A Quote by Michael Lewis

If you have a patient in a doctor's office who's just been told they have terminal cancer but there's this operation they could perform right now that might save their lives. ... They have a 90 percent chance of surviving the operation — if you tell them that, they respond one way. If you tell them ... that they have a 10 percent chance of being killed by the operation, they are about three times less likely to have the operation.

Michael Lewis

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Michael Lewis
American - Author
Born: October 15, 1960

A great operation on the wrong patient is just as bad as a horrible operation on the right patient. So, you have to have all that together.

Benjamin Carson

My non-co-operation is a token of my earnest longing for real heart co-operation in the place of co-operation falsely so called.

Mahatma Gandhi

One of my surgical giant friends had in his operating room a sign "If the operation is difficult, you aren't doing it right." What he meant was, you have to plan every operation You cannot ever be casual You have to realize that any operation is a potential fatality.

Joseph Murray

Whenever I see the word Operation, especially Trifling Operation, I at once write off the patient as dead.

George Bernard Shaw

I want co-operation between nations for the salvaging of civilization, but co-operation presupposes free nations worthy of co-operation.

Mahatma Gandhi

At times, non-co-operation becomes as much a duty as co-operation.

Mahatma Gandhi

The fossil fuel industry maintains a science denial operation and a political influence operation designed to do just that. What's good for their business is more important to them than what's good for America.

Sheldon Whitehouse

Since I came to the White House, I got two hearing aids, a colon operation, skin cancer, a prostate operation, and I was shot. The damn thing is, I've never felt better in my life.

Ronald Reagan

Non-co-operation intended to pave the way to real honourable and voluntary co-operation based on mutual respect and trust.

Mahatma Gandhi

I was a co-operator too in the sense that I non-co-operated for co-operation, and even then I said that if I could carry the country forward by co-operation I should co-operate.

Mahatma Gandhi

Life is for the living. I was a little scared before surgery 'cause of the release you sign that says there's always a very small percent chance that you'll die during the operation.

Billy West

War on terror is far less of a military operation and far more of an intelligence-gathering, law-enforcement operation.

John F. Kerry

Anything is possible. You can be told that you have a 90-percent chance or a 50-percent chance or a 1-percent chance, but you have to believe, and you have to fight.

Lance Armstrong

Operation Peace for Galilee is not a military operation resulting from the lack of an alternative.

Menachem Begin

If you don't understand how to run an efficient operation, new machinery will just give you new problems of operation and maintenance. The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.

W. Edwards Deming

In the very act of my non-co-operation, I am seeking their co-operation in my campaign.

Mahatma Gandhi

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