Atul Gawande Quotes

We now live in the era of the super-specialist - of clinicians who have taken the time to practice at one narrow thing until they can do it better than anyone who hasn't.

Atul Gawande

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How do you talk about the Holocaust? How do you talk about slavery? Probably the best thing to do is just be quiet and hide from it, forget about it. Except, then it jumps up and bites you. Because it's there.

John Edgar Wideman

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My motivation was an idea of being able to improve the conditions of life, to try to find a remedy to many of the problems facing the world. That's what led me into economics. I saw it as a way of helping people.

Maurice Allais

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New Yorkers are smart.

Jeanine Pirro

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I use a lot of citrus for seasoning. There's lemon or lime juice in just about everything, and that balances with salt very nicely. Things like toasted cumin seeds for the beans. The use of fresh herbs like oregano and cilantro.

Steve Ells

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Until I was four years old I lived in the house of my paternal grandfather, about two miles from the pretty little village of Wallace, at the mouth of the river of that name.

Simon Newcomb

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Thinking about the universe has now been handed over to specialists. The rest of us merely read about it.

Mason Cooley

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When you get married and have children, and you start having hits and success and your business starts growing, there's less and less time for songwriting.

Josh Turner

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We do have a zeal for laughter in most situations, give or take a dentist.

Joseph Heller

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We travel so much as touring musicians and artists that sometimes, when you hear a great song that you really think could be on your project, you go ahead and record it instead of try to write it.

Jon Pardi

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There are similarities between business and sport, in the pressures involved and in the fitness aspect too.

Peter Shilton

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My motto is, you have to get in a sport a day.

Paul Walker

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I grew up very much an athlete and very much a swimmer and a dancer and a horse rider and surf lifesaving club, you name it I've probably done it. I just find so much gratification in being physical.

Sharni Vinson

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