Patient Quotes:

Be very, very patient and very open-minded, and listen to what people have to say.

- A. J. McLean

topic: People, Open Minded, Patient

Keep your head up and be patient.

- A. J. McLean

topic: Patient, Be Patient, Heads Up

Everybody knows that I am not usually patient enough to actually sit down and watch one of my own films from the beginning to the end - I never do.

- Abbas Kiarostami

topic: Down And, Watches, Patient

The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.

- Abraham Flexner

source: Abraham Flexner (1910). “Medical Education in the United States and Canada: A Report to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching”

topic: Facts, Students, Patient, Evaluate

The only person who is a worse liar than a faith healer is his patient.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Liars, Atheism, Patient, Alternative Medicine

We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.

- Abraham Verghese

topic: Average, Physicians, Patient

Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam.

- Abraham Verghese

topic: Patient, Exam, Heartbeat

I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it's only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important.

- Abraham Verghese

topic: Important, Way, Patient, Computer Screen

By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.

- Abraham Verghese

topic: Home, Helping, Patient

I tell patients that tranquilizers alone never cure anyone. They merely reduce the intensity of the symptoms and make life slightly more endurable. They create a better behaved, chronic dependent person. Only with orthomolecular treatment can the majority of schizophrenic patients hope to become well and normally independent.

- Abram Hoffer

source: Abram Hoffer, CREATESPACE (2009). “Orthomolecular Medicine for Everyone: Megavitamin Therapeutics for Families and Physicians”, p.108, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Independent, Majority, Patient

Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients ...

- Agnes Repplier

topic: Love Is, Common, Patient

I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients.

- Al Alvarez

topic: Mean, Patient

So we had psychiatrists and counselors and therapists around the set regularly, especially for those scenes in which Jason would be dealing with a patient to make sure we were doing it all appropriately.

- Alan Thicke

topic: Jason, Would Be, Patient, Counselor

Every patient carries his or her own doctor inside.

- Albert Schweitzer

topic: Health, Doctors, Patient

Within every patient there resides a doctor, and we as physicians are at our best when we we put our patients in touch with the doctor inside themselves.

- Albert Schweitzer

topic: Doctors, Physicians, Patient

He used to say to his melancholia patients: "You can be cured in fourteen days if you follow this prescription.Try to think every day how you can please someone.

- Alfred Adler

topic: Thinking, Trying, Patient

We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms.

- Alfred Adler

topic: Use, Patient, Neglect

The planetary-etheric body is whole, unbroken and continuous; of this etheric body, those of the healer and patient are intrinsic parts...

- Alice Bailey

topic: Unbroken, Body, Patient

I am a sprinter, and I love to go fast. It's very difficult for me to be patient and follow a race strategy or conserve energy.

- Allyson Felix

topic: Race, Energy, Patient, Sprinters

Not having hair makes me feel like a cancer patient.

- Amanda Bynes

topic: Cancer, Hair, Patient, Cancer Patients

Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Physicians, Literature, Patient

Paper is more patient than man.

- Anne Frank

topic: Men, Paper, Patient

Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after all, the case. What would you begin writing if you knew you would die soon? What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality?

- Annie Dillard

topic: Writing, Dying, Patient, Terminal, Triviality

Every 30 seconds a patient dies from diseases that could be treated with tissue replacement,

- Anthony Atala

topic: Tissues, Disease, Patient

People are not patient anymore.

- Antonio Banderas

source: "Actor Antonio Banderas". "Tavis Smiley" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. October 18, 2011.

topic: People, Patient

I got interested in the emotions after studying patients who had lost the ability to emote and feel under certain circumstances. Many of those patients also had major impairments in their ability to make decisions.

- Antonio Damasio

topic: Decision, Emotion, Patient, Emote

Sometimes the words against a selfish have to be sharp, straight and blunt; it is very much like after the failure of all medications to cure a mental patient the only option left to revive him now is to give him a shock treatment through an electric current.

- Anuj

topic: Selfish, Giving, Patient, Electric Current

When he can render no further aid, the physician alone can mourn as a man with his incurable patient. This is the physician's sad lot.

- Aretaeus of Cappadocia

topic: Men, Physicians, Patient

It is no part of a physician's business to use either persuasion or compulsion upon the patients.

