Atul Gawande Quotes

You want to ensure people can do it right 99 percent of time. When we have to fire one of our surgical trainees, it is never because they don't have the physical skills but because they don't have the moral skills - to practise and admit failure.

Atul Gawande

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FailureTimeFirePeopleYouMoral

I have an English identity and a French identity. When I'm in France, I'm more outgoing. And the French part of me cooks, whereas the English part of me writes.

Joanne Harris

IdentityMeMoreEnglishFrance

I've known and continue to know every one of these major world leaders by their first names, and I have access to them.

Joe Biden

WorldKnowFirstNamesContinue

Beware the wrath of a patient adversary.

John C. Calhoun

PatientBewareWrathAdversary

As the existence of a corps of professors of mathematics is peculiar to our navy, as well as an apparent, perhaps a real, anomaly, some account of it may be of interest.

Simon Newcomb

MathematicsNavyRealExistenceMay

Well I think fundamentally, what I think surprises me is the creationist movement, and the notion that somehow you can't believe in God if you believe in evolution. But I don't think there's anything in the Bible which prevents a recognition that evolution is a highly plausible way that we came to be here.

Robert Winston

GodMeBibleBelieveThinkYou

My father was the child of academics and was probably destined to become an academic himself but vetoed that idea. Bailed, dropped out of graduate school and just went to work for an insurance company. But the house was full of books and music and all of that.

Lorrie Moore

WorkFatherMusicSchoolChild

When knowledge no longer becomes the commodity of the few, but in a sense becomes equalized by everyone having access, you lose some aspect of Jewish particularity, or at least a Jewish particularity that is fundamental to the construct of Jews as people of the book, which was always interesting.

Joshua Cohen

KnowledgePeopleBookInteresting

I got to see all these incredible blues players, like Jimmy Reed.

Johnny Rivers

BluesSeeGotPlayersIncredible

Never assume, no matter how strong the temptation, that other people are low-life lying manipulators without a shred of human decency.

Dinesh D'Souza

PeopleStrongTemptationLyingNever

Passive-aggressive is the worst thing in the world to me!

CM Punk

MeWorldWorstWorst ThingThing

When I finish something, I want it out that day. Pop music is like the daily paper. Its got to be there then, not six months later.

Brian Eno

MusicDailyDayWantFinishOut

I'm a talented designer.

Ashley Nell Tipton

DesignerTalented

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