Hildegard Peplau quotes

“Nursing has made great progress from being an occupation to becoming a profession in the 20th. Century. As the 21st. Century approaches, further progress will be reported and recorded in Cyberspace - The Internet being one conduit for that. Linking nurses and their information and knowledge across borders - around the world - will surely advance the profession of nursing much more rapidly in the next century”
-- Hildegard Peplau

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“Why the increasing emphasis by professional age experts and the media on - and public acceptance of - the nursing home as the locus of age when, in fact, more than ninety percent of those over sixty-five continue to live in the community?”

“You sit back in the darkness, nursing your beer, breathing in that ineffable aroma of the old-time saloon: dark wood, spilled beer, good cigars, and ancient whiskey - the sacred incense of the drinking man.”

“I'm going to have cute ***** 'til I'm 90, so there's that. I'll have the best ***** in the nursing home. I'll be the envy of all the ladies around the bridge table.”

“'Project Runway' was my guilty pleasure while my son was napping or nursing.”

“I did a little film called Nina, a small role. I played a French girl who was a nurse to Nina Simone. Zoe Saldana plays Nina.”

“Nurse Rozetta, I won't let her catch me peering down her sweeter.”

“America's nurses are the beating heart of our medical system.”

“If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope. One of the central lessons I have learned after a half century of working in the developing world is that the replacement of fear by hope is probably the single most powerful trampoline of progress.”

Source : Aga Khan IV's address to the Tutzing Evangelical Academy Upon Receiving the "Tolerance" Award in Tutzing, Germany, May 20, 2006.

“To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the things that you do not like to do. You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.”

Source : Agnes Martin (2005). “Schriften”, Cantz

“Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.”