Diagnostician Quotes

#1. In Our Underachieving Colleges, [Derek] Bok acts as both diagnostician and healer, wielding social-science statistics and professional studies to trace the etiology of today's illnesses and to recommend palliative treatments for what he has discovered.

Donald Kagan

#2. To be a good diagnostician, a physician needs to acquire a large set of labels for diseases, each of which binds an idea of the illness and its symptoms, possible antecedents and causes, possible developments and consequences, and possible interventions to cure or mitigate the illness.

Daniel Kahneman

#3. In a dying civilization, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest diagnostician, but of the man with the best bedside manner.

Eric Ambler

#4. People always overestimate how complex business is. This isn't rocket science. We've chosen one of the world's simplest professions.

Jack Welch

#5. I pray you school yourself. [MacBeth, Act 1V, Scene 2]

William Shakespeare

#6. The hand is, in the highest degree, a human characteristic. It is man's organ of grasp and of the sense of touch, while in animals these two functions are relegated to the mouth.

Maria Montessori

#7. The story of the whale swallowing Jonah, though a whale is large enough to do it, borders greatly on the marvelous; but it would have approached nearer to the idea of a miracle if Jonah had swallowed the whale.

Thomas Paine

#8. Our human nature is profoundly phototropic. Men obey their deepest instincts when they hold fast to light.

Gyorgy Kepes

#9. I think people should be proud of the work they do, whatever it is. I have this other arty side that loves creating homes. I can be happy going to the hardware store.

Aida Turturro

#10. If things went my way, I would be working at a renaissance fair as a falconer. I wouldn't have to worry about climbing career ladders or getting promotions, because falconry's not like that. Either you're a falconer or you're not. Either the birds come back to you or they fly away. My father waited

Carol Rifka Brunt

#11. When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world

George Washington Carver

#12. Elves are wondrous fair to look upon.

J.R.R. Tolkien