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Atul Gawande Quotes

I write because it's my way of finding cool ideas, thinking through hard problems and things I don't understand, and getting better at something.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: american
Birth: November 5, 1965

Topics

Ideas Cool Problems Thinking Better

I sublimate different parts of my personality through my characters. Which is worrying, as some of them can be a bit nasty. I'm pleased the stuff on the page isn't inside me any more.

Personality Me Page More Inside

I am not a mathematician, but I was aware that for centuries, mathematics was considered the queen of the sciences because it claimed certainty. It was grounded on some fundamental certainties - axioms - that led to others.

Mathematics Queen I Am Certainty Led

Back when I first came up with the Twins as a second baseman, Billy worked with me on my fielding, on playing the game, on being heads-up, hustling, always doing my best, not alibiing. And when he was the Twins' manager, I enjoyed playing for him.

Best Me Game Doing Back Manager

My husband hailed from Dagenham; he's an Essex boy. Me myself, I come from Derry City in the northwest of Ireland, so we love to get back.

Love Myself City Me Husband Back

I do virtually nothing except my work. No hobbies.

Work Nothing Hobbies Except

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Liberty Greater Well Appetite Part

I was 23, and that was my first professional job. Anybody who has curly hair knows you don't want it to be brushed out because it becomes a never-ending tangle.

Job Hair You Professional Want Out

As a writer, you're really in control of almost everything. That's not the case in TV. You have to be prepared to work with a lot of people to make something happen, and you got to be prepared, at least in the beginning, to not be too good at your specific task.

Work Good Beginning People Control

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.

Joseph Campbell

Religion Facts You Trouble True Way

To restart a brand, you have to make people forget what it was.

Jonathan Anderson

People Brand You Forget Make

The songs I write and sing try to say important things with a lightness.

Important Say Try Write Things Sing

Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty.

Alice Foote MacDougall

Life Food Pain Spiritual Poverty

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