Quotes About Integrity
The battle of being mortal is the battle to maintain the integrity of one's life--to avoid becoming so diminished or dissipated or subjugated that who you are becomes disconnected from who you were or who you want to be.
~ Atul Gawande
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The battle of being mortal is the battle to maintain the integrity of one's life—to avoid becoming so diminished or dissipated or subjugated that who you are becomes disconnected from who you were or who you want to be. Sickness and old age make the struggle hard enough.
~ Atul Gawande
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Even good doctors can go bad, and when they do, colleagues tend to be almost entirely unequipped to do anything about them.
~ Atul Gawande
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People readily demonstrate a willingness to sacrifice their safety and survival for the sake of something beyond themselves, such as family, country, or justice.
~ Atul Gawande
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When things go wrong, the attending is expected to take full responsibility. It
~ Atul Gawande
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Just ticking boxes is not the ultimate goal here. Embracing a culture of teamwork and discipline is.
~ Atul Gawande
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It's easy to hide in a statement. It's hard to hide between statements," Cook said.
~ Atul Gawande
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Again, none of this should be taken to mean that people are faking it.
~ Atul Gawande
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The battle of being mortal is the battle to maintain the integrity of one's life—to avoid becoming so diminished or dissipated or subjugated that who you are becomes disconnected from who you were or who you want to be. Sickness
~ Atul Gawande
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When someone has come to you for your expertise and your expertise has failed, what do you have left? You have only your character to fall back upon—and
~ Atul Gawande
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This is why the betrayals of body and mind that threaten to erase our character and memory remain among our most awful tortures. The battle of being mortal is the battle to maintain the integrity of one's life—to avoid becoming so diminished or dissipated or subjugated that who you are becomes disconnected from who you were or who you want to be. Sickness and old age make the struggle hard enough. The professionals and institutions we turn to should not make it worse.
~ Atul Gawande
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Ezekiel and Linda Emanuel
~ Atul Gawande
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I was shocked to read that Lord Ferrers, a Home Office minister, when booked for speeding and presented with a £40 fixed penalty with three penalty points, them wrote to the Suffolk police to thank them for catching him. There is a sickness in England. If his lordship appreciates punishment so much, it was unkind just to fine him. He should have been caned, with his trousers down, by the side of the road.
~ Auberon Waugh
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We must be the change we wish to see in the world.
~ Audre Lorde
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If you do not learn to hate you will never be lonely enough to love easily nor will you always be brave, although it does not grow any easier. Do not pretend to convenient beliefs, even when they are righteous; you will never be able to defend your city while shouting.
~ Audre Lorde
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If I do not bring all of who I am to whatever I do, then I bring nothing, or nothing of lasting worth, for I have withheld my essence.
~ Audre Lorde
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What happens when you narrow your definition to what is convenient, or what is fashionable, or what is expected, is dishonesty by silence.
~ Audre Lorde
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How are you practicing what you preach—whatever you preach, and who is exactly listening?
~ Audre Lorde
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Once it was easy to know who were my people... I do not believe our wants have made all our lies holy.
~ Audre Lorde
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I am who I am doing what I came to do.
~ Audre Lorde
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We cannot allow our fear of anger to deflect us nor seduce us into settling for anything less than the hard work of excavating honesty...
~ Audre Lorde
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We know what it is to be lied to, and we know how important it is not to lie to ourselves. We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about - survival and growth.
~ Audre Lorde
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Feelings are not wrong, but you are accountable for the behavior you use to satisfy those feelings.
~ Audre Lorde
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The peoples of the Soviet Union, in many respects, impress me as people who can not yet afford to be honest. When they can be they will either blossom into a marvel or sink into decay. What gets me about the United States is that it pretends to be honest and therefore has so little room to move toward hope.
~ Audre Lorde
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