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Words & Thoughts
by which to Live . . .
by which to Nurse . . .
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about
yesterday all the time.
Charles P. Kettering suggested by Robert C. Knies, Jr., RN, MSN, CEN ENW''s Section Editor for Research
We are all faced with a series of great
opportunities brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems.
John W. Gardner suggested by Robert C. Knies, Jr., RN, MSN, CEN ENW''s Section Editor for Research
I cannot say whether things will get better
if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.
G. C. Lichtenberg suggested by Robert C. Knies, Jr., RN, MSN, CEN ENW''s Section Editor for Research
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we
don't grow, we aren't really living.
Gail Sheehy suggested by Robert C. Knies, Jr., RN, MSN, CEN ENW''s Section Editor for Research
Leadership is not magnetic
personality--that can just as well be glib tongue.
It is not 'making friends and influencing people' --that is flattery.
Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights,
the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard,
the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.
Peter Drucker suggested by Robert C. Knies, Jr., RN, MSN, CEN ENW''s Section Editor for Research
Age is a very high price to pay for
maturity.
Mark Twain suggested by Robert C. Knies, Jr., RN, MSN, CEN ENW''s Section Editor for Research
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
A man has only two things: dreams and
courage.
Gutzon Borglum
Friend - One who knows all about you and likes you just the same.
From what we get, we can make a living;
what we give, however, makes a life.
Arthur Ashe
"But do not despise the lore that has
come down from distant years; for oft it may chance that old wives keep in memory word of
things that once were needful for the wise to know"
J.R.R. Tolkien
A sweater is a garment worn by a child when his mother feels chilly.
A note of music gains significance from the
silence on either side.
Anne Morrow Lindberg
While one person hesitates because he feels
inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.
Henry C. Link
Keep away from people who try to belittle
your ambitions.
Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become
great.
Mark Twain
Personally I'm always ready to learn,
although I do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill
When a man is wrapped up in himself he
makes a pretty small package.
John Ruskin
Don't mistake pleasure for happiness.
They're a different breed of dog.
Josh Billings
Curiosity is a lust of the mind.
Thomas Hobbes
Neither genius, fame, nor love show the
greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.
Jean Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
Honesty is praised and starves
Juvenal, "Satire" I, line 74
The ill and unfitting choice of words
wonderfully obstructs the understanding.
Francis Bacon
Take the time to do it right and you won't
have to find the time to do it over.
Michael Seaver, RN, EMT
The bottom line is that they are a pain in the butt, yet it is part of the specialty. Talk to all of the ED and private attendings involved to come up with a common approach to the problem. And, oh yeah, if he ever comes back again, treat him like every body else. Eventually, even crazy, belligerent, sociopathic people get sick. Reminds me of an old axiom. "What do crazy people die from? The same thing everybody else dies from." Food for thought.
Stephen A. Pulley, D.O., FACOEP stephen@pond.com
Assistant Director and ALS Medical Director Department of Emergency Medicine
Delaware County Memorial Hospital
Faculty Albert Einstein Medical Center Emergency Medicine Residency
To be good is noble; but to show others how
to be good is nobler, and no trouble.
Mark Twain
Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion
is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.
Wendell Phillips (1811-1884) Idols [October 4, 1859]
What I do today is important because I am
paying a day of my life for it.
What I accomplish must be worthwhile because the price is high.
David Crippen, MD, FCCM
The surest sign that intelligent life
exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
Calvin and Hobbes (Bill Watterson)
The difference between intelligence and
education is this- that intelligence will make you a good living.
Charles Kettering (1876-1958)
No one in this world, so far as I know,
...has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the
plain people.
H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)
They tell us absolutely nothing about
intelligence elsewhere in the universe, but they do prove how rare it is on earth.
Arthur C. Clarke has observed of Unidentified Flying Objects
Imagination is intelligence having fun.
Unknown
I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a
single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.
Johann Kepler
Man is a slow, sloppy and brilliant
thinker; the machine is fast, accurate and stupid.
William M. Kelly
Many highly intelligent people are poor
thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is
separate from the way the car is driven.
Edward de Bono
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If it felt good saying it to a supervisor, it was the wrong thing to say.
Jason Whaley, NREMT-B jwhaley@awod.com
Medical University of South Carolina - PA Program whaleyjw@musc.edu
Charleston County Fire Rescue
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Critics are like eunuchs in a harem: they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves. Brendan Behan
A hurricane is an eviction notice from God.
Carl Hiassen
That life is worth living is the most
necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.
George Santayana
Good ideas are not adopted automatically.
They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.
Admiral Hyman Rickover
Do what thy manhood bids thee do: From none
but self expect applause. He noblest lives and noblest dies, who makes and keeps his
self-made laws.
Sir Richard Francis Burton
Life is a series of collisions with the
future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
Quarrels would not last long if the fault
were only on one side.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Courage is not the absence of fear, but
rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
Ambrose Redmoon
As a computer science instructor once told me: Know the rules. Know when to break them. Be consistent...
Hugh D. Greenbaum, BS, EMT-1
Systems Engineer Hughes Aircraft Co.
"What does this button do? <BOOM!
Use your health, even to the point of
wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die and do not
outlive yourself.
