David Burns > Quotes

“Alexander Berkman was a self-declared atheist attempting to lift the stultifying fog of the gods from the mind of humankind.”
― David Burns, The Life and Death of the Radical Historical Jesus

“So if you are a perfectionist, you are guaranteed to be a loser in whatever you do.”
― David Burns

“Cope, Don’t Mope”
― David Burns

“How do we bridge the chasm? How do we begin to reconnect with those now lost to the corner world? As a beginning, at least, we need to shed our fixed perceptions, and see it fresh from the inside. . . . We need to start over, to admit that somehow the forces of history and race, economic theory and human weakness have conspired to create a new an peculiar universe in our largest cities. Our rules and imperatives don't work down here. We've got to leave behind the useless baggage of a society and culture that still maintains the luxury of reasonable judgments. Against all the sanction we can muster, this new world is surviving, expanding, consuming everything in its path.”
― David Simon, Edward Burns

“Etiketleme, sadece yıkıcı değil, mantıksızdır da.Birey olarak siz, yaptığınız tek bir şeyle ölçülemezsiniz. Hayatınız karmaşık ve sürekli olarak değişen bir düşünceler, duygular ve hareketler akışıdır. Başka bir deyişle, bir heykelden çok bir nehirsiniz.”
― David Burns, Feeling Good About Yourself: Learn How to Boost Self-Esteem by Combatting Self-Defeating Thought Pattern

“You too may be paying heavily for your perfectionism.”
― David Burns

“Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault.”
― David Burns

“To do more than tender the bribe would require empathy, charity, and connectedness, and in thirty years we have summmoned up noting close. Empathy demonds we recognize ourselves in the faces at Mount and Fayette, that we acknowledge the addictive impulse as something more than simple lawlessness, that we begin to see the corner as the last refuge of the trule disowned. Charity asks that we no longer brgrudge the treasure already lost. And connectedness admits that between their world and our, the distance, in human terms at least, is never as great as we make it seem.”
― David Simon, Edward Burns

“There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.”
― David Burns

“No matter how much he accomplished he would always raise his standards slightly higher, and then he’d feel miserable.”
― David Burns

“You refuse to give in to the perfectionistic habit, and you allow yourself to become flooded with fear and discomfort.”
― David Burns

“And in all cases I have been pleasantly shocked to discover that by lowering my standards not only do I feel better about what I do but I tend to do it more effectively.”
― David Burns