Few words Quote by Florence Nightingale Download Open image “... people have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.” — Florence Nightingale ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Few words People Schemes
When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them. — William Osler Copy Share Image
It’s hard to come up with a scheme to thwart some other scheme you don’t even know about. — Holly Black Copy Share Image
No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are two things to be considered with regard to any scheme. In the first place, Is it good in itself? In the second,… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The ideas by which people . . . interpret their existence and in measure guide their behavior, were not forged in a world of wealth. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Ambitious men spend their youth in rendering themselves worthy of patronage; it is their great mistake. While the foolish creatures are laying in stores… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“A so-called ideal scheme which does not grow out of reality is definitely and finally not ideal at all.” — Michael Oakeshott Copy Share Image
“Don't use that exotic word "ideals". We have a good enough native word: "lies".” — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
Held in the palms of thousands of disgruntled people over the centuries have been ideas worth millions - if they only had taken the… — Robert M. Hayes Copy Share Image
We know nothing of the principle of health, the positive of which pathology is the negative, except from observation and experience. And nothing but… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
“It is often thought that medicine is the curative process. It is no such thing; medicine is the surgery of functions, as surgery proper… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Newton's law is nothing but the statistics of gravitation, it has no power whatever. Let us get rid of the idea of power from… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Every nurse ought to be careful to wash her hands very frequently during the day. If her face, too, so much the better. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief... All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
I cannot remember the time when I have not longed for death. ... for years and years I used to watch for death as… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Usually the characters I play are men of few words, who communicate in non-verbal ways. — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts. He selects that language which will convey his ideas in the most… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
I'd like to say a few words about one of the most popular concepts in the modern education--show and tell. Show and Tell is… — Robert Orben Copy Share Image
... mathematics is very much like poetry ... what makes a good poem -- a great poem -- is that there is a large… — Lipman Bers Copy Share Image
Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant brevity; deceptions and guiles,… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
I don't find myself interesting as a person and the details I find boring, quite frankly. You could sum it up in a few… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
The question may seem embarrassing, but it can be answered in a few words. For two people to live in peace they must both… — Errico Malatesta Copy Share Image
The main characteristic of Nature's farming can therefore be summed up in a few words. Mother earth never attempts to farm without live stock;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I was a young kid, my dad, a man of few words, told my brother and me, "Boys, Christmas is about Jesus." I… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Every parent who has ever said a few words over a goldfish in a toilet bowl or felt the numbness of an unexpected diagnosis… — Lori Borgman Copy Share Image
Enough. These few words are enough If not these few words, this breath If not this breath, this sitting here This opening to the… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
