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.

Paul Kalanithi

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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.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Real
  • Learning
  • Information

• The speed limit on most of Maui's highways is forty miles per hour, but my mother never went above thirty.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Mother
  • Speed
  • Limit

• 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.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • People
  • Movie
  • Talent

• 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.

  

  C. S. Forester
  • People
  • She
  • Water

• There is no reason for me to show my collection in New York, because it's not about craft and technique there.

  

  Zac Posen
  • Reason
  • Show
  • Technique

• A strong and enthusiastic niche audience can push a topic into mainstream consciousness with speed and force.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Strong
  • Speed
  • Push

• 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.

  

  Man Ray
  • Inspiration
  • Information
  • Technique

• 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.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • Children
  • Rest
  • Skill

• Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.

  

  Benjamin Cardozo
  • Inspiration
  • Technique
  • Method

• Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.

  

  Allen Tate
  • Religion
  • Values
  • Technique

• 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.

  

  Paul Strand
  • Film
  • Speed
  • Print

• 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.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • War
  • Violence
  • Sex

• When you really get technique... there is no strength that will stop you.

  

  Caio Terra
  • Art
  • Stop
  • Technique

• 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.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Artists
  • Skill
  • Scientists

• 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.

  

  Wilson Greatbatch
  • Energy
  • Travel
  • Speed

• Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

  

  William Ellery Channing
  • Eye
  • Perfection
  • Excellence

• Popular music is all about traveling at the speed of you and elevating the individual as the highest thing in the world.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • World
  • Individual
  • Speed

• 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.

  

  Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Women
  • Leadership
  • Horse

• In normal life, I'm just kind of chill. I don't normally get that angry.

  

  Katrina Law
  • Life
  • Angry
  • Chill

• 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.

  

  Harvey Keitel
  • Ideas
  • Thoughts
  • Literature

• The brain is a tissue. It is a complicated, intricately woven tissue, like nothing else we know of in the universe, but it is composed of cells, as any tissue is. They are, to be sure, highly specialized cells, but they function according to the laws that govern any other cells. Their electrical and chemical signals can be detected, recorded and interpreted and their chemicals can be identified; the connections that constitute the brain's woven feltwork can be mapped. In short, the brain can be studied, just as the kidney can.

  

  David H. Hubel
  • Universe
  • Brain
  • Function

• When you are playing on the ground, you are a cricketer, but the moment you step off it, you are just another person. You need to talk to people nicely because you are who you are because of the people.

  

  Mohammad Azharuddin
  • People
  • Person
  • Because

• A resident's surgical skill is judged by their technique and speed. You can't be sloppy, and you can't be slow.

  

  Paul Kalanithi
  • Speed
  • Technique
  • Skill