"She was an auxiliary nurse but training to be a true nurse because that was her calling, to serve mankind. She was a Martha. There were Marys and Marthas, but Marys got all the limelight because of being Christ's handmaiden, but Marthas were far more sincere."

-- Edna O'Brien

#Nurse Quotes #Training Quotes #Calling Quotes

“If you are anxious about a business deal or worried about your job, you are seeing failure as a possibility. And having seen and felt the end, you have willed the means of realization of the end. It is a shocking truth we should never forget.”
“The mistake we make, is when we seek to be beloved, instead of loving.”

Source : "Gold Dust: A Collection of Golden Counsels for the Sanctification of Daily Life".
“It's P for Progress not R for Recovery.”
“You work, especially in the movie business more than in TV, but you have an environment where people feel obliged to have an input because that's what they do, and I think sometimes it can clutter things up and make things more problematic.”
“I want to create this magical moment when a kid is sitting on a parent's lap and they're reading a story together where both the kid and the parent learn.”

Source : Source: www.mcall.com
“I don't read the news anymore because I know it would make me depressed. So instead, I make beauty. I make movies.”

Source : Source: variety.com
“The price of training is always a certain trained incapacity: the more we know how to do something, the harder it is to learn to do it differently.”

Source : Abraham Kaplan (1973). “The conduct of inquiry”, p.29, Transaction Publishers
“Beware of injustice, for oppression will be darkness on the Day of Resurrection; and beware of stinginess because it doomed those who were before you. It incited them to shed blood and treat the unlawful as lawful.”

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