- Aristotle

topic: Physicians, Use, Patient

You should treat as many patients as possible with the new drugs while they still have the power to heal.

- Armand Trousseau

topic: Drug, Statistics, Patient

Patients describing the benefits of prayer often talk about how it provides a sense of well being.

- Armstrong Williams

topic: Prayer, Benefits, Patient

If you are too fond of new remedies, first you will not cure your patients; secondly, you will have no patients to cure.

- Astley Cooper

source: The Lectures on the Principles and Practice of Surgery with Additional Notes and Cases by Frederick Tyrell, Vol. 2. Thomas and George Underwood, London (1824) (Description of the first ligation of the aorta in (1817) for left femoral aneurysm)

topic: Science, Firsts, Patient

Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.

- Baz Luhrmann

source: Song: Everybody's Free

topic: Advice, Patient, Birth, Wear Sunscreen, Sunscreen

Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.

- Beatrice Webb

topic: Strong, Fear, Patient, Narcotics

Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.

- Bernard Berenson

topic: Believe, Mind, Patient, Intestines

Do as much as possible for the patient, and as little as possible to the patient.

- Bernard Lown

topic: Medicine, Littles, Patient

And I have always told the patients when I talk to them. When they come around and say, "What will you have to drink? Oh that's right you don't drink." Just speak up and say, 'Of course I drink. But I just don't drink alcohol.'

- Betty Ford

topic: Alcohol, Patient, Speak, Don't Drink Alcohol

My trainer Jimmy Tibbs and my promoter Frank Warren told me that I had to be patient and get the jab going.

- Billy Joe Saunders

topic: Patient, Trainers, Frank, Promoters

I realized that work doesnt beget work. Good work begets work. So I got a lot more patient and stopped worrying about working all the time.

- Brady Corbet

topic: Worry, Patient, Good Work, Working All The Time

I'm patient with crossword puzzles and the most impatient golfer.

- Brett Hull

topic: Patient, Impatience, Golfers, Crosswords

Abraham Lincoln was not all brooding and melancholy and patient understanding. There was a hard core in him, and plenty of toughness. He could recognize a revolutionary situation when he saw one, and he could act fast and ruthlessly to meet it.

- Bruce Catton

source: Bruce Catton (2011). “This Hallowed Ground: A History of the Civil War”, p.27, Vintage

topic: Understanding, Saws, Patient, Hard Core

By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Arguing, Patient, Argument, Screwtape Letters

Be patient? That's all you've got for me?" Steve complained ten minutes later. Kylie glanced up at Perry, circling them as they sat behind the office, and then frowned at Steve. "I don't know why everyone thinks I'm the love guru.

- C.C. Hunter

topic: Thinking, Office, Patient

The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.

- Carlos Santana

topic: Giving, Choices, Patient

Patience is a grace as difficult as it is necessary, and as hard to come by as it is precious when it is gained.

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Grace, Patient, Be Patient

Strokes are preventable and treatable. Prompt treatment of patients experiencing stroke saves lives and reduces disability.

- Charles W. Pickering

topic: Inspirational, Patient, Disability

I am patient with my needs, kind with my words, and respectful of my soft places.

- Cheryl Richardson

topic: Needs, Patient, Kind

Be patient. Life can seem pretty gray while those beautiful wings of yours are being formed. All in due time, dear one. All in due time.

- Cheryl Richardson

topic: Beautiful, Wings, Patient, Dear Ones, Due Time

The exceptional patient is the person who, despite their diagnosis, takes charge of their health and decides to be responsible to their illness or their condition and not necessarily feel responsible for it. One stance is drenched in blame and the other is full of power.

- Christiane Northrup

topic: Healing, Diagnosis, Patient

The best patients are the worst patients. Nudge, nudge, nudge. Don't sit back and accept anything that fails to satisfy you. Speak up, protect your interests.

- Claire Fagin

topic: Nudge, Patient, Speak, Nudge Nudge

... patients seldom run amuck at mealtime.

- Clifford Whittingham Beers

source: Clifford Whittingham Beers (2015). “A Mind That Found Itself”, p.71, Sheba Blake Publishing

topic: Running, Patient

I think that being a mom has made me a better person. I'm much more patient and much more chill than I was before.

