Atul Gawande Quotes

No one looks at your hands to see how much they shake when you are interviewed to be a surgeon. The physical skills required are no greater than for writing cursive script. If an operation requires so much skill only a few surgeons can do it, you modify the operation to make it simpler.

Atul Gawande

Writing

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So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!

Calista Flockhart
- People
- Time
- Business
There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.

Lakhdar Brahimi
- World
- Now
- Expression
I think people can tell when you're pandering to them, and they feel insulted. I think that one thing that is really nice about the work that I do is that I can just sort of make mistakes or try out different ideas or be inconsistent and be vulnerable.

Tavi Gevinson
- People
- Work
- Different
I still have a fear of theater. I don't know if I will manage that. I used to do it. I developed a bit of a phobia. It's not a real phobia. I can go in and watch.

Laura Fraser
- Real
- Fear
- Know
Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.

Daniel Day-Lewis
- Serious
- Doing
- Potential
I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.

Ian Anderson
- Up
- Music
- Mind