Shaw
Preface "The Doctor's Dilemma"
Andrew andrew@rescue.demon.co.uk said:
"Most of us are broad minded enough to admit there are two sides to every question -
our own side, and the side that no intelligent, informed, sane and self respecting person
could possibly hold"
There are only two lasting bequests we can
hope to give our children.
One of these is roots, the other, wings.
Hodding Carter
In the field of observation, chance favors
the prepared mind.
Louis Pasteur
Do you know what a pessimist is? A person
who thinks everybody as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
George Bernard Shaw
Never doubt that a small group of
thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead
Make it compulsory for a doctor using a
brass plate to have inscribed on it, in addition to the letters indicating his
qualifications, the words "Remember that I too am mortal"
Shaw
The Doctor's Dilemma"
"Dying," said Fred Hollows, "is something you never live to regret."
[quoted by Malcolm Fisher,
Intensive Care Unit PH 61/2/99268656
Royal North Shore Hospital of Sydney Fax 61/2/4398418
St Leonards,NSW,2065 Australia]
The walls of books around him, dense with
the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.
Ross MacDonald
Wise men talk because they have something
to say. Fools talk because they have to say something.
Plato
In great matters men show themselves as
they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
Gamaliel Bradford
Despise not a small wound, a poor kinsman,
or a humble enemy
English Proverb
"But do not dispise the lore that has
come down from distant years; for oft it may chance that old wives keep in memory word of
things that once were needful for the wise to know."
J.R.R. Tolkien
Reality can destroy the dream; why
shouldn't the dream destroy reality?
George Moore
When we can't dream any longer we die.
Emma Goldman (1869-1940)
He hath awakened from the dream of life.
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792-1822
Adonais [1821], st. 39
The future belongs to those who believe in
the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)
The function of dreams is to teach the
waking mind how to forget what it thinks it knows but doesn't.
William R. Stimson
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so
shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be.
James Allen
Those who have compared our life to a dream
were right...We sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1553-1592)|Essays, bk. II [1580], ch. 12
Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die,
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.
Langston Hughes
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?...
Or does it explode?
Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
Harlem [1951]
In bed my real love has always been the
sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.
Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936)
One of the characteristics of the dream is
that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers,
completely cut off from our habits and friends.
Jean Cocteau (1891-1963)
The dream is the small hidden door in the
deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens into that primeval cosmic night
that was soul long before there was a conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a
conscious ego could ever reach.
Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961)
From Psychological Reflections:
A Jung Anthology[1953], p. 46: vol. 10,
The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man [1934]
Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and
not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates:
one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory
are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one
of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them.
Homer (c. B.C. 700)
The Odyssey, bk. XIX, l. 560
Live truth instead of professing it.
Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)
Adversity is the first path to Truth.
Lord Byron (1788-1824)
The gulf between knowledge and truth is
infinite.
Henry Miller (1891-1980)
Love truth but pardon error.
Voltaire (1694-1778)
We are more likely to reach the truth
through error than through confusion.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
There is no worse lie than a truth
misunderstood by those who hear it.
William James (1842-1910)
Varieties of Religious Experience
One lie does not cost you one truth, but
the truth.
Friedrich Hebbel
Most of the change we think we see in life
is due to truths being in and out of favor.
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
It is astonishing what force, purity, and
wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
Margaret Fuller
Nature understands no jesting. She is
always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always
those of man.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832)
Truth, Sir, is a cow, which will yield such
people [sceptics] no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.
Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) in 21 July 1763
If you tell the truth, you have infinite
power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you.
Charles Gordon
The belief that there is only one truth and
that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in
the world.
Max Born
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a
lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand.
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Art is not a study of positive reality, it
is the seeking for ideal truth.
George Sand (1804-1876)
I believe it is an established maxim in
morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false is
guilty of falsehood, and the accidental truth of the assertion does not justify or excuse
him.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
The very purpose of the First Amendment is
to foreclose public authority from assuming a guardianship of the public mind. ... In this
field every person must be his own watchman for the truth, because the forefathers did not
trust any government to separate the truth from the false for us.
...Thomas v Collins, 323 U.S. 516 (1945)
Honesty is the best policy.
Miguel Cervantes (1547-1616)
Truth is always straightforward.
Sophocles (B.C. 495-406)
Everything that is possible to be believed
is an image of the truth.
William Blake (1757-1828)
Truth is so great a perfection, that if God
would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his
soul.
Pythagoras (B.C. 582-507)
The truth is often a terrible weapon of
aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.
Alfred Adler
The high minded man must care more for the
truth than for what people think.
Aristotle (384-322 BC)
No pleasure is comparable to the standing
upon the vantage ground of Truth.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
For truth is precious and divine; Too rich
a pearl for carnal swine.
Samuel Butler (1835-1902)
Truth is a gem that is found at a great
depth; whilst on the surface of this world, all things are weighed by the false scale of
custom.
Lord Byron (1788-1824)
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be
broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.
Miguel Cervantes (1547-1616)
Truth obtains victory, not untruth.
Truth is the way that leads to the regions of light.
Upanishads (c. B.C. 800)
The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you
after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your
notebooks, and keep on the mantelpiece forever.
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies
from the senses and particulars to the most general axioms...this way is now in fashion.
