Triage Quotes

#1. We've painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare - triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the collapse of human rights - or a leap to an entirely different level. We've taken business-as-usual off the menu. Now only the extreme possibilities loom.

Terence McKenna

#2. I have time to write 1-2 novels per year, and get roughly novel-sized ideas every month. I have to perform triage on my own writing impulses.

Charles Stross

#3. Triage on a battlefield (where the word originated in the Napoleonic Wars) came down to three choices: Those that don't need help right now, those that can survive if they get help right now and those that are probably going to die whether they get help or not.

John Ringo

#4. Country's friggin' dying, man, you have to triage the motherfucker.

Jess Row

#5. That would certainly be a better name for this planet than Earth, since it would give people who just got here a clearer idea of what they were in for: Triage. Welcome to Triage.

Kurt Vonnegut

#6. My life is triage.

Andrew Vachss

#7. They stood locked together for the space of a few breaths. He frantically tried to triage his concerns but only came up with questions.
"How can you be a water dragon? They were all killed."
"Apparently not." Her smile was grim.

Susannah Scott

#8. As parents we also define ourselves by what we bring our attention and presence to. This is easy to forget when daily life feels more like triage. By eliminating some of the clutter in our lives we can concentrate on what we really value, not just what we're buried under, or deluged with.

Kim John Payne

#9. We also know that the brain can handle only a limited amount of information at a time; at its simplest, we can think of stress as information overload, so when there's too much happening, the brain starts to triage, prioritizing, simplifying, and even plain old ignoring some things.

Emily Nagoski

#10. Task triage is the habit of making a realistic assessment of what degree of perfection is required for a task at the point of accepting it, so one doesn't need to rely on one's habit of procrastinating to lower the bar.

John Perry

#11. We need to triage those six hundred places.

Lee Child

#12. in hours after the disaster
at least 25% of the population maybe stunned and dazed apathetic wandering suffering from the disaster syndrome
especially if impact has been sudden and totally devastating
at that point psychologically first aid and triage
are necessary

Beverly Raphael

#13. The term 'triage' normally means deciding who gets attention first.

Bill Dedman

#14. I think as we get older, as we get more mature and more experienced, we do realize it's like, 'blah, blah, blah,' oh there's the information I need, and then 'blah, blah, blah,' right? So we do this triage, I feel like, of what people say to us.

Justine Bateman

#15. Concepts of triage and medical rationing are a barometer of how those in power in a society value human life.

Sheri Fink

#16. The God of the Bible is not an ambulance driver who shows up after the wreck and hops out and thinks, Okay, let's do some triage here. The God of the Bible does not show up after the accident and try to fix it. That's not what He does.

Matt Chandler

#17. Because - and don't let anybody tell you different - novel writing is mostly triage (this now, that later) and obstinacy.

Richard Russo

#18. While the hippocampus itself doesn't store memories, it serves to triage our experiences based upon their survival significance.

David Perlmutter

#19. Novel writing is mostly triage (this now, that later) and obstinacy. Trying something, and when that doesn't work, trying something else. Welcoming clutter Surrendering a good idea for a better one. Knowing you won't find the finish line for a year or two, or five ...

Richard Russo

#20. We shall not always plant while others reap

Countee Cullen

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Shane Ellison

#22. My goal in life is to make decisions that minimize regrets. I don't regret anything I've done.

Jake Pavelka

#23. Whiskey and beer are all right in their place, but their place is in hell.

Billy Sunday

#24. The word 'courage,' one of my favorite words, the root or the etymology of that word is 'cour,' which means heart. I think true courage is actually following your heart and not getting or succumbing to what other people's definition of what your life should be. Live your life.

Hill Harper

#25. But here, as of riches, it is indisputable that the greatest fame does not bring with it any equal measure of gratification.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#26. It was said that Chile was not ready to vote for a woman, it was traditionally a sexist country. In the end, the reverse happened: the fact of being a woman became a symbol of the process of cultural change the country was undergoing.

Michelle Bachelet

#27. I am Peter Pan. He represents youth, childhood, never growing up, magic, flying.

Michael Jackson

#28. What you hope for, like Unforgiven did a lot to give you a chance to do it again sometime.

Lawrence Kasdan