Quotes About Neurosurgery

#1. So Hosaka's built a regular little neurosurgery and staffed it with three hotshots. Two of them are company men, the third's a Korean who knows black medicine from both ends.

William Gibson

#2. like the ancient Greek concept arete, I thought, virtue required moral, emotional, mental, and physical excellence. Neurosurgery seemed to present the most challenging and

Paul Kalanithi

#3. Brain surgery couldn't happen without the patient's own active voice to guide the work. The patient is part of the surgical team here, perhaps the most important part, and above all, that's what makes neurosurgery different.

Sam Kean

#4. Wonder if anyone in the world works harder at anything than American school kids work at popularity. Navy SEALS and neurosurgery residents seem slackers by comparison.

Paul Graham

#5. Neurosurgery requires a commitment to one's own excellence and a commitment to another's identity. The

Paul Kalanithi

#6. In a medical sense I'm a prophet. But I'm not unique. I mean there are many prophets in many different vocations. I happen to be one of them, without sounding too egotistical I am a pioneer. I am doing pioneering stuff in neurosurgery. There is stuff that I'm doing that no-one else is doing.

Charles Teo

#7. In cognitively demanding fields, there are no naturals. Nobody walks into an operating room straight out of a surgical rotation and does world-class neurosurgery.

Malcolm Gladwell

#8. If you act like you know what you're going, you can do anything you want - except neurosurgery.

Sharon Stone

#9. It just shows you that if you take a plain, ordinary, moronic intern and make him do the same things over and over again until he loses is mind, you can teach him to do almost anything. I think now that I've mastered IVs, I might take up neurosurgery in my spare time.

Robert Marion

#10. Ignoring for a moment the power of the American Medical Association, we still wouldn't see a huge amount of books on neurosurgery for dummies in 21 days or whatever. It's just plain inappropriate, and it's intentionally out of people's reach.

Erik Naggum

#11. Neurosurgery seemed to present the most challenging and direct confrontation with meaning, identity, and death.

Paul Kalanithi

#12. I think often there is great rivalry between neurosurgeons and cardiac surgeons. I think I maybe have a bit of bias with neurosurgeons' opinion that nothing tops neurosurgery! But that makes for a quite interesting conflict between the two.

James Nesbitt

#13. After a Canadian has been referred to a specialist, the waiting list for gynecological surgery is four to 12 weeks, cataract removal 12 to 18 weeks, tonsillectomy three to 36 weeks and neurosurgery five to 30 weeks.

Walter E. Williams

#14. In a vague way, I always knew neurosurgery was different - more delicate, more difficult, more demanding. After all, we say things like, 'I'm no brain surgeon,' for a reason.

Sam Kean

#15. You are everything that's beautiful and pure in this world, and you deserve so much better than this life, than what any of us have to offer. Than what I have to offer.

Rachel Van Dyken

#16. My boxes are life's experiences aesthetically expressed.

Joseph Cornell

#17. Keenly seek knowledge.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#18. Never let others dictate the directions that you pick in your life since they are not the ones living your life.

John Rogers

#19. I don't know if I am free because I am happy or happy because I am free.

Jean-Luc Godard

#20. Life is not just one thing; life is a lot of things, and I think I've been lucky to do that.

Ally Walker

#21. I'm certainly not shy, but I like playing it because I love those characters that are incredibly confident but really still a mess.

Melissa McCarthy

#22. It's commonly said that if slaughterhouses had clear glass walls, nobody would eat meat. I think people go out of their way to remain ignorant about how factory farm animals are treated.

Steve-O

#23. What is done is done for the love of it- or not really done at all.

Robert Frost