“Keep your head up and be patient.”
― A. J. McLean
“Be very, very patient and very open-minded, and listen to what people have to say.”
― A. J. McLean
“I’ve just got to stay patient, take my walks when I can, hunt the mistakes, and get on base.”
― Aaron Judge
“The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.”
― Abraham Verghese
“The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is the major achievement of President Obama’s first term.”
― Adam Cohen
“As a kid, I often figured it was good to be patient to a fault.”
― Aimee Bender
“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
“Here’s where the insurance companies really fail us. They over-pay hospitals, specialists and drug companies and then raise premiums to cover the costs. Further, when they pay hospitals 115% of what it should cost to care for a patient, they are paying for inefficiency that can be dangerous.”
― Alex Gibney
“Insurance companies pay big bucks for procedures but next to nothing for patient consultations and preventive medicine, which is what most medicine is.”
― Alex Gibney
“We must never neglect the patient’s own use of his symptoms.”
― Alfred Adler
“I have stepped into a bigger league with ‘Khamoshiyaan,’ and I am grateful to Mahesh Bhatt sir. I am also grateful to myself for being patient.”
― Ali Fazal
“Therapy needs to be integrated. You mustn’t forget about a patient’s emotional wellbeing. It is vital to the outcome of their treatment.”
― Allan Hamilton
“When I took the Hippocratic oath and was effectively ‘sworn in’ as a doctor, I took the same vow that doctors have taken for generations. Patient autonomy is core to this oath.”
― Ami Bera
“For the record, I believe that women and their doctors should have access to oral contraception when desired by the patient and medically appropriate.”
― Ami Bera
“The thing with cancer is that it’s usually the chemo rather than the disease itself that makes the patient feel so ill, particularly at the start.”
― Amy Hoggart
“It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.”
― Andre Gide
“I’m not a fast writer at all. I come empty and wait upon the Lord. So it really is all a waiting process, a patient process.”
― Ann Voskamp
“I sing everywhere. I have a very patient husband. He says he doesn’t mind. But we’ve only been married a year and a half!”
― Anne Hathaway
“When a patient does get an organ from another person, it comes from a different body. It has different properties, and a person’s natural tendency is to reject that organ.”
― Anthony Atala
“No studio in Hollywood wanted ‘Cold Mountain.’ None. No one wanted ‘Ripley,’ no one wanted ‘The English Patient.’ That tells you there isn’t really an appetite for ambitious movie-making out there.”
― Anthony Minghella
“When I wasn’t playing, the most important thing was to stay patient.”
― Antoine Griezmann
“People are not patient anymore.”
― Antonio Banderas
“We all have this idea of Ram being a patient person besides being a great archer, a horse-rider, and above all, a compassionate king. There is more to him than that.”
― Ashish Sharma
“Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.”
― B. C. Forbes
“The key is to cut out the middleman and empower both doctor and patient with information about what things cost.”
― Ben Carson
“Every insurer must offer every individual a plan and ensure each patient with pre-existing conditions has access to ‘adequate and affordable health insurance coverage.’”
― Bill Cassidy
“For the first six years of his career, Sammy Sosa was one of the least patient players in the game. He could hit the long ball and steal a base, but he was undisciplined.”
― Bill Dedman
“A person being patient with an insane person is my favorite thing in the world.”
― Bill Hader
“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
“The U.K. and Europe in general seem to be a lot more patient. The U.S. are expecting ‘joke joke joke joke joke joke joke.’ They don’t actually sit and listen to you.”
― Bo Burnham
“I’m patient with crossword puzzles and the most impatient golfer.”
― Brett Hull
“Equipment sellers can pocket more than $2,500 every time they send a powered wheelchair to a patient and bill Medicare.”
― Charles Duhigg
“We have used the Bible as if it were a mere special constable’s handbook, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they are overloaded.”
― Charles Kingsley
“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
― Charles William Eliot
“Be patient – if something is supposed to happen, it’s going to happen. Whenever I’ve tried to force things, they didn’t go right.”
