Atul Gawande Quotes

As economists have often pointed out, we pay doctors for quantity, not quality. As they point out less often, we also pay them as individuals, rather than as members of a team working together for their patients. Both practices have made for serious problems.

Atul Gawande

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Working TogetherQualityTogetherPay

I must say also that it's never worked to my disadvantage that I have long, blond hair.

Ann Beattie

HairLongSayNeverMustAlso

I grew up in southern California in the '80s. Yes, I am a walking cliche.

John Scalzi

I AmWalkingCaliforniaYesUpAm

In truth, I barely knew my father at all. He was 53 when I was born, and when I was ten he contracted cancer. Eight years later, in 1979, he died.

Rory Bremner

FatherTruthBornYearsCancerKnew

Kids have no sense of appropriateness. They can ask me whatever they want. You do develop a sense of intimacy with readers, and they tell you things about themselves. During a school year, I'll get e-mails asking about the books. I'll give them information, but I won't do their homework for them.

Lois Lowry

SchoolMeHomeworkYearInformation

For people that are degenerates, if you've spent so much time feeling a certain way, it's actually uncomfortable to feel like a winner. The familiarity of losing is, in an inverse way, comforting. At least you know where you stand.

Jason Gedrick

TimeLosingPeopleStandWinnerYou

I give out similar advice all the time: Take a month to write down where your money is going. By the end, you'll have a road map that tells you where you can cut back.

Jean Chatzky

TimeMoneyRoadEndAdviceYou

I grew up on the south side of Chicago, most of that time on welfare. My mother and sister and I used to live with my grandparents and various cousins. We shared a two-bedroom tenement, and the three of us slept in one of those bedrooms and had a set of bunk beds.

Deval Patrick

MotherLiveTimeSisterThreeSide

You will see the President being very, very tough on spending.

Donald Evans

ToughYouWillPresidentSeeBeing

My partner and I won the race, and I threw my hat into the air and bent to pick it up. Everyone started laughin' because I had split the back end of my pants out, and I wasn't wearing shorts.

Chris LeDoux

HatPartnerEndBackRacePants

A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.

Arthur Miller

LoveChildStandYouBackNever

Growing up in a suburban home, the world seems so massive to you. It seems like cities are so big and so far away, and there's so much in them. So your imagination runs wild, instead of when you are born in the middle of Manhattan, you'd know, like, that this is the biggest city.

Shawn Mendes

HomeImaginationCityGrowing UpYou

What you hear is southern Michigan, not a drawl, but a halting kind of speech where you leave spaces when there shouldn't be any. We take a breath anywhere.

Tom Bodett

SpeechYouKindBreathLeaveTake

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