Surgeons Quotes - Page 14

• Don't tell me that [broken heartstrings] hurt less than a broken bone, that an ingrown life is something surgeons can cut away, that there's no way for it to metastasize - it does.

  Shane Koyczan

  Hurt, Cutting, Heartache

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• It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other hand, how many people really want to be operated upon by a surgeon who talks broad cockney?

  Eileen Atkins

  Hands, People, Mind

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• The overarching issue, really, is our surgeon general should be able to communicate transparently and honestly with the American public on all issues.

  Richard Carmona

  Issues, Able, Should

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• We have great managers who havent spent a day in management school. Do we have great surgeons that havent spent a day in surgical school?

  Henry Mintzberg

  School, Management, Great Men

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• Is hockey hard? I don't know, you tell me. We need to have the strength and power of a football player, the stamina of a marathon runner, and the concentration of a brain surgeon. But we need to put all this together while moving at high speeds on a cold and slippery surface while 5 other guys use clubs to try and kill us. Oh yeah, did I mention that this whole time we're standing on blades 1/8 of an inch thick? Is ice hockey hard? I don't know, you tell me. Next question.

  Brendan Shanahan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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• There is a tendency of people to try to make you believe only a few people are smart. As a brain surgeon, I know better than that.

  Benjamin Carson

  Smart, Believe, People

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• Grace is God as heart surgeon, cracking open your chest, removing your heart - poisoned as it is with pride and pain - and replacing it with his own.

  Max Lucado

  Pain, Heart, Pride

  Max Lucado (2012). “Shaped by Grace”, p.15, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Very simply, we subsidize high-fructose corn syrup in this country, but not carrots. While the surgeon general is raising alarms over the epidemic of obesity, the president is signing farm bills designed to keep the river of cheap corn flowing, guaranteeing that the cheapest calories in the supermarket will continue to be the unhealthiest.

  Michael Pollan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Country

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.59, Bloomsbury Publishing

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