- Cobie Smulders

source: "Expect the ‘Unexpected’ with Cobie Smulders". Interview with Angela Dawson, frontrowfeatures.com. July 23, 2015.

topic: Mom, Thinking, Patient

Patience is like good motor oil. It doesn't remove all the contaminants. It just puts them into suspension so they don't get into your works and seize them up. Patient people have, so to speak, a large crankcase. They can put a lot of irritants into suspension.

- Cornelius Plantinga

topic: Oil, People, Patient, Irritants, Motor Oil

I'm usually a patient guy anyway.

- Curtis Joseph

topic: Guy, Patient

Many patients imagine that they have tried everything. True, they have used many remedies, but they have never had the cause of their infirmity adjusted.

- Daniel D. Palmer

topic: Causes, Patient, Imagine

Tidy fees are the most effective remedy, both for the doctor and the patient.

- Dario Fo

topic: Doctors, Patient, Fees

The most underutilized resource in all of health care is the patient.

- Dave deBronkart

topic: Care, Patient, Health Care

Patients know what patients want to know.

- Dave deBronkart

topic: Want, Patient

If you have good stocks and you really know them, you'll make money if you're patient over three years or more.

- David Dreman

topic: Years, Three, Patient

There is nothing which so certifies the genuineness of a man's faith as his patience and his patient endurance, his keeping on steadily in spite of everything.

- David Lloyd-Jones

source: D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (2016). “Spiritual Depression: Its Causes and Cures”, p.144, Zondervan

topic: Men, Endurance, Patient

Curious patients are more receptive to new ideas, and those who engage their health practitioners in a dialogue are much more likely to adhere to these recommendations.

- Dean Ornish

topic: Ideas, Patient, Curious

An educated patient is empowered; thus, more likely to become healthy.

- Dean Ornish

source: "Sharecare Builds A Web 3.0 Bridge To Better Health" by Dean Ornish, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

topic: Healthy, Patient, Educated

But I like it when my patients are impressed not knowing that I was an Olympian.

- Debi Thomas

topic: Knowing, Not Knowing, Patient, Olympian

Every cannabis user is a medical patient whether they know it or not

- Dennis Peron

topic: Medical, Patient, Cannabis

Topaz was wonderfully patient - but sometimes I wonder if it is not only patience, but also a faint resemblance to cows.

- Dodie Smith

topic: Cows, Topaz, Patient

We are guests in our patients' lives.

- Donald Berwick

source: "Patient Reviews: Putting Doctors on the Examining Table" by Mark Britton, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 24, 2011.

topic: Guests, Patient

Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.

- Earl Monroe

topic: Inspirational Sports, Games, Patient

Being too happy is bad for you. 8 on 1 10-scale is just right. Eg. cancer patients are more likely to survive if they're at an 8 instead of 9 or 10.

- Ed Diener

topic: Cancer, Patient, Cancer Patients

Taub Therapy gives patients hope that they can recapture the life they had before suffering a stroke or TBI.

- Edward Taub

topic: Giving, Suffering, Patient

When we go slower, we are more patient and when we are more patient we have a choice in how we respond.

- Eknath Easwaran

source: Eknath Easwaran (2010). “Words to Live By: Short Readings of Daily Wisdom”, p.231, Nilgiri Press

topic: Choices, Patient

All the power of the occult healer lies in his conscious will, and all his art consists in producing faith in the patient.

- Eliphas Levi

topic: Art, Lying, Patient, Occult

My patients taught me not how to die, but how to live.

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

topic: Taught, Patient

You've got to clock the hours and pay your dues. Then eventually, people will come to you. You have to be patient and appreciative.

- Elisabeth Rohm

topic: People, Pay, Patient

I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended, and patient when there be no redress.

- Elizabeth Montagu

source: Elizabeth Montagu, Emily J. Climenson (2011). “Elizabeth Montagu, the Queen of the Bluestockings: Her Correspondence from 1720 to 1761”, p.36, Cambridge University Press

topic: Wise, Patient, Easy, Redress

I'd be smiling if I wasn't so desperate. I'd be patient if I had the time.

- Emeli Sande

topic: Patient, Be Patient, Desperate

Be patient and loving with yourself. You weren't meant to be your biggest critic, but your biggest fan.

