Atul Gawande Quotes
You know, 97 percent of the time, if you come into a hospital, everything goes well. But three percent of the time, we have major complications.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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The niqab, for some, has become an antiestablishment symbol around which one can rally and relish in the opportunities for confrontation that it provides.
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It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love.
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I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.
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I had no desire to crash a man's world.
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Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.
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Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
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In my early 20s, I was a big fan of Theodore Dreiser and might be one of the few people on the planet who have voluntarily read all his novels.
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So being two different people in one day unnerved me to no end.
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.
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I am more excited about 'Divinity of Doubt: The God Question' than any other book in my entire career, and I've had seven New York Times bestsellers, three of them reaching number one.
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A glimpse at my night stand gives the mostly true impression that I am a book hoarder.
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May the Lord our God prepare us for every event, then comes Life or Death - it is no great matter.
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Our 'normal' 'adjusted' state is too often the abdication of ecstasy, the betrayal of our true potentialities.
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My goal was to be a network correspondent by the time I was 30.
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The only way I survived at school was by doing impersonations of teachers and pupils. That led to me winning a talent competition when I was 16; the prize was three or four gigs in working men's clubs. I was just showing off: at the time, I thought that's what acting was.
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Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don't sum up a man's life in one moment.
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I understand his longing for immortality … Willy's writing his name in a cake of ice on a hot day, but he wishes he were writing in stone.
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You know, 97 percent of the time, if you come into a hospital, everything goes well. But three percent of the time, we have major complications.
