Healthcare Quotes - Page 10

• One of the founding moments of public health in the 19th century effectively poisoned the water supply of London much more effectively than any modern day bioterrorist could have ever dreamed of doing.

  Steven Johnson

  Motivation, Inspiration, Water

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• [Anti-aging therapies will] never be perfect, but we'll be able to fix the things that 200-year-olds die of before we have any 200-year-olds, and the same for 300 and 400 and so on.

  Aubrey de Grey

  Motivation, Inspiration, Years

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• The formula for a happy marriage is five positive remarks, or interactions, for every one negative.

  Nancy Etcoff

  Motivation, Inspiration, Negative

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• By slowing down at the right moments, people find that they do everything better: They eat better; they make love better; they exercise better; they work better; they live better.

  Carl Honore

  Motivation, Inspiration, Exercise

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• Beyond the profound federal perks, married people make more money; we're healthier, physically and emotionally; we produce happier, more stable and more successful kids; we have more sex than our supposedly swinging single friends; we even live longer.

  Jenna McCarthy

  Sex, Motivation, Inspiration

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• People who say ... they're perfectly fine [are] more insane than the rest of us.

  Ruby Wax

  Motivation, Inspiration, People

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• We are the most in-debt, obese, addicted and medicated adult cohort in U.S. history.

  Brené Brown

  Motivation, Inspiration, Adults

  "The power of vulnerability". TED Talks, www.ted.com. June 2010.

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• We are living on average today 34 years longer than our great-grandparents did.

  Jane Fonda

  Motivation, Inspiration, Average

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• Romney raised $10 million. That’s a dollar for every position he’s had on healthcare.

  Jay Leno

  Dollars, Raised, Position

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• If you can manage to experience three positive emotions for every one negative emotion … you dramatically improve your health and your ability to successfully tackle any problem you're facing.

  Jane McGonigal

  Motivation, Inspiration, Negative

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• Social entrepreneurs are married to a vision of, for example, a better way of helping young people grow up or of delivering global healthcare. They simply will not stop because they cannot be happy until their vision becomes the new pattern.

  Bill Drayton

  Growing Up, Health, People

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• Let's face it, in America today we don't have a health care system, we have a sick care system. We wait until people become obese, develop chronic diseases, or become disabled - and then we spend untold hundreds of billions annually to try to make them better.

  Tom Harkin

  America, People, Sick

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• Mercury emissions will continue to harm the environment and to endanger the health of children and pregnant women, until this Administration puts public health before politics.

  Mark Dayton

  Children, Pregnancy, Mercury

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• Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Tree, Vigor

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1490, Delphi Classics

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• Today, Medicare provides health insurance to about 40 million seniors and disabled individuals each year. The number is only expected to grow as the baby boomers begin retiring.

  Jim Bunning

  Girl, Senior, Baby

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• I always kind of wanted to go into healthcare.

  Ann Marie Buerkle

  Kind, Wanted

  "Meet the Lawmaker Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle (R-N.Y.), 25th District". Interview with Kris Kitto, thehill.com. April 04, 2011.

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• Every unskilled illegal immigrant who enters the United States for work drives up healthcare costs for every American. And, every illegal immigrant we turn a blind eye toward weakens the rule of law our country is founded on.

  Elton Gallegly

  Country, Eye, Law

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• If we're talking about healthcare lets talk about a healthy diet. If there is anything better in the world in dealing with a healthcare problem it's prevention! We CAN afford prevention!

  Howard Lyman

  Talking, Healthy, World

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• Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons, but one out of one.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Health, Bipolar, Three

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• ... freedom translates into having a supply of clean water, having electricity on tap; being able to live in a decent home and have a good job; to be able to send your children to school and to have accessible healthcare. I mean what's the point of having made this transition if the quality of life ... is not enhanced and improved? If not, the vote is useless.

  Desmond Tutu

  Jobs, Children, Home

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• Bangalore has become a centre for healthcare.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Bangalore, Centre

  "Our creative minds need to be harnessed" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2008.

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• Many health care providers, particularly physicians in rural and urban areas, are leaving the Government programs because of inadequate reimbursement rates.

  Ron Wyden

  Government, Leaving, Rural Areas

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• It's time to look beyond the budget ax to assure access to health care for all. It's time to look for bipartisan solutions to the problems we can tackle today, and to work together for tomorrow - building a health care system that works for all Americans.

  Ron Wyden

  Working Together, Looks, Care

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• In today's world, it is shortsighted to think that infectious diseases cannot cross borders. By allowing developing countries access to generic drugs, we not only help improve health in those nations, we also help ourselves control these debilitating and often deadly diseases.

  Ron Wyden

  Country, Thinking, Drug

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• Both in Britain and America, huge publicity has been given to stem cells, particularly embryonic stem cells, and the potential they offer. Of course, the study of stem cells is one of the most exciting areas in biology, but I think it is unlikely that embryonic stem cells are likely to be useful in healthcare for a long time.

  Robert Winston

  Thinking, Cells, Britain And America

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