- Emily Kinney

topic: Fans, Patient, Critics, Biggest Fan

I've been at stand-up for years: after a while, you get as jaded as the proverbial gynecologist who no longer enjoys drugging and violating his patients.

- Emo Philips

topic: Years, Gynecologists, Patient

I am reminded of a colleague who reiterated all my homosexual patients are quite sick - to which I finally replied so are all my heterosexual patients.

- Ernest Van den Haag

topic: Gay, Sick, Patient, Lgbt Pride, Gay Pride

Only a mother's heart can be Patient enough for such as he.

- Ethel Lynn Beers

source: Ethel Lynn Beers, Mrs. Ethelinda Elliot Beers (1879). “All Quiet Along the Potomac: And Other Poems”

topic: Mother, Heart, Patient

The Doctor's Motto: Have patients.

- Ethel Mumford

topic: Doctors, Patient, Motto

Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath too seriously, as an imperative to do everything for the patient regardless of the cost or effects on others

- Ezekiel Emanuel

source: Journal of the American Medical Association, nypost.com. June 18, 2008.

topic: Doctors, Cost, Patient

Having been an oncologist and having cared for scores, if not hundreds, of dying patients, when you don't have a treatment that can shrink the tumor and the patient will die, it's a very difficult conversation. It's emotionally draining.

- Ezekiel Emanuel

topic: Dying, Patient, Treatment, Oncologists, Tumors

An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia.

- Ezekiel Emanuel

topic: Example, Patient, Obvious

Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.

- Florence Nightingale

source: Florence Nightingale, Michael D. Calabria, Janet A. Macrae (1994). “Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale: Selections and Commentaries”, p.17, University of Pennsylvania Press

topic: Nursing, Nurse, Patient

Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.

- Florence Nightingale

topic: Nursing, Nurse, Patient

If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.

- Frances Farmer

topic: Patient, Treated, Persons

In perplexities-when we cannot tell what to do, when we cannot understand what is going on around us, let us be calmed and steadied and made patient by the thought that what is hidden from us is not hidden from Him

- Frances Ridley Havergal

source: Frances Ridley Havergal (1887). “My King, Or, Daily Thoughts for the King's Children”

topic: Patient, Made, Lack Of Understanding, Words Of Encouragement

Be patient in trials, watchful in prayer, and never cease working.

- Francis of Assisi

topic: Prayer, Trials, Patient

The present system of protecting NHS patients was a bit of a shambles.

- Frank Dobson

topic: Nhs, Patient, Shambles

So the effect of this Republican provision to allow doctors to be gagged from even discussing abortion with their patients is outrageous.

- Frank Lautenberg

topic: Doctors, Abortion, Patient

The patient needs an experience, not an explanation.

- Frieda Fromm-Reichmann

topic: Needs, Patient, Explanation

Wise to resolve, patient to perform.

- Friedrich Schiller

topic: Wise, Patient, Resolve

I'm not good at chatting right away. Women have to be very patient with me, I suppose.

- Garrett Hedlund

topic: Patient, Chatting

The patient is sinking while the doctors deliberate.

- George C. Marshall

topic: War, Doctors, Patient

It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.

- George Eliot

topic: Patience, Patient, Reason

I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.

- Gertrude Stein

topic: Patience, Literature, Patient

Being patient means to welcome wholeheartedly whatever arises,

- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

topic: Mean, Welcome, Patient

Let the young know they will never find a more interesting, more instructive book than the patient himself.

- Giorgio Baglivi

topic: Book, Interesting, Patient

It is needless to say that women make the most patient as well as the most dangerous pickpockets.

- Harry Houdini

topic: Patient, Dangerous, Wells

Ideally, I'm also sending a message that everything passes, even hope, and sometimes you have to be patient while you wait for it to come back around again.

- Heather Donahue

topic: Waiting, Messages, Patient, Sending A Message

If there is one lesson that I have learned during my life as an analyst, it is the lesson that what my patients tell me is likely to be true - that many times when I believed that I was right and my patients were wrong, it turned out, though often only after a prolonged search, that my rightness was superficial whereas their rightness was profound.

- Heinz Kohut

source: Heinz Kohut (2009). “How Does Analysis Cure?”, p.93, University of Chicago Press

topic: Profound, Lessons, Patient, Psychoanalytic, Trueness

God, teach me to be patient, teach me to go slow

- Helen Steiner Rice

topic: Patience, Patient, Be Patient

We are all healers who can reach out and offer health, and we are all patients in constant need of help.

