Irving Kirsch quote: "Depression is not caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain, and it is not cured by medication. Depression may not even be an illness at all. Often, it can be a normal reaction to abnormal situations. Poverty, unemployment, and the loss of loved ones can make people depressed, and these social and situational causes of depression cannot be changed by drugs."

Perhaps anti-depressants should be best reserved for the very extreme cases and, more importantly, f...
IRVING KIRSCH

If doctors just spent more time with their patients so they felt more reassured, that might help.
IRVING KIRSCH

There seems little reason to prescribe anti-depressant medication to any but the most severely depre...
IRVING KIRSCH

If you're taking an antidepressant, it's working, and you're not experiencing side effec...
IRVING KIRSCH

Patients who trust their doctors and have a psychological expectation of getting better could trigge...
IRVING KIRSCH

Depression comes back over time in about 90 percent of people on antidepressants. Studies show that ...
IRVING KIRSCH

Nocebos often cause a physical effect, but it's not a physically produced effect. What's the...
IRVING KIRSCH

Anything that instills a sense of hope will at least temporarily help treat depression.
IRVING KIRSCH

There seem to be many causes of depression. One cause is profound loss, grief. Economic hardship we ...
IRVING KIRSCH

Psychotherapy works, and some types of therapy have been shown to be much more effective than antide...
IRVING KIRSCH

The doctor-patient relationship is critical to the placebo effect.
IRVING KIRSCH

To someone who is not currently on anti-depressants, I would suggest trying other treatments first -...
IRVING KIRSCH

There are a variety of techniques to help people change the kind of thinking that leads them to beco...
IRVING KIRSCH

I do a lot of research on the placebo effect, not just in depression but in irritable bowel syndrome...
IRVING KIRSCH

Perhaps 10 percent of patients who are prescribed antidepressants are really benefiting from the dru...
IRVING KIRSCH

One problem I have with drug companies is that they don't make all their data public.
IRVING KIRSCH

When people recover from depression via psychotherapy, their attributions about recovery are likely ...
IRVING KIRSCH

Depression is a serious problem, but drugs are not the answer. In the long run, psychotherapy is bot...
IRVING KIRSCH

For people who are depressed, and especially for those who do not receive enough benefit from medica...
IRVING KIRSCH

Psychotherapy works for the treatment of depression, and the benefits are substantial. In head-to-he...
IRVING KIRSCH

The big bulk of the response to antidepressants is the placebo response.
IRVING KIRSCH

In 2004, the FDA urged drug companies to adopt a 'Don't ask, don't tell' policy with respect to thei...
IRVING KIRSCH

The big bulk of the response to antidepressants is the placebo response. I don't think these studies...
IRVING KIRSCH

The big bulk of the response to anti-depressants is the placebo response. I don't think these studie...
IRVING KIRSCH

Depression is partly a nocebo effect, in the sense that it can be produced by negative exceptions ab...
IRVING KIRSCH

I'm excited that Gov. Taft has thought of us.
DAVID KIRSCH

I think he wanted to find out what Urban was going to do [at Florida], ... But it's always flatterin...
BRANDON KIRSCH

It's a staple game every year when we play Notre Dame and all eyes are on us. Every other team in th...
BRANDON KIRSCH

I was talking to some guys on the sideline and I said, 'We just won 49-24 and we're upset about the ...
BRANDON KIRSCH

He's improved, ... He understands the offense better and where he needs to go on the field.
BRANDON KIRSCH

If we can do that, we're going to be successful.
BRANDON KIRSCH

It comes down to being smart and making good decisions, and that stems from being prepared and knowi...
BRANDON KIRSCH

For his first outing as the starter, we thought he handled the game very well, we thought he handled...
BRANDON KIRSCH

It's in the back of your mind, but it is not something day in and day out you think about,
BRANDON KIRSCH

It was exciting, ... There was a sense of leadership coming onto the field and leading the team off ...
BRANDON KIRSCH

We had every opportunity to win that game.
BRANDON KIRSCH

You saw big plays there. That's definitely what that offense can do and it's good to see that happen...
BRANDON KIRSCH

It's a staple game every year when we play Notre Dame and all eyes are on us, ... Every other team i...
BRANDON KIRSCH

We're an experienced team. We like that pressure. We'll learn from the close losses last year.
BRANDON KIRSCH

The lesson Arendt drew was that a beautiful soul is not enough, for "it was precisely the soul for w...
ADAM KIRSCH

It was really one man with one vision -- BJ -- and not many people believed him, but now we have don...
DIETER KIRSCH

It was really one man with one vision - B.J. - and not many people believed him, but now we have don...
DIETER KIRSCH

