THINGS I LEARNED WHILE LEARNING MEDICINE III

  1. Corporate culture paradox: “If you see something, say something”, yet if you identify a problem, you become the problem.
  2. Leadership can be more about becoming something you aren’t than becoming something you are.
  3. Sometimes my heart hurts too much to be angry.
  4. The corporate circle has a unique underbelly: “live inside the circle and know everything and to survive you feel nothing, or live outside the circle and know nothing and to survive you feel everything.
  5. In God we trust; everything else, we need data.
  6. Just because you can do it doesn’t mean you should do it.
  7. I’d rather live one day as a lion than 1000 days as a lamb.
  8. Is it just me, or does Ben Carson speak like he is one scalpel short of an operation?
  9. The voice of ten angry people is far more influential than the voice of the 1000 silent majority.
  10. Someone once said, “Imagine a world in which we are all enlightened by objective truths rather than offended by them.
  11. Heart procedures have a margin of error that is very, very small
  12. In your home, you want to be loved; in your work, you want to be believed.
  13. My retirement comes when my best effort is no longer good enough.
  14. Sometimes when I look at someone or something, I don’t always see it as it is, but for what it can be.
  15. Have you ever gone to a wedding and you’re like, “So that’s your best”?
  16. The journey should be cherished and the destination ignored.
  17. When a man loses his dreams, he ceases to live and merely exists.
  18. Just because you can, it doesn’t mean you should.
  19. Don’t ever let another person tell your history
  20. Even a broken watch is right twice per day.
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