Abraham Verghese You can’t show up at the bedside and then turn on your skills. You have to keep your game sharp all the time. – Abraham Verghese Bedside Quotes Game Quotes Sharp Quotes Skills Quotes Time Quotes I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient whose care I am taking over is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it’s only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important. I joke, but only half joke, that if you show up in an American hospital missing a finger, no one will believe you until they get a CAT scan, MRI and orthopedic consult.
Randy Couture I started wrestling at ten. I played a lot of other sports: soccer, football. I really enjoyed skiing. But wrestling just took off for me. It seemed to be the sport I had an affinity for; I liked the individual, combative nature. There’s something special about that. It took me all the places I wanted to go. – Randy Couture
Curtis SittenfeldImagination People who think my books are autobiographical, which they’re not, credit me with having a much better memory than I do. I do, however, have a powerful imagination. – Curtis Sittenfeld
Guillaume Canet Everything goes by so fast that if you want to be a part of it, you need to go that fast. But because you go that fast, you don’t lead the life you should lead. – Guillaume Canet
John Ralston Saul Only when God was said to have died did various leaders, professions and sectors risk pushing themselves forward as successors. – John Ralston Saul
Marillyn Hewson As we consume more than ever, climate change is accelerating as well. In fact, we know that 2014 was the hottest year in human history. These pressures combine to create real threats to security and stability around the world. – Marillyn Hewson
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