Patient famous quotes

Be very, very patient and very open-minded, and listen to what people have to say.
-- A. J. McLean

#People #Open Minded #Patient

Keep your head up and be patient.
-- A. J. McLean

#Patient #Be Patient #Heads Up

Everybody knows that I am not usually patient enough to actually sit down and watch one of my own films from the beginning to the end - I never do.
-- Abbas Kiarostami

#Down And #Watches #Patient

The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.
-- Abraham Flexner

#Facts #Students #Patient

The only person who is a worse liar than a faith healer is his patient.
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Liars #Atheism #Patient

We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
-- Abraham Verghese

#Average #Physicians #Patient

Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam.
-- Abraham Verghese

#Patient #Exam #Heartbeat

I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it's only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important.
-- Abraham Verghese

#Important #Way #Patient

By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
-- Abraham Verghese

#Home #Helping #Patient

I tell patients that tranquilizers alone never cure anyone. They merely reduce the intensity of the symptoms and make life slightly more endurable. They create a better behaved, chronic dependent person. Only with orthomolecular treatment can the majority of schizophrenic patients hope to become well and normally independent.
-- Abram Hoffer

#Independent #Majority #Patient

Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients ...
-- Agnes Repplier

#Love Is #Common #Patient

I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients.
-- Al Alvarez

#Mean #Patient

So we had psychiatrists and counselors and therapists around the set regularly, especially for those scenes in which Jason would be dealing with a patient to make sure we were doing it all appropriately.
-- Alan Thicke

#Jason #Would Be #Patient

Every patient carries his or her own doctor inside.
-- Albert Schweitzer

#Health #Doctors #Patient

Within every patient there resides a doctor, and we as physicians are at our best when we we put our patients in touch with the doctor inside themselves.
-- Albert Schweitzer

#Doctors #Physicians #Patient

He used to say to his melancholia patients: "You can be cured in fourteen days if you follow this prescription.Try to think every day how you can please someone.
-- Alfred Adler

#Thinking #Trying #Patient

We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms.
-- Alfred Adler

#Use #Patient #Neglect

The planetary-etheric body is whole, unbroken and continuous; of this etheric body, those of the healer and patient are intrinsic parts...
-- Alice Bailey

#Unbroken #Body #Patient

I am a sprinter, and I love to go fast. It's very difficult for me to be patient and follow a race strategy or conserve energy.
-- Allyson Felix

#Race #Energy #Patient

Not having hair makes me feel like a cancer patient.
-- Amanda Bynes

#Cancer #Hair #Patient

Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Physicians #Literature #Patient

Paper is more patient than man.
-- Anne Frank

#Men #Paper #Patient

Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after all, the case. What would you begin writing if you knew you would die soon? What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality?
-- Annie Dillard

#Writing #Dying #Patient

Every 30 seconds a patient dies from diseases that could be treated with tissue replacement,
-- Anthony Atala

#Tissues #Disease #Patient

People are not patient anymore.
-- Antonio Banderas

#People #Patient

I got interested in the emotions after studying patients who had lost the ability to emote and feel under certain circumstances. Many of those patients also had major impairments in their ability to make decisions.
-- Antonio Damasio

#Decision #Emotion #Patient

Sometimes the words against a selfish have to be sharp, straight and blunt; it is very much like after the failure of all medications to cure a mental patient the only option left to revive him now is to give him a shock treatment through an electric current.
-- Anuj

#Selfish #Giving #Patient

When he can render no further aid, the physician alone can mourn as a man with his incurable patient. This is the physician's sad lot.
-- Aretaeus of Cappadocia

#Men #Physicians #Patient

It is no part of a physician's business to use either persuasion or compulsion upon the patients.
-- Aristotle

#Physicians #Use #Patient

You should treat as many patients as possible with the new drugs while they still have the power to heal.
-- Armand Trousseau

#Drug #Statistics #Patient

Patients describing the benefits of prayer often talk about how it provides a sense of well being.
-- Armstrong Williams

#Prayer #Benefits #Patient

If you are too fond of new remedies, first you will not cure your patients; secondly, you will have no patients to cure.
-- Astley Cooper

#Science #Firsts #Patient

Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
-- Baz Luhrmann

#Advice #Patient #Birth

Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.
-- Beatrice Webb

#Strong #Fear #Patient

Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.
-- Bernard Berenson

#Believe #Mind #Patient

Do as much as possible for the patient, and as little as possible to the patient.
-- Bernard Lown

