Steve Lopez famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Nurses quietly go about their work in a noble profession, uncelebrated soldiers toiling through the days and nights in service to the sick, the injured and the dying.
-- Steve Lopez

#Night #Sick #Nurse
.. a friend is someone who inspires, who challenges, who sends you in search of some truer sense of yourself..
-- Steve Lopez

#Friendship #Challenges #Inspire
Love is mental illness going in and mental illness coming out. In between, you do a lot of laundry.
-- Steve Lopez

#Love Is #Mental Illness #Laundry
It is possible to cause seemingly biochemical changes through human emotional involvement. You literally have changed his chemistry by being his friend.
-- Steve Lopez

#Emotional #Causes #Chemistry
It's more interesting to be out in the world. than to see it reflected in the mirror.
-- Steve Lopez

#Mirrors #Interesting #World
Mental illness doesn't choose the most talented or the smartest or the richest or the poorest. It shows no mercy and often arrives like an unexpected storm, dropping an endless downpour on young dreams.
-- Steve Lopez

#Dream #Storm #Unexpected
Negativity is never an option
-- Steve Lopez

#Inspirational #Life #Negativity
Without a mission and a sense of whom you write for, you aren't worth reading.
-- Steve Lopez

#Reading #Writing #Missions
Titled players appeared to be trotting out game after game in which the same old hoary opening sequences, memorized out to fifteen, twenty, or even more moves, were repeated endlessly. True novelties were becoming scarcer, and sometimes these 'opening' novelties didn't appear until well into the middlegame. (A master-level friend once proudly showed me a novelty he'd discovered at move twenty-seven of a very well-trodden chess opening, and it's said that even as far back as the 1950's Mikhail Botvinnik had some openings memorised past the thirtieth move).
-- Steve Lopez

#Moving #Past #Player

Lovers lying two and two Ask not whom they sleep beside, And the bridegroom all night through Never turns him to the bride.
Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.
Misuse of reason might yet return the world to pre-technological night; plenty of religious zealots hunger for just such a result, and are happy to use the latest technology to effect it.
I'm nothing you can catch now. I am black powder, I am singe, I am the bomb that bursts the night.
Perhaps something like Facebook couldn't have been invented by somebody who goes out five nights a week and has a ton of friends and makes friends really easily.
If I'm not living from my heart, I get sick.
Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick.
It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till he die.
Give up smoking. Don't get so fat. So much illness is self-induced - which I can't stand. And I'm not a good nursemaid. Don't call me if you're ill.
I had a job; I was, during the war, a nurse, a 'Gray Lady.' We wore a veil and a gray dress.

Steve Lopez famous quotes

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