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

• It is not... That some people do not know what to do with truth when it is offered to them, But the tragic fate is to reach, after patient search, a condition of mind-blindness, in which. The truth is not recognized, though it stares you in the face.

  

  William Osler
  • People
  • Health
  • Fate

• Reading makes me feel I’ve accomplished something, learned something, become a better person… Reading is bliss.

  

  Nora Ephron
  • Reading
  • Learned
  • Accomplished

• I can write pretty much anywhere if you give me time and some quiet. The home is not usually the best place because I have four children. It's usually pandemonium around here!

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Time
  • Children
  • Home

• Illy [Ray Illingworth] had the man-management skills of Basil Fawlty

  

  Darren Gough
  • Management
  • Skills

• The true cook is the perfect blend, the only perfect blend, of artist and philosopher. He knows his worth: he holds in his palm the happiness of mankind, the welfare of generations yet unborn.

  

  Norman Douglas
  • Food
  • Perfect
  • Artist

• 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