Atul Gawande Quotes
I think the extreme complexity of medicine has become more than an individual clinician can handle. But not more than teams of clinicians can handle.
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Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
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I've got bowlegs, so if I do a midcalf look, I look bandy.
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The Administration should never have walked away from the Kyoto Treaty. Global warming is real and it is here today. The facts aren't the issue. The policy is the issue. I think the Administration's policy on global warming is dead wrong.
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The fight against child slavery is the fight against traditional mindset, policy deficit, and lack of accountability and urgency for children across the globe.
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All I want to do is get back to a principle-based Congress.
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I think that, as a white person stepping into doing any sort of anti-systematic-racism type of work, asking yourself, 'What is your intention?' needs to happen on a consistent basis. Check yourself. Check yourself. Check yourself, like, constantly.
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I've always been a happy-go-lucky person. I haven't got any dark tales, I didn't draw on my own past, I'm from a very normal stable background and had an amazing childhood, and I haven't got any complaints really.
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The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
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Pre-show, I warm up my voice, stretch, do a little team huddle, and sometimes throw a shot of whiskey in there, too. After the show, I hang out at merch meeting people and signing things. After that, I usually try to see friends in whatever city we're in, or if I'm super beat, listen to a podcast and pass out.
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
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It's so funny to think that I used to be a model and here I am doing arbitrage, shipping and negotiating margins, the list is endless.
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I adore this adventure, I adore working with youth. For me it's a daily challenge, working to help these youths realize their dreams.
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If you happen to live close to the desert border, you can pretty much calculate how long it will be before you have to carry your kids away and abandon your home and your life as you know it.
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Of course the shrieking desire for the scoop can get really strong, but so is the desire to safeguard connections and keep everyone happy.
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The entertainment industry is terrified of silence.
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You have major labels that are willing to take unconventional approaches because the old model is crumbling in front of us.
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What's to gain by silence?
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...We cannot think first and act afterwards. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.
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You have a great destiny before you. This is your moment! I truly believe that one virtuous young woman, led by the Spirit, can change the world.
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I learned not to be so bitterly defeated when my fiction took a beating from editors. I learned in advertising to color in the lines and have my work done on time and to make it the very best it could be.
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To Dogmatism the Spirit of Inquiry is the same as the Spirit of Evil.
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I was 10 when I realised I couldn't stand football. I'd tried, obviously, before this - no one wants to give in to social pariah-hood without a fight. I had stood frozen on pitches, done some running about and shouted a lot, as though I cared.
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In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
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I think the extreme complexity of medicine has become more than an individual clinician can handle. But not more than teams of clinicians can handle.
