Patient Quotes - Page 2

• The patient must minister to himself

  William Shakespeare

  Philosophical, Ministers, Antidote

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 3, l. 37

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• You cannot make your life move faster than it's moving. No matter how urgent your situation may seem to be, things are going to happen when they happen, not a minute sooner. Be patient with yourself. Be patient with others. Be patient with life. Patience always pays off.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Moving, May, Pay

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Nov 06, 2015

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• I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Patience, Perseverance, Powerful

  In Observer 4 Apr. 1989

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• In people's minds, I'm a comic, so it took a lot of time before I was recognized as a director. I had to be patient until the public accepted me. As a result, my early films didn't get a lot of attention. As a serious film actor, things didn't take off, either. Only my comic talents were recognized.

  Takeshi Kitano

  People, Mind, Directors

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Keep your head up and be patient.

  A. J. McLean

  Be Patient, Heads Up

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• If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

  Isaac Newton

  Patience, Science, Thinking

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• All you have to do is wait,” I explained. “Sit tight and wait for the right moment. Not try to change anything by force, just watch the drift of things. Make an effort to cast a fair eye on everything. If you do that, you just naturally know what to do. But everyone’s always too busy. They’re too talented, their schedules are too full. They’re too interested in themselves to think about what’s fair.

  Haruki Murakami

  Change, Patience, Eye

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• The fact that your patient gets well does not prove that your diagnosis was correct.

  Samuel James Meltzer

  Get Well, Medicine, Doe

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• There is among doctors, in acute hospitals at least, a presumption of stupidity in their patients.

  Oliver Sacks

  Doctors, Stupidity, Presumption

  Oliver Sacks (2011). “A Leg to Stand On”, p.96, Pan Macmillan

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• First thing about being a patient-you have to learn patience.

  Oliver Sacks

  Firsts, Sickness

  Oliver Sacks (2011). “A Leg to Stand On”, p.23, Pan Macmillan

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• There are seven emotions: joy, anger, anxiety, adoration, grief, fear, and hate, and if a man does not give way to these he can be called patient.

  Ieyasu Tokugawa

  Hate, War, Grief

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• Behind the violence of the birthing of galaxies and stars and planets came a quiet and tender melody, a gentle love song. All the raging of creation, the continuing hydrogen explosions on the countless suns, the heaving of planetary bodies, all was enfolded in a patient, waiting love.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Song, Stars, Waiting

  Madeleine L'Engle (2010). “Many Waters”, p.289, Macmillan

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• Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.

  Florence Nightingale

  Nursing, Nurse, Expectations

  Florence Nightingale (1992). “Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• The more fashionable doctors in Italy, began to delegate to slaves the manual attentions they deemed necessary for their patients ... that the art of medicine went to ruin.

  Andreas Vesalius

  Art, Doctors, Medicine

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• So the effect of this Republican provision to allow doctors to be gagged from even discussing abortion with their patients is outrageous.

  Frank Lautenberg

  Doctors, Abortion, Republican

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• The woman gestured to a seat and put on a patient face. An impatient sort of patient face, like an impatient face dressing up as a patient one for Halloween.

  Shannon Hale

  Patience, Halloween, Dressing Up

  Shannon Hale (2013). “Midnight in Austenland: A Novel”, p.103, A&C Black

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• The Structure of Magic I by Richard Bandler and John Grinder is a delightful simplification of the infinite complexities of the language I use with patients. In reading this book, I learned a great deal about the things that I've done without knowing about them.

  Milton H. Erickson

  Reading, Book, Knowing

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• Basically, my mother is a piano teacher, and she actually teaches piano at Yamaha School of Music today. She's a really, really amazing human being and is very patient. She had enough patience for me, as a kid, which I'm very thankful for. She made sure that music was a part of my general education as well.

  Eldar Djangirov

  Mother, Teacher, School

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• You must be very patient, very persistent. The world isn't going to shower gold coins on you just because you have a good idea. You're going to have to work like crazy to bring that idea to the attention of people. They're not going to buy it unless they know about it.

  Herb Kelleher

  Crazy, Ideas, People

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• She and Marie were Montreal girls, not trained to accompany heroes, or to hold out for dreams, but just to be patient.

  Mavis Gallant

  Girl, Patience, Dream

  Mavis Gallant (2011). “Varieties of Exile”, p.200, New York Review of Books

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• Let us pass to the despotic part of the soul, spirit. We must not eliminate it utterly from the youth nor yet allow  him to use it all the time. Let us train boys from earliest childhood to be patient when they suffer wrongs themselves, but, if they see another being wronged, to sally forth courageously and aid the sufferer in fitting measure.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Boys, Childhood, Soul

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• You write something and there’s no reality to it. You can’t inject it with any kind of reality. You have to be patient and keep going, and then, one day, you can feel something signaling to you from the innermost recesses. Like a little person trapped under the rubble of an earthquake. And very, very, very slowly you find your way toward the little bit of living impulse.

  Deborah Eisenberg

  Writing, Reality, Earthquakes

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• We need patient people who are able to endure the toughest disciplines.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Patience, Discipline, People

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• Firm and patient optimism always yields its rewards.

  Carlos Slim

  Yield, Optimism, Rewards

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• Let us learn to be patient in the days of darkness, if we know anything of vital union with Christ.

  J. C. Ryle

  Darkness, Unions, Christ

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible commentary - The gospel of John”, p.271, Editora Dracaena

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