's definitely more coming for spring and summer.
DAVID BURNS

Wow. It's almost the Holy Grail.
DAVID BURNS

Be funny, be daring, and be as creative as possible, ... Embarrassment is only in your minds; it's n...
DAVID BURNS

I'm not saying the plot doesn't have holes.
VERNON D. BURNS

He thought he saw some horses, too, and a clown, but it was the faces of all those dead raptors that...
VERNON D. BURNS

Aim for success not perfection... Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting ...
DR. DAVID BURNS

Jesus' willingness to accommodate Thomas' unbelief is a reminder that God can handle our doubt. And ...
DAVID D. FLOWERS

Mis-information is rampant in this great age of mass-information. While we have more access to learn...
DAVID D. FLOWERS

Anarcho-capitalism is not by definition libertarian. It is rather a prediction, not a definition.
DAVID D. FRIEDMAN

The early church didn't experience explosive growth in the face of relentless persecution for believ...
DAVID D. FLOWERS

Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself t...
DR. DAVID M. BURNS

Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fa...
DR. DAVID M. BURNS

Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself...
DR DAVID M BURNS

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose th...
DR. DAVID M. BURNS

First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, y...
GEORGE BURNS

Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
GEORGE BURNS

Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.
GEORGE BURNS

I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.
GEORGE BURNS

I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.
GEORGE BURNS

When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.
GEORGE BURNS

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
GEORGE BURNS

If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding wo...
GEORGE BURNS

I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.
GEORGE BURNS

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could ...
GEORGE BURNS

I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.
GEORGE BURNS

Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
GEORGE BURNS

It's hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and ...
GEORGE BURNS

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at somethin...
GEORGE BURNS

I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.
GEORGE BURNS

Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on ...
GEORGE BURNS

My mother was pragmatic, focused and extremely, exceedingly practical, and she was the ultimate self...
URSULA BURNS

I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, wri...
URSULA BURNS

Kids are pretty resilient. You don't have to be at every volleyball game. We can't guilt our...
URSULA BURNS

Xerox is really good at managing documents, and we're definitely good at managing through a proc...
URSULA BURNS

Xerox manages the infrastructure of E-ZPass for a large number of states. So when you say E-ZPass, a...
URSULA BURNS

Admiration takes on a whole new level when you appreciate just how complex it is to run a modern bus...
URSULA BURNS

CEOs resign when the internal dynamics of the company and the external dynamics of the company actua...
URSULA BURNS

Fresh out of college, you tend to join a company because it's a job. But, you tend to stay becau...
URSULA BURNS

If you go to Norway, Finland, Russia or Australia, you'll see Xerox or Fuji-Xerox people, not ju...
URSULA BURNS

Unlike people, companies outlive their founders and their leaders.
URSULA BURNS

I don't want to overemphasize this, but not a day goes by when I don't think about my mother...
URSULA BURNS

Race and gender definitely came up, occasionally, in my life at work. But the bigger challenge that ...
URSULA BURNS

My perspective comes in part from being a New York black lady, in part from being an engineer. I kno...
URSULA BURNS

I'm a black lady from the Lower East Side of New York. Not a lot intimidates me.
URSULA BURNS

My mother was amazing. I guess, in our community, if you wanted to get by you had to work hard. So s...
URSULA BURNS

I'm less concerned about whether being a good corporate citizen burnishes a company's reputa...
URSULA BURNS

I want to stop transforming and just start being.
URSULA BURNS

I've had many mentors, but the one that has the most impact was my mother.
URSULA BURNS

Crankiness is a human attribute that, when people walk in the door of Xerox, they remain human. The ...
URSULA BURNS

The world is full of opportunities - every day there's something new that you can do. For exampl...
URSULA BURNS

The best way to change it is to do it. Right? And then after a while you become it, and it's eas...
URSULA BURNS

Impatience is a virtue.
URSULA BURNS

As I've progressed in my career, I've come to appreciate - and really value - the other attr...
URSULA BURNS

I realized I was more convincing to myself and to the people who were listening when I actually said...
URSULA BURNS

Find something that you love to do, and find a place that you really like to do it in. I found somet...
URSULA BURNS

It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirte...
GEORGE BURNS

It's not a matter of vanity; it's a matter of sanity. I'll never look forever young, but...
PETE BURNS

