Quotes About Christiaan Barnard

#1. I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it.

Christiaan Barnard

#2. I believe often that death is good medical treatment because it can achieve what all the medical advances and technology cannot achieve today, and that is stop the suffering of the patient.

Christiaan Barnard

#3. If the poor overweight jogger only knew how far he had to run to work off the calories in a crust of bread he might find it better in terms of pound per mile to go to a massage parlor.

Christiaan Barnard

#4. He was happy and therefore bound to succeed.

Ian McEwan

#5. Carter got jeans, boots, and a T-shirt that read Property of Alexandria University in English and Arabic. Clearly, even personal shoppers had him pegged as a complete geek.

Rick Riordan

#6. On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned.

Christiaan Barnard

#7. Karaoke is something that's near and dear and very close to my heart. I was a karaoke host when I was working my way through university. I was a full-time student and karaoke was my night job.

Nathan Fillion

#8. It may seem like improv because it flows quite naturally, and a little bit of leeway for improvisation is good, but you have to be judicious with it. So it's good, but sometimes people deify it. You can't improvise your way out of a paper hat.

Steve Coogan

#9. The simplicity of photography lies in the fact that it is very easy to make a picture. The staggering complexity of it lies in the fact that a thousand other pictures of the same subject would have been equally easy.

John Szarkowski

#10. Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.

Christiaan Barnard

#11. It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it to be devoured by worms.

Christiaan Barnard

#12. The individual is the brain, not the heart.

Christiaan Barnard

#13. Speaking passionately from the very center of who you are is compelling, forceful, persuasive: that's what leadership sounds like.

Charlotte Beers

#14. Instead of using forceful words like spend, sell, and make money, I've switched to more flowing words like invest, offer, and attract. The energy of these words makes me feel like I'm inviting money and success into my life instead of chasing after it.

Amanda H. Young

#15. I have a good brain on me, but I've never really used it when it came to making decisions about love, which has been a blessing and a curse.

Sienna Miller

#16. My chest. All I'd wanted was for someone to be happy for me - happy with me, straight-up happy, not happy with questions, or happy with reservations, or happy but confused, or not happy at all ... and there was no one in my life, including my husband, who fit the bill.

Jennifer Weiner

#17. Dr. Evil got shortchanged in the first one. The family dynamic between Scott and Dr. Evil - the adventures of being an evil single parent - needed to be explored.

Mike Myers

#18. The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering, but only prolongs life, that treatment should be stopped.

Christiaan Barnard