Patient Quotes - Page 9

• Patience is the ability to suffer a long time under the mistreatment of others without growing resentful or bitter.

  Jerry Bridges

  Long, Suffering, Growing

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “The Fruitful Life: The Overflow of God's Love Through You”, p.66, Tyndale House

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• I feel that any form of so called psychotherapy is strongly contraindicated for addicts. The question Why did you start using narcotics in the first place? should never be asked. It is quite as irrelevant to treatment as it would be to ask a malarial patient why he went to a malarial area.

  William S. Burroughs

  Addiction, Firsts, Would Be

  "Way out: a thematic reader". Book by Lois A. Michel (p. 121), 1968.

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• Work hard, be patient, and be a sponge while learning your business. Learn how to take criticism. Follow your gut instincts and don't compromise.

  Simon Cowell

  Hard Work, Criticism, Compromise

  "Simon Cowell: From Idol to Inventor". Interview with Stacy Perman, www.bloomberg.com. February 1, 2006.

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• We're losing a ritual. We're losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.

  Abraham Verghese

  Motivation, Believe, Inspiration

  "A doctor's touch". TED Talks, www.ted.com. July 2011.

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• The [Tumor Treating Fields] patients can undergo all the activities of their daily life. There's none of the tiredness. There's none of what is called the 'chemo head.'

  William Doyle

  Fields, Healthcare, Daily Life

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• A sound philosophy of life, I think, may be the most valuable asset for a psychiatrist to have when he is treating a patient.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Philosophy, Thinking, Mentor

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• Fundamentalists who say they are not going to pay any attention to the charts are like a doctor who says he's not going to take a patient's temperature.

  Bruce Kovner

  Doctors, Physicians, Analysis

  "Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Traders". Book by Jack D. Schwager, 1989.

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• Patience is not sitting and waiting, it is foreseeing. It is looking at the thorn and seeing rose, looking at the night and seeing the day. Lovers are patient and know that the moon needs time to become full.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Moon, Night, Rose

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• But I am a patient man. I can wait for hours in the rain

  Patrick Modiano

  Rain, Men, Waiting

  Patrick Modiano (2014). “Dora Bruder”, p.10, Univ of California Press

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• Yes, last year in interviewing. Empathy is when you repeat the last three words the patient says and nod your head.

  Samuel Shem

  Years, Empathy, Three

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• Change is not always a good thing. What I need is not change from one thing to another but transformation from who I am into who I was meant to become. Only when God's transforming power touches me can I begin to live the simpler, freer, fresher, more creative, more patient, more passionate, more sacrificial, riskier, rawer, more real, more love-driven life God intended for me all along. That transformation is what awaits all who dare to enter the story of God. As Paul wrote, 'Let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think' (Romans 12:2)

  Steven James

  Real, Thinking, Who I Am

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• Let's not kid ourselves. Whatever we diagnose, most patients, if they don't die, get well by themselves. Our job is mainly to try to make them feel better; do no harm.

  Diane Frolov

  Jobs, Get Well, Kids

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• Being patient means to welcome wholeheartedly whatever arises.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Mean, Welcome, Arise

  Kelsang Gyatso (2001). “Transform Your Life: A Blissful Journey”, p.319, Tharpa Publications UK

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• Finding oneself and one's path is like waking up on a foggy day. Be patient, and presently the fog will clear and that which has always been there can be seen. The path is already there to follow

  Rasheed Ogunlaru

  Patience, Fog, Follow Your Heart

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• I like to believe that stories want to be written, that they must make an effort in order to be heard. They suggest themselves to me constantly, but I have little patience, I am lazy. Now and then, however, when I'm in the right mood, I stop to listen to one and sit down to record it. I think that by now they know I am not patient, so they make themselves short.

  Rodrigo Rey Rosa

  Believe, Thinking, Order

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• There is a fruit of the Spirit that must accompany the gift of healing and that is longsuffering.

  Smith Wigglesworth

  Healing, Fruits Of The Spirit, Accompany

  Smith Wigglesworth (2013). “Ever Increasing Faith”, p.90, Lulu Press, Inc

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• From cane reeds, sugar. From a worm's cocoon, silk. Be patient if you can, and from sour grapes will come something sweet.

  Rumi

  Sweet, Cocoons, Sugar

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• Gilbert has established herself as a straight-up storyteller who dares us into adventures of worldly discovery, and this novel stands as a winning next act. “The Signature of All Things” is a bracing homage to the many natures of genius and the inevitable progress of ideas, in a world that reveals its best truths to the uncommonly patient minds.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Truth, Adventure, Winning

  "The Botany of Desire" by Barbara Kingsolver, www.nytimes.com. September 26, 2013.

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• Such is the demographic paradox of a junior physician's relationship with his patients: I worry about how to extend their lives. This anxiety inevitably shortens my own.

  Jacob M. Appel

  Worry, Anxiety, Physicians

  Jacob M. Appel (2014). “Phoning Home: Essays”, p.55, Univ of South Carolina Press

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• What goes down usually goes back up, if you're willing to be patient and don't hit the panic button.

  Mark Mobius

  Buttons, Panic, Willing

  Mark Mobius (2012). “The Little Book of Emerging Markets: How To Make Money in the World's Fastest Growing Markets”, p.102, John Wiley & Sons

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• If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.

  Frances Farmer

  Treated, Persons, Ifs

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• Don't give up on the people you love. Your patient love and faithfulness may be exactly what they need to make a complete turnaround.

  Joyce Meyer

  Giving Up, Love You, Don't Give Up

  Joyce Meyer (2009). “Never Give Up: Relentless Determination to Overcome Life's Challenges”, p.10, Hachette UK

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• Thinking about interior peace destroys interior peace. The patient who constantly feels his pulse is not getting any better.

  Hubert Van Zeller

  Peace, Thinking, Pulse

  Hubert Van Zeller (1973). “Considerations”, Templegate Publishers

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• Happiness is attained by three things: being patient when tested, being thankful when receiving a blessing, and being repentant upon sinning.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Blessing, Being Thankful, Three Things

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• The American way of stress is comparable to Freud's 'beloved symptom', his name for the cherished neurosis that a patient cultivates like the rarest of orchids and does not want to be cured of. Stress makes Americans feel busy, important, and in demand, and simultaneously deprived, ignored, and victimized. Stress makes them feel interesting and complex instead of boring and simple, and carries an assumption of sensitivity not unlike the Old World assumption that aristocrats were high-strung. In short, stress has become a status symbol.

  Florence King

  Stress, Simple, Orchids

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