― Chiara Ferragni
“The hardest thing to do is dig deep and be patient about the things you’re going to learn month to month and quarter to quarter.”
― Christina Tosi
“I’m strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.”
― Chuck Schumer
“I’m not very patient.”
― Cole Swindell
“I have acute myeloid leukemia, an aggressive type of cancer. The typical prognosis is 3-6 months to live, but I would like to stress that is for a patient who is not receiving treatment.”
― Craig Sager
“We can now diagnose diseases that haven’t even manifested in the patient, and may not until the fifth decade of life – if at all.”
― Craig Venter
“I’m usually a patient guy anyway.”
― Curtis Joseph
“The baby boom is about to become a patient boom.”
― Dalton McGuinty
“I’m not very patient.”
― Daniel Ricciardo
“I advocate for a totally new view of the role of the patient: patient as engaged partner, not passive recipient.”
― Dave deBronkart
“All my mom’s side speaks Spanish. I speak to my grandparents in Spanish. Slowly. And they’re patient with me! But I do speak with them in Spanish and carry on conversations with them.”
― David Archuleta
“HIV/AIDs patients depend on highly trained, specialized physicians. Each and every patient has a unique combination of retrovirals they depend on to keep them alive.”
― David Mixner
“Those weeks before diagnosis can be among the most torturous times. There is a reason you’re called a patient once the plastic bracelet goes on.”
― David Rakoff
“The only requirement of a fan or a patient is the surrender to authority.”
― David Shields
“An educated patient is empowered; thus, more likely to become healthy.”
― Dean Ornish
“Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.”
― Dick Cavett
“Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.”
― Dick Cavett
“I’ve made it clear – I’m not patient at all – several times.”
― Dolph Ziggler
“I’m very dogged and patient.”
― Doug Stanton
“I’m not patient – and I’m getting more impatient as I get older – but I am disciplined about writing, and I want that on my tombstone: ‘He wasn’t patient, but he was disciplined.’”
― Douglas Coupland
“Read enough about the dung beetle, and a picture of its character emerges: patient, optimistic, uncomplaining.”
― Elif Batuman
“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
“For all his tactical genius Guardiola is also a manager who can be patient and loyal, who backs players to come out of bad patches and hit golden patches.”
― Eniola Aluko
“I’m just trying to go out each week and get better. I just have to be patient, and it’s going to happen.”
― Ezekiel Elliott
“Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.”
― Florence Nightingale
“If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.”
― Florence Nightingale
“Neurologists have a host of clinical tests that let them observe what a brain-damaged patient can and cannot do.”
― Floyd Skloot
“If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.”
― Frances Farmer
“Minimally invasive surgery is the way forward: the patient goes home the next day; there are fewer complications.”
― Frans van Houten
“If a patient became sugar-free and blood sugar normal on a basal requirement diet, the caloric intake was gradually increased until sugar appeared in the urine. The tolerance was thus ascertained.”
― Frederick Banting
“I’m not good at chatting right away. Women have to be very patient with me, I suppose.”
― Garrett Hedlund
“Cancer is a disease where the patient can contribute a great deal of help himself if he or she can retain their morale and their hopes.”
― George Carman
“I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.”
― Gertrude Stein
“I am not patient.”
― Gloria Steinem
“What I really appreciated about Obama in the last campaign was that he was not reactive, and we’re such a reactive culture… It takes a certain strength to be patient and have a plan.”
― Greg Berlanti
“To put up with me, you have to be patient.”
― Greg Rutherford
“Our duty is to be patient.”
― Hamza Yusuf
“In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable; a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failure.”
― Hans Eysenck
“In cases of porphyria, a minor disease, the patient excretes large quantities of porphyrins.”
― Hans Fischer
“I’m not a very patient person in general.”
― Harper Reed
“It is needless to say that women make the most patient as well as the most dangerous pickpockets.”
― Harry Houdini
“I’m not that patient sometimes. I’m like a rocket – I go a hundred miles per hour.”
