"Just using a checklist requires [doctors] to embrace different values from ones we've had, like humility, discipline, teamwork."

-- Atul Gawande

#Teamwork Quotes #Motivation Quotes #Inspiration Quotes

“Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.”
“Humans like to look. I think that voyeurism and exploitation are often used in the same sentence. But, in my opinion, voyeurism is a beautiful and delightful thing. There is nothing more intimate than really looking at someone.”

Source : "Exclusive: Q&A with Visual Artist Turned Filmmaker Laurel Nakadate". Interview with Danielle Kourtesis, flavorwire.com. July 23, 2009.
“When it occurs to a man that nature does not regard him as important, and that she feels she would not maim the universe by disposing of him, he at first wishes to throw bricks at the temple, and he hates deeply the fact that there are no bricks and no temples.”

Source : Stephen Crane (1998). “The Red Badge of Courage and Other Stories”, p.139, OUP Oxford
“I put Algernon's body in a cheese box and buried him in the backyard. I cried.”
“Believe me, you lose more than a gallon of fluids during a race. You could lose between six and 10 pounds during a race, depending on hot it is.”
“If I can play a little part in the world's healing, and making it a better place than when I came, then I just thank God for that chance.”
“The more truthful I am with myself and others, the more my conscience is clear and tranquil. Thus, I can more thoroughly and unequivocally inhabit the present moment and accept everything that happens without fear, knowing that what goes around comes around (the law of karma). Ethical morality and self-discipline represent the good ground, or stable basis. Mindful awareness is the skillful and efficacious grow-path, or way. Wisdom and compassion constitute the fruit, or result. This is the essence of Buddhism [...]”
“Can we ever really know anyone well? Lets just say we often found ourselves in each others company and neither of us minded.”

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