If one of my players ever wants to hit me, he better do it really hard because otherwise, I'll f...
PAT BURNS

Excuse my voice - I don't have the thundering voice I used to have to get players going on the i...
PAT BURNS

I believe in Wendel Clark. We want Wendel to be a prime-time player.
PAT BURNS

They're trying to kill me before I'm dead. I come to Quebec to spend some time with my famil...
PAT BURNS

The kids get cheated out of a lot of times with their dad. They were good about it.
PAT BURNS

Toronto was a great place to work, a fun place to work. People were so hockey-oriented, hockey-minde...
PAT BURNS

Coming to another hockey Mecca like Toronto makes you a better coach. I want to have fun again. I wa...
PAT BURNS

As for my career, I always said to my kids, 'you don't cry because it's over, you're...
PAT BURNS

I know my life is nearing its end and I accept that.
PAT BURNS

Coaching the Bruins is like going bear hunting with a butter knife.
PAT BURNS

I'm not an overly happy person. There are times when I'm happy, and that's usually in my...
PAT BURNS

I got hit with an octopus in Detroit one time. It was the most gross thing I've ever had happen....
PAT BURNS

It was a lovely feeling, dying. I can remember being in the hospital, all wired up to tubes and thin...
PETE BURNS

I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a l...
KEN BURNS

I don't believe that a hydrogen economy depends on a carbon economy at all.
LARRY BURNS

Fuel cells create a better automobile that's 50 percent more energy-efficient overall and sustai...
LARRY BURNS

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible
GEORGE BURNS

My natural color is dark blond, but right now I like being a brunette. I did a movie last summer and...
BROOKE BURNS

We started on April 1, 2003. So long ago, you couldn't watch video in a web browser; you had to ...
BURNIE BURNS

I never had posters on my walls, and I didn't have any icons, either. I come from a small villag...
PETE BURNS

Nae man can tether time or tide.
ROBERT BURNS

An Atheist's laugh's a poor exchange For Deity offended!
ROBERT BURNS

I have a big personality, and I think big personality plus blond hair makes me come across as glib. ...
BROOKE BURNS

Got no check books, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I got the sun in the mornin'...
IRVING BURNS

Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious.
ROBERT BURNS

I have regular peels and Botox. It's something I'll always do. People redecorate their homes...
PETE BURNS

His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.
ROBERT BURNS

Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
ROBERT BURNS

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting h...
GEORGE BURNS

Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be for...
ROBERT BURNS

The landlord's laugh was ready chorus.
ROBERT BURNS

O, wad some Power the giftie gie us
To see oursels as others see us!
It wad frae monie a b...
ROBERT BURNS

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
GEORGE BURNS

The problem with drinking and driving is that trees defend themselves very well.
GEORGE BURNS

Be quick to learn and wise to know.
GEORGE BURNS

Life's but a day at most.
GEORGE BURNS

Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.
GEORGE BURNS

Let us do or die.
ROBERT BURNS

I look better, feel better, make love better and I'll tell you something else....I never lied better...
GEORGE BURNS

Prudent, cautious self-control, is wisdom's root.
ROBERT BURNS

It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.
GEORGE BURNS

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
GEORGE BURNS

How can I die? I'm booked.
GEORGE BURNS

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
GEORGE BURNS

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.
GEORGE BURNS

You know you're getting old when you stop to tie your shoes and wonder what else you can do while yo...
GEORGE BURNS

Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
ROBERT BURNS

Someone who makes you laugh is a comedian. Someone who makes you think and then laugh is a humorist.
GEORGE BURNS

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting ha...
GEORGE BURNS

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
ROBERT BURNS

When chill November's surly blast make fields and forest bare.
ROBERT BURNS

Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we ha...
ROBERT BURNS

I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.
GEORGE BURNS

Suspense is worst than disappointment.
ROBERT BURNS

A good manager is a man who isn't worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who w...
H.S.M. BURNS

The best-laid schemes o' mice an 'men
Gang aft agley.
ROBERT BURNS

Their sighing , canting , grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces.
ROBERT BURNS

