"Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be. I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around, but he carried it off so well."

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Abraham Verghese

#Uncles Quotes #School Quotes #Role Models Quotes

“However impenetrable it seems, if you don't try it, then you can never do it.”

Source : "Andrew Wiles on Solving Fermat". "NOVA" Interview, www.pbs.org. November 1, 2000.
“In the best of relationships you have two people who cannot think of anything that was not part of the deal.”
“We read each other through our eyes, and anatomically they are an extension of our brains. When we catch someone's eye, we look into a mind.”

Source : Siri Hustvedt (2008). “The Sorrows of an American: A Novel”, p.36, Macmillan
“Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.”
“The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.”

Source : Bill Cosby (1987). “Time Flies”
“I grew up in the Methodist church and taught Sunday school, and one of my favorite passages of scripture is, 'in as much as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.'' Matthew 25:40.”
“At MakerBot, we joke that if we were engineers we would still be on our first prototype. There's something about just 'Doing itâ€iteration is a way of engineering.”
“True courage, in the face of almost certain death, is the rarest quality on earth.”

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