Becoming A Doctor Quotes:

Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.

- Charlie Byrd

topic: Music, Doctors, People, Becoming A Doctor

My concentration was really on getting to university and becoming a doctor. My parents let me know that school marks were important. Achievement was something which came by hard work.

- Roger Bannister

topic: Sports, Hard Work, Athlete, Becoming A Doctor

I wish medical schools helped us to analyze our healthy and unhealthy reasons for becoming doctors.

- Bernie Siegel

topic: School, Doctors, Healthy, Medical School, Becoming A Doctor

I had parents who believed I could do anything - and I know how that made me feel. I think both my parents, having careers in the medical profession, feel they are helping people on a daily basis, and that was inculcated in me as a value. I had to struggle with giving up the idea of becoming a doctor myself.

- Reese Witherspoon

topic: Giving Up, Struggle, Thinking, Medical Profession, Helping People

Becoming a writer is not a 'career decision' like becoming a doctor or a policeman. You don't choose it so much as get chosen, and once you accept the fact that you're not fit for anything else, you have to be prepared to walk a long, hard road for the rest of your days.

- Paul Auster

source: Paul Auster (2011). “Collected Prose”, p.247, Faber & Faber

topic: Careers, Doctors, Long, Becoming A Doctor

There's no diploma in the world that declares you as an artist—it's not like becoming a doctor. You can declare yourself an artist and then figure out how to be an artist.

- Kara Walker

topic: Artist, Doctors, World, Declaring, Artistry

When other boys dreamt of going to the moon or becoming doctors, I wanted to be a designer.

- Olivier Theyskens

topic: Boys, Moon, Doctors, Becoming A Doctor

I'm sure as an infant, no matter what I looked like, I felt like the most loved kid getting those massages. So I really think that was a big part of my growing and my brain developing. Most of all however, I think it was the love that was given to me unconditionally and I felt that my whole life. It certainly wasn't that my parents always liked what I was doing, even my becoming a doctor, my father preferred I went into business so he could help me, but I wanted to be a doctor.

- Bernie Siegel

source: Source: theindiespiritualist.com

topic: Father, Kids, Thinking, Infant, Becoming A Doctor

When I was contemplating medical school after graduating from Knox, several people suggested that nursing was a more suitable profession for women. My own mother discouraged me from becoming a doctor. But this is not why I became a nurse instead!

- Mary Pope Osborne

source: Source: www.yabookshelf.com

topic: Mother, School, Nursing, Medical School, Becoming A Doctor

For a while I thought about studying medicine at school and becoming a doctor because I've always been interested in psychology and how people's minds operate. But I'm able to explore some of that as an actor and ultimately I think it seems more interesting.

- Rumer Willis

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

topic: School, Thinking, Doctors, Becoming A Doctor

Intern is not just a gripping tale of becoming a doctor. It's also a courageous critique, a saga of an immigrant family living (at times a little uneasily) the American dream, and even a love story. A great read and a valuable addition to the literature—and I use the word advisedly—of medical training.

- Melvin Konner

topic: Dream, Doctors, Training, Medical Training, Gripping