I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.
GEORGE BURNS

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
ROBERT BURNS

If it's a good script I'll do it. And if it's a bad script, and they pay me enough, I'll do it.
GEORGE BURNS

The Thames is liquid history.
JOHN BURNS

I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discr...
ROBERT BURNS

How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
ROBERT BURNS

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.
ROBERT BURNS

I pick my favorite quotation and store them in my mind as ready armor, offensive or defensive, amid ...
ROBERT BURNS

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
ROBERT BURNS

Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised th...
ROBERT BURNS

Ae fond kiss, and then we sever!
A farewell, and then forever!
Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll ...
ROBERT BURNS

The great Creator to revere
Must sure become the creature;
But still the preaching cant forbea...
ROBERT BURNS

His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.
ROBERT BURNS

Gars auld claes look amaist as weel's the new.
ROBERT BURNS

The daisy's for simplicity and unaffected air.
ROBERT BURNS

Even thou who mournst the daisy's fate, That fate is thine--no distant date; Stern Ruin's plou...
ROBERT BURNS

Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn!
ROBERT BURNS

It is cruelty to be humane to rebels, and humanity is cruelty. [Fr., Contre les rebelles c'est cru...
ROBERT BURNS

Ilk cowslip cup shall kep a tear.
ROBERT BURNS

And wild-scatter'd cowslips bedeck the green dale.
ROBERT BURNS

Contented wi' little, and cantie wi' mair.
ROBERT BURNS

I'll be merry and free, I'll be sad for nae-body; If nae-body cares for me, I'll care fo...
ROBERT BURNS

To liken them to your auld-warld squad, I must needs say comparisons are odd.
ROBERT BURNS

Without discipline the Army would just be a bunch of guys wearing the same color clothing.
FRANK BURNS

I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.
GEORGE BURNS

Sex can be fun after eighty, after ninety, and after lunch!
GEORGE BURNS

Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining ...
KEN BURNS

All-cheering Plenty, with her flowing horn, Led yellow Autumn, wreath'd with nodding corn.
ROBERT BURNS

And there begins a lang digression About the lords o' the creation.
ROBERT BURNS

O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I.
ROBERT BURNS

The wide world is all before us-- But a world without a friend.
ROBERT BURNS

Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!
ROBERT BURNS

In durance vile here must I wake and weep, And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
ROBERT BURNS

Then horn for horn they stretch and strive; Deil tak the hindmost, on they drive.
ROBERT BURNS

I waive the quantum o' the sin, The hazard of concealing: But, och! it hardens a' within, ...
ROBERT BURNS

I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, am...
ROBERT BURNS

Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the evening gale. from the poem The Cotter’s Saturday Ni...
ROBERT BURNS

Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blu...
ROBERT BURNS

What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools; If honest nature...
ROBERT BURNS

G-- knows I'm no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be, But twenty times I...
ROBERT BURNS

Farewell, my friends! farewell, my foes! My peace with these, my love with those. The burstin...
ROBERT BURNS

Hear, Land o' Cakes, and brither Scots, Frae Maidenkirk to Johnie Groat's;- If there's a hole ...
ROBERT BURNS

O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to heaven is sent; Long may thy h...
ROBERT BURNS

But pleasures are like poppies spread; You seize the flower, its bloom is shed. Or like the sn...
ROBERT BURNS

Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn!
ROBERT BURNS

The mother may forget the child That smiles sae sweetly on her knee; But I'll remember thee, G...
ROBERT BURNS

O wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blund...
ROBERT BURNS

My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav'n is sent, Long may thy hardy sons o...
ROBERT BURNS

Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of wo.
ROBERT BURNS

Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
ROBERT BURNS

The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, And violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.
ROBERT BURNS

Now blooms the lily by the bank, The primrose down the brae; The hawthorn's budding in the gle...
ROBERT BURNS

Mourn, little harebells, o'er the lea; Ye stately foxgloves fair to see! Ye woodbines, hanging...
ROBERT BURNS

The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that.
ROBERT BURNS

A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But an honest man's aboon his ...
ROBERT BURNS

A man's a man for a' that!
ROBERT BURNS

Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman; Though they may gang a' kennin'...
ROBERT BURNS

A poor self-image is the magnifying glass that can transform a trivial mistake or an imperfection into an overwhelming symbol of personal defeat.

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