Shanafelt Physician Quotes & Sayings

For me the question was, do I want my paycheck to be dependent on how other people think I look? — Kathy Ireland

Feel the mountain and let it show you how you're going to ski it. Relax and cruise. This isn't a fight, it's a dance, and the mountain always leads. — Jim Bowden

I have no ability to develop muscle tone. I could do situps all day and still look like a condom full of walnuts. — Dana Gould

Courage is called for on a day-to-day, moment-to-moment basis, even when there's nothing urgent at stake. It is up to us to create our lives consistent with who we know ourselves to be - making what's at stake that which we say is at stake. It's the stand we take on ourselves. That stand then becomes who we are. Saying that something is at stake is always a purely existential act. This business about freedom, this business about power, is really a product of a place to stand - not something that is out in front of us, that we're working on or measuring ourselves against. When we live consistent with what we say, we are being true to ourselves. — Nancy Zapolski

Make it your goal to employ the sweet speech that marks you as a wife after God's own heart. — Elizabeth George

The sky [above Tehran] was like a star-eaten black blanket, and so far as I could read them its constellations were unfamiliar. Lawrence speaks somewhere of drawing 'strength from the depths of the universe'; Malcolm Lowry speaks about the deadness of the stars except when he looked at them with a particular girl; I had neither feeling. The founder of the Jesuits used to spend many hours under the stars; it is hard to be certain whether his first stirrings of scientific speculation or pre-scientific wonder about space and the stars in their own nature were some element in his affinity with starlight, or whether for him they were only a point of departure, but in this matter I think I am about fifty years more modern than Saint Ignatius; stars mean to me roughly what they meant to Donne's generation, a bright religious sand imposing the sense of an intrusion into human language, and arousing a certain personal thirst to be specific. — Peter Levi

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of being. — Daniel J. Siegel

God is a Producer. He says, "Make the movie of your life beautiful! Here's the budget. — Bo Sanchez

Where a chunk of business is simple, the chances are that it is. — Richard Koch

If our pain doesn't destroy us, it just might transform us into truly human beings at last. — Frederick Buechner