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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• 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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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• Music is really something that makes people whole.

  

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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.

  

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

  

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• To lead people walk behind them.

  

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

  

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• I used to like humorous people in the past, but these days, I like serious people more.

  

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• Music is like the genius of humankind, universal... People who have never really taken the time to get into music, their lives are a lot smaller. Kids deserve the richness and dimension of it in their lives.

  

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• I do think faith is important when it introduces positivity into your life and you see it with love in your heart because there's so many people who unfortunately use faith for detrimental things or to justify detrimental actions.

  

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• When you were growing up in the 30s, 20s, of course the 40s, all black people at least in the Washington, D.C., area were required to live among themselves.

  

  Ed Smith
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• Republicans believe largely in the market working, Democrats believe stereotypically that you've got to give people something. So why not give people a chance to let the market work for them.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
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• The most difficult thing is the organization of people and the expression of your intentions. It's very easy to have a picture in your head and to imagine that you've told everybody about what you need.

  

  Neil Jordan
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• I was very clear that I wanted to keep 'Thor' out of the rest of the Marvel universe for no less than the first six issues. And the success of the book, I think, speaks well to that decision.

  

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• When I realized I was depressed, then I started reading up about it. When I read that one in four people are depressed, I felt that I'm not the only one. I also felt that how many people must be feeling suffocated to fight this battle all alone. I just wanted to reach out and tell them that even I'm like you, and it's okay if you feel like that.

  

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• I have very long, wild hair, a suntan and wear knee high boots and ignore all the rules about what you should or shouldn't wear at whatever age.

  

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• Miracles do not happen in contradiction to nature, but only in contradiction to what we know of nature.

  

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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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