"You can't make a recipe for something as complicated as surgery. Instead, you can make a recipe for how to have a team that's prepared for the unexpected."

-- Atul Gawande

#Team Quotes #Recipes Quotes #Unexpected Quotes

“Enlightenment! When it comes, it comes like a brick to the head, doesn't it?”
“It's funny how you can think you know someone pretty well, and then something happens or they do something that makes you understand that you didn't really know them at all.”

Source : Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Sammy Keyes and the Dead Giveaway”, p.3, Yearling
“Regan has been amused, in the intervening years, to watch editors who rolled their eyes at Limbaugh scramble to try to duplicate his success. What people respond to in this culture is loud and brash and pointed and sometimes vulgar -- that`s what gets p... Judith Regan.”
“[To waiter who had spilled soup on her:] Never darken my Dior again!”

Source : Quoted in Lore and Maurice Cowan, The Wit of Women (1969)
“emotion that I experienced on first seeing the fresh paint come out of the tube... the impression of colours strewn over the palette: of colours - alive, waiting, as yet unseen and hidden in their little tubes...”
“There are times when you cannot even control the sugar level in your body. Remember that when you put sugar in your metabolism, you are upsetting your metabolism in a very direct way. X amount of sugar is understandable, but the amount of sugar you put in, only God can save you. And whenever you put x amount of sugar, you must follow the law of depression. When you get that kind of depression, you lose a lot of friends. Therefore, it is very fair to channel your energy. One of the best ways to channel the energy is to do the pranayama.”
“I didn't believe that I'd ever be lucky enough to be able to make a living as an actor.”
“My point here, young couples, is that baby-having is extremely serious business, and you probably don't have the vaguest idea what you're doing, as is evidenced by the fact that you're reading a very sloppy and poorly researched book.”

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