Gawande Better Quotes

#1. A man must know his destiny.

George S. Patton

#2. The advice "you never go broke taking a profit" is foolish.

Warren Buffett

#3. We now live in the era of the super-specialist - of clinicians who have taken the time to practice at one narrow thing until they can do it better than anyone who hasn't.

Atul Gawande

#4. Belief is self-knowing. Even Yoda out of Star Wars said, do or do not. There is no 'try'

Gene Simmons

#5. I write because it's my way of finding cool ideas, thinking through hard problems and things I don't understand, and getting better at something.

Atul Gawande

#6. When we see that our problem is so complicated and so all-encompassing in its intent and content, then we realize that it is no longer a Negro problem, confined only to the American Negro; that it is no longer an American problem, confined only to America, but it is a problem for humanity.

Malcolm X

#7. It was a tough choice [of PM]. I voted for a Scotsman.

Michael Gove

#8. As people's capacities wane, whether through age or ill health, making their lives better often requires curbing our purely medical imperatives - resisting the urge to fiddle and fix and control.

Atul Gawande

#9. When you stop and think about it, a smartphone is basically a whistle you can carry.

Steve Wozniak

#10. No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a dirty little beast.

W.S. Gilbert

#11. 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.

Atul Gawande

#12. For the years I spent working on it, 'Constellation' was the only novel I knew how to write, so maybe I still abided by the maxim? Regardless, I prefer the maxim: Write what you want to know, rather than what you already know.

Anthony Marra

#13. I wasn't going to toss off words like love and forever until I was sure. Until he was sure. Forever can be a very long time for a n=Bean sidhes, ans so far his track record looked more like the fifty-yard dash than the Boston marathon.

Rachel Vincent

#14. Research has found that loss of bone density may be an even better predictor of death from atherosclerotic disease than cholesterol levels.

Atul Gawande

#15. Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.

Steven Pinker

#16. PSALM 24 v The earth is the LORD's and the fullness thereof, [1] the world and those who dwell therein,

Anonymous

#17. It's hardly ever the destination we've been anticipating, is it? Our hopes may seem unrealized, but we were in all likelihood hoping for the wrong thing. Where did we - the species, that is - pick up that strange and perverse habit?

Michael Cunningham

#18. I think we are faced in medicine with the reality that we have to be willing to talk about our failures and think hard about them, even despite the malpractice system. I mean, there are things that we can do to make that system better.

Atul Gawande

#19. Obstetrics went about improving the same way Toyota and General Electric went about improving: on the fly, but always paying attention to the results and trying to better them. And

Atul Gawande

#20. but things aren't real in the South if we don't say them out loud.

Jordan Nasser

#21. Mix and knead together all the state business as you do for your sausages. To win the people, always cook them some savory that pleases them.

Aristophanes

#22. That's our damnation," he whispered. "Our moral improvement has reached its finish, and our intellect grows by leaps and bounds.

Anne Rice