#Medicine #Littles #Patient

And I have always told the patients when I talk to them. When they come around and say, "What will you have to drink? Oh that's right you don't drink." Just speak up and say, 'Of course I drink. But I just don't drink alcohol.'
-- Betty Ford

#Alcohol #Patient #Speak

My trainer Jimmy Tibbs and my promoter Frank Warren told me that I had to be patient and get the jab going.
-- Billy Joe Saunders

#Patient #Trainers #Frank

I realized that work doesnt beget work. Good work begets work. So I got a lot more patient and stopped worrying about working all the time.
-- Brady Corbet

#Worry #Patient #Good Work

I'm patient with crossword puzzles and the most impatient golfer.
-- Brett Hull

#Patient #Impatience #Golfers

Abraham Lincoln was not all brooding and melancholy and patient understanding. There was a hard core in him, and plenty of toughness. He could recognize a revolutionary situation when he saw one, and he could act fast and ruthlessly to meet it.
-- Bruce Catton

#Understanding #Saws #Patient

By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?
-- C. S. Lewis

#Arguing #Patient #Argument

Be patient? That's all you've got for me?" Steve complained ten minutes later. Kylie glanced up at Perry, circling them as they sat behind the office, and then frowned at Steve. "I don't know why everyone thinks I'm the love guru.
-- C.C. Hunter

#Thinking #Office #Patient

The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.
-- Carlos Santana

#Giving #Choices #Patient

Patience is a grace as difficult as it is necessary, and as hard to come by as it is precious when it is gained.
-- Charles Spurgeon

#Grace #Patient #Be Patient

Strokes are preventable and treatable. Prompt treatment of patients experiencing stroke saves lives and reduces disability.
-- Charles W. Pickering

#Inspirational #Patient #Disability

I am patient with my needs, kind with my words, and respectful of my soft places.
-- Cheryl Richardson

#Needs #Patient #Kind

Be patient. Life can seem pretty gray while those beautiful wings of yours are being formed. All in due time, dear one. All in due time.
-- Cheryl Richardson

#Beautiful #Wings #Patient

The exceptional patient is the person who, despite their diagnosis, takes charge of their health and decides to be responsible to their illness or their condition and not necessarily feel responsible for it. One stance is drenched in blame and the other is full of power.
-- Christiane Northrup

#Healing #Diagnosis #Patient

The best patients are the worst patients. Nudge, nudge, nudge. Don't sit back and accept anything that fails to satisfy you. Speak up, protect your interests.
-- Claire Fagin

#Nudge #Patient #Speak

... patients seldom run amuck at mealtime.
-- Clifford Whittingham Beers

#Running #Patient

I think that being a mom has made me a better person. I'm much more patient and much more chill than I was before.
-- Cobie Smulders

#Mom #Thinking #Patient

Patience is like good motor oil. It doesn't remove all the contaminants. It just puts them into suspension so they don't get into your works and seize them up. Patient people have, so to speak, a large crankcase. They can put a lot of irritants into suspension.
-- Cornelius Plantinga

#Oil #People #Patient

I'm usually a patient guy anyway.
-- Curtis Joseph

#Guy #Patient

Many patients imagine that they have tried everything. True, they have used many remedies, but they have never had the cause of their infirmity adjusted.
-- Daniel D. Palmer

#Causes #Patient #Imagine

Tidy fees are the most effective remedy, both for the doctor and the patient.
-- Dario Fo

#Doctors #Patient #Fees

The most underutilized resource in all of health care is the patient.
-- Dave deBronkart

#Care #Patient #Health Care

Patients know what patients want to know.
-- Dave deBronkart

#Want #Patient

If you have good stocks and you really know them, you'll make money if you're patient over three years or more.
-- David Dreman

#Years #Three #Patient

There is nothing which so certifies the genuineness of a man's faith as his patience and his patient endurance, his keeping on steadily in spite of everything.
-- David Lloyd-Jones

#Men #Endurance #Patient

Curious patients are more receptive to new ideas, and those who engage their health practitioners in a dialogue are much more likely to adhere to these recommendations.
-- Dean Ornish

#Ideas #Patient #Curious

An educated patient is empowered; thus, more likely to become healthy.
-- Dean Ornish

#Healthy #Patient #Educated

But I like it when my patients are impressed not knowing that I was an Olympian.
-- Debi Thomas

#Knowing #Not Knowing #Patient

Every cannabis user is a medical patient whether they know it or not
-- Dennis Peron

#Medical #Patient #Cannabis

Topaz was wonderfully patient - but sometimes I wonder if it is not only patience, but also a faint resemblance to cows.
-- Dodie Smith

