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Wells Quotes - Page 41

What about regular professionals, who just want to do what they do as well as they can?

What about regular professionals, who just want to do what they do as well as they can?

"Annals of Medicine" by Atul Gawande, www.newyorker.com. October 3, 2011.

He's liked, but he's not well liked.

Arthur Miller (2015). “Miller Plays: 1: All My Sons; Death of a Salesman; The Crucible; A Memory of Two Mondays; A View from the Bridge”, p.146, Bloomsbury Publishing

What one does easily, one does well.

Andrew Carnegie (2015). “The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie”, p.172, Sheba Blake Publishing

Whatever you might say the object "is", well it is not.

Alfred Korzybski (1958). “Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics”, p.35, Institute of GS

Those who feel themselves despised do well to look despising.

Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

I know myself too well to believe in pure virtue.

Albert Camus (1965). “Notebooks, 1942-1951”

My best stories come from well-placed sources who point me in the right direction.

"Reporting tips from Wolf Blitzer". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. August 17, 2011.

How well he's read, to reason against reading!

1594-5 King. Love's Labour's Lost, act1, sc.1, l.94.

she shall scant show well that now shows best.

William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.41, Classic Books Company

Value dwells not in particular will; It holds his estimate and dignity As well wherein 'tis precious of itself As in the prizer.

William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1805). “The Plays of William Shakespeare : Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by the Late George Steevens: With a Series of Engravings, from Original Designs of Henry Fuseli, and a Selection of Explanatory and Historical Notes, from the Most Eminent Commentators; a History of the Stage, a Life of Shakespeare, &c. by Alexander Chalmers”, p.311

Hasty marriage seldom proveth well.

1592 Richard of Gloucester. HenryVI PartThree, act 4, sc.1, l.18.

So well thy words become thee as thy wounds.

William Shakespeare (1807). “Macbeth: A Tragedy”, p.23

For the general practitioner a well-used library is one of the few correctives of the premature senility which is so apt to take him.

Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.250, Duke University Press