Donald Berwick Quotes
Competition makes things come out right. Well, what does that mean in health care? More hospitals so they compete with each other. More doctors compete with each other. More pharmaceutical companies. We set up war. Wait a minute, let's talk about the patient. The patient doesn't need a war.
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I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
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Like in every peace process, and especially in Colombia, there all kinds of problems that will come through. Not only is the process by itself very complicated but it has lots of underground complications.
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It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.
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The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule.
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In the process of evolution, the body lasts for some time and then will take other body and take other body and take other body until the final redemption from diversity is transcended.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
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It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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That's one of the lucky things about getting the success later on. I know how I want to dress, I know what kind of house I want to live in, I just know more about myself, and that's true about the roles I want to play and what parts of myself I want to express. You're just more in touch with yourself.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.
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I have been working since I was 11 on everything including period dramas.
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I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.
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It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.
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Electroclash is good because it's stayed underground.
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I was pretty rubbish when I first started dancing. I didn't understand the discipline of working on one step over and over again. If you look at it from the outside, you'd think, 'Why would anybody want to do that?' But you just want to get it perfect. It is that constant inner striving that you fall in love with.
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My mother had me when she was 16, and that was an issue that had to be dealt with. She grew up in a very religious background, and there was a lot of discussion of what they should do with this unborn child. But here I am, and thank goodness.
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In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.
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I go through phases of stuff.
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Competition makes things come out right. Well, what does that mean in health care? More hospitals so they compete with each other. More doctors compete with each other. More pharmaceutical companies. We set up war. Wait a minute, let's talk about the patient. The patient doesn't need a war.
