Quotes About Challenges

wish I could start a revolution for ER nurses specifically; we are the rock stars of nursing, but are treated like the red-headed bastard stepchild." —a North Carolina ER nurse

But it is crucial to know that despite these issues, nurses love their jobs and will enthusiastically persuade potential recruits to join the field.

Yes, we are taught to be patient advocates, but we are also taught to be a check on the doctor. The problem with that is we're only taught to see docs as adversaries." Nurses "never get a good understanding of the stresses and strains of what it's like to be a physician.

Rather than addressing the nurses being spread too thin to provide care that is good enough, they assume the nurses aren't coddling the patients adequately enough." What annoys nurses is that the concept of "patient experience" has morphed patients into customers and nurses into "rank and file" automatons. Some hospital job postings advertise that they are looking for nurses with "good customer service skills" as their

You're not worried about anything, are you? said Danglers. It seems to me everything's going perfectly for you. That's exactly what worries me, replied Dantes. I don't think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Life is a chaplet of little miseries which the philosopher counts with a smile. Be philosophers, as I am, gentlemen; sit down at the table and let us drink. Nothing makes the future look so bright as surveying it through a glass of chambertin.

Man upon this earth must expect everything, and ought to face everything.

did what people will do in politics, or on the sea when the wind is against them,—I tacked.

Those who are born in a gilt cradle and have never wanted for anything, do not know what happiness life contains, just as they do not appreciate to the full a clear sky who have never entrusted their lives to the mercy of four planks on a raging sea.

Never be afraid of opportunities, always be on the lookout for adventures.

hearts inflamed by obstacles to their desire grew cold in time of security;

Sometimes those who are easiest to love are hardest to respect. - Ashley Wilkes

It is relatively easy to design for the perfect cases, when everything goes right, or when all the information required is available in proper format.

The second flaw is that some activities, almost by definition, defy being broken down into steps.

the world is no fit place for human beings. we harm and ache.

As you know, you go to war with the army you have. They're not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.

In politics, every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.

The price of being close to the President is delivering bad news. You fail him if you don't tell him the truth. Others won't do it.

So Bush certainly wasn't the greatest, and Obama has not done the job. And he's created a lot of disincentive. He's created a lot of great dissatisfaction. Regulations and regulatory is going through the roof. It's almost impossible to get anything done in the country.

But I believe in fair trade, and I will tell you, I have many, many friends heading up corporations, and people that do just business in China, they say it's virtually impossible. It's very, very hard to come into China. And yet, we welcome them with open arms.

What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.

Unfortunately, it would seem that economic power, despite temporary hardships, is the only responsible course open to the free world.

Managers are not confronted with problems that are independent of each other, but with dynamic situations that consist of complex systems of changing problems that interact with each other. I call such situations messes.... Managers do not solve problems, they manage messes. -RUSSELL ACKOFF,' operations theorist

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when looked at in the right way, did not become still more complicated.