Siddhartha Mukherjee Quotes

When you immerse yourself in medicine you realise that hope is not absolute. It's not that simple.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

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• I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.

  

  Katharine Cornell
  • Amazing
  • Woman
  • Performances

• Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Me

• I moved into this neighborhood, and I was walking on this beach with my kids, and we came across a sign that said, 'Water's polluted, no swimming.' And I didn't have any answers.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Kids
  • Water
  • Walking

• I do love to capture beauty in this world. And photos can last the test of time.

  

  Nathaniel Buzolic
  • Time
  • World
  • Love

• I'm one of those crazy people, if I'm watching the trailer for a movie and I'm really excited by it, I'll turn it off because I don't want to know anything. I want to be surprised because I love that more than knowing anything.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Love
  • Know

• The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore; it is complicated, broken, and attached on all sides to the histories of other countries.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • History
  • Broken
  • Unity

• I have truly eclectic taste in music, and I seem to cycle through phases in terms of to what's inspiring me. I'll go from Beethoven to Sigur Ros; world music, Brit-pop, classic rock, blues/jazz, even the odd bit of heavy metal.

  

  Rachel Miner
  • World
  • Music
  • Rock

• The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Mind
  • Art
  • Moral

• Adult characters are all the things they've encountered over time. But kids haven't accumulated all the life experience, all the regrets. They tend to be more in the moment, more willing to play, to be joyful.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Life
  • Time
  • Experience

• Of course I wanted children. Bright, gorgeous, loving children. I could almost see them.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Children
  • See
  • Loving

• That's my hunger. If I start to relax, and I lose that, then I had better stop my football. I need that hunger. I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Stop
  • Myself
  • Football

• I don't know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.

  

  Banksy
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• I am an ambitious person, but I am not ambitious in the sense that I want jobs only for the sake of them... I am here to do things I think are worthwhile. I am always careful that the political positions I take are consistent with good policy. I would not want to be prime minister of Australia at any price.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Political
  • Jobs
  • Ambitious

• I don't think anybody in my family meant there to be any pressure for me to write. But our parents were incredibly verbal and wrote for a living. The house was full of books, and we all grew up steeped in language. I mean, our mother recited poetry at the dinner table.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Up
  • Family
  • Mother

• Another nice thing was that I would type out letters home for the admiral's stewards. They would then feed me the same food the admiral ate.

  

  Jack Adams
  • Home
  • Food
  • Nice

• I really like stuff that is collectible that you can hold and go, 'There's only a few people that have this.' I like to see that someone's put a lot of labor into making something.

  

  Adam Jones
  • People
  • You
  • See

• '... You see, you are an optimist and live on hope. I am a pessimist and live on experience.'

  

  Malcolm Bradbury
  • Live
  • Experience
  • Hope

• I still define myself by the places that I've been.

  

  Ani DiFranco

• Any time you are with anyone or think of anyone you must say to yourself: I am dying and this person too is dying, attempting the while to experience the truth of the words you are saying. If every one of you agrees to practise this, bitterness will die out, harmony will arise.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Truth

• The more ignorant men are, the more convinced are they that their little parish and their little chapel is an apex to which civilization and philosophy has painfully struggled up the pyramid of time from a desert of savagery.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Time
  • Pyramid
  • Chapel

• These days I sit on cornerstonesAnd count the time in quarter-tones to ten, my friendDon't confront me with my failuresI had not forgotten them.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Time

• When you immerse yourself in medicine you realise that hope is not absolute. It's not that simple.

  

  Siddhartha Mukherjee
  • Hope
  • Medicine
  • Absolute