A Quote by Michael Hyatt

Criticism is like medicine. It’s poison unless carefully administered at the right dose.

Michael Hyatt

Quote Topics

Carefully Criticism Dose Like Like Me Medicine Poison Right Unless

Quote Author

Michael Hyatt

The right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy

Paracelsus

Tout est poison, rien n'est poison, tout est une question de dose. Everything is poisonous, nothing is poisonous, it is all a matter of dose.

Claude Bernard

Refusing to forgive is like ingesting a lethal dose of poison and hoping it kills my enemy.

Max Lucado

Falsehood, like poison, will generally be rejected when administered alone; but when blended with wholesome ingredients may be swallowed unperceived.

Richard Whately

Reproof is a medicine, like mercury or opium; if it be improperly administered, it will do harm instead of good.

Horace Mann

The government of heaven, if wickedly administered, would become one of the worst governments upon the face of the earth. No matter how good a government is, unless it is administered by righteous men, an evil government will be made of it.

Brigham Young

The dose makes the poison.

Paracelsus

My daughter and I are so close. I can describe anything she's doing, the least little thing, and I get all excited about it. It's like medicine. When I come home from work and the first thing I see is her and she runs and jumps in my arms - everything that went bad in the day goes completely out the window. It's like taking a dose of medicine. It makes everything better.

Nancy O'Dell

Vanity is the poison of agreeableness; yet as poison, when artfully and properly applied, has a salutary effect in medicine, so has vanity in the commerce and society of the world.

Sir Fulke Greville

Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.

B. R. Ambedkar

I know that there is not in the world a more subtle poison than that which is extracted from and administered by books.

Charlotte Dacre

All things are poisons. It is simply the dose that distinguishes between a poison and a remedy.

Paracelsus

A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.

William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

You can have villains like the Penguin, who strut around in a tuxedo with an umbrella, and Poison Ivy and all of the fantastic stuff she does, but unless there's a bit of a human in there, and unless there's a credible threat, then Batman himself doesn't work.

Paul Dini

Water is the medicine for indigestion; it is invigorating when the food that is eaten is well digested; it is like nectar when drunk in the middle of a dinner; and it is like poison when taken at the end of a meal.