"Better is possible. It does not take genius. It takes diligence. It takes moral clarity. It takes ingenuity. And above all, it takes a willingness to try."

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Source : Atul Gawande (2010). “Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance”, p.246, Profile Books

Atul Gawande

#Trying Quotes #Doe Quotes #Genius Quotes

“Storytelling excites me. Nothing gets me more juiced up than having an impact on people.”

Source : Source: aalbc.com
“We Jews continue to be amazed with the ease by which Christian Americans have fallen into our hands. While the naive Americans wait for Khrushchev to bury them, we have taught them to submit to our every demand.”
“No-one wants acorns, but everyone wants oaks.”
“Objects and their functions no longer had any significance. All I perceived was perception itself, the hell of forms and figures devoid of human emotion and detached from the reality of my unreal environment. I was an instrument in a virtual world that constantly renewed its own meaningless image in a living world that was itself perceived outside of nature. And since the appearance of things was no longer definitive but limitless, this paradisiacal awareness freed me from the reality external to myself. The fire and the rose, as it were, became one.”
“There's nothing less than that. I don't care about just going to the playoffs; I've been to the playoffs before.”
“I'm an old-school guy.”
“Well, it's great to have a Sony Records or a BMG or a Warner Brothers pocketbook. Money is a challenge when you're funding your own start-up costs and everything. But I feel like it's doable. You just have to be very careful.”
“You have to listen to your own voice. Not your heart, not your instincts, not any of that self-permissive psycho-babble stuff. No, none of that. If it was just about instincts and bright ideas it wouldn't need to be a voice. It's about words. You hear them, read them, then you write. But mostly read. Read the bloody poems.”

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