Patient Quotes - Page 32

• However, to be a coach I think you have to have a lot of patience. You have to understand what they have going on in their lives and it's a very rewarding career but you also need to know that your not going to get paid a ton of money and you have to be patient with people and a good listener.

  Robin Farina

  Thinking, Careers, People

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• The rhythm of music is very, very important for people with Parkinson's. But it's also very important with other sorts of patients, such as patients with Tourette's syndrome. Music helps them bring their impulses and tics under control. There is even a whole percussion orchestra made up exclusively of Tourette's patients.

  Oliver Sacks

  People, Important, Orchestra

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I call God long-suffering and patient precisely because He permits evil in the world. I know that He has no evil in Him and yet if there is evil, He is the author of it and yet untouched by it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Long, Evil

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.45, Courier Corporation

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• The only way by which you and I can wean orthodox Hindus from their bigotry is by patient argument and correct conduct.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Way, Argument, Hinduism

  Mahatma Gandhi (1978). “Hindu Dharma”, p.106, Orient Paperbacks

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• Appreciation of nonviolence means patient research and still more patient and difficult practice.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Appreciation, Mean, Practice

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.180, Oxford University Press

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• Swaraj is a hardy tree of patient growth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Tree, Growth, Hardy

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

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• This civilization is such that one has only to be patient and it will be self-destroyed.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Self, Civilization, Destroyed

  Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.18, Penguin Books India

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• Democracy demands patient instruction on it before legislation.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Democracy, Demand, Instruction

  Mahatma Gandhi (2000). “The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• The patient says, "Doctor, it hurts when I do this." "Then don't do that!"

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Hurt, Humor

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• Being an impatient person, I wanted to do what my grandmother said: "Do as much as you can as fast as you can; be as productive as possible." But you must be patient. So I have struggled to balance patience with being an impatient person, and trying to find a happy medium.

  Farrah Gray

  Grandmother, Balance, Trying

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• A sick man, surrounded by those who love him, nursed by those who wish earnestly that he should live, will recover (all other things being equal), when another patient tended by hirelings will die. Doctors decline to see unconscious magnestism in this phenomenon; for them it is the result of intelligent nursing, of exact obedience to their orders; but many a mother knows the virtue of such ardent projections of strong, unceasing prayer.

  Honore de Balzac

  Mother, Strong, Prayer

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• Drugs don't work in patients who don't take them.

  C. Everett Koop

  Health, Drug

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• In marriage, if you're a guy, learn two phrases. One is "yes, dear" and the other is "honey, you're right." Be patient. Be good friends first. And stick together. You gotta work at it. It's not all a honeymoon, it's not all flowers and roses, but if you're friends and partners and committed, you'll be okay. And everybody's got advice for you - don't listen.

  Denzel Washington

  Flower, Good Friend, Two

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• The torture that they are coming up with in China is so creative. They have this other method where they'll take a bamboo and they'll plant it in your anus and just let it grow. So patient. Man, watch out for China, I say. They have all the ambition as we do but none of the heart.

  Kristen Schaal

  Funny, Heart, Ambition

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• he very word "patient" implies passivity and powerlessness. Me-teacher-you-dumbbell, or me-doctor-you-patient, or me-politician-you-voter, or any other paternalistic or maternalistic stay-in-your-place tradition will not pass muster with me.

  Andrew Saul

  Teacher, Doctors, Voters

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• Doctors frequently get it wrong. One out of five patients today is in the hospital because incorrect treatment by a physician put him or her there.

  Andrew Saul

  Doctors, Physicians, Today

  Source: www.drpasswater.com

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• A hospital patient can expect one medical error every single day of any hospital stay. Malpractice suits are numerous enough that one may reasonably conclude that there is certainly no guarantee of proper health care by contracting it out.

  Andrew Saul

  Errors, Guarantees, Care

  "Helping People Doctor Themselves". Interview with Richard A. Passwater, wholefoodsmagazine.com. January 18, 2013.

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• Meditation has become an ingrained part of my everyday life that helps me feel so much more centered, patient and compassionate. It even gives me great physical energy.

  Tim McCarthy

  Giving, Meditation, Everyday

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• When I came to Washington, I was troubled to observe so many similarities between the behaviors of drug-addicted patients and my political colleagues. In Washington power is like morphine.

  Tom Coburn

  Political, Drug, Term Limits

  Senator Tom Coburn, John Hart (2013). “Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders”, p.32, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Music taught me how to always be patient and focused, and to train the little concentration in myself.

  Hiromi

  Littles, Taught, Concentration

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• Work hard! Just keep working hard until you can do something you want to do! We all progress at different speeds and in different ways, so be patient and keep working hard!

  Hiromi

  Hard Work, Progress, Different

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• I like TV in the way that it moves quickly, I like the pace of TV because I'm that type of actor. I like to go-go-go. I don't have to do 50 million takes of something. I guess I'm not that patient. I really like the pace of it.

  A. J. Cook

  Moving, Pace, Actors

  Source: www.ign.com

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• A good ice hockey player is someone who has good communication skills, is willing to listen and willing to try new things. It's a very technical game and not that easy to pick up. It's a lot of fun but you just have to be patient.

  Gerad Adams

  Fun, Communication, Hockey

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• You have to be patient. Litigants are emotionally involved - they're suing or being sued, or they've been in an accident or they're charged (with a crime). They are not very objective about their situation.

  Steven Pacey

  Suing, Crime, Situation

  Source: www.paxtonrecord.net

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• As you get older, you tend to be a little less patient with people - people who are not prepared, people who have unrealistic expectations, people who make unrealistic demands, people who think they're more special than other people.

  Steven Pacey

  Thinking, People, Expectations

  Source: www.paxtonrecord.net

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