Patient Quotes

• I am a patient listener, but opinionated to the point of stubbornness when my mind is made up.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Point

• One might say, for example, that a patient has a kind of St Vitus's dance; a kind of dropsy; a kind of nerve fever; a kind of ague. One would never say, however (to end once and for all the confusion of these names) He has St. Vitus's dance, He has nerve fever, He has dropsy, He has ague, since there simply are not any fixed, unchanging diseases to be known by such names.

  

  Samuel Hahnemann
  • Kind
  • Dance
  • Ends

• The Bible says the fruit of the spirit is longsuffering. I'll tell you one thing about fruit: you will never see a fruit factory. Isn't that right? You see a shirt factory, but you see a fruit orchard. You see, there is no fruit without life. You cannot manufacture patience. The fruit of the Spirit is patience.

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • Life
  • Spirit
  • Bible

• One of the first things we teach medical students is to listen to the patient by taking a careful medical history. Ninety percent of the time, you can arrive at an uncannily accurate diagnosis by paying close attention, using physical examination and sophisticated lab test to confirm your hunch (and to increase the bill to the insurance company).

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Time
  • History
  • Attention

• To anticipate the market is to gamble. To be patient and react only when the market gives the signal is to speculate.

  

  Jesse Livermore
  • Giving
  • Anticipate
  • Gamble

• The best way to get around in New York is to be both rich and patient.

  

  Kate Simon
  • Way
  • Rich
  • Patient

• The only weapon with which the unconscious patient can immediately retaliate upon the incompetent surgeon is hemorrhage.

  

  William Stewart Halsted
  • Surgeon
  • Retaliate
  • Hemorrhage

• Big, obedient, patient Clydesdales. I loved them.

  

  R. M. Williams
  • Patient
  • Obedient
  • Clydesdales

• The only way by which you and I can wean orthodox Hindus from their bigotry is by patient argument and correct conduct.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Argument
  • Bigotry
  • Orthodox

• Be patient? That's all you've got for me?" Steve complained ten minutes later. Kylie glanced up at Perry, circling them as they sat behind the office, and then frowned at Steve. "I don't know why everyone thinks I'm the love guru.

  

  Christie Craig
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Why

• A patient had a 50-50 chance of benefiting from visiting a physician as of 1910. Medicine was more like voodoo than science until the 20th Century.

  

  Abraham Flexner
  • Science
  • Chance
  • Benefiting

• Each patient carries his own doctor inside him.

  

  Norman Cousins
  • Health
  • Living
  • Doctors

• “Autonomy is absolutized in principle and practice. This may lead to the second response, namely, that physicians will accede to whatever the patient or valid surrogate wants. This prompts the physician to transfer all responsibility to patients, family, or friends. This occurs with alarming frequency in the care of infants, the elderly, and demented patients who may be over- or under-treated because their surrogates demand it. Indeed,”

  

  Edmund Pellegrino
  • Practice
  • Patient
  • Autonomy

• When you need an idea about how to do anything, get quiet and relaxed and think about what it is you need to know. Then the flow of ideas will come. Be patient and let it happen. Sometimes it takes a little while, but it always works.

  

  Chris Prentiss
  • Idea
  • Patient
  • Relaxed

• The secret to a happy marriage is patience and honesty. I really mean that. You have to be patient, you have to be open, and you also have to be available for criticism, too.

  

  Cindy McCain
  • Mean
  • Secret
  • Criticism

• The heaviness leaves, and if I'm patient enough it can be replaced by something I need, somthing that would fill instead of drown and let me breathe instead of bleed.

  

  Karin Lowachee
  • Breathe
  • Replaced
  • Heaviness

• An enormous mass of experience, both of homeopathic doctors and their patients, is invoked in favor of the efficacy of these remedies and doses.

  

  William James
  • Doctors
  • Enormous
  • Efficacy

• All the power of the occult healer lies in his conscious will, and all his art consists in producing faith in the patient.

  

  Eliphas Levi
  • Art
  • Power
  • Faith

• I like European movies because it seems those audiences are a little more patient. Those movies are always slower, where over here, the studio system freaks out if something doesn't happen every five minutes or if anything is confusing.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Audience
  • Freak
  • Confusing

• He that is impatient, and cannot wait on God for a mercy, will not easily submit to Him in a denial.

  

  William Gurnall
  • Waiting
  • Mercy
  • Denial

• The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Disease
  • Patient
  • Physician

• It took long and patient work to put it into the head of the public that General Jackson was a great man and that he brought honor to America.

  

  Jared Sparks
  • Work
  • Public
  • General Jackson

• The patient must minister to himself

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Philosophical
  • Ministers
  • Antidote

• To achieve charity, we must submit, become patient, meek, humble. . . . We must exercise the love of God as a power.

  

  F. Enzio Busche
  • God
  • Charity
  • Humble

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