The other derives axioms from the senses and particulars, rising by a gradual and unbroken
ascent, so that it arrives at the most general axioms last of all. This is the true way,
but as yet untried.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
Novum Organum [1620]
[T]he truth has to fight constantly for its life! ... [An idea] will have to be rephrased and reprinted many times, often by many different people, before it has any chance of taking hold. This is upsetting to an idealist like me, someone more disposed to believe in the notion of a monolithic and absolute truth that in the notion of a pluralistic and relative truth (a notion championed by a certain school of anthropologists and sociologists, who un-self-consciously insist "all systems of belief are equally valid", seemingly without realizing that this dogma of relativism not only is just a narrow-minded as any other dogma, but moreover is unbelievably wishy-washy!).
Douglas R. Hofstadter - "World Views in Collision"
Scientific American magazine (2/82),
reprinted in _Metamagical Themas_ (1985)
It's better to be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.
The only thing one can do with good advice
is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde
Time is a great teacher-- Unfortunately, it
kills all of its pupils.
Hector Berlioz
More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying they made them.
Don't be afraid to take a big step. You
can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
David Lloyd George
The value of the average conversation could be enormously improved by the constant use of four simple words: "I do not know." Andre Maurois
Figures won't lie, but liars can figure.
Fletcher Knebel (1911- )
There are two kind of statistics, the kind
you look up, and the kind you make up.
Rex Stout (1886-1975)
Statistics are like alienists - they will
testify for either side.
Fiorello H. La Guardia (1882-1947)
Numbers are like people; torture them
enough and they'll tell you anything.
Unknown
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned
lies, and statistics.
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)
The weaker the data available upon which to
base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in order to give
the data authenticity.
Norman R. Augustine (1935- )
American author and chairman, Martin Marietta Corporation.
He uses statistics as a drunken man uses a
lamp post - for support rather than for illumination.
Andrew Lang
I am one of the unpraised, unrewarded
millions without whom statistics would be a bankrupt science. It is we who are born, who
marry, who die, in constant ratio.
Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946)
Statistics are like a bikini - what they
reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Levenstein
Testimonials may be more compelling than
mountains of facts and figures (as mountains of facts and figures in social psychology so
compellingly demonstrate).
Mark Snyder (1988)
There is no such thing as luck; only
adequate and inadequate preparation to cope with the statistical universe.
Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988)
Have Space Suit Will Travel c. 1958
49% of all statistics . . . are wrong.
Statistics Canada 1985
50% of the citizens of this country have a
below average understanding of statistics.
Unknown
49% of the U.S. population belongs to some
minority group.
Unknown
A statistician is someone who has his head
in the oven and his feet in ice water and says, "On average, I feel fine."
Unknown
Absence of thought is indeed a powerful
factor in human affairs -statistically speaking the most powerful.
Hannah Arendt
Contributions to "The New Yorker" Nov 18, 1977
I always find that statistics are hard to
swallow and impossible to digest. The only one I can ever remember is that if all the
people who go to sleep in church were laid end to end they would be a lot more
comfortable.
Mrs. Robert A. Taft
wife of American politician
Three statisticians are hunting together. They come upon a deer in a clearing. The first statistician raises his gun and fires. He misses the deer by a foot to the left. The second statistician quickly raises his gun to his shoulder and fires. He misses the deer by a foot to the right. The third statistician throws down his gun and yells, "WE GOT HIM!"
July 4. Statistics show that we lose more
fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put together. This proves, by the
number left in stock, that one fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has
grown so.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) - Pudd'nhead Wilson, 1894
In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Lower Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. That is an average of a trifle over one mile and a third per year. Therefore, any calm person, who is not blind or idiotic, can see that in the Old O\"olitic Silurian Period, just a million years ago next November, the Lower Mississippi River was upward of one million three hundred thousand miles long, and stuck out over the Gulf of Mexico like a fishing-rod. And by the same token any person can see that seven hundred and forty-two years from now the Lower Mississippi will be only a mile and three-quarters long, and Cairo and New Orleans will have joined their streets together, and be plodding comfortably along under a single mayor and a mutual board of aldermen. There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
Mark Twain (1835-1910), _Life on the Mississippi, 1874
in Darrell Huff, _How to Lie with Statistics, 1954.
A citizen of America will cross the ocean
to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
Bill Vaughan
If more politicians in this country were
thinking about the next generation instead of the next election, it might be better for
the United States and the world.
Claude Pepper,
quoted in the Orlando Sentinel-Star, December 29, 1946.
Democracy is a form of government that
substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Don't vote. It only encourages them.
Cheaper Food Stores bag, 1988
Voters don't decide issues, they decide who
will decide the issues.
George F. Will (b. 1941)
We, the people, are not free. Our democracy
is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
Helen Keller (1880-1968)
It's not who votes. It's who counts the
votes.
Joseph Stalin (1879-1953)
Politics is the gentle art of getting votes
from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the
other.
Oscar Ameringer
Life can only be understood backwards; but
it must be lived forwards.
Kierkegaard
It takes two to speak the truth---one to
talk and the other to listen.
Thoreau
Dare to be naive.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Fortune favors the bold.
Virgil (70-19 BC)
To win without risk is to triumph without
glory.
Pierre Corneille
Only those who dare to fail greatly can
ever achieve greatly.
Robert F. Kennedy
He that will not sail till all dangers are
over must never put to sea.
