Donald Berwick Quotes
It boggles my mind that the same people who cry 'foul' about rationing an instant later argue to reduce health care benefits for the needy, to defund crucial programs of care and prevention, and to shift thousands of dollars of annual costs to people - elders, the poor, the disabled - who are least able to bear them.
Donald Berwick
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Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
Rachel Kushner
Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance.
Ralph G. Neas
I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.
Cai Guo-Qiang
I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'
Jack Reynor
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
Jack Kerouac
Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
Iris Chang
If you're taking an antidepressant, it's working, and you're not experiencing side effects, go on taking it. But if it's not working, or not working well enough, or if you have side effects you don't like, talk to your doctor about an alternative approach.
Irving Kirsch
Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room?
Garry Trudeau
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
God's Word is alive and powerful! When you declare these words over your life, the truth of God's Word draws forth the seeds of love that God deposits into us when we invite Jesus to be our Lord and Savior.
Victoria Osteen
I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
Vidal Sassoon
What the government and we in society need to do is to address the issue of gender justice.
Kapil Sibal
We should seize every opportunity to give encouragement. Encouragement is oxygen to the soul. The days are always dark enough. There is no need for us to emphasize the fact by spreading further gloom.
George Madison Adams
The disappearance of Israel as a Zionist project, through war, cultural exhaustion or demographic momentum, is... plausible... Many Israelis see the demise of the country as not just possible, but probable.
Ian Lustick
There is nothing there. What you see is not what you see. What you see is nothing. Nothing but shapes, lines, colors. What you see is whats in your mind. What you see is something somebody told you to look for. Look out for anything you see! Watch it! Watch out! Take care! Don’t leap before you look out.
Ad Reinhardt
It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should?
Epictetus
It boggles my mind that the same people who cry 'foul' about rationing an instant later argue to reduce health care benefits for the needy, to defund crucial programs of care and prevention, and to shift thousands of dollars of annual costs to people - elders, the poor, the disabled - who are least able to bear them.
Donald Berwick
