Paul Kalanithi Quotes
A resident's surgical skill is judged by their technique and speed. You can't be sloppy, and you can't be slow.
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We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise.
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The speed limit on most of Maui's highways is forty miles per hour, but my mother never went above thirty.
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Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to casting people against type and trusting that their talent and skill will get them through.
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With two people and luggage on board she draws four inches of water. Two canoe paddles will move her along at a speed reasonable enough in moderate currents.
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There is no reason for me to show my collection in New York, because it's not about craft and technique there.
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A strong and enthusiastic niche audience can push a topic into mainstream consciousness with speed and force.
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Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
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My aim in homeschooling is to give my children the ability to be an adult learner, a skill set that will last the rest of their lives.
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Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
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Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.
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No matter what lens you use, no matter what speed the film, no matter how you develop it, no matter how you print it, you cannot say more than you can see.
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Their violence (the jungle wars of the '70s), and all violence for that matter, reflects the neutral exploration of sensation that is taking place, within sex as elsewhere and the sense that the perversions are valuable precisely because they provide a readily accessible anthology of exploratory techniques.
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When you really get technique... there is no strength that will stop you.
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After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists as well.
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Rocket scientists agree that we have about reached the limit of our ability to travel in space using chemical rockets. To achieve anything near the speed of light we will need a new energy source and a new propellant. Nuclear fission is not an option.
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Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.
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Popular music is all about traveling at the speed of you and elevating the individual as the highest thing in the world.
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The really expert riders of horses let the horse know immediately who is in control, but then they guide the horse with loose reins and very seldom use the spurs. So it was with our chief William Rehnquist. He guided us with loose reins and used the spurs only rarely to get us up to speed with our work.
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Let their music skill speak for itself. If they are producing good tracks and are resonating with their fans, or even gaining new fans, then that's great.
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Well, you sort of get out of the pool room, you get out of the Marine Corps, you get out and read some literature, you become involved with people who also want to know and are ready to share some ideas about literature and thoughts, and it becomes nourished that way.
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To cite one well-known example of this ignorance of Jewish customs: Mark 7:3 indicates that the Pharisees “and all the Jews” washed their hands before eating, so as to observe “the tradition of the elders.” This is not true: most Jews did not engage in this ritual. If Mark had been a Jew, or even a gentile living in Palestine, he certainly would have known this.
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A resident's surgical skill is judged by their technique and speed. You can't be sloppy, and you can't be slow.
