Heather Bresch Quotes

The pricing of a pharmaceutical product is opaque and frustrating, especially for patients.

Heather Bresch

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• Countries have improved since SARS. They understand the importance of responding and being as prompt and transparent as possible.

  

  Margaret Chan
  • Transparent
  • SARS
  • Prompt

• I followed the war wherever I could reach it.

  

  Martha Gellhorn
  • War
  • Umpires

• They (FEMA officials) just don't have their act together, ... They didn't know where their evacuees are; they didn't know how many each state had. Those are basic questions. You need competence at the top to manage these large-scale disasters.

  

  Janet Napolitano
  • Questions
  • Act
  • Disasters

• Most films I've worked on have had large casts, but they've been wonderful people. I think the monkey in Pirates of the Caribbean is the most temperamental costar I've had. It would throw tantrums like you wouldn't believe.

  

  Geoffrey Rush
  • People
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• I'm truly grateful for my microwave, which allows me to easily clarify butter, steam vegetables, and - when I am really lazy - feed my three kids in less than five minutes.

  

  Sara Gruen
  • Kids
  • Lazy
  • Grateful

• The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • Laughter

• The NRA appears to have evolved into the lobby for gun and ammunition manufacturers rather than gun owners.

  

  Adolphus Busch
  • Gun
  • Owners
  • Lobby

• We could simply have used any of a number of reasonably priced handheld devices that train people to slow their breathing and synchronize it with their heart rate, resulting in a state of “cardiac coherence” like the pattern shown in the first illustration above. Today there are a variety of apps that can help improve HRV with the aid of a smartphone. In our clinic we have workstations where patients can train their HRV, and I urge all my patients who, for one reason or another, cannot practice yoga, martial arts, or qigong to train themselves at home. (See Resources for more information.)

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Help
  • Train
  • Variety

• Like so many survivors of childhood abuse, Marilyn exemplified the power of the life force, the will to live and to own one's life, the energy that counteracts the annihilation of trauma. I gradually came to realize that the only thing that makes it possible to do the work of healing trauma is awe at the dedication to survival that enabled my patients to endure their abuse and then to endure the dark nights of the soul that inevitably occur on the road to recovery.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Energy
  • Childhood
  • Recovery

• There is truth in little corners of our lives. There are hints of it in songs and children's eyes. It's familiar, like an ancient lullaby; What do I live for? If we've eyes to see... If we've ears to hear... To find it in our hearts and mouths the word that saves is near. Shed that shallow skin... Come and live again... Leave all you were before... To believe is to begin.

  

  Brooke Fraser Hillsong Worship
  • Truth
  • Song
  • Lives

• The music that I make isn't really like any of the music that I listen to. I think I listen to cool music, but I know that I don't make cool music - so it's kind of funny!

  

  Brooke Fraser Hillsong Worship
  • Music

• When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • People
  • Equal
  • Discrimination

• I appreciate America for all the opportunities it's afforded me.

  

  Brandon Marshall
  • America
  • Opportunities
  • Appreciate

• Love, first begotten of all created things.

  

  Georgiana Goddard King
  • Love
  • Things
  • Begotten

• A woman who tells her age tells everything, and I won't tell it.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Age
  • Woman
  • Everything

• 90 percent of heart patients who are told to change their lifestyle habits or die, choose death over change.

  

  Ed Stetzer
  • Heart
  • Change
  • Lifestyle

• The patients often try to starve themselves, to hang themselves, to cut their arteries; they beg that they may be burned, buried alive, driven out into the woods and there allowed to die. One of my patients struck his neck so often on the edge of a chisel fixed on the ground that all the soft parts were cut through to the vertebrae.

  

  Emil Kraepelin
  • Patients
  • Fixed
  • Burned

• If the history of medicine is told through the stories of doctors, it is because their contributions stand in place of the more substantive heroism of their patients.

  

  Siddhartha Mukherjee
  • History
  • Medicine
  • Heroism

• The pricing of a pharmaceutical product is opaque and frustrating, especially for patients.

  

  Heather Bresch
  • Patients
  • Pharmaceutical product