John Shaw Billings quotes

There's nothing really difficult if you only begin - some people contemplate a task until it looms so big, it seems impossible, but I just begin and it gets done somehow. There would be no coral islands if the first bug sat down and began to wonder how the job was to be done.
-- John Shaw Billings

#Jobs #Islands #People

The education of the doctor which goes on after he has his degree is, after all, the most important part of his education.
-- John Shaw Billings

#Doctors #Important #Degrees

On speaking: first, have something to say; second, say it; third, stop when you have said it; and finally give it an accurate title.
-- John Shaw Billings

#Giving #Titles #Firsts

If free men refused to look at dead bodies then brave men will have died in vain.
-- John Shaw Billings

#Men #Brave #Looks

Statistics are somewhat like old medical journals, or like revolvers in newly opened mining districts. Most men rarely use them, and find it troublesome to preserve them so as to have them easy of access; but when they do want them, they want them badly.
-- John Shaw Billings

#Science #Men #Use

Its sort of my job to feel good.

You have to enjoy your job; you should wake up every day and love what you do... I honestly do... From the bottom of my heart to the depths of my soul. I'm truly happy.

I, talking about my children, of course I wanted them to succeed in life, they have to choose whatever job or occupation that they want, I will not try to influence.

Now then, Pooh," said Christopher Robin, "where's your boat?" "I ought to say," explained Pooh as they walked down to the shore of the island, "that it isn't just an ordinary sort of boat. Sometimes it's a Boat, and sometimes it's more of an Accident. It all depends." "Depends on what?" "On whether I'm on the top of it or underneath it.

Generally, I like all islands. There, it is easier to rule.

When, during the Second World War, the island of Malta came through three terrible years of bombardment and destruction, it was rightly awarded the George Medal for bravery: today Israel should be awarded a similar decoration for defending democracy, tolerance and Western values against a murderous onslaught that has lasted twenty times as long.

No nation as rich as ours should have so many people isolated on islands of poverty in such a sea of material wealth.

We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.

People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.

People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.