"Having great components is not enough, and yet we've been obsessed in medicine with components. We want the best drugs, the best technologies, the best specialists, but we don't think too much about how it all comes together."

-- Atul Gawande

#Technology Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Medicine Quotes

“For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.”

Source : Abraham Cowley (1779). “The Poems of Cowley”, p.113
“If you do not control the enemy, the enemy will control you”
“It's much more difficult to work on a broad subject than on a specific one, because even if it's hard to find the information, if you look hard enough for something specific you will find it, and you will discover things that you wouldn't have thought of before.”
“I surrender to the world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.”
“People often get upset when you teach them what is in the Bible rather than what they presume is in the Bible.”
“I'm bi everything; sexual, coastal, political, controversial. I think if you find your comfortable sexual preference then that's excellent. Everybody knows that I'm a huge fan of gay men and drag queens and would not be who I am today without their help, support and make-up tips.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“To sing a simple round is truly an enlightening experience.”
“"Influence" is itself influenced, coming from an Italian word for the outbreak of a disease (influenza, outbreak). Influence is that which flows across - permeates - the boundaries of the self.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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