Top 1200 Becoming A Doctor Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

The steep price tag of cancer treatment needs to continue to be a part of the national conversation, not just the patient-doctor one.

What you are thinking is what you are becoming.

Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it, but also the father who wipes away the tears.

Writing is not "the establishment of a professional reputation" as if one were a doctor or lawyer; it is not properly in the sentence with creation of a family and the purchase of a home.

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

I think it is easy to be a doctor. There are a hell of a lot more doctors than there are guys riding big Pipeline.

A few years ago, I thought, I'll never make it. I started to go to the doctor to help me lose weight.

I would have loved to have been science-minded enough to be in the caring profession - either as a doctor or nurse or vet.

I'd just turned 50, weighed 285, and my doctor had read me the riot act about my health.

So it's sheer terror, but then, this is the whole reason that we went so long to Doctor Simons, was to get rid of all these... mixed feelings that we had.

My mother says I was two and a half when I first mentioned I wanted to be an actor. My father said, 'The word is pronounced 'Doctor!'

The code of Hammurabi in ancient Babylon prescribed this punishment for a doctor convicted of inept surgery: amputation of the hands.

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.

The doctor who applied a stethoscope to my heart was not satisfied. I was told to get my papers with the clerk in the outer hall. I was medically rejected.

I have lived temperately....I double the doctor's recommendation of a glass and a half wine each day and even treble it with a friend.

We should stop selecting leaders from a subset of Oxbridge egomaniacs with a humanities degree and a spell as spin doctor.

Yes, my father is bald, but I found a way to save my hair. I met with a doctor in Brazil who has developed a special treatment.

As soon as I finished 'Doctor Foster,' I obviously wanted to run straight home to give my husband a big cuddle.

In an ideal world, 'Doctor Who' makes the whole nation eight years old, with that excitement and engagement and wide-eyedness.

It is part of politics to make things look better than they really are. What is a spin doctor but a serial euphemiser?

My kids' doctor will quickly answer any email, even if it's 11:00 at night. That's important to me.

If all power corrupts, then a doctor, who literally holds life and death in his hands, must be at particular risk.

Even though Doctor Strange is an established character, when you're doing an origin story there's a lot of room for manoeuvre.

Would still love to do something with the 'Doctor Who' franchise at some point because I know they have a lot of fun.

My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies.

I think that I had better go, Holmes." "Not a bit, doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell.

Anxiety projection can and does occur - in myth, in music, in fiction, and in the doctor's office too. That doesn't make it the basis of everything.

So is this how it works Doctor? You never interfere with the affairs of other peoples or planets, unless there are children crying?

My favorite Marvel villain is Doctor Doom from Fantastic Four. For DC, I think it's a popular choice, but it's the Joker.

Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.

I think 'Doctor Who' is the greatest idea television has ever had, and our job is to convince the rest of the world.

We are all in the process of becoming.

It's been important to cultures throughout history with the court jester and the witch doctor and the shaman - all preach the same thing.

What you are to be, you are now becoming.

Action and becoming are one.

My doctor told me I should get out of breath three times a week, so I took up smoking.

I went to a doctor and told him I felt normal on acid, that I was a light bulb in a world of moths. That is what the manic state is like.

My childhood best friend is an anesthesiologist. It's the least amount of human interaction for a doctor. I don't think you can get that burned out on it.

Faste knew better than to argue with a doctor, since they were the closest things to God's representatives here on Earth.

I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away.

It's typical for people living in nonurban areas to drive 100 miles to go to work, to the grocery store or to the doctor.

I wanted Jeev to become doctor or an engineer, but after seeing his talent and interest in golf, I dropped that idea.

Just heard the best word in the English language: benign. (And I don't need to see that doctor again for five years.)

Finally the homeless eel marked its territory, I suppose, and the Doctor lay heavily upon me, moist with sweat.

I grew up in a home and in a world in which you can do anything. We were all expected to go to college. My father was a doctor.

I had a video made of my recent knee operation. The doctor said it was the best movie I ever starred in.

Read Becoming a Writer by Dorothea Brande. Then do what it says, including the tasks you think are impossible. You will particularly hate the advice to write first thing in the morning, but if you can manage it, it might well be the best thing you ever do for yourself. This book is about becoming a writer from the inside out. Many later advice manuals derive from it. You don't ­really need any others, though if you want to boost your confidence, "how to" books seldom do any harm. You can kick-start a whole book with some little writing exercise.

Just out of curiosity, sweetheart; did you ever talk to your doctor about givin' you some tranquilizers?

Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession.

No doctor is going to do an abortion on a live fetus. That doesn't happen. Doctors don't do that. If they do, they'll get their license pulled, as well they should.

I played a doctor on 'Chicago Hope' 15 years or so ago, and I did go and watch an open heart surgery.

Too often, patients without a primary doctor go to expensive hospital emergency rooms for nonurgent care.

I married someone 30 years older than me, a doctor, a playboy who had a terrible Don Juan reputation.

What you're thinking is what you're becoming.

'School of Rock' was just once in a lifetime things; I want to be a doctor, actually. I'd go an do the sequel if they asked me to.

My dad is a big extrovert - he's a doctor - but he always loved [William] Shakespeare and he took us to tons of theater.

The thing about 'Doctor Who' is it's chased around the world, so there's 50 fans hanging out at every location.

I've changed my own lifestyle since a doctor warned me my cholesterol levels meant I was in danger of a heart attack.

For me becoming a painter was an Everest, in terms of what I thought a painter was. There are many roads to becoming an artist. For me it wasn't art school. I didn't have that go to art school and then get a gallery. It's more like, how deep is your inner library to cull from. It's certainly not about technical prowess, just about depth of investigation. It takes time. I had 15 years of painting under my belt before my first New York show. I was glad to have that. It's a good thing to spend your twenties getting your craft.

'Doctor Who' is not as literary as 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' is - books have come out, but they are from the television episodes. So there is that difference... it's more scholastic.