I wanted to build a beautiful boutique gathering place where people could be healthy, but I didn't w...
DAVID KIRSCH

Our greatest asset is land.
DAVID KIRSCH

We need to take hold of this thing. We need to foster it.
DAVID KIRSCH

Photographing a cake can be art.
IRVING PENN

I love the gym; I love basketball. I'm really passionate about it.
KYRIE IRVING

Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal...
WASHINGTON IRVING

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.
WASHINGTON IRVING

There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad ...
WASHINGTON IRVING

There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in tra...
WASHINGTON IRVING

The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.
WASHINGTON IRVING

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
WASHINGTON IRVING

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
WASHINGTON IRVING

There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad dayligh...
WASHINGTON IRVING

Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad.
IRVING THALBERG

A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.
IRVING THALBERG

The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest ...
IRVING THALBERG

Forget it, Louis, no Civil War picture ever made a nickel.
IRVING THALBERG

Credit you give yourself is not worth having.
IRVING THALBERG

Strange story about Degas. He hated women, didn't want to be with them. Yet he spent much of his...
IRVING STONE

The biographical novel sets out to document this truth, for character is plot, character development...
IRVING STONE

The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the fa...
IRVING STONE

I came down successfully through Picasso and Braque, down through Pollock, I guess, but I began to s...
IRVING STONE

In the biographical novel, there's only one person involved. I, the author, spend two to five ye...
IRVING STONE

My goal always is to tell a universal story, meaning it's about a person who has an idea, a visi...
IRVING STONE

My books are based 98 percent on documentary evidence.
IRVING STONE

I spend several years trying to get inside the brain and heart of my subjects, listening to the inte...
IRVING STONE

I thought art was dead rabbits hanging by their feet on a wall. I went to Italy and saw all the reli...
IRVING STONE

I slept in van Gogh's bed. I worked in the room where he painted. I saw the place where he was c...
IRVING STONE

There's nothing romantic about my work... I don't believe in inspiration. I believe that you...
IRVING STONE

Even if there is endless documentation, it would be impossible to know what a man thought inside his...
IRVING STONE

I've tried a few times to depart from what I know I can do, and I've failed. I've tried ...
IRVING PENN

Over the years I must have spent thousands of hours silently brushing on the liquid coatings, prepar...
IRVING PENN

A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.
IRVING PENN

I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to ta...
IRVING PENN

Liberman said to me, 'I must cut back on the work you do for Vogue. The editors don't like i...
IRVING PENN

I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to...
IRVING PENN

I have always stood in awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius...
IRVING PENN

Using simple equipment and daylight alone is for me a pleasure and a replenishment.
IRVING PENN

Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue....
IRVING PENN

The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously inter...
IRVING PENN

I can get obsessed by anything if I look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photogra...
IRVING PENN

My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.
IRVING LAYTON

I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and K...
IRVING LAYTON

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, t...
IRVING LAYTON

People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its...
IRVING KRISTOL

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
IRVING KRISTOL

Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of...
IRVING HOWE

The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.
IRVING HOWE

I never sold any of my pieces. I had all the money I wanted. Then I would have lost my sculptures an...
IRVING HARPER

I don't have a complex mind.
IRVING HARPER

At 93, I'm not looking forward to fame and fortune.
IRVING HARPER

With a computer, there are too many choices, and I always liked working within limits. You know, if ...
IRVING HARPER

The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value.
IRVING FISHER

There's no people like show people.
IRVING BERLIN

After you get what you want you don't want it.
IRVING BERLIN

I got lost but look what I found.
IRVING BERLIN

Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.
IRVING BERLIN

There's no business like show business.
IRVING BERLIN

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.
IRVING BERLIN

Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
IRVING BERLIN

The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.
IRVING BABBITT

Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution.
IRVING BABBITT

The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself...
IRVING BABBITT

To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficul...
IRVING BABBITT

The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
IRVING BABBITT

If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing ...
IRVING BABBITT

The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership bec...
IRVING BABBITT

Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path ...
IRVING BABBITT

We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to ge...
IRVING BABBITT

According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxi...
IRVING BABBITT

The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plur...
IRVING BABBITT

Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.
IRVING BABBITT

Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absen...
IRVING BABBITT

The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once...
IRVING BABBITT

Recorded music is more a marketing tool than a revenue source.
IRVING AZOFF

Life at a public company ain't for me. The board pays you what you're worth, then you get re...
IRVING AZOFF

I can't think of any more powerful moment than when you stand on a stage.
IRVING AZOFF

The great thing about Ticketmaster is that it's seen as the comprehensive site for ticketing, ar...
IRVING AZOFF

