Patient Quotes - Page 39

• Marilyn Monroe gave more to the still camera than any actress, any woman I've ever photographed; infinitely more patient, more demanding of herself and more comfortable in front of the camera than away from it.

  Richard Avedon

  Cameras, Actresses, Stills

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• Those who have accomplished the greatest results are those...who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patient and polite.

  Booker T. Washington

  Self, Calm, Excited

  Booker T. Washington (1972). “Papers: The Autobiographical Writings”, p.311, University of Illinois Press

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• At a time when Democratic leaders are pushing rationed care in a world of limited resources, Americans might wonder where the call for shared sacrifice is from illegal immigrant patients like those in Los Angeles getting free liver and kidney transplants at UCLA Medical Center. 'I'm just mad,' illegal alien Jose Lopez told the Los Angeles Times last year after receiving two taxpayer-subsidized liver transplants while impatiently awaiting approval for state health insurance.

  Michelle Malkin

  Sacrifice, Ucla, Years

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• Malmo, with its 280,000 residents, is Sweden's third-largest city. To see a physician, a patient must go to one of two local clinics before they can see a specialist. The clinics have security guards to keep patients from getting unruly as they wait hours to see a doctor. The guards also prevent new patients from entering the clinic when the waiting room is considered full. Uppsala, a city with 200,000 people, has only one specialist in mammography. Sweden's National Cancer Foundation reports that in a few years most Swedish women will not have access to mammography.

  Walter E. Williams

  Cancer, Doctors, Waiting Rooms

  Walter E. Williams (2015). “American Contempt for Liberty”, p.273, Hoover Institution Press

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• The patient and active virtues of a soldier are insensibly nursed in the habits and discipline of a pastoral life.

  Edward Gibbon

  Discipline, Soldier, Virtue

  Edward Gibbon (2013). “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: The Modern Library Collection (Complete and Unabridged)”, p.894, Modern Library

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• Value investors have to be patient and disciplined, but what I really think is you need not to be greedy. If you're greedy and you leverage, you blow up. Almost every financial blow up is because of leverage.

  Seth Klarman

  Blow, Thinking, Needs

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• My mother's influence in molding my character was conspicuous. She forced me to learn daily long chapters of the Bible by heart. To that discipline and patient, accurate resolve I owe not only much of my general power of taking pains, but of the best part of my taste for literature.

  John Ruskin

  Mother, Pain, Heart

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• [Parental] authority must be tempered...with loving kindness and patient encouragement. To temper authority with kindness is to triumph in the struggle which belongs to your duty as parents...All those who would advantageously rule over others, must as an essential element, first dominate themselves, their passions, their impressions.

  Pope Pius XII

  Encouragement, Kindness, Struggle

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• Always praise your kid even if he/she is unresponsive to learning. By insulting them and putting them down, you will only push them away and make them feel inadequate around other kids. Have faith that your child's brain is an evolving planet that rotates at its own speed. It will naturally be attracted to or repel certain subjects. Be patient. Just as there are ugly ducklings that turn into swans, there are rebellious kids that turn into serious innovators and hardcore intellectuals.

  Suzy Kassem

  Children, Kids, Swans

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• There's never been a doctor who served many patients who, despite their best efforts, did not lose some of them to death. But they understood that was part of life itself.

  Zig Ziglar

  Doctors, Best Effort, Parts Of Life

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• The single most important thing to remember about any enterprise is that results exist only on the outside.The result of a business is a satisfied customer. The result of a hospital is a satisfied patient. The result of a school is a student who has learned something and puts it to work ten years later. Inside an enterprise there are only costs.

  Peter Drucker

  School, Years, Important

  Peter Drucker (2012). “The New Realities”, p.222, Routledge

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• Because of the war on drugs, pain patients are treated with skepticism and pain doctors live in fear of being prosecuted for overprescribing. The end result is that addicts still get their opioids without much trouble, while genuine patients often can't find treatment. Those who do must typically be tracked in a database and must schedule frequent, expensive doctor visits for surveillance like urine testing.

  Maia Szalavitz

  Pain, War, Doctors

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• In my view, madness is a place. You go. You come back. And I think we all take turns being the mental patient. Without a touch of crazy, literature can be a desolate place. In the current climate of careful speech, even fearful speech, smoke-free film scripts, thought-free songs, and child-proof locks on American minds, the oft-repeated lament of the arts is "Where have all those wonderful madmen gone?"

  Carol O'Connell

  Song, Art, Children

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• Blade Runner is one of my favorite films. But, so many thing influenced me that aren't science fiction because they were just good drama. I grew up watching a lot of French cinema. I was in love with The English Patient, and movies that are very romantic in nature and have a positive message. That's a large part of my fingerprint.

  J.H. Wyman

  Drama, Blade Runner, Messages

  Source: collider.com

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• Be patient. Always be kind. Stand in the middle of the river. Be prepared. It [success] will all come. Don't be in such a rush.

  Rockmond Dunbar

  Rivers, Be Kind, Middle

  Source: collider.com

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• Keep up your patient's spirits by music of viols and ten-stringed psaltery, or by forged letters describing the death of his enemies, or by telling him he has been elected to a bishopric, if a churchman.

  Henri de Mondeville

  Enemy, Letters, Spirit

  Chirurgie

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• Patients rarely die of the disease from which they suffer. Secondary or terminal infections are the real cause of death.

  William Osler

  Real, Suffering, Disease

  St. Bartholomew's Hospital Reports 52: 39 (1916)

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• There is alas no law against incompetency; no striking example is made. They learn by our bodily jeopardy and make experiments until the death of the patients, and the doctor is the only person not punished for murder.

  Pliny the Elder

  Doctors, Law, Example

  Historia Naturalis 'Greek Physicians'

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• And there's always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering. In the past, you could only accomplish these things by making a great effort and after years of hard moral training. Now, you swallow two or three half-gramme tablets, and there you are. Anybody can be virtuous now. You can carry at least half your morality about in a bottle. Christianity without tears-that's what soma is.

  Aldous Huxley

  Past, Brave New World, Years

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Brave New World”, Spark Notes

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• I always think that if you deal with extremely emotional, even melodramatic, subject matter, as I constantly do, the best way to handle those situations is at a sufficient remove. It's like a doctor and a nurse and a casualty situation. You can't help the patient and you can't help yourself by emoting. And I don't think cinema is intended for therapy, so I object also to that huge, massive manipulation which is perpetrated on the public.

  Peter Greenaway

  Emotional, Thinking, Doctors

  "Flesh and Ink". Interview with Christopher Hawthorne, www.salon.com. June 06, 1997.

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• Be patient with yourself even when you make mistakes.

  Joyce Meyer

  Mistake, Making Mistakes, Be Patient

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• The voice of Thich Nhat Hanh-friendly, patient, steadfast, confident, contemporary, and often witty-seems, to me, an intermediary big brother talking directly to me on every page saying, 'Look! It's right there in you,' the very wisdom that leads to compassion.

  Sylvia Boorstein

  Witty, Brother, Compassion

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• Emphasis should be placed more on what the patient does in the present and will do in the future than on a mere understanding of why some long-past event occurred.

  Milton H. Erickson

  Past, Long, Understanding

  Milton H. Erickson (1992). “The Wisdom of Milton H. Erickson: Human Behavior and Psychotherapy”, p.119, Ardent Media

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• My best advice to individual investors can readily be summed up into two closely linked precepts. Be patient and don't be greedy.

  Peter Cundall

  Two, Advice, Greedy

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• The best practitioners give to their patients the least medicine.

  Arthur Frederick Saunders

  Medicine, Giving

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