Atul Gawande Quotes

When I do an operation, it's half a dozen people. When it goes beautifully, it's like a symphony, with everybody playing their part.

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• Well, I think a lot of people just want to be famous.

  

  Dan Fogler
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• We want to encourage people to talk to one another.

  

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• I do look forward to keeping in touch with the guys, because we'll always be connected in people's minds.

  

  Barry Zito
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• In the back of my mind, I can never forget this could be gone tomorrow - and at this point I think the odds are against me... the chances of succeeding in this business are slim to none; there's only a handful of people that have long careers. You have to put in the work, you can never be satisfied, never take it for granted.

  

  Zac Efron
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• I gave up school. I gave up a really, really good job. I gave up a lot of stuff. I cut a lot of people out of my life so I could just focus on my fighting dreams.

  

  Paige VanZant
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• But it is important to observe that when Europe or the United Nations impose sanctions that are supposed to be aimed against a certain regime, usually generally millions of people end up being directly punished.

  

  Omar Bongo
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• People would get Carol Burnett and Vicki Lawrence all mushed together in their brains, and, bless their hearts, it would come out Carol Lawrence.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
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• We saw very little of the real Jack Buck behind the microphone. He would touch people in ways that we will never know. Jack was much more than just an announcer.

  

  Ozzie Smith
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• Tolerance, openness to argument, openness to self-doubt, willingness to see other people's points of view - these are very liberal and enlightened values that people are right to hold, but we can't allow them to delude us to the point where we can't recognise people who are needlessly perpetrating human misery.

  

  Sam Harris
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• Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.

  

  Namie Amuro
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• It was a lovely opportunity for the first time in my whole career to stand up and thank people who are really responsible for me getting to realize my dreams.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
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• I think probably one of the coolest things was when I went to play basketball at Rucker Park in Harlem. First of all, who would think that Larry the Cable Guy would go to Harlem to play basketball? And I was received like a rock star. It was amazing! There were people everywhere. There were guys walking by yelling, 'Git 'r done!'

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
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• I'm not that involved in personal grooming. But I try not to be offensive to people.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
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• Music is really something that makes people whole.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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• People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.

  

  Van Wyck Brooks
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• There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
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• To lead people walk behind them.

  

  Lao Tzu
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• I'm very punctual. I wish I could change this about myself because most people around me are not.

  

  Hansika Motwani
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• All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.

  

  Adam Gopnik
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• I have often found that no matter where I meet people in the world, there is a path that leads back to Queen's.

  

  Liam Neeson
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• Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to have them, it is necessary to preserve the soil in which they grow.

  

  John Stuart Mill
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• The economy has become seriously unbalanced. Its growth has not been driven by investment or by overcoming Britain's long-standing weaknesses in investment and productivity, particularly skills. Instead, there has been a binge of debt-financed consumer spending.

  

  Vince Cable
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• Art comes after the fact, as a witness to certain things that have happened.

  

  Raymond Pettibon Black Flag
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• When I do an operation, it's half a dozen people. When it goes beautifully, it's like a symphony, with everybody playing their part.

  

  Atul Gawande
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