Thomas Fuller (1608-1661)
Better hazard once than always be in fear.
Thomas Fuller (1608-1661)
The policy of being too cautious is the
greatest risk of all.
Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964)
He who doesn't risk never gets to drink
champagne.
Russian saying
Only those who will risk going too far can
possibly find out how far one can go.
T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)
In the long run, we get no more than we
have been willing to risk giving.
Sheldon B. Kopp [psychiatrist] (1929- )
When written in Chinese, the word
"crisis" is composed of two characters.
One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
I understand by "freedom of
spirit" something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No, where it is
dangerous to say No.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900)
Risk! Risk Anything! Care no more for the
opinion of others, for those other voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for
yourself. Face the truth.
Katherine Mansfield
"Even when all the experts agree, they
may well be mistaken."
Bertrand Russell, The Skeptical Essays (Allann and Unwin, London)
From jloadsma@extro.ucc.su.oz.au Mon Apr 29 17:09:54 1996
Subject: QUOTES ON THE NATURE OF THE UNIVERSE
I like these quotes which David Jackson
sent.
Pauline
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QUOTES ON THE NATURE OF THE UNIVERSE
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Carl Zwanzig: "Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together...."
Douglas Adams: "There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened."
Albert Einstein: "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
Unknown: "Astronomers say the universe is finite, which is a comforting thought for those people who can't remember where they leave things."
Edward P. Tryon: "In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time."
John Andrew Holmes: "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."
Max Frisch: "Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it."
Kilgore Trout: "The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest."
Douglas Adams: "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
William J. Broad: "The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing."
Fred Hoyle: "There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for."
Ray Bradbury: "We are an impossibility in an impossible universe."
Christopher Morley: "My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed."
It's not the voting that's democracy, it's
the counting.
Tom Stoppard (1937- )
Jumpers (1972) act 1
My only treasure is my reputation.
Simon Bolivar (1786-1830)
Reputations are made by searching for
things that can't be done and doing them.
Frank Tyger
A good reputation is more valuable than
money.
Publilius Syrus (c. 42 BC) - Maxims
A good name, like good will, is got by many
actions and lost by one.
Lord Jeffery
It is a maxim with me that no man was ever
written out of reputation but by himself.
Richard Bentley (1662-1742)
A good name is seldom regained. When
character is gone, all is gone, and one of the richest jewels of life is lost forever.
J. Haves
Be it true or false, what is said about men
often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what
they do.
Victor Hugo (1802-1885), Les Miserables
The prosecutor has more control over life,
liberty, and reputation than any other person in America.
Robert J. Jackson (1892-1954)
U.S. Atorney General and U.S. Supreme court Justice
Quoted in the Washington Post, Aug. 26, 1990
Character assassination is at once easier
and surer than physical assault; and it involves far less risk for the assassin.
Alan Barth (1906- )
The Loyalty of free men. [1951]
A man's name is not like a mantel which
merely hangs about him, and which one perchance may safely twitch and pull, but a
perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over him, at which one cannot
rake and scrape without injuring the man himself.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832)
Reputation, reputation, reputation!
Oh! I have lost my reputation. I have
lost the immortal part of myself,
and what remains is bestial.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Othello (1602-4) act 2, sc. 3, l. [264]
There are two modes of establishing our
reputation: to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however,
to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter.
Charles Caleb Colton
You need only reflect that one of the best
ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about
repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in their struggle for
independence.
C. A. Beard
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and
narrow-mindedness.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
Education is the process of driving a set
of prejudices down your throat.
Martin H. Fischer
I'm interested in the fact that the less
secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.
Clint Eastwood
In the dust where we have buried the silent
races and their abominations we have buried so much of the delicate magic of life.
D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of
the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract.
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
Prejudice is never easy unless it can pass
itself off for reason.
William Hazlitt (1778-1830) On Prejudice, 1839
Even human nature can be corrected and set
on the right path, for otherwise we should all drown in a sea of prejudices.
Fedor Mikhallovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881) Crime and Punishment
I never lecture, not because I am shy or a
bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't
want to meet them.
H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)
Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They
are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real
robbers; vices the real murderers. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what
threatens our heads or our purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.
Victor Hugo (1802-1885), Les Miserables
The only tyrant I accept in this world is
the still voice within.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
God Himself has no right to be a tyrant.
William Godwin (English minister, reformer, philosopher"
"Sketches in History" 1784
The mob is the mother of tyrants.
Diogenes the Cynic (412 to 323 B.C.)
Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind,
tyranny in religion is the worst.
Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
Government is a dangerous servant and a
terrible master.... remember you can lose freedom more quickly to yourselves than any
other tyrant.
Robert A. Heinlein (1907 - 1988) The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress c 1966
The world is made up for the most part of
morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never
doubting anything.
Clarence Darrow (1857-1938)
Those who voluntarily put power into the
hands of a tyrant or an enemy must not wonder if it be at last turned against themselves.
Aesop (620-560 BC)
The people always have some champion whom
they set over them and nurse into greatness.... This and no other is the root from which
tyranny springs.
Plato (428-348? BC), "The Republic"
Throughout the history of mankind there
have been murderers and tyrants; and while it may seem momentarily that they have the
upper hand, they have always fallen. Always.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
Once a government is committed to the
principle of silencing the voice of the opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is
down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to
all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.
