Bernie Siegel Quotes

As doctors, we are not trained to communicate and understand the power of our words as they relate to a patient's ability and desire to survive.

Bernie Siegel

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• Broadway is really my life.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Broadway

• I've always thought that I'd make a pretty good police officer, except maybe for the danger part. I have a rare medical condition that makes it difficult for me to risk getting shot, so probably I'd have to be one of those officers who work in 'do not shoot' areas.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Good
  • Work
  • Pretty

• My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.

  

  Jack Wagner
  • People
  • Life
  • Mother

• Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Path
  • Leave
  • Lead

• There was a time I desperately needed for the world to know that I was no category guy. My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I have a problem with cleaning. It's my release. I get up at 6 A.M. and clean and hoover and mop everything. Then I feel better.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Up
  • Problem
  • Better

• I am a very selfish person.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Person
  • Selfish

• I myself, however wretched I may be, have been occasionally privileged to sit at the feet of the Lord Jesus, and to the extent that his merciful love allowed, have embraced with all my heart, now one, now the other, of these feet.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Love
  • Lord
  • Privileged

• I have been sustained by cane field, the cane plantation I have.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Field
  • Plantation
  • Cane

• Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Something
  • Almost
  • Reveal

• My favorite prayer is Footprints in the Sand. You know that prayer? I know the times that he carried me, you know? I kind of wore him out.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Me
  • Prayer
  • Sand

• Video games and YouTube.com are creatively booming, even though Web design, as demonstrated by the ugly clutter of most major news sites, is in the pits.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Design
  • Ugly
  • Video Games

• I learn my songs by ear.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Learn
  • Songs
  • Ear

• To read too many books is harmful.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Books
  • Read
  • Too

• It is a very great mistake, and a very common one, even for well-read persons, to adopt the idea that the progress of the human race in the science of government, in the arts of civilization and refinement, and in the establishment of morality and religion, has been constantly and steadily towards improvement and perfection.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • Great
  • Science
  • Mistake

• You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Long
  • Done
  • Success

• My husband cooks fancier food for himself than I've ever cooked on-air. I call him from the road, and he's making champagne-vanilla salmon or black-cherry pork chop. Half of me is feeling unworthy. Not only am I not a chef, I'm not a better cook than my own husband!

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Black
  • Feeling
  • Food

• I have more free time than a lot of individuals, so, instead of talking, I sometimes write.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Time
  • Free
  • Sometimes

• It's good to play 100 per cent live - no tricks, no samples, no messing about.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Good
  • Live
  • Play

• Nothing will unfold for us unless we move toward what looks to us like nothing: faith is a cascade.

  

  Alice Fulton
  • Faith
  • Unfold
  • Cascade

• One shall be born from small beginnings which will rapidly become vast. This will respect no created thing, rather will it, by its power, transform almost every thing from its own nature into another.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Power
  • Nature
  • Small

• My mum always felt that women deserved as much as men, and should have as much power, so I suppose I opted to go into a very male-dominated arena to try and prove that.

  

  Jo Brand
  • Men
  • Women
  • Power

• As doctors, we are not trained to communicate and understand the power of our words as they relate to a patient's ability and desire to survive.

  

  Bernie Siegel
  • Power
  • Words
  • Desire