Elihu Burritt Quotes

All that I have accomplished ... has been by that plodding, patient, persevering process of accretion which builds the ant heap particle by particle, thought by thought, fact by fact.

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• I am convinced that in order for you, as a patient, to be protected, it has to be transparent, evidence-based, objective information. Not self-serving information. Not pharma-driven information. Not ad-driven information. It is transparent, objective, evidence-based information.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Information
  • Patient
  • Protected

• In cases of porphyria, a minor disease, the patient excretes large quantities of porphyrins.

  

  Hans Fischer
  • Disease
  • Patient
  • Minor

• Neurologists have a host of clinical tests that let them observe what a brain-damaged patient can and cannot do.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Brain
  • Patient
  • Tests

• I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I'm a killer.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Die
  • Helping
  • Patient

• Keep your head up and be patient.

  

  AJ McLean
  • Up
  • Head
  • Patient

• Our duty is to be patient.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Duty
  • Patient
  • Be Patient

• Turkish cuisine is, to my mind, one of the most exciting and accomplished in the world.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • World
  • Mind
  • Accomplished

• No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Family
  • Done
  • Attention

• Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Men
  • Accomplished

• I am a patient listener, but opinionated to the point of stubbornness when my mind is made up.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Point

• I am the model middle child. I am patient and I like to take care of everyone. Being called nice is a compliment. It's not a boring way to describe me.

  

  Jennifer Garner
  • Model
  • Patient
  • Compliment

• In acute diseases the physician must conduct his inquiries in the following way. First he must examine the face of the patient, and see whether it is like the faces of healthy people, and especially whether it is like its usual self. Such likeness will be the best sign, and the greatest unlikeness will be the most dangerous sign. The latter will be as follows. Nose sharp, eyes hollow, temples sunken, ears cold and contracted with their lobes turned outwards, the skin about the face hard and tense and parched, the colour of the face as a whole being yellow or black.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Disease
  • Patient
  • Tense

• An impatient person plays differently than a more patient person.

  

  Vladimir Kramnik
  • Persons
  • Patient
  • Impatient

• An accomplished coquette excites the passions of others, in proportion as she feels none herself.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Passion
  • Accomplished
  • Coquetry

• An enormous mass of experience, both of homeopathic doctors and their patients, is invoked in favor of the efficacy of these remedies and doses.

  

  William James
  • Patient
  • Doctors
  • Enormous

• One thing that has helped me to become patient and cool is that I grew up with sisters.

  

  William Kamkwamba
  • Patient
  • Grew

• It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.

  

  William Osler
  • Important
  • Health
  • Knows

• Every patient you see is a lesson in much more than the malady from which he suffers.

  

  William Osler
  • Suffering
  • Lessons
  • Patient

• You stopped looking for the truth...I'd guess that's a sin we've all been guilty of.

  

  William Kent Krueger
  • Sin
  • Guilty

• Prior to Saving Private Ryan I never worked with men. I was always working with some babe, and it was always about falling in love, and it just got turned around. I'm not looking for any particular kind of story. I wait until it comes across my desk.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Working
  • Falling In Love
  • Saving Private Ryan

• I was never a class clown or anything like that, but I do remember being in the first grade and my teacher, Mr. Chad, told the class one day that we were going to do some exercises. He meant math exercises, but I stood up and started doing jumping jacks. To this day, I don't know what possessed me to do that, but all my friends cracked up.

  

  Will Ferrell
  • Firsts
  • Class
  • Grades

• All that I have accomplished ... has been by that plodding, patient, persevering process of accretion which builds the ant heap particle by particle, thought by thought, fact by fact.

  

  Elihu Burritt
  • Patient
  • Accomplished
  • Accretion