Harry S Truman (1884-1972)
When democracy granted democratic methods
to us in times of opposition, this was bound to happen in a democratic system. However, we
National Socialists never asserted that we represented a democratic point of view, but we
have declared openly that we used the democratic methods only to gain power and that,
after assuming the power, we would deny to our adversaries without any consideration the
means which were granted to us in times of our opposition.
Joseph Paul Goebbels (1897-1945)
The most important thing in communication
is to hear what isn't being said.
Peter F. Drucker
The world is emblematic. Parts of speech
are metaphors because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
To communicate, put your thoughts in order;
give them a purpose; use them to persuade, to instruct, to discover, to seduce.
William Safire (b. 1929)
Reader's Digest
I know that you believe that you understood
what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I
meant.
Robert McCloskey
U.S. State Department spokesman at one of his regular noon briefings during the worst days
of the Vietnam War.
Marvin Kalb in TV Guide, Mar. 31, 1984.
The two words "information" and
"communication" are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different
things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.
Sydney J. Harris
The ability to speak is a short cut to
distinction. It puts a man in the limelight, raises him head and shoulders above the
crowd, and the man who can speak acceptably is usually given credit for an ability out of
all proportion to what he really possesses.
Lowell Thomas (1892-1981)
If you your lips would keep from slips,
Five things observe with care;
To whom you speak, of whom you speak,
And how, and when, and where.
William E. Norris (1847-1925) Thirlby Hall
We rely upon the poets, the philosophers
and the playwrights to articulate what most of us can only feel, in joy or sorrow. They
illuminate the thoughts for which we only grope. They give us the strength and balm we
cannot find in ourselves. Whenever I find my courage wavering I rush to them. They give me
the wisdom of acceptance, the will and resilience to push on.
Helen Hayes
"I do not feel obliged to believe that
the same God who endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forego
their use."
Galileo
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences
what others say in a whole book.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
The greatest good you can do for another is
not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
Disraeli
Fear is a darkroom for developing negatives.
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is
not fair that some men should be happier than others.
Oscar Wilde
Laziness is no more than the habit of
resting before you get tired.
Jules Renard
I would rather be able to appreciate things
I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.
Elbert Hubbard
"Education makes a people easy to
lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave."
Lord Brougham 1778-1868
Patriotism is your conviction that this
country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
G.B. Shaw
Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
A designer knows he has achieved perfection
not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Euxpery
He who knows others is wise. He who knows
himself is enlightened.
Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of men.
Benjamin Disraeli
There never was child so lovely but his
mother was glad to get him asleep.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Complete possession is proved only by
giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
Andre Gide
If you have built castles in the air, your
work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
Thoreau
Success is the ability to go from failure
to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander
time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
Benjamin Franklin
Change babies and politicians frequently -- for the same reason.
Once you have flown, you will walk the
earth with your eyes turned skyward; for there you have been, there you long to return.
Da Vinci
A thick head can do as much damage as a
hard heart.
H.W. Dodds
A man is a critic when he cannot be an
artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.
Gustave Flaubert
No matter how old a mother is she watches
her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
Florida Scott-Maxwell
Journalism is merely history's first draft.
Geoffrey C. Ward
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Education ... has produced a vast
population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
G.M. Trevelyan
If you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted.
Intensive Care is like the withdrawal
method of contraception. Best used early and certainly before physiology is irreversible.
Dermot McKeown
Edinburgh Royal Infirmary ICU
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by
a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on
the right person's brow.
Charles Brower
An adventure is only an inconvenience
rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
G. K. Chesterton
[quoted from James Munus, MD, Neuroanesthesia Handbook
The Cleveland Clinic [http://www.anes.ccf.org:8080/pilot/neuro/notes/hnn7.htm]
"Heroism on command, senseless
violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how
passionately I hate them!"
Albert Einstein
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must
learn first to do with diligence.
Samuel Johnson
Thought is the labour of the intellect,
reverie is its pleasure.
Victor Hugo
Our greatest glory is not in never failing,
but in rising up every time we fail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Conscience is the inner voice warning us
that someone may be looking.
H.L. Mencken
The louder he talks of honour, the faster
we count our spoons.
Emerson
God respects us when we work and loves us when we sing.
Support the strong, give courage to the
timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.
Whitney M. Young
Some people would not recognize subtlety if it hit them on the head.
A liberal is a man too broad-minded to take
his own side in a quarrel.
Robert Frost
(quoted in CCM-L by Chris Junker Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996)
Restlessness and discontent are the first
necessities of progress.
Thomas A. Edison
I do not believe that any man fears to be
dead, but only the stroke of death.
Francis Bacon
Hemorrhage is the only defense of an
anesthetized patient against an incompetent surgeon
Halstead
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never
goes back to its original dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The most valuable of all talents is that of
never using two words when one will do.
Thomas Jefferson
Expecting the world to treat you fairly
because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you
because you are a vegetarian.
Dennis Wholey
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but
no one thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy
He who opens a school door, closes a
prison.
Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both
science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
Carl Sagan (1934-1996)
We sometimes pretend something is true not
because there's evidence for it but because we want it to be true, we confuse reality with
our hopes and fears.
