"I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it's only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important."

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Abraham Verghese

#Important Quotes #Way Quotes #Patient Quotes

“I started drinking in my late teen years and continued through college and into the early years of my career. I had a lot of missed opportunities because of not being able to handle my liquor, things like bad shows. But mostly what precipitated it was how it was contributing to my mental health breaking down. Alcohol and depression don't mix very well as I'm sure you know, it makes everything worse. I hit a point where I knew that if I kept drinking it wouldn't go very well.”
“I think being a foreigner and talking about Hollywood allowed me to use some cliches and some references that an American would maybe not use.”
“If I was going to act irresponsibly, the least I could do was be responsible for it.”

Source : Danny Wallace (2010). “Yes Man”, p.323, Simon and Schuster
“There is only one way in which you can "change your luck" and that is by altering your thoughts.”
“If you have technological progress, that will encourage more capitalist system. On the other hand, if you don't, if things are stalled, you end up with much more of a zero sum type thing, where there's no progress and basically everybody's gain is somebody else's loss.”
“You ask me 'Whatâ€™s the the greatest act of faith?' To me is to look in the mirror of Godâ€™s word, and see all my faults, all my sin, all my shortcomings and to believe that God loves me exactly as he says he does.”
“You have to live with the people in hypocrisy for them to stay happy with you.”
“Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriate limits as caretakers and avoiding unnecessary power struggles that result in unhappiness.”

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