Bernard Lown Quotes

In my view, the lost art of listening and ignoring the patient as a human being is a quintessential failure of our health care.

Bernard Lown

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• Ignoring

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• I'm just a Connecticut country boy. The people I've known, the changes of season, the call of the blue jay - when I'm away, all of them haunt me.

  

  Gary Burghoff
  • People
  • Country
  • Boy

• My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Young

• When you've won a gold medal and you're at the top of your sport, everyone's trying to beat you. I find that incredibly motivating.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Trying
  • Gold
  • Find

• I try hard to convince them it's important - but there's a history of discomfort with minorities voting in some parts of this country, so most especially the older people have to get accustomed to it.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • People
  • Important
  • Country

• To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Me
  • Easy
  • Cat

• I'd be lying if I said I never think about my female fans in certain shots and certain scenes. Like, when I'm topless, I might think: 'This one is for the ladies.'

  

  Jack O'Connell
  • Think
  • Lying
  • Said

• There is a statistic I heard a number of years ago: if you know somebody who is 85 years old, that person was born into a world that had a third as many people as the world does today. The population has tripled in the past 85 years.

  

  Dan Brown
  • People
  • World
  • Today

• I'm very happy to be employed. I always contend that in show business that if you're employed, then you're successful.

  

  Lance Burton
  • Business
  • Happy
  • Successful

• 'Stand By You' is about sticking by the person you love not only when things are easy, but being there for them during trials and letting them know they aren't alone.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Love
  • Alone
  • Person

• Ever since I was little it was programmed into me that London is where great theatre occurs and all the big shows you love start there.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Great
  • Theatre
  • Shows

• I don't think any actor feels comfortable watching themselves in movies. You must be very narcissistic. The problem with your own opinion of yourself is that contrary to the normal spectators, when you watch a film you are in, you only watch yourself.

  

  Omar Sharif
  • Problem
  • Opinion
  • Yourself

• All I want to do is a rom-com, but you know, people see me as an action person because the first movie that was seen by a lot of the public would be 'Hitman.'

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • People
  • Movie
  • Me

• I want to still be singing at 70 years old. I want to be open to the dreams I haven't even dreamed up.

  

  Fantasia Barrino
  • Up
  • Want
  • Singing

• In 2009, I edited, under the aegis of the Library of America, an anthology called 'Becoming Americans: Immigrants Tell Their Stories from Jamestown to Today.' It featured immigrants from different backgrounds, from black slaves like Phillis Wheatley to Yiddish-language speakers like Henry Roth.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • Different
  • America
  • Today

• It is very unnatural to dance while playing the violin. I had to practice so hard to learn how to do it, but now it is part of my expression, and it comes naturally. I have to know a song perfectly before I can even begin to move.

  

  Lindsey Stirling
  • Song
  • Practice
  • Dance

• Religion does not consist in making a noise, yet when the soul is filled with the Spirit of the Lord, sweet, heart-felt praise to God glorifies him.

  

  Ellen G. White
  • God
  • Heart
  • Soul

• All the food that is put into the stomach that the system cannot derive benefit from, is a burden to nature in her work.

  

  Ellen G. White
  • Work
  • Nature
  • Food

• One of my favorite things to do is be in front of the camera and act.

  

  Angie Everhart

• For many people, the reluctance to embrace Christianity is as practical as it is intellectual. They want to know what the benefits of Christianity are, or what's in it for them.

  

  Dinesh D'Souza
  • People

• America can't succeed unless you succeed. That is why I am running for president of the United States.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • America
  • President
  • Succeed

• I had a pretty bad time when I was an undergraduate at Cornell University. I failed out of school. I was much, much heavier.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Time
  • School
  • Bad

• In my view, the lost art of listening and ignoring the patient as a human being is a quintessential failure of our health care.

  

  Bernard Lown
  • Health care
  • Human being
  • Ignoring