Carl Sagan (1934-1996)
The old believe everything, the middle-aged
suspect everything, the young know everything.
Oscar Wilde
Being defeated is often a temporary
condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Marilyn vos Savant
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we
should ask him what books he reads.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A musician must make music, an artist must
paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can
be, one must be.
Abraham Maslow
You must allow people to be right, because
it consoles them for not being anything else.
Andre' Gide
The highest reward for a person's toil is
not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
John Ruskin
It is not because things are difficult that
we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Seneca
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity
and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell
them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
General George S. Patton, Jr.
This is the final test of the gentleman:
his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
William Lyon Phelps
Be the master of your will and the slave of
your conscience.
Hasidic saying
Life is not a static thing. The only people
who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, who can't are those in
cemeteries.
Everett Dirksen
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a
judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Albert Einstein
Half of the harm that is done in this world
is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm but the harm does
not interest them.
T.S. Eliot
Whoever controls the language, the images,
controls the race.
Allen Ginzberg
It is not only for what we do that we are
held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
Moliere
Always bear in mind that your own
resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.
Abraham Lincoln
Great works are performed not by strength,
but perseverance.
Samuel Johnson
It has been said, "A tracheostomy is a
bleeding, infected hole in the neck: --no more, and no less.
Loren D. Nelson, MD
Department of Surgical Education
Orlando Regional Healthcare System
Orlando, Florida 32806
It must be considered that there is nothing
more difficult to carry out, nor more dangerous to handle, nor more doubtful of success,
than to initiate a new order of things. For the reformer has enemies in all those who
profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the
new order, this placitude arising partly from fear of their adversaries, who have the laws
in their favor; and partly from the incredulity of mankind, who do not truly believe in
anything new until they have had actual experience of it.
Niccolo Machiavelli
David Ryon, MD
Critical Care Medicine
Pulmonary Medicine
MIMA
Melbourne, Florida 32901
What sculpture is to a block of marble,
education is to an human soul.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719), English essayist.
Spectator, no. 215 (London, 6 Nov. 1711).
From http://www.worldortho.com/database.html
Don't let your clinical impression get in
the way of the facts.
Joseph Civetta, M.D.
Nicholas Namias, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Surgery TK Glenn Building Emory University School of Medicine 69
Butler St. SE Atlanta GA 30303 404-616-3552
There's a fine line between genius and
insanity. I have erased this line.
Oscar Levant
The punishment which the wise suffer who
refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
Plato
SMART is when you believe only half of what
you hear. BRILLIANT is when you know which half to believe.
Donni Toth, RN, MS Informatics/Occupational Health Nursing University
of Utah 608 11th Avenue, Salt Lake City, UT 84103 Phone: (801)363-0847 e-mail:
Let us so live that when we come to die
even the undertaker will be sorry.
Mark Twain
These days people seek knowledge, not
wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.
Vernon Cooper
A great many people mistake opinions for
thoughts.
Herbert V. Prochnow
Attitude by Charles Swindoll
"The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill. It will make or break a company, a church, a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past? we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude? I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you. We are in charge of our Attitudes".
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 1997 23:31:21 -0400 From: Ron Blaul
"When in charge - Ponder, When in trouble
- Delegate, When in doubt -Mumble".
There are two kinds of men who never amount
to much: those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else.
Cyrus Curtis
The mind is its own place, and in itself,
can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.
John Milton
"The death of democracy is not likely
to be assassination from ambush.
It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment."
Robert M. Hutchins, Great Books (1954)
"The point to remember is that what
the government gives, it must first take away."
John S. Coleman, Address to Detroit Chamber of Commerce
"Doing for people what they can and
ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment. In the last analysis the welfare of
the workers depends upon their own private initiative."
Samuel Gompers, President of the AFL 1886 - 1924
"Despite all our accomplishments, we
owe our existence to a six-inch layer of topsoil and the fact it rains."
Today's American farmer
Remember, life is not what happens to you but what you make of what happens to you. Everyone dies, but not everyone fully lives. Too many people are having "near-life experiences.
Thought is the blossom; language the bud;
action the fruit behind it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The public easily confuses people who fish
in murky waters with those who draw from deep wells.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
May your sword always be within reach and
may your Foe's skill and luck be less than your own.
Debbie
Douglass
douglass@chaplin.ndhm.gtegsc.com Systems Administrator
After you have consulted with many people
about what you ought to do, consult with very few about what you are going to do
Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)
A professional is someone who can do his
best work when he doesn't feel like it.
Alistair Cooke
The young wish to give their elders the full benefits of their inexperience.
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to
be president but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
John F. Kennedy
The truth is a precious commodity. That's
why I use it so sparingly.
Mark Twain
It usually takes me more than three weeks
to prepare a good impromptu speech.
Mark Twain
Men are apt to mistake the strength of
their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch
and relentless scrutiny of logic.
William E. Gladstone
He that knows little often repeats it.
Thomas Fuller
My grandfather once told me that there were
two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit.
He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.
Indira Gandhi
It is the first of all problems for a man
to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
Thomas Carlyle
[As a PA a good share of my first semester
in training stressed "team approach" to medical care. It makes up a fair piece
of the socialization process for a new PA student.]
