Cleavinger Stats Quotes & Sayings

As economists have often pointed out, we pay doctors for quantity, not quality. As they point out less often, we also pay them as individuals, rather than as members of a team working together for their patients. Both practices have made for serious problems. — Atul Gawande

Music is about as physical as it gets: your essential rhythm is your heartbeat; your essential sound, the breath. We're walking temples of noise, and when you add tender hearts to this mix, it somehow lets us meet in places we couldn't get to any other way. — Anne Lamott

One man came up to me at a taco stand and said, "I have no idea who you are, but I can see everyone is staring at you, so you must be somebody. I just wanted to tell you that you are not that special. You're no more special than me." I looked at him with a mouth full of food and managed to say, "Thanks. I agree," and promptly asked the waitress for a to go box. — Jewel

This is the creature there has never been.
They never knew it, and yet, none the less,
they loved the way it moved, its suppleness,
its neck, its very gaze, mild and serene.
Not there, because they loved it, it behaved
as though it were. They always left some space.
And in that clear unpeopled space they saved
it lightly reared its head, with scarce a trace
of not being there. They fed it, not with corn,
but only with the possibility
of being. And that was able to confer
such strength, its brow put forth a horn. One horn.
Whitely it stole up to a maid - to be
within the silver mirror and in her. — Rainer Maria Rilke

I will spend anything on the best sheets in the world because I am going to be in them every night. I like them white and crazy soft. — Amy Landecker

I don't really have any interest in playing the same part again and again. Let's just keep everything crossed that doesn't happen. — Gwendoline Christie

July does not a November election make. — Ann Richards

A man must be forced to choose. It is only when you are forced to choose that you know what is important to you. — Chaim Potok

Film brings people together. — A.D. Posey

Grover cleared his throat. "We're in a public place ... You mean, our friend downstairs?"
"Um, right," I said. "Our friend way downstairs. — Rick Riordan

Smile and others will smile back. — Jean Baudrillard

Recruiting is a core competency for any company. It should never be outsourced. — Peter Thiel

Until you have bred dogs and have drawn and painted them, it is difficult to realize that no two are identical in conformation. You need do no more than gun for a day over two of them to recognize that each is an individual. It requires the intimacy of daily living with a dog to know the subtle quality of his mind, the ham-smell of his ears, and that his wet nose in your mouth tastes salty. — George Bird Evans