- Henri Nouwen

topic: Needs, Helping, Patient, Healer

Let nothing disturb thee, Nothing affright thee; All things are passing; God never changeth; Patient endurance Attaineth to all things; Who God possesseth In nothing is wanting; Alone God sufficeth.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Patience, Endurance, Patient

Psychiatrist to patient: Maybe you don't have a complex. Maybe you are inferior.

- Herbert Stein

topic: Modern Life, Patient, Modern

My poor are my best patients. God pays for them.

- Herman Boerhaave

topic: Charity, Pay, Patient

I really admire people who are extraordinarily tolerant and patient

- Holly Hunter

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: People, Patient, Admire

Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.

- Homer

topic: Wise, Reality, Patient

Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate

- Horace Mann

topic: Genius, May, Patient

The patients who constantly feel their pulse are not getting any better.

- Hubert Van Zeller

topic: Healing, Pulse, Patient

Avoiding the temptation to sin and being patient upon that, is greater than being patient whilst being afflicted with trials.

- Ibn Taymiyyah

topic: Temptation, Trials, Patient

He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they were to call. (107)

- Irvin D. Yalom

topic: Long, Patient, Easier

Psychotherapy is a cyclical process from isolation into relationship. It is cyclical because the patient, in terror of existential isolation, relates deeply and meaningfully to the therapist and then, strengthened by this encounter, is led back again to a confrontation with existential isolation.

- Irvin D. Yalom

topic: Encounters, Patient, Isolation, Psychotherapy

The doctor-patient relationship is critical to the placebo effect.

- Irving Kirsch

topic: Doctors, Patient, Placebo, Placebo Effect

Be patient when it seems things are not going right and may never be right again. Accept that what is yours will come to you in the right way at just the right moment.

- Iyanla Vanzant

topic: May, Way, Patient

Let us learn to be patient in the days of darkness, if we know anything of vital union with Christ.

- J. C. Ryle

topic: Darkness, Unions, Patient

There is no well-doing, no Godlike doing, that is not patient doing.

- J. G. Holland

topic: Patience, Patient, Godlike

There is always a prepared place for a prepared person.

- Jack Hyles

topic: Patient, Be Patient, Prepared

I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I'm a killer.

- Jack Kevorkian

topic: Killers, Helping, Patient

The patient decides when it's best to go.

- Jack Kevorkian

topic: Patient

You've never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.

- James D. Watson

topic: Lovers, Patient, Heard

In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient.

- James Hillman

topic: Hatred, Black, Patient, Bowels, Purging

We are, every one of us, like a wise guru in charge of a mental patient.

- Jamie Catto

topic: Wise, Patient, Guru

Analysts keep having to pick away at the scab that the patient tries to form between himself and the analyst to cover over his wounds. The analyst keeps the surface raw, so that the wound will heal properly.

- Janet Malcolm

topic: Trying, Patient, Analysts, Scabs

Editors and their authors seldom form deep friendships for the same reason that psychiatrists and their patients keep their distance: The relationship requires candor that mixes poorly with intimacy.

- Jason Epstein

topic: Distance, Editors, Patient, Candor, Deep Friendship

Be patient. Do the best with what you know. When you know more, adjust the trajectory.

- Jen Hatmaker

source: Jen Hatmaker (2012). “7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess”, p.109, B&H Publishing Group

topic: Patient, Be Patient, Trajectory

In November, 1964 when I was a patient at the Mayo Clinic I though seriously about killing myself.

- Jerry Kramer

topic: November, Patient, Killing, Killing Myself

True philosophy is that which renders us to ourselves, and all others who surround us, better, and at the same time more content, more patient, more calm and more ready for all decent and pure enjoyment.

- Johann Kaspar Lavater

topic: Philosophy, Calm, Patient

Be purposeful. Be patient, and be active!

- John Assaraf

source: John Assaraf, Murray Smith (2008). “The Answer: Grow Any Business, Achieve Financial Freedom, and Live an Extraordinary Life”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

topic: Action, Patient, Be Patient

I don't want anybody between a doctor and a patient - not an insurance company bureaucrat or a Washington bureaucrat.