― Heidi Klum
“It sets its face rightfully against the doctrines of the Anarchist and the Communist, who seek to solve the social problems not by patient endeavor, but by brutal destruction.”
― Henry Cabot Lodge
“I really admire people who are extraordinarily tolerant and patient.”
― Holly Hunter
“Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.”
― Homer
“Be patient. Patience is the mother of all virtues.”
― Hrithik Roshan
“I don’t want to be idealized by a patient because of what I’ve written.”
― Irvin D. Yalom
“The patient decides when it’s best to go.”
― Jack Kevorkian
“I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I’m a killer.”
― Jack Kevorkian
“How can you regret helping a suffering patient?”
― Jack Kevorkian
“You know what takes effort? Being kind. Being patient. Being respectful.”
― Jake Tapper
“You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.”
― James D. Watson
“We continue to advise that investors remain committed to a patient, long-term outlook and that the best way to do well in stocks is to use a disciplined, time-tested strategy that has the benefit of empirically tested results over a variety of market environments.”
― James O’Shaughnessy
“To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be humane.”
― Jane Harrison
“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
“The patient is in intensive care but still alive.”
― Javier Perez de Cuellar
“Nineteen percent of doctors say that they’d be able to give their patients a lethal injection. But they also went on to say that the patient would have to be really, really behind on payments.”
― Jay Leno
“We’ve been very patient over the years but this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reset the rules for the River Murray and we’re determined not to squander that opportunity.”
― Jay Weatherill
“I’m a patient person. I can wait for my prince charming.”
― Jazz Jennings
“As great of a player as Yao was, he was kind and patient with everybody. He wasn’t trying to feed an image or cultivate a brand or manipulate a public persona.”
― Jeff Van Gundy
“One can envisage taking cells from a patient with sickle-cell anaemia or an inherited blood disorder and using the Cas9 system to fix the underlying genetic cause of the disease by putting those cells back into the patient and allowing them to make copies of themselves to support the patient’s blood.”
― Jennifer Doudna
“In November, 1964 when I was a patient at the Mayo Clinic I though seriously about killing myself.”
― Jerry Kramer
“I feel like I’m calmer, I’m kinder, I’m more patient the more I do my own meditation.”
― Jim Yong Kim
“If I’m at the front line and refuse to treat a patient, it’s considered a crime. As a physician, this is my oath. I’m going to treat everyone regardless.”
― Joanne Liu
“To the patient, any operation is momentous.”
― Joe Murray
“Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patient’s renal and cardiopulmonary status.”
― Joe Murray
“Obamacare is, ‘Patient, heal yourself.’”
― John Barrasso
“Beware the wrath of a patient adversary.”
― John C. Calhoun
“Too many radiologists still believe there is a risk from a chest x-ray. Few radiologists can explain radiation to the patient in words the patient can understand.”
― John Cameron
“Beware the fury of a patient man.”
― John Dryden
“Medical liability reform is not a Republican or Democrat issue or even a doctor versus lawyer issue. It is a patient issue.”
― John Ensign
“To the patient, any operation is momentous.”
― Joseph Murray
“Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patient’s renal and cardiopulmonary status. This spectacular success was a clear demonstration that organ transplantation could be life-saving.”
― Joseph Murray
“An IVF patient is – is living and breathing hope. It’s… it’s, um… it’s – You wouldn’t do it if you didn’t have a sense of hope. Why would you put yourself through it?”
― Julia Leigh
“I have to be patient, keep performing, and be consistent.”
― K. L. Rahul
“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
“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
“The way we have looked at pricing at Merck is we’ve always said we want to be responsible, which means we want to optimize profitability and patient access.”
― Kenneth Frazier
“If I stay patient in the offense, shots will come.”
― Khris Middleton
“I’m not the most patient of people.”
― Kobe Bryant
“I owe undying gratitude to my patient parents.”
― Konrad Lorenz
“Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months.”
