Patient Quotes - Page 8

A patient doesn't select his physical ailments. They happen to him. You could just as well ask when you are eaten by a crocodile, 'How did you select that crocodile?'. Nonsense. He has selected you. The patient doesn't even select the symptoms unconsciously. That is an extraordinary exaggeration of the subject to say he was choosing such things. They get him.

By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?

I got interested in the emotions after studying patients who had lost the ability to emote and feel under certain circumstances. Many of those patients also had major impairments in their ability to make decisions.

Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.

Everybody knows that I am not usually patient enough to actually sit down and watch one of my own films from the beginning to the end - I never do.

Being patient does not mean being silent.

One thing that has helped me to become patient and cool is that I grew up with sisters.

Patient endurance / Attaineth to all things.

Look at your life as a patient and a doctor!

I am a very impatient director.

We have been so patient and loyal ... and what has it gotten us? We want our full share now.

To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.

The heart is cooking a pot of food for you. Be patient until it is cooked

I'm too impatient to use a tripod.

Be patient with all that is unsolved in your life. Learn to love the questions themselves, until some distant day, without your knowing, you will have lived into the answers.

The quieter we are, the more patient and open we are in our sadnesses, the more deeply and serenely the new presence can enter us, and the more we can make it our own, the more it becomes our fate.

...an effective psychotherapist or psychoanalyst is a "microsurgeon of the mind" who helps patients make needed alterations in neuronal networks.

Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.

Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patients renal and cardiopulmonary status. This spectacular success was a clear demonstration that organ transplantation could be life-saving.

The paper is patient, but the reader is not.

Affect not little shifts and subterfuges to avoid the force of an argument.

I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.

God is patient with us to become the God's children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.

Curious patients are more receptive to new ideas, and those who engage their health practitioners in a dialogue are much more likely to adhere to these recommendations.

A beginner cook is going to have to be patient to really learn well. When you start to beat your master, that's when you're really starting to master the thing. But it's going to take a while. After that, you have to define what you want to be, who you want to be, where you want to be.