The model that emerged for me was not one of a ladder but one of a scaffold. Ladders have
narrow places to stand with room for only one at a time. A scaffold holds us all up
together were we can work on a problem jointly.
Paul S. Robinson
Most of our so-called reasoning consists in
finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.
James Robinson
Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To
believe in the heroic makes heroes.
Benjamin Disraeli
A man's first care should be to avoid the
reproaches of his own heart, his next to escape the censures of the world.
English Proverb
To get something done, a committee should
consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.
Robert Copeland
Some men are just as sure of the truth of
their opinions as are others of what they know.
Aristotle
Failures are divided into two classes-
those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
John Charles Salak
No man is a hero to his valet.
Anne Bigot Cornuel
You cannot depend on your eyes when your
imagination is out of focus.
Mark Twain
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 1997 03:55:48 -0600
From: "Eric B. Richardson" ericb1@FLASH.NET
# Eric B. Richardson, Emergency
medicine resident, Detroit, MI #
"I have three treasures which I hold and keep. The first is mercy; the second is
economy; the third is daring not to be ahead of others. From mercy comes courage; from
economy comes generosity; From humility comes leadership. Nowadays men shun mercy, but try
to be brave; they abandon economy, but try to be generous; they do not believe in
humility, but always try to be first...Mercy brings victory in battle and strength in
defense. It is the means by which heaven saves and guards."
Lao Tsu, Tao Te Ching, verse 67
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 1997 14:04:04 -0500
From: "Paul S. Robinson"
psrobin@pressenter.com
And Dr. Conover noted and quoted;
"If a person (a) is poorly, (b) receives treatment intended to
make him better, and (c) gets better, then no power of reasoning known to medical science
can convince him that it may not have been the treatment that restored his health."
Sir Peter Medawar, in The Art of the Soluble
A pompous physician is the plaintiff's
lawyer's best friend.
Gene Gandy, JD, EMT-P
Lawyers have a special ability to sense one
part money in one billion parts sanctimony.
Gene Gandy, JD, EMT-P
Man is the only animal that can remain on
friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
Samuel Butler
God gave us memories so that we might have
roses in December.
James M. Barrie
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where
is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
Thomas Henry Huxley
The worth of a book is to be measured by
what you can carry away from it.
James Bryce
Never attribute to maliciousness what can
be adequately explained by stupidity.
Mark Twain
The large print giveth, and the small print
taketh away.
Tom Waits
The primary duty of the University to a
student is to provide him with such instructors as will make him realize that the
responsibility for progress is his own and no one else's.
S.E.Whitehall, 1933
The moment of victory is much too short to
live for that and nothing else.
Martina Navratilova
Accustom[ed?] to the veneer of noise, to
the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious
of those who value silence.
John Lahr
If you judge, investigate.
Seneca
Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and
a fool's excuse for failure.
Ambrose Bierce
Live in such a way that you would not be
ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
Will Rogers
Beware of small expenses; a small leak will
sink a great ship.
Benjamin Franklin
If you consult enough experts, you can confirm any opinion.
One will rarely err if extreme actions be
ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.
Friedrich Nietzsche
We are all ignorant, only in different
ways, and no one is as ignorant as an educated man outside his own field.
Will Rogers
If you want to get rid of somebody, just
tell them something for their own good.
Kin Hubbard
As you grow older, you'll find the only
things you regret are the things you didn't do.
Zachary Scott
An expert is a person who avoids small
error as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy
Benjamin Stolberg
An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and
evil is not overcome by fleeing from it.
Col. Jeff Cooper
"The care of every man's soul belongs to himself. But what if he neglect the care of
it? Well what if he neglect the care of his health or his estate, which would more nearly
relate to the state. Will the magistrate make a law that he not be poor or sick? Laws
provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves. God himself will not save men
against their wills."
Thomas Jefferson; October 1776
Follow those who seek the truth! Flee from those who've found it!
Children have never been very good at
listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
James Baldwin
The really efficient laborer will be found
not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of
ease and leisure.
Henry David Thoreau
I like to do all the talking myself. It
saves time and prevents arguments.
Oscar Wilde
When we ask advice, we are usually looking
for an accomplice.
Marquis de la Grange
It is in vain to hope to please all alike.
Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back
on one half of the world.
George Dennison Prentice
In every work of genius we recognize our
own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by
its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
Leo Tolstoy
An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.
From: Dennis Hudson, R.N.
Subject: RE: protocols-dogma
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 11:34:44 -0600
I once saw three brothers juggling knives and cleavers amongst themselves. It rather reminded me of a good trauma team. Each one knew what he was supposed to do, and when. They each knew what the other two were supposed to do as well. Had they not worked with a plan, a guideline, then someone would have gotten........the point.
Dennis R Hudson RN
CEN
Emergency Services
Jefferson Regional Medical Center
Pine Bluff, AR USA
Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it
may be equally outraged by silence.
Henri-Frederic Amiel
The actions of men are the best
interpreters of their thoughts.
John Locke
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, who strives valiantly; who
knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause;
who at the best, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, at worst, if he fails,
fails at daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls,
who know neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
There are two classes of people in this
world--those who take the best and enjoy it and those who wish for something better and
try to create it. The world needs the appreciation of the first and the discontent of the
second.
Florence Nightingale
The ideals which have lighted my way, and
time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness,
Beauty, and Truth.
