"Courage is strength in the face of knowledge of what is to be feared or hoped. Wisdom is prudent strength."

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Source : Atul Gawande (2014). “Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End”, p.122, Metropolitan Books

Atul Gawande

#Prudent Quotes #Faces Quotes

“My dear October, we are bound by an enchanted rose made from the hair of a Duchess, and my blood is covering your hand. You can learn anything you wish to know about me merely by licking you fingers." Tybalt laughed a little. "Yes, you may ask me a question.”
“An interesting thing that I've learned is that "no" doesn't always really mean "no," it just simply means "not now."”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?”
“You were one person alive and your brain was encased in a skull. There were other people out there. It took effort to be connected.”
“God was my co-pilot, but we crashed in the mountains and I had to eat Him. Explain.”
“They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist.”
“My manager got the script for 'Under the Dome,' and I read it and just fell in love with the character. I grew up on Stephen King, and I love his whole aesthetic of the classic American story with supernatural events happening, so it just made sense.”

Source : "Alexander Koch Talks UNDER THE DOME, Being a Stephen King Fan, If He Feels His Character Is Mentally Unstable, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 1, 2013.
“The way to grow grand is not: to demand. In life's every field you are what you yield.”

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