Quotes About Tracy Kidder

People say you can't teach writing, but I think that's nonsense.

Dokte Paul works with both hands" — that is, both with science and with the magic necessary to remove ensorcellments.

At age twenty-six, Virchow wrote passionately that terrible social conditions in an impoverished part of Germany called Upper Silesia were the cause of a malaria and dysentery epidemic. His recommendation to the German government: if it wanted to do something about the epidemic, it needed to end the malnutrition, overcrowding, and poor hygiene. Better yet, he added, allow for a full and unlimited democracy in Upper Silesia.

foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

People call me a saint and I think, I have to work harder. Because a saint would be a great thing to be." - Paul Farmer

Attempts at imitation would put the emphasis where it didn't belong. The goal was to improve the lives of others, not oneself.