"The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand."

-- Abraham Verghese

#Motivation Quotes #Inspiration Quotes #Hands Quotes

“This total failure to address the diet/cancer relationship is most disturbing to ...those...informed...”
“You are 100 percent responsible for how your children turn out. And you accomplish that by teaching them that they are 100 percent responsible for how they turn out.”
“Watch for a wild boy of no particular clan, ready for anything, always armed. Prefers fighting to toil, drink to fighting, chasing women to booze or battle: may attempt all three concurrently.”

Source : Nelson Algren (2010). “A Walk On The Wild Side”, p.26, Canongate Books
“Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God”
“Often in life, the most important question we can ask ourselves is: do we really have the problem we think we have?”
“In the greatest fiction, the writer's moral sense coincides with his dramatic sense, and I see no way for it to do this unless his moral judgement is part of the very act of seeing, and he is free to use it. I have heard it said that belief in Christian dogma is a hindrance to the writer, but I myself have found nothing further from the truth. Actually, it frees the storyteller to observe. It is not a set of rules which fixes what he sees in the world. It affects his writing primarily by guaranteeing his respect for mystery.”
“If our show [Carpool Karaoke] shines, then I shine. I don't ever want to come out and make anything about me. I want to make it about them, make them the best that they can be. And the whole thing is a collaboration, those carpools.”
“When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.”

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