Redelmeier Quotes & Sayings

We give each other a wide berth even if we have the flu, let alone ... So, I think that's part of the stigma that people who have diseases suffer. It's almost infectious ... if somebody is closer to death, they're almost a bad omen and I think that's terrible. — Peter Morgan

Nobody could have put her in the shade, blown out her light that evening; she was too evidently shining. — Elizabeth Von Arnim

The common ingredient in every single dysfunction is an issue of power. — Caroline Myss

Research by Donald A. Redelmeier and Sheldon M. Singh has found that, on average, Oscar winners live nearly four years longer than nominees that don't win. — David Brooks

To Redelmeier the very idea that there was a great deal of uncertainty in medicine went largely unacknowledged by its authorities. There was a reason for this: To acknowledge uncertainty was to admit the possibility of error. The entire profession had arranged itself as if to confirm the wisdom of its decisions. — Michael Lewis

That's the problem about pain. It demands to be felt. — John Green

UXORIOUSNESS, n. A perverted affection that has strayed to one's own wife. — Ambrose Bierce

You need to be so careful when there is one simple diagnosis that instantly pops into your mind that beautifully explains everything all at once. That's when you need to stop and check your thinking...Beware of the delirious guy in the emergency unit with the long history of alcoholism, because you will say, 'He's just drunk,' and you'll miss the subdural hematoma. — Michael Lewis

I think there's something basically wrong with the general public that they do need their icons. — John Lydon

Your dream will not become a reality until you shift from Very Important to an Emergency! — Eric Thomas

Then she turned, punched me in the arm, and ran in her
bunk. I said with a straight face. — Phil Wohl

Many sentences popped out of Amos's mouth that Redelmeier knew he would forever remember: A part of good science is to see what everyone else can see but think what no one else has ever said. The difference between being very smart and very foolish is often very small. So many problems occur when people fail to be obedient when they are supposed to be obedient, and fail to be creative when they are supposed to be creative. The secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste hours. It is sometimes easier to make the world a better place than to prove you have made the world a better place. Redelmeier — Michael Lewis

Even the cry from the depths is an affirmation: Why cry if there is no hint of hope of hearing? — Martin E. Marty

The cursor changed to the spinning wheel of sadness. — Madeleine Roux

The bottom line is: We must be working on arriving at the destination for which we were put on this planet. — Yehuda Berg

Pride is the chalice into which all human sins are poured: it glitters and jingles and its arabesque lures your gaze, while your lips involuntarily touch the seductive beverage. — Vladimir Odoevsky