― Kristin Scott Thomas
“A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.”
― Lana Turner
“Naturally, I was a bit of a curiosity, being the first hydrogen peroxide ingestion patient they had ever seen.”
― Lara St. John
“I am patient zero.”
― Liz Parrish
“Patient zero feels great and is back to work.”
― Liz Parrish
“To be a director, you have to be especially patient.”
― Luciano Vincenzoni
“I have that brawler’s mentality, and I can get into that realm, but when I’m at my best is when I’m patient, precise, and technical.”
― Luke Rockhold
“Being patient has made me a more precise fighter.”
― Luke Rockhold
“Dann Huff is amazing and so patient.”
― Maddie Marlow
“The continental troops have as much courage and real discipline as those that are opposed to them. They are more inured to privation, more patient than Europeans, who, on these two points, cannot be compared to them.”
― Marquis de Lafayette
“A designated patient ‘carries’ the group’s dysfunction. A designated issue performs the same service for an individual, dominating our psyches so that other troubles can go unnoticed.”
― Martha Beck
“I get really excited about specific therapies, personalized therapies. Like, let’s say, taking a piece of someone’s tumor and testing a bunch of treatments in a lab and being able to come up with the right therapy for that specific patient.”
― Mary Roach
“The beauty of mathematics only shows itself to more patient followers.”
― Maryam Mirzakhani
“My mother was a lupus patient. I was a child with the lupus gene.”
― Merry Clayton
“I’m patient.”
― Michael Jordan
“Historically, I’m not a great patient when it comes to slowing down.”
― Michael Keaton
“In the book the relationship with Katharine and Almasy is sort of only in the patient’s mind.”
― Michael Ondaatje
“Ultimately, health care fails the most basic test. It’s not organized around the needs of the patient.”
― Michael Porter
“I grew up in rural Tennessee. There were no bookstores in the town, but the school had a little library, and the town had a little library, each with a patient and enthusiastic librarian, and I raced into both as if they were doorways to another world.”
― Michael Sims
“Every Crohn’s and colitis patient is different, and they all respond to different things. That’s the craziest thing about it.”
― Mike McCready
“Fishermen and coaches have one thing in common: both need to be very patient.”
― Miroslav Klose
“While deficits are often inflationary and always pernicious, curing them by raising taxes is equivalent to curing an illness by shooting the patient.”
― Murray Rothbard
“I’m very patient with life.”
― Mya
“I’m not a very patient person.”
― Nancy Dubuc
“I’m not someone who’s endlessly patient and wonderful.”
― Nigella Lawson
“I always assumed I’d be a terribly patient mum but it turns out I’m not!”
― Olivia Colman
“The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.”
― Paracelsus
“I am convinced that in order for you, as a patient, to be protected, it has to be transparent, evidence-based, objective information. Not self-serving information. Not pharma-driven information. Not ad-driven information. It is transparent, objective, evidence-based information.”
― Patrick Soon-Shiong
“We know that if you just were to take the drugs that you were supposed to take for diabetes or hypertension, just take it, as opposed to not take it, we could save $7,000, $3,000 per patient per year.”
― Patrick Soon-Shiong
“If I have any message for others, it is to go for help early and not to be a resistant patient.”
― Patty Duke
“The biggest thing was just getting comfortable out there in front of all the people and just the whole major setting and how difficult major championships are, how patient… you have to be.”
― Peter Uihlein
“When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied.”
― Pierre Corneille
“The whole of nature cries out at our mistreatment of her. If the planet were a patient, we would have treated her long ago.”
― Prince Charles
“The disciplined approach to pursuing and selecting the most attractive investment opportunities continues to distinguish ExxonMobil. We are long-term driven, and we’re patient. And we’re not opportunity-constrained.”
― Rex Tillerson
“David Lynch was very good, very patient with us, and the reaction in the United States seems pretty good.”
― Richard Farnsworth
“I’m not very good at science or math, even though I pretend. And I’m not very good at teaching. I’m not very patient.”
