Atul Gawande Quotes

Outsiders tend to be the first to recognize the inadequacies of our social institutions. But, precisely because they are outsiders, they are usually in a poor position to fix them.

Atul Gawande

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• Every day it seems more likely that we are destined - or should one say doomed? - to replay the disastrous economic history of the 1930s.

  

  Barry Eichengreen
  • History
  • Day
  • Everyday

• There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.

  

  Owen Feltham
  • Man
  • Praise
  • Over

• I have made myself what I am. And I would that I could make the red people as great as the conceptions of my own mind, when I think of the Great Spirit that rules over us all.

  

  Tecumseh
  • People
  • Mind
  • Rules

• I changed my name at 14 because no one outside of my family could pronounce my first name correctly.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Family
  • Name
  • Outside

• You walk into the class in second grade. You can't read. What are you going to do if you're going to make it? You identify the smart kid. You make friends with him. You sit next to him. You grow a team around you. You delegate your work to others. You learn how to talk your way out of a tight spot.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Team

• Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Believe
  • Yourself

• I was not a silly kid or outgoing. In fact, I suffered from quite a bit of anxiety. I used to have panic attacks when I was a teenager, really incapacitating moments, because I had some phobias.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Moments
  • Teenager
  • Anxiety

• When employees feel anonymous in the eyes of their managers, they simply cannot love their work, no matter how much money they make or how wonderful their jobs seem to be.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Work
  • Money
  • Love

• I'm definitely interested in exploring human contradictions. Contradictions are what make us human - it's what defines us as human beings. Contradictions are what make characters interesting, and I've been lucky to be presented with characters who have a lot of contradictions.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Interesting
  • Exploring

• I really enjoy playing a sex symbol, but it's not something I feel in real life. I'm much more of a natural girl at home.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Life
  • Real
  • Home

• I started with ballet, and once I started to really like it, I got into more - I did jazz and tap, and then kept going.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Jazz
  • Ballet
  • Once

• I would say the most satisfying thing actually is watching my three children each pick up on their own interests and work many more hours per week than most people that have jobs at trying to intelligently give away that money in fields that they particularly care about.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• Even the holy men who lived before the coming of Christ understood that God had in mind plans of peace for the human race.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • God
  • Men
  • Mind

• The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Life
  • Quality
  • Commitment

• My greatest inspiration is my mother, the bravest person I ever knew. She overcame incredible odds, worked while raising two kids, and made it all look incredibly simple. Even in her final days succumbing to cancer, she fought like a champion.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Kids
  • Mother
  • Inspiration

• Mary is embarrassed, because the people are bowing down to statues of her.

  

  Jack Chick
  • People

• There is a bird in a poem by T. S. Eliot who says that mankind cannot bear very much reality; but the bird is mistaken. A man can endure the entire weight of the universe for eighty years. It is unreality that he cannot bear.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Reality
  • Universe
  • Bird

• Yon rising Moon that looks for us again - How oft hereafter will she wax and wane; How oft hereafter rising look for us Through this same Garden - and for one in vain!

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • She
  • Moon
  • Garden

• Saints do not die. It is their lot, To die while on this earth to all that God is not.

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • God
  • Earth
  • Die

• As a songwriter and a singer in a successful rock band, I have had the good fortune of being surrounded by incredible musicians, lots of wonderful production on both record and onstage, and plenty of volume!

  

  Ed Kowalczyk
  • Good
  • Band
  • Rock

• In the West, people don't have any real problems. It's all based on bad conscience, a very Christian notion. I don't have any bad conscience. If there's a God that created us, if I am bad, it's his fault.

  

  Marjane Satrapi
  • People
  • God
  • Real

• I'm drawing from two generations back how to think about music, how to think about why you travel to make music, what the possible pitfalls of that are for the way your life is structured. The good and bad of all of it get into the mix of what's created, what you're creating.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Life
  • Music
  • Drawing

• Outsiders tend to be the first to recognize the inadequacies of our social institutions. But, precisely because they are outsiders, they are usually in a poor position to fix them.

  

  Atul Gawande