- John Barrasso

topic: Doctors, Want, Patient, Insurance Companies

Beware the wrath of a patient adversary.

- John C. Calhoun

topic: Wrath, Patient, Adversaries

Beware the fury of a patient man.

- John Dryden

topic: Anger, Men, Patient, Keep Patience, Life Patience

Beware of the fury of the patient man.

- John Dryden

topic: Men, Atheism, Patient

It is my impression that 'pain-killing' drugs improve the patient's mood rather than take away the pain.

- John E. Sarno

topic: Pain, Drug, Patient

A knowledgeable physical therapist can slowly build up patients' confidence by reassuring them that there is no structural problem and reminding them of the physiologic reason for the pain.

- John E. Sarno

topic: Pain, Patient, Problem, Physical Therapist

Do not work primarily for money; do your duty to patients first and let the money follow; our life is short, we don't live twice; the whirlwind will pick up the leaves and spin them, but then it will drop them and they will form a pile.

- John Hersey

source: John Hersey (1946). “Hiroshima”, Knopf

topic: Life Is Short, Firsts, Patient

Maybe I'll try to be more patient with morons.

- Jonathan Safran Foer

topic: Trying, Patient, Moron

The paper is patient, but the reader is not.

- Joseph Joubert

topic: Paper, Patient, Reader

Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patients renal and cardiopulmonary status. This spectacular success was a clear demonstration that organ transplantation could be life-saving.

- Joseph Murray

topic: Saving, Kidneys, Patient, Life Saving

To the patient, any operation is momentous.

- Joseph Murray

topic: Patient, Operations

When traveling in rural Africa, it's important to not actually *go* to a hospital until the patient is on the brink of expiration, otherwise things are apt to get worse.

- Josh Gates

source: Josh Gates (2011). “Destination Truth: Memoirs of a Monster Hunter”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

topic: Important, Patient

Marijuana is beneficial to many patients

- Joycelyn Elders

topic: Marijuana, Patient, Beneficial

The heaviness leaves, and if I'm patient enough it can be replaced by something I need, somthing that would fill instead of drown and let me breathe instead of bleed.

- Karin Lowachee

topic: Needs, Patient, Breathe, Heaviness

Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility.

- Karl Abraham

source: Karl Abraham (1988). “Selected Papers on Psychoanalysis”, p.62, Karnac Books

topic: Patient, Affection, Violent, Psychoanalytic

When the depressive psychosis has become manifest, its cardinal feature seems to be a mental inhibition which renders a rapport between the patient and the external world more difficult.

- Karl Abraham

source: Karl Abraham (1968). “Selected Papers, with an Introductory Memoir by Ernest Jones”

topic: Psychosis, World, Patient, Depressive, Rapport

Whereas the melancholic exhibits a state of general inhibition, in the manic patient even normal inhibitions of the instincts are partly or wholly abolished.

- Karl Abraham

source: Karl Abraham (1988). “Selected Papers of Karl Abraham, M.D.”

topic: Normal, Patient, Instinct

The best way to get around in New York is to be both rich and patient ...

- Kate Simon

topic: New York, Way, Patient

Thank you Lord, for being patient with me. For its so hard to see, when my eyes are on me.

- Keith Green

topic: Eye, Patient, Thank You Lord

I'm not a patient person.

- Lance Armstrong

topic: Patient, Persons, Patient Person

Not to employ prayer with my patients was the equivalent of deliberately withholding a potent drug or surgical procedure.

- Larry Dossey

source: Larry Dossey (2011). “Healing Words: The Power of Prayer and the Practice of Medicine”, p.18, Harper Collins

topic: Prayer, Drug, Patient

Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind.

- Lauryn Hill

topic: Be Kind, Patient, Blind

Allah tests our patience and our fortitude. He tests out strength of faith. be patient and there will endless rewards for you, insha'Allah" - Utaz Badr

- Leila Aboulela

topic: Tests, Rewards, Patient

Be patient. Life will offer you another chance as soon as you find calm within, for abundance is born out of calmness.

- Leon Brown

topic: Another Chance, Calm, Patient

I spent my 20s working in patient care at a large university hospital, an experience that has informed all my work and has given me a lot of human observation to draw on.

