« All We Inflict Quotes
·
Atul Gawande's Page
We Inflict Quotes by Atul Gawande
1 We Inflict quote by Atul Gawande
More Quotes by Atul Gawande
Atul Gawande has 58 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
-
Having great components is not enough, and yet we've been obsessed in medicine with components. We want the best drugs, the best…
-
We recruit for attitude and train for skill,
-
Good checklists, on the other hand are precise. They are efficient, to the point, and easy to use even in the most…
-
The striking thing is that WHO doesn't really have the authority to do any of this. It can't tell governments what to…
-
The possibilities and probabilities are all we have to work with in medicine, though. What we are drawn to in this imperfect…
-
I chose surgery because I thought that perhaps this would make me more like the kind of person I wanted to be.
-
What about regular professionals, who just want to do what they do as well as they can?
-
What is the alternative to understanding the complexity of the world?
-
A failure often does not have to be a failure at all. However, you have to be ready for it-will you admit…
-
You can't make a recipe for something as complicated as surgery. Instead, you can make a recipe for how to have a…
-
Making systems work is the great task of my generation of physicians and scientists. But I would go further and say that…
-
Just using a checklist requires [doctors] to embrace different values from ones we've had, like humility, discipline, teamwork.
See all 58 quotes by Atul Gawande »
More We Inflict Quotes
Popular We Inflict quotes from across the collection:
-
The misery we inflict on sentient beings slackens our human evolution.
— Annie Besant
-
If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also…
— Carl Jung
-
Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit. People, worldwide, hunger for the right of self-determination, for…
— Ronald Reagan
-
The wrong that rouses our angry passions finds only a medium in us; it passes through us like a vibration, and we…
— George Eliot
-
In the horrifying calculus of self-deception, the greater the pain we inflict on others, the greater the need to justify it to…
— Carol Tavris
-
Our reluctance to honestly examine the experience of aging and dying has increased the harm we inflict on people and denied them…
— Atul Gawande
-
The matter of the abuse and cruelty we inflict on other animals has to fight for our attention in what sometimes seems…
— Desmond Tutu
-
Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.
— Sammy Davis, Jr.
-
When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of…
— Sydney J. Harris
-
Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
-
The weight of the world is on our shoulders, its vision is through our eyes; if we blink or look aside, or…
— Virginia Woolf
See all We Inflict Quotes »
Browse Atul Gawande Quotes by Category