― Rick Smolan
“Increasingly we know that we’re going to have multiple medical conditions, and the person who’s got the greatest incentive to manage those conditions is the patient him or herself.”
― Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
“I always knew I wanted to be a doctor, but I also knew that being a doctor meant more than treating just the patient in front of you.”
― Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
“My patient population has a low recidivism rate, but if they haven’t made up their minds that it is permanent, then of course, they will fail.”
― Robert Atkins
“Two minutes later the right arm was pointing normally and the reaction to the left appeared. The patient made no complaint at all about the experiment.”
― Robert Barany
“Vertigo, it was thought at the time, could only be caused by a disease of the cerebellum. He observed this kind of patient for years and saw absolutely no symptoms of brain disease.”
― Robert Barany
“I’m opposed to anybody getting between me and the patient.”
― Robert J. Bentley
“I have learnt to be even more patient.”
― Roger Federer
“You have to be patient in the Premier League.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“I have seen the healthcare system from many angles, including as a patient.”
― Ron Williams
“Doctors say there’s no such thing as chemo brain, but ask any chemo patient.”
― Sarah Addison Allen
“Maybe I’m a little biased, but shows like ‘Dexter’ and ‘Southland,’ I’m just enthralled by that sort of storytelling, kind of clever and patient.”
― Shawn Hatosy
“I’m a terrible patient, and I find that doctors can be very condescending.”
― Sherry Stringfield
“A lot of the guys worry about their form. For me, it is just about being persistent and patient.”
― Shikhar Dhawan
“Fatherhood has changed me, I’ve become more patient.”
― Sourav Ganguly
“Unelected bureaucrats in Washington should not have anything to do with the healthcare decisions made between a patient and their doctor.”
― Steve Scalise
“As a former professional patient advocate, I believe prescription drugs are an essential part of high-quality medical treatment, and I supported enactment of the Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act.”
― Sue Kelly
“The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.”
― Thomas Fuller
“Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than this.”
― Thomas Holcroft
“Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less.”
― Thomas Szasz
“I’m not a patient person.”
― Thomas Tuchel
“What I quickly learned after my diagnosis is that the world of a cancer patient has many parts and a good deal of uncertainty.”
― Tom Brokaw
“There are lots of dimensions to being a cancer patient. The overwhelming one is that it takes over your life.”
― Tom Brokaw
“I work in a hospital as a patient transporter to make ends meet for my three kids.”
― Tom Guiry
“I’ve learnt to be more patient, more comfortable on the ball, and the number of goals I’ve scored, I’m happy.”
― Toni Duggan
“Obviously, culturally, England’s style of play is a lot more direct and physical. In Spain, they’re a lot more patient, and they have the ball a lot more.”
― Toni Duggan
“Every clinical encounter is an opportunity to generate social capital. Even in situations where patient needs are complex or seemingly insurmountable, it is the empathy and goodwill which makes the difference.”
― Tony Tan
“I’m an obsessive sports fan, which my wife is incredibly patient about.”
― Ty Burrell
“An impatient person plays differently than a more patient person.”
― Vladimir Kramnik
“Legislators should demand that we not go through the entire pension reform debate just to apply a band-aid when this patient needs a quadruple bypass.”
― Walker Stapleton
“Arguably Apple’s least successful core hardware product in decades, the Apple Watch could have been nursed along, like a terminal patient.”
― Walt Mossberg
“One thing that has helped me to become patient and cool is that I grew up with sisters.”
― William Kamkwamba
“The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.”
― William Osler
“It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.”
― William Osler
“StandWith has two main functions: first, updates which allows the caregiver to send out patient updates to their community in a simple way that eliminated dozens of texts, emails and calls. The second is tasks. A caregiver can request a task to be fulfilled and their community can self-select which they complete based off their abilities and means.”
― Yael Cohen
“I have learned to be patient.”
― Yuan Yuan Tan
“You do have to be patient. Control what you can control.”
― Zach Ertz
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