- Lois McMaster Bujold

topic: Care, Patient, Given, Patient Care

It's a good thing I'm a reasonably patient woman. Otherwise, I might have to kill you.

- Lora Leigh

topic: Might, Patient, Good Things

...a capital patient, as she never died and never got well.

- Louisa May Alcott

topic: Patient, Wells

He was a patient with a diagnosis that he couldn't understand.

- Maggie Stiefvater

topic: Diagnosis, Patient

Illness and death are not optional. Patients have a right to determine how they approach them.

- Marcia Angell

topic: Illness And Death, Patient, Approach

Some patients do seem to have some kind of post-infection meltdown. They don't still have an infection any more in any sense that we understand infection. But someone is going to have to explain these patients to me someday.

- Mark Crislip

topic: Pain, Patient, Kind, Meltdowns

What goes down usually goes back up, if you're willing to be patient and don't hit the panic button.

- Mark Mobius

source: Mark Mobius (2012). “The Little Book of Emerging Markets: How To Make Money in the World's Fastest Growing Markets”, p.102, John Wiley & Sons

topic: Panic, Buttons, Patient

Some things you can't find out; but you will never know you can't by guessing and supposing: no, you have to be patient and go on experimenting until you find out that you can't find out.

- Mark Twain

topic: Goes On, Guessing, Patient, Supposing That

You can feel like a mental patient, but that doesn't mean you have to act like one.

- Marsha M. Linehan

topic: Mean, Patient, Mental Illness

It is not the most brilliant that excel in film, but the most patient!

- Martin Scorsese

topic: Excellence, Brilliant, Patient

Few gynecologists recommend to their heterosexual patients the most foolpoof of solutions, namely, misterectomy.

- Mary Daly

topic: Doctors, Gynecologists, Patient

Sometimes things aren't clear right away. That's where you need to be patient and persevere and see where things lead.

- Mary Pierce

topic: Patience, Needs, Patient, No Patience, I Have No Patience

Patience and endurance were not virtues in a woman; they were necessities, forced on her. Perhaps some day things would change and women would renounce them. They would rise up and say: 'We are not patient. We will endure no more.' Then what would happen to the world?

- Mary Roberts Rinehart

topic: Endurance, World, Patient

A man is not learned because he talks much; he who is patient, free from hatred and fear, he is called learned.

- Max Muller

source: F. Max Muller (2016). “The Dhammapada”, p.33, Xist Publishing

topic: Men, Hatred, Patient

We can do anything, or almost, but how balanced, magnanimous, and modest one has to be to do anything! And also how patient. It is as true in the arts as anywhere else.

- May Sarton

topic: Patience, Art, Patient, Magnanimous

I think we ought to give ourselves more time. We should be more patient with ourselves and with each other.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Thinking, Giving, Patient

Love made her patient. It made her hopeful.

- Maya Banks

topic: Hopeful, Patient, Made

In Turkey, you're not allowed to be left alone in the hospital. The nurse teaches the family how to do things, and somebody is always there with the patient.

- Mehmet Oz

topic: Turkeys, Nurse, Patient, Hospitals

There are no bona fide treatments available for embryonic stem cells. There is nothing in the laboratory, and there is certainly nothing in the clinics available to patients.

- Michael C. Burgess

topic: Cells, Patient, Treatment, Embryonic Stem Cells, Stem Cell

Shamanism is a great metal and emotional adventure, one in which the patient as well as the shaman-healer are involved

- Michael Harner

topic: Adventure, Emotional, Patient, Shamanism

Less than 1 percent of the patients treated are alive at the end of five years.

- Michael Landon

topic: Years, Alive, Patient

The two things are synergistic, the health care crisis and the food crisis. Right now, to a large extent, the food industry's biggest product is patients for the health care industry and we have to break that.

- Michael Pollan

source: Source: indianapublicmedia.org

topic: Two, Care, Patient, Food Industry

Man becomes weak or ill by accident as a consequence of the lack of resources. Even the most severally ill patients must be treated with the aim of restoring their health.

- Michael Servetus

topic: Men, Patient, Weak, Restoring

Don't ask why the patient is the way he is, ask for what he would change.

- Milton H. Erickson

topic: Way, Patient, Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Cognitive Therapy

Overnight, I went from being a completely private figure to a publicly humiliated one. I was Patient Zero.

