Quotes About Adherence

Drugs don't work in patients who don't take them.

If you get an idea, you might as well stick with it until somebody calls you on it.

You stick to the script, the script is Bible.

I always try to stick to the script because I want to respect the writers, and I want to respect the director. But if the director and my fellow actors are okay with me playing with it a little bit, then I definitely want to play with it.

Whatever is on the page is what I'm married to. I'm very prepared. I'm a thespian. I don't like to improv. I don't like to go off course 'cause I think that's where stuff happens. When you stick to the material 'cause it's written so well, that's where the magic happens.

With Hitchcock, you work with a script, and you stick to it.

In the past, the main problem for me was sticking with the game plan.

Guardiola has a way of playing; he has a system, and he sticks to that.

We all want something that sticks

If the commitment is to a long-term goal and not to a series of smaller intermediate goals, then only one decision needs to be made and adhered to. Clear, simple, straightforward. Much easier to maintain than having to make small decision after small decision to stay the course when dealing with each step along the way. This provides far too many opportunities to inadvertently drift from your chosen goal. The single decision is one of the most powerful tools in the toolbox.

I kind of had that Parma, Ohio, mentality that after high school, you go to college. Then after college, you get a job; then you get a family. And after that, you just stick around Parma.

Growing up in the eighties, you could go from one style in a movie to another style, and that was okay. In the nineties, you had to obey your niche. You had to follow the code and never step outside of exactly what you're doing.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

There is an obvious Great Disparity between, on the one hand, the hope for life expressed in Jesus—found real in the Bible and in many shining examples from among his followers—and, on the other hand, the actual day-to-day behavior, inner life, and social presence of most of those who now profess adherence to him.

I was beginning to see the danger in adhering to a single narrative, hewing to a story. The peril wasn't only in getting it wrong. It was a kind of calcification, a narrowing, a perversion of reality that hardened and stilled the spirit.

Os cuidados médicos falham quando os pacientes não seguem aquilo que o médico lhes diz; cerca de metade de todos os medicamentos que os médicos prescrevem aos pacientes nunca é tomada. O elemento que mais fortemente pode prever se um paciente seguirá essas instruções é sentir que o médico está genuinamente preocupado consigo.

"There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else."

Existence was really very simple when you did what you were told.

You'd do it so much better," Buttercup replied. "I'll get the sashes, but I really think you should do the actual tying." "Woman," Westley roared, "you are the property of the Dread Pirate Roberts and you . . . do . . . what . . . you're . . . told!

It does not matter what you think," he exclaims, "so long as you obey.

Establishing your core priorities is, unfortunately, not the same as binding yourself to them.

That's how it was supposed to be, and you really prefer things to be the way they are supposed to be. Funny, when you find things to be not to your liking you try to force them to be otherwise.

It is only an error in judgment to make a mistake, but it shows infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.

Well, then," Mrs. Byrne says. "Let's get back to work. Dorothy, your suitcase is in the foyer. We'll discuss sleeping arrangements at supper." She turns to leave, then adds, "We keep strict hours for mealtimes. Breakfast at eight, lunch at twelve, supper at six. There is no snacking between meals. Self-discipline is one of the most important qualities a young lady can possess.