William J. Mayo Quotes

The examining physician often hesitates to make the necessary examination because it involves soiling the finger.

William J. Mayo

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• The tires were scorching hot, in fact I burned my fingers on one.

  

  Malcolm Campbell
  • Fact
  • Hot
  • Fingers

• One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect upon me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Mind
  • Consideration
  • Final

• The scientific method of examining facts is not peculiar to one class of phenomena and to one class of workers; it is applicable to social as well as to physical problems, and we must carefully guard ourselves against supposing that the scientific frame of mind is a peculiarity of the professional scientist.

  

  Karl Pearson
  • Mind
  • Professional
  • Facts

• You have not been sticking your dirty fingers in my sauce,’’ Eve said, and pointed her wooden spoon at him. He quickly took the finger out of his mouth. ‘‘First off, they’re not dirty. I licked them first.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Dirty
  • Fingers
  • Sauce

• What was I saying? An Egyptian king Once touched long fingers, which are not anything.

  

  Allen Tate
  • Long
  • King
  • Anything

• We are a people as all other peoples; we do not have any intentions to be better than the rest We do not have to account to anybody, we are not to sit for anybody's examination and nobody is old enough to call on us to answer. We came before them and will leave after them. We are what we are, we are good for ourselves, we will not change, nor do we want to.

  

  Ze'ev Jabotinsky
  • People
  • Good
  • Rest

• You can't put your finger on who I am. I can't put my finger on who I am.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • I Can
  • Fingers
  • Who I Am

• Now I did do later drawings where I tried putting fingers on them but it never looked right to me they weren't as appealing as that first drawing."

  

  Craig McCracken
  • Drawing
  • Fingers
  • Appealing

• You will have to learn many tedious things,...which you will forget the moment you have passed your final examination, but in anatomy it is better to have learned and lost than never to have learned at all.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Lost
  • Learning
  • Finals

• You have to have short fingernails or they'd just break off, and you can't wear red polish - it looks like your fingers are bleeding.

  

  Elizabeth Smart
  • Red
  • Break
  • Fingers

• The finger of God never leaves identical fingerprints.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • God
  • Fingers
  • Identical

• Our goal is to provide long-term solutions that work for both the surgeons in the northern panhandle and all physicians in the state.

  

  Bob Wise
  • Work
  • Long
  • Solutions

• When it kind of went to 'Street Fighter', where you had to push 13 buttons with all 13 of your fingers and ripped the spine out of somebody, you know, violent games lost the women. Complexity lost the casual gamer.

  

  Nolan Bushnell
  • Women
  • Lost
  • Fingers

• No one is getting help here. There is one number to phone for Texas, Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi. Everybody's fingers are getting numb trying to get attention, and we are not getting it.

  

  Eric Wilson
  • Trying
  • Help
  • Fingers

• We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Secret
  • Spring
  • Examination

• The greatest mistake physicians make is that they attempt to cure the body without attempting to cure the mind, yet the mind and the body are one and should not be treated separately!

  

  Plato
  • Mistake
  • Treated
  • Physicians

• The cure of many diseases is unknown to physicians because they are ignorant of the whole... For the part can never be well unless the whole is well.

  

  Plato
  • Disease
  • Cure
  • Physicians

• To go on vegetating in cowardly dependence on physicians and machinations, after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost, that ought to prompt a profound contempt in society.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Life
  • Society
  • Physicians

• The traditional practice is that the justices don't ask the attorney general any questions, so as not to embarrass him. But Bobby Kennedy had let them know that he didn't mind if they asked him questions and they did.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Mind
  • Practice
  • Questions

• There is only one group of people who do not have problems, and they are all dead. Problems are a sign of life, so the more problems you have, the more alive you are.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • People
  • Problems
  • Group

• The American people have to think hard about their definition of the meaning of the good life, that hedonistic, materialistic society of high levels of consumption, increasing social inequality is not a society that can be part of the solution of the world's problems.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• I'm the queen of festivities, that's all I can say.

  

  Mariah Carey
  • Queen
  • Festivities

• The examining physician often hesitates to make the necessary examination because it involves soiling the finger.

  

  William J. Mayo
  • Fingers
  • Physicians
  • Examination