Albert Einstein
You must have been warned against letting
the golden hours slip by.
Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.
James M. Barrie
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
The world is a book, and those who do not
travel read only a page.
Saint Augustine
The young wish to give their elders the full benefits of their inexperience.
Not all those who know their minds know
their hearts as well.
La Rochefoucauld
History will be kind to me for I intend to
write it.
Winston Churchill
The secret of man's being is not only to
live but to have something to live for.
Dostoyevsky
Wherever there is a human being, there is
an opportunity for kindness.
Seneca
Do what you can, with what you have, where
you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
In the beginning, God created nursing. He (or She) said, I will take a solid, simple, significant system of education and an adequate, applicable base of clinical research and on these rocks, will I build My greatest gift to Mankind---nursing practice.
On the seventh day, He threw up His hands. And has left it up to us.
MARGRETTA M. STYLES
Sunday, April 05, 1998 at 14:59:32 (EDT) - bugs.napanet.net From NursingNe Web Page Chat
The only function of economic forecasting
is to make astrology look respectable.
John Kenneth Galbraith
It is better to be prepared for an
opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.
Whitney Young, Jr.
He is happiest, be he king or peasant who
finds peace in his home.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
If a person never contradicts himself, it
must be that he says nothing.
Miguel de Unamuno
Modern man thinks he loses something - time
- when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he
gains -- except kill it.
Erich Fromm
Every great movement must experience three
stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.
John Stuart Mill
The only journey is the one within.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One
helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
Sandra Carey
A man who gives his children habits of
industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.
Richard Whately
I care not for a man's religion whose dog
or cat are not the better for it.
Abraham Lincoln
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
Shakespeare
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are
thinking about yesterday all the time.
Charles F. Kettering
The trouble with the world is that the
stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
Bertrand Russell
...no battle is ever
won...they are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair,
and Victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
William Faulkner [The Sound and the Fury]
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love.
A man's manners are a mirror in which he
shows his portrait.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted
time.
Bertrand Russell
A shy failure is nobler than an immodest
success.
Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) Sand and Foam
In matters of conscience, the law of
majority has no place.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
I have never been hurt by anything I didn't
say.
Calvin Coolidge
Go often to the house of thy friend, for
weeds choke the unused path.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Before we set our hearts too much on
anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it.
La Rochefoucauld
Generosity is giving more than you can, and
pride is taking less than you need.
Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) Sand and Foam
There is nothing like returning to a place
that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Nelson Mandela
A Long Walk to Freedom
Visits always give pleasure - if not the
arrival, the departure.
Portuguese Proverb
When I play with my cat, how do I know that
she is not passing time with me rather than I with her?
Montaigne
Happiness is as a butterfly which, when
pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight
upon you.
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of
fear, not absence of fear.
Mark Twain
A country without memory is a country of
madmen.
Santayana
Patience has its limits. Take it too far,
and it's cowardice.
George Jackson
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and
wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) Sand and Foam
Nothing has a stronger influence
psychologically on their environment, and especially on their children, than the unlived
lives of the parents.
Carl Jung
I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much
to enjoy company as to shun myself.
Samuel Johnson
They came for the communists, and I did not speak up because I wasn't a communist; They
came for the socialists, and I did not speak up because I was not a socialist; They came
for the union leaders, and I did not speak up because I wasn't a union leader; They came
for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for me, and
there was no one left to speak up for me.
Martin Niemoller, 1892-1984
Our lives begin to end the day we become
silent about things that matter.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
A wise man proportions his belief to the
evidence.
David Hume (1711-1776)
To have a death worth dying, one must first
have a life worth living.
G. Sheehan
Don't let your fears stand in the way of
your dreams.
Anon.
Speak if you have words stronger than
silence, or keep your silence.
Euripides
Imagination is more important than
knowledge.
A. Einstein
One cannot always be a hero, but one can
always be a (hu)man.
Goethe
We do not see things as they are, we see
things as we are.
Talmudic Saying
I cannot believe that the purpose of life
is to be 'happy.'
I think the purpose of life is: to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate.
It is above all: to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have make some difference
that you lived at all.
Leo Rosten
Good Judgment is the reward for experience. Experience is the price for poor judgment.
Error of opinion may be tolerated where
reason is left free to combat it.
Thomas Jefferson
Everything comes to him who waits, except a
loaned book.
Kim Hubbard
The beginning of wisdom is the definition of
terms.
Socrates
It is preferable to use superior judgment to
avoid having to use superior skill.
suggested by Robert Eager
"The nurse has become one of the great
blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest,
and not inferior to either in her mission"
Sir William Osler, MD (1849-1919)
suggested by Diana Meyer, RN, MSN
"When GOD has laid His hands upon the
patient, take yours off!"
Ken Mattox, MD
suggested by Diana Meyer, RN, MSN
Error of opinion may be tolerated where
reason is left free to combat it.
Thomas Jefferson First Inaugural Address March 4, 1801
We gain strength, and courage, and confidence
by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face. . .
---we must do that which we think we cannot.
Eleanor Roosevelt
suggested by Robert C. Knies, Jr., RN, MSN, CEN ENW''s Section Editor for Research
"Words & Thoughts - To Live By . . . To Nurse By . . . "
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