"You want to ensure people can do it right 99 percent of time. When we have to fire one of our surgical trainees, it is never because they dont have the physical skills but because they dont have the moral skills - to practise and admit failure."

-- Atul Gawande

#Fire Quotes #Skills Quotes #People Quotes

“The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.”
“H. L. Mencken suffers from the hallucination that he is H. L. Mencken - there is no cure for a disease of that magnitude.”
“Itâ€™s bad enough . . . when a country gets colonized, but when the people do as well! Thatâ€™s the end, really, thatâ€™s the end.”
“An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia.”
“The soup, thin and dark and utterly savorless, tasted as if it had been drained out of the umbrella stand.”
“I'm at a point where I let my mind go with flow of the music I'm making and it's not interrupted by me trying to please everybody.”
“Anyone who follows me on Twitter knows that I am a massive Frank [Turner] fanboy.”
“You know, sometimes I wonder what things would be like if I just ... met you one day. Like normal people do. If I just walked by you on some street one sunny morning and thought you were cute, stopped, shook your hand, and said, "Hi, I'm Daniel.”

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