- Monica Lewinsky

source: "Monica’s Mission: Can the humiliated Lewinsky lead the charge against online harassment?" by Howard Kurtz, www.foxnews.com. October 22, 2014.

topic: Zero, Patient, Figures, Humiliated

Steady, patient, persevering thinking will generally surmount every obstacle in search of truth.

- Nathanael Emmons

source: Nathanael Emmons (1842). “Works: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.22

topic: Thinking, Obstacles, Patient

Basically, all women are nurturers and healers, and all men are mental patients to varying degrees.

- Nelson DeMille

topic: Women, Degrees, Patient

I'm not someone who's endlessly patient and wonderful.

- Nigella Lawson

topic: Literature, Patient, Wonderful

It was a mutual thing. I made a deal with them: I asked them if they did not bring out the place card of Malachi, I would let them have two minutes with each one of my patients.

- Norma McCorvey

topic: Two, Cards, Patient

...an effective psychotherapist or psychoanalyst is a "microsurgeon of the mind" who helps patients make needed alterations in neuronal networks.

- Norman Doidge

source: Norman Doidge (2007). “The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science”, p.221, Penguin

topic: Mind, Patient, Helping, Psychotherapists, Alterations

He (Shaithan) is extremely patient. He won't get you in one shot. He'll come at you and he'll put a little bit and a little bit and a little bit until he destroys your character.

- Nouman Ali Khan

topic: Character, Littles, Patient

Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.

- O. Henry

topic: Medicine, Funeral, Patient, Carriages

There is only one cardinal rule: One must always listen to the patient.

- Oliver Sacks

source: Oliver Sacks (2013). “Migraine”, p.309, Vintage

topic: Medicine, Patient, Cardinals, Cardinal Rules

I have often seen quite demented patients recognize and respond vividly to paintings and delight in the act of painting at a time when they are scarcely responsive, disoriented, and out of it.

- Oliver Sacks

topic: Health, Delight, Patient, Demented

There is among doctors, in acute hospitals at least, a presumption of stupidity in their patients.

- Oliver Sacks

topic: Doctors, Stupidity, Patient, Presumption

First thing about being a patient-you have to learn patience.

- Oliver Sacks

topic: Firsts, Patient, Sickness

I always assumed I'd be a terribly patient mum but it turns out I'm not!

- Olivia Colman

topic: Patient, Mum, Turns

Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?

- Oriana Fallaci

topic: Peace, War, Patient, Madhouses

I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients.

- Oscar Levant

source: "Memorable Quotations: Jewish Writers of the Past" edited by Carol A. Dingle, 2005.

topic: Funny, Depressing, Patient

For the only therapy is life. The patient must learn to live, to live with his split, his conflict, his ambivalence, which no therapy can take away, for if it could, it would take with it the actual spring of life.

- Otto Rank

source: Otto Rank (1936). “Will therapy: an analysis of the therapeutic process in terms of relationship”

topic: Spring, Splits, Patient, Ambivalence

The work of a psychotherapist involves being empathic and insightful with one's patients without getting too lost in their painful stories to be helpful.

- Pamela Stephenson

topic: Insightful, Stories, Patient, Psychotherapists

Every physician must be rich in knowledge, and not only of that which is written in books; his patients should be his book, they will never mislead him.

- Paracelsus

source: Paracelsus, Jolande Jacobi (1951). “Selected Writings”, p.50, Princeton University Press

topic: Book, Physicians, Patient, Mislead

The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.

- Paracelsus

topic: Giving, Physicians, Patient

We need to start treating the patient as well as the disease,

- Patch Adams

source: "Patch Adams". www.imdb.com. 1998.

topic: Disease, Needs, Patient

If I have any message for others, it is to go for help early and not to be a resistant patient

- Patty Duke

source: Patty Duke (2010). “Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness”, p.134, Bantam

topic: Messages, Helping, Patient

Tania, there is so much still ahead of you. Be patient with life

- Paullina Simons

source: Paullina Simons (2009). “The Bronze Horseman”, p.84, Harper Collins

topic: Be Patient, Patient, Stills

Whatever happens in your life, joyful or painful, do not be swept away by reactivity. Be patient with yourself and don't lose your sense of perspective.

- Pema Chodron

topic: Perspective, Patient, Painful, Swept Away, Reactivity