Donald Berwick Quotes

Competition makes things come out right. Well, what does that mean in health care? More hospitals so they compete with each other. More doctors compete with each other. More pharmaceutical companies. We set up war. Wait a minute, let's talk about the patient. The patient doesn't need a war.

Donald Berwick

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: public
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 9, 1946

Topics

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If you ask me about Donna Lynne, she's one of the flat-out most talented people I've ever worked with, and I've worked with some pretty talented people.

John Hickenlooper

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When you treat yourself right, you run better and more efficiently. Which means you don't have to go 100 miles an hour to get everything done.

Ann Curry

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I never read any fairy tales or classics until I was an adult; all we ever had was comics... No television, either. If we wanted entertainment, we hung around the fish shop.

Michael Foreman

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I name my companies things that are intentional, that are specific, that are worthy of ridicule if you are anything other.

Matt Bevin

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I have often been characterized by one sound bite, and people say, 'That is the whole of Mike Huckabee, because we have him on this off-the-cuff moment.'

Mike Huckabee

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If you spend any time in Washington you'll find nerds. What happens is most of them sublimate their fixations with comics, or baseball cards, or 1960s British comedies to policy minutiae and political arcana. But, like Christians in ancient Rome, you can still spot them if you know the signals.

Jonah Goldberg

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Fashion is something that I want to be involved with for a long time, and I want to show that I can give people what they want while still keeping my pizzazz and my razzle-dazzle.

Johnny Weir

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One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Claude M. Bristol

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I can't put on a facade every time I go out.

Arjun Kapoor

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I tasted freedom and I really liked it.

Phil Lynott

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For me, actors have to have a character, an aura, body language. They're not models. They used to call actors models. But I want them to participate in the film.

Pawel Pawlikowski

CharacterMeLanguageBodyWant

To remember non-attachment is to remember what freedom is all about. If we get attached, even to a beautiful state of being, we are caught, and ultimately we will suffer. We work to observe anything that comes our way, experience it while it is here, and be able to let go of it.

Sharon Salzberg

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