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David Viscott Biography

David Steven Viscott (May 24, 1938 – October 10, 1996) was an American psychiatrist, author, businessman, and media personality. He was a graduate of Dartmouth (1959), 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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The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.

Develop, Discover, Giving, Life, Purpose

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.

Easier, Meant, Really Mean, Time

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

Begin, Courage, Life, Motivational, Positive, Succeed

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.

Chances, Get Better, Growth, Risk, Risks, Simply

You are the only one who has to live your life.

Life, Live, Live Your Life

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

Accomplishment, Allow, Lists, People, Sense

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

Clay, Lists, Make, Original, Stones

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

Imagine, Loss, Person, Want

Many risks fail because they were not taken in time. Too many risks are postponed until unnecessarily elaborate preparations are made. This does not mean that one should say, Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead! That is foolish and self-destructive. . . . But don't sit back waiting for the perfect moment. It almost never comes.

Inspirational, Moment, Motivational, Perfect, Sit, Taken

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.

Imagine, Keys, Loss, Point, True, Wish

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

Day, Losing, Today, Trying, Way

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

Believe, Criminal Mind, Fatalism, People, Providence

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

Angel, Character, Everything, Experience, Growth, Happens

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

Emotional, Giving, Like, Manage, People, Shadows

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

Information, Trying

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

Action, Goal, Important, Right, Take, Toward

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.

Failure, Hurt, Limit, Succeed, Thinking

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.

Goal, Lead, Life, Path, Self