"I am a scientist and I am a physician. So I write papers."

-- Siddhartha Mukherjee

#Writing Quotes #Paper Quotes #Physicians Quotes

“In life you are going to make mistakes, you're going to fall down, but it's the getting up that counts. Just like in baseball: you'll get a few hits, but most likely, you'll strike out more than you'll get on base. But don't quit. Find your focus, relax, take a deep breath and give it a good swing”
“I don't believe in talking about my work. I let it speak for itself. I'd rather make money than just talk about my business. People think that because I don't talk much to the media, I am arrogant. I am not arrogant, but I do have an attitude.”
“The necessity of loyalty between friends, the responsibility that the strong owe the infirm, the illusion of ill-gotten gain, the rewards of hard work, honesty, and trust-these are enduring truths glimpsed and judged first through the imagination, first through art.”

Source : Michael Dorris (1994). “Paper trail: essays”, Harpercollins
“Avoid negative people at all costs. They are the greatest destroyers of self-confidence and self-esteem.”
“No peace was ever won from fate by subterfuge or argument; no peace is ever in store for any of us, but that which we shall win by victory over shame or sin--victory over the sin that oppresses, as well as over that which corrupts.”
“Affectation discovers sooner what one is than it makes known what one would fain appear to be.”

Source : François duc de La Rochefoucauld, Stanisław I Leszczyński (King of Poland) (1851). “Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la Rochefoucauld”, p.169
“He said you were on the scene when that Laurel Canyon homicide went down.â€ â€œIâ€™m lucky that way,â€ I said. â€œSo are you two square again?â€ I halted, mid-ripping open the cookies, and stared at him. â€œWell, heâ€™s pretty square,â€ I said. â€œIâ€™m just a rectangular guy.â€ With latent triangular tendencies.”
“When I see a paragraph shrinking under my eyes like a strip of bacon in a skillet, I know I'm on the right track.”

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