David Viscott (1938–96) was an American psychiatrist, author, businessman, and media personality. He was a graduate of Dartmouth, Tufts Medical School and taught at University Hospital in Boston. He started a private practice in psychiatry in 1968 and later moved to Los Angeles in 1979 where he was a professor of psychiatry at UCLA. He founded and managed the Viscott Center for Natural Therapy in Beverly Hills, Newport Beach and Pasadena, California.
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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
Topics: Danger, Risk
You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be.
—David Viscott
Topics: Learning
The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.
—David Viscott
If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.
—David Viscott
Topics: Action
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
Topics: Passion
Even those who venture to dip a toe in the pond of risk never allow themselves to get used to the water.
—David Viscott
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
—David Viscott
Topics: Love
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
Topics: Trying, Failure
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
Topics: Identity
In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.
—David Viscott
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