Be Patient Quotes

There is among doctors, in acute hospitals at least, a presumption of stupidity in their patients.

I always assumed I'd be a terribly patient mum but it turns out I'm not!

No one has schizophrenia, like having a cold. The patient has not "got" schizophrenia. He is schizophrenic.

I am quite sure that a good number of "cures" of psychotics consist in the fact that the patient has decided, for one reason or other, once more to play at being sane.

So the patient went to the mountains, and do you know what? Next day a telegram arrived for the psychiatrist. The patient said in the telegram, 'I am feeling very happy - why?'

Work is the best of all psychotherapy, in my opinion. . . . As well might we expect a patient to recover without food as to recover without work.

Compassionate doctors sometimes lie to patients about the severity of their condition, and it is not always wrong to do so.

I realized in order to be involved in health policy, you really had to understand more than the individual patient that we as physicians, are taught to think about.

Older patients who live alone can become depressed.

I just think there's something in the non-fiction form that allows you to see things clearly, if you're patient.

The ideal doctor is patient.

People say mental hospitals are for the patients, in fact they are to protect society from them. They are justified in doing that. Society has to do what is best for itself.

Every cent that goes to research is changing the lives of patients and their families right now.

I'm as patient a father as I am on the tennis court. It takes a lot for me to get really upset, but sometimes kids can get you really cross if they really keep bugging you.

Feeling lonely and ignoble indicates that you haven't been patient.

"Tell me, doctor, " said the patient, "when I stand on my head, the blood rushes to it. Why doesn't it rush to my feet now?" "That's because your feet aren't empty," said the doctor.

I know the books that I need to help me to be wiser than my years and be kinder and more compassionate and more patient than I really am.

There was a patient look on the old man's face, as if the world were a great mistake and he had nobody with whom to speak his own language or find companionship.

There’s nothing more humbling than seeing your best quotes in a list, and thinking they could have been written by a coma patient with a keyboard and spasms.

It's hard to remain patient when it seems so debilitating to do so. The balance comes with staying ambitious while being patient.

That the horrible Zika virus or HIV, we can look at what it means to be patient zero, what it means to need not much contact to spread, and all of those things follow into the way ideas spread.

Maybe I'm a little biased, but shows like 'Dexter' and 'Southland,' I'm just enthralled by that sort of storytelling, kind of clever and patient.

Now circadian rhythms become very interesting and problematic for patients because when you become a teenager, your rhythms actually tend to naturally shift.

In general, there are patients with insomnia who - many patients with insomnia will actually over report the lack of sleep that they are getting.

While I support initiatives to improve quality and efficiency in Medicare, I do not believe that these efficiencies should come at the cost of patient well being.

But we have gone so far in the direction of over treating terminal patients that we've failed to recognize when we're doing more harm than good.

Never forget that it is not a pneumonia, but a pneumonic man who is your patient.

Your heart matters most, so be gentler and more patient with yourself, and their hearts matter most, too, so be kinder and more compassionate to others.

I've become more empathetic, and my capacity to understand and be patient - to give people a break - has enlarged over the years.

Happy and sad, elated and miserable, secure and afraid, loved and denied, patient and angry, peaceful and wild, complete and empty...all of it. I would feel everything. It would all be mine.

I've learned to be patient. When I was younger I rushed things a lot. I tried to attack the game. Now I get teammates more involved before I try to take over.

In Europe, war is a disease which has been in the family for generations: no one is surprised when it makes another leap. Even the patient only attends to it with part of his mind.

Loeb has been doing wonderfully patient work, exploring the American conscience from the inside. I regard him as something of a national treasure.

my present Profession is Physick - Now, when my Pockets are full, I cure a Patient in three Days; when they are empty, I keep him three Months.

Passenger rail development takes time, but good things come to those who are patient and stay the course.

I expect most psychiatrists have a patient or two they'd like to refer to me.

The patient, treated on the fashionable theory, sometimes gets well in spite of the medicine.

It's important to relax and not put too much pressure on oneself, players must be patient when striving to improve.

You just got to be #patient, be focused, you know there are lots of distractions out there.

Meditation has become an ingrained part of my everyday life that helps me feel so much more centered, patient and compassionate. It even gives me great physical energy.

When politicians rush to fix things, it's a sure sign that either the intended patient is dead or fully healed.

I try to be patient. I feel like the point of art is to go down within yourself and to pop up into other people. If you're lucky, all of a sudden you're like, "whoop!" You're in other people.

We have to be very careful not to blame the patients. A lot of the conversation [around patient engagement] has been, how do we get them to do stuff? To me, that's not engagement.

I'm reminded of a female patient who was particularly aroused by the shape of her husband's shoulder. And this hint of perversion should ideally remain a secret for both partners.

It's usually the stupid people that develop long illnesses. You need more than indolence and selfishness, you need endurance to make a good patient.

The patient that's on the floor with the cardiac arrest is not Wall Street. It's the American economy.

Dear doctor, you must not only let the patient tells his story, but you should also try to understand it.

When you have a paper based system, you are relying on your memory to a large extent about the patient. Now the paper records can have various kinds of ticklers.

The [Tumor Treating Fields] patients can undergo all the activities of their daily life. There's none of the tiredness. There's none of what is called the 'chemo head.'

Patience is, therefore, the faculty of enduring a painful sensation, and yet looking confidently and steadily to the period when that sensation shall cease.