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.

In the early 1990s he had a weekly call-in therapy television program on KNBC in Los Angeles early Sunday morning after Saturday Night Live titled Night Talk with Dr. In fact the shows ran concurrently. Viscott's popularity peaked in the early 1990s and then fell sharply.

David Viscott (May 24 1938 - October 10 1996) was an American psychiatrist author businessman and media personality. 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.