#Cows #Topaz #Patient

We are guests in our patients' lives.
-- Donald Berwick

#Guests #Patient

Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.
-- Earl Monroe

#Inspirational Sports #Games #Patient

Being too happy is bad for you. 8 on 1 10-scale is just right. Eg. cancer patients are more likely to survive if they're at an 8 instead of 9 or 10.
-- Ed Diener

#Cancer #Patient #Cancer Patients

Taub Therapy gives patients hope that they can recapture the life they had before suffering a stroke or TBI.
-- Edward Taub

#Giving #Suffering #Patient

When we go slower, we are more patient and when we are more patient we have a choice in how we respond.
-- Eknath Easwaran

#Choices #Patient

All the power of the occult healer lies in his conscious will, and all his art consists in producing faith in the patient.
-- Eliphas Levi

#Art #Lying #Patient

My patients taught me not how to die, but how to live.
-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#Taught #Patient

You've got to clock the hours and pay your dues. Then eventually, people will come to you. You have to be patient and appreciative.
-- Elisabeth Rohm

#People #Pay #Patient

I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended, and patient when there be no redress.
-- Elizabeth Montagu

#Wise #Patient #Easy

I'd be smiling if I wasn't so desperate. I'd be patient if I had the time.
-- Emeli Sande

#Patient #Be Patient #Desperate

Be patient and loving with yourself. You weren't meant to be your biggest critic, but your biggest fan.
-- Emily Kinney

#Fans #Patient #Critics

I've been at stand-up for years: after a while, you get as jaded as the proverbial gynecologist who no longer enjoys drugging and violating his patients.
-- Emo Philips

#Years #Gynecologists #Patient

I am reminded of a colleague who reiterated all my homosexual patients are quite sick - to which I finally replied so are all my heterosexual patients.
-- Ernest Van den Haag

#Gay #Sick #Patient

Only a mother's heart can be Patient enough for such as he.
-- Ethel Lynn Beers

#Mother #Heart #Patient

The Doctor's Motto: Have patients.
-- Ethel Mumford

#Doctors #Patient #Motto

Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath too seriously, as an imperative to do everything for the patient regardless of the cost or effects on others
-- Ezekiel Emanuel

#Doctors #Cost #Patient

Having been an oncologist and having cared for scores, if not hundreds, of dying patients, when you don't have a treatment that can shrink the tumor and the patient will die, it's a very difficult conversation. It's emotionally draining.
-- Ezekiel Emanuel

#Dying #Patient #Treatment

An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia.
-- Ezekiel Emanuel

#Example #Patient #Obvious

Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.
-- Florence Nightingale

#Nursing #Nurse #Patient

Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
-- Florence Nightingale

#Nursing #Nurse #Patient

If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.
-- Frances Farmer

#Patient #Treated #Persons

In perplexities-when we cannot tell what to do, when we cannot understand what is going on around us, let us be calmed and steadied and made patient by the thought that what is hidden from us is not hidden from Him
-- Frances Ridley Havergal

#Patient #Made

Be patient in trials, watchful in prayer, and never cease working.
-- Francis of Assisi

#Prayer #Trials #Patient

The present system of protecting NHS patients was a bit of a shambles.
-- Frank Dobson

#Nhs #Patient

So the effect of this Republican provision to allow doctors to be gagged from even discussing abortion with their patients is outrageous.
-- Frank Lautenberg

#Doctors #Abortion #Patient

The patient needs an experience, not an explanation.
-- Frieda Fromm-Reichmann

#Needs #Patient #Explanation

Wise to resolve, patient to perform.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Wise #Patient #Resolve

I'm not good at chatting right away. Women have to be very patient with me, I suppose.
-- Garrett Hedlund

#Patient #Chatting

The patient is sinking while the doctors deliberate.
-- George C. Marshall

#War #Doctors #Patient

It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.
-- George Eliot

#Patience #Patient #Reason

I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
-- Gertrude Stein

#Patience #Literature #Patient

Being patient means to welcome wholeheartedly whatever arises,
-- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

#Mean #Welcome #Patient

Let the young know they will never find a more interesting, more instructive book than the patient himself.
-- Giorgio Baglivi

#Book #Interesting #Patient

Everyone’s a believer when things are going fine. The real faith is when one becomes patient with tribulations.
-- Hamza Yusuf

#Real #Patient #Fine

It is needless to say that women make the most patient as well as the most dangerous pickpockets.
-- Harry Houdini

#Patient #Dangerous #Wells