"The problem is that it takes physicians so long to accept a radical change. And the lag is unacceptable."

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Source : "Is personalized medicine a myth?" by Amanda Enayati, www.cnn.com. July 26, 2012.

Eric Topol

#Long Quotes #Physicians Quotes #Lag Quotes

“Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.”

Source : H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.74, Thomas Nelson Inc
“Bollywood directors are like cricketers where in one match you score a century, and in the next match, you are out for a duck! Moreover, very few directors are consistent in Bollywood.”
“A novel which survives, which withstands and outlives time, does do something more than merely survive. It does not stand still. It accumulates round itself the understanding of all these persons who bring to it something of their own. It acquires associations, it becomes a form of experience in itself, so that two people who meet can often make friends, find an approach to each other, because of this one great common experience they have had ...”
“The trouble you're expecting never happens; it's always something that sneaks up the other way.”

Source : George R. Stewart (1993). “Earth Abides”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I'm wide open and will entertain anything anybody has to say, but if it's MTV and radio, well, they're great things, but can't be the only thing. I don't know that it would work even for the Beatles.”
“Whiskey claims to itself alone the exclusive office of sot-making.”
“If an artist tells you "this is an oak tree," then it better be an oak tree. It's how you proclaim things; if you say "the silence is the music," then it's the music.”

Source : "The Audience is Present". Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 9, 2015.
“The most important lesson I've learned from sports is how to be not only a gracious winner, but a good loser as well. Not everyone wins all the time, as a matter of fact, no one wins all the time. Winning is the easy part, losing is really tough. But, you learn more from one loss than you do from a million wins. You learn a lot about sportsmanship.”

Source : "Captain Corelli's Mandolin : Interview With Penélope Cruz". www.cinema.com. 2001.

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