Radio stinks. The stations are making a lot of money, but they just aren't taking chances.
IRVING AZOFF

I'm proud to be involved with Simon Cowell and 'X Factor.'
IRVING AZOFF

Since the traditional recorded-music business models have drastically changed, there is truly dimini...
IRVING AZOFF

History shows fans want consolidation; you see it across the web every place. The big players are pe...
IRVING AZOFF

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly...
WASHINGTON IRVING

Going in, you want to play a perfect season and play throughout the whole entire season, but injurie...
KYRIE IRVING

When I'm playing the 1-guard, teams do a great job of just loading up and preparing for my drive...
KYRIE IRVING

I can't even give my father a proper gift. Every single Father's Day means so much to me. I&...
KYRIE IRVING

When I'm playing the 1-guard, I'm kind of seeing everything that's going on. When I play...
KYRIE IRVING

I do have a chef, but I still go out. Sometimes I can still blend in, and sometimes I get a little b...
KYRIE IRVING

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

Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when...
IRVING LAYTON

Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shr...
WASHINGTON IRVING

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
WASHINGTON IRVING

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

Half my life is an act of revision.
JOHN IRVING

A woman's life is a history of the affections.
WASHINGTON IRVING

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the g...
IRVING LAYTON

The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability ...
WASHINGTON IRVING

If poetry is like an orgasm, an academic can be likened to someone who studies the passion-stains on...
IRVING LAYTON

Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The sto...
JOHN IRVING

I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories.
WASHINGTON IRVING

Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for ...
JOHN IRVING

What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to...
JOHN IRVING

When time passes, it's the people who knew you whom you want to see; they're the ones you can talk t...
JOHN IRVING

Life is 10 percent what you make it
and 90 percent how you take it.
IRVING BERLIN

Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for ...
JOHN IRVING

Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their...
WASHINGTON IRVING

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.
JOHN IRVING

My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.
IRVING LAYTON

Idealist: a cynic in the making.
IRVING LAYTON

Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no busi...
WASHINGTON IRVING

Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with cons...
WASHINGTON IRVING

They who drink beer will think beer.
WASHINGTON IRVING

A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity t...
WASHINGTON IRVING

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
WASHINGTON IRVING

In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinio...
WASHINGTON IRVING

An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil ...
WASHINGTON IRVING

When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
IRVING LAYTON

The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use.
WASHINGTON IRVING

Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.
IRVING LAYTON

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in traveli...
WASHINGTON IRVING

The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.
IRVING BERLIN

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions -- it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
IRVING KRISTOL

The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be suppla...
WASHINGTON IRVING

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we...
WASHINGTON IRVING

There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.
WASHINGTON IRVING

God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.
IRVING LAYTON

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
WASHINGTON IRVING

A criminal trial is like a Russian novel: it starts with exasperating slowness as the characters are...
CLIFFORD IRVING

Talent is only the starting point.
IRVING BERLIN

Somehow, the fact that more poor people are on welfare, receiving more generous payments, does not s...
IRVING KRISTOL

There's no business like show business.
IRVING BERLIN

The great British Library -- one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern a...
WASHINGTON IRVING

The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value
IRVING FISHER

Opinions that are well rooted should grow and change like a healthy tree.
IRVING BATCHELLER

There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with other...
WASHINGTON IRVING

Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No -- no, your lea...
WASHINGTON IRVING

Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it.
IRVING BERLIN

The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
WASHINGTON IRVING

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more elo...
WASHINGTON IRVING

To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of ...
IRVING WALLACE

As I sat on a sunny bank On Christmas day in the morning I spied three ships come sailing in.
WASHINGTON IRVING

I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing bu...
JOHN IRVING

There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad dayl...
WASHINGTON IRVING

Picture you upon my knee, Just tea two and two for tea.
IRVING CAESAR

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.
IRVING BERLIN

Wallace Worthington would have reminded Wilbur Larch of someone he might have met at the Channing-Pe...
JOHN IRVING

A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity tak...
WASHINGTON IRVING

His very faults smack of the raciness of his good qualities.
WASHINGTON IRVING

Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau. -- Irving Fisher, Professor of Econo...
IRVING FISHER

There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with other...
WASHINGTON IRVING

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we...
WASHINGTON IRVING

We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favo...
IRVING BABBITT

To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice...
IRVING WALLACE

A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve...
IRVING BABBITT

It's not very interesting to establish sympathy for people who, on the surface, are instantly sy...
JOHN IRVING

Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity...
WASHINGTON IRVING

Titles are important; I have them before I have books that belong to them. I have last chapters in m...
JOHN IRVING

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