Aaron T. Beck famous quotes

The stronger person is not the one making the most noise but the one who can quietly direct the conversation toward defining and solving problems.
-- Aaron T. Beck

#Stronger #Noise #Defining

As applied to substance abuse, the cognitive approach helps individuals to come to grips with the problems leading to emotional distress and to gain a broader perspective on their reliance on drugs for pleasure and/or relief from discomfort.
-- Aaron T. Beck

#Emotional #Perspective #Drug

Some authors have conceptualized depression as a "depletion syndrome" because of the prominence of fatigability; they postulate that the patient exhausts his available energy during the period prior to the onset of the depression and that the depressed state represents a kind of hibernation, during which the patient gradually builds up a new story of energy.
-- Aaron T. Beck

#Depression #Energy #Hibernation

Cognitive therapy seeks to alleviate psychological stresses by correcting faulty conceptions and self-signals. By correcting erroneous beliefs we can lower excessive reactions.
-- Aaron T. Beck

#Stress #Self #Belief

The stronger person is not the one making the most noise but the one who can quietly direct the conversation toward defining and solving problems.

I have a love in my life. It makes me stronger than anything you can imagine.

Sadness doesn't equal weakness, sweetheart. If anything, it shows the love you have inside of you, and nothing stronger in this world exists.

When you are knocked down you have two choices - stay down or get back up, stronger.

Human nature makes it easy to bicker like children, but the human heart makes it possible to squelch the noise our head creates.

How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?

There's a lot of noise in the world, and the internet magnifies that energy.

Whenever you have a proclamation of being chosen, it's always a self-defining process. It's always the people who are chosen who say they are chosen. They never say that about the other. If you're going to say, "I'm chosen," it loads you with a very heavy burden.

Defining OO as based on the use of class hierarchies and virtual functions is also practical in that it provides some guidance as to where OO is likely to be successful

We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges.