Sir William Gull, 1st Baronet quotes

Sir William Gull, 1st Baronet quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The road to a clinic goes through the pathologic museum and not through the apothecary's shop.”
-- Sir William Gull, 1st Baronet

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“Never forget that it is not a pneumonia, but a pneumonic man who is your patient.”
-- Sir William Gull, 1st Baronet

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“It was 1975. I had spent the year at the Boston Museum School doing some very bizarre performance works. The last one included going to the North Magnetic Pole and spending all of my money.”
“I think about that all of the time and I have this fantasy that I am going to work at a museum someday! I would love to do something like that!”
“Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes and easy smile is your museum.”
“As applied to substance abuse, the cognitive approach helps individuals to come to grips with the problems leading to emotional distress and to gain a broader perspective on their reliance on drugs for pleasure and/or relief from discomfort.”

Source : Aaron T. Beck, Fred D. Wright, Cory F. Newman, Bruce S. Liese (2011). “Cognitive Therapy of Substance Abuse”, p.47, Guilford Press
“Expressing oneself is like a drug. I'm so addicted to it.”
“Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can't stop. It's easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.”
“Everyone reaches their point in time where either they die or they get sick of doing drugs. It started getting debilitating. I enjoy my music a lot better than my drugs.”
“I ask of cinema what most North Americans ask of psychedelic drugs.”
“We are a nation of shop keepers.”

Source : Apsley Cherry-Garrard (2013). “The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctica, 1910-1913”, p.463, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
“I just love to shop. If I could, I would shop every single day in every single store and spend all of my money which, you know, I do anyway.”

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