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" I think I'm a better doctor than I am a husband. I give myself a good grade as a doctor, then the next best grade as a father, and the worst grade as a husband. "

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" In my business, if I get too close to you and you die, it hurts me. And so you develop a natural inclination not to be close to the patient, so that if things don't work out ideally, you can still get up the next day and care for the next patient. "

Mehmet Oz

Work

You

" If I make your workplace conducive to walking at lunch, or working out at some time during the day, or I get people to use the stairs more by creating incentives to do such, then people will start doing it naturally. "

" You get the health benefits of coffee up through about the first twenty-four ounces. It's the biggest source of antioxidants for Americans, and we think it helps prevent Alzheimer's and Parkinson's as well. "

" I was lucky enough to marry a wonderful chef. "

" At the end of the day, sleep is a barometer of your emotional health. And so if you're not in the right place where you need to be, then you're going to have voices keeping you up at night because you have to work through those issues. "

" We are spending most of our time in American health care fixing the mistakes that either we in the profession are causing or our patients are, without recognizing it, causing to themselves. "

" We're all human beings, but some of us are more sophisticated at covering our flaws. We're just smart enough to lie to ourselves that everything is OK. "

Mehmet Oz

Flaws

Lie

" Food is no longer sacred to us: in becoming too efficient we've changed its nature. "

" My mother was all about unconditional love, and I don't think we give that to our patients a lot. At the end of the day, what they really need you to do is to look at them in the eye and say, 'I'm here for you. I'm going to make sure this works out.' "

" Food - I love nuts. I eat them all the time, they're easy to carry around, and I am never hungry all day long. "

" Most allopathic doctors think practitioners of alternative medicine are all quacks. They're not. Often they're sharp people who think differently about disease. "

" You don't have a family doctor anymore like you did when you were a kid, who treated you throughout your life. "

" There are a lot of food Nazis in the U.S., but I believe if you can show people what's really important, they'll judge the rest for themselves. "

" I like shows that have some level of intelligence to them. When it's not as predictable, when you don't know what's coming at you. "

Mehmet Oz

Level

Know

" Most food you drop is still perfectly edible. If it was in your eyesight the whole time, you can pick it up and eat it. "

" I do practice what I preach when it comes to nutrition. "

" We don't walk. We overeat because we've made it easy to overeat. We have fast-food joints on every corner. By the way, the 'we' is all of us. It's not the government. It's all of us doing this together. "

" I feel differently immediately when I start to put weight on. I don't like that sluggish, blunted disposition that I have when that happens. "

Mehmet Oz

Feel

Start

" Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of humanity like everyone else. "

" The biggest mistake people make is to try to lose too much weight too fast. "

" The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy. "

" A lot of folks believe their best years are behind them. But I want Americans to recognize that's not true. "

" I've always felt that, when I looked at my tombstone, it shouldn't say, 'Mehmet Oz banged out 10,000 open-heart operations.' I've probably done 5,000. Am I any better at it than 10,000? He shook his head. It's just a different number on the tombstone. "

" The rule I use is, If it doesn't come out of the ground looking the way it looks when you eat it, be careful. "

" No matter how old you are, no matter how much you weigh, you can still control the health of your body. "

" What happens when you have great grief in your life is the arteries of that heart begins to spasms down, just literally squeezes down like this because you're feeling the tension of your life and then the heart muscle itself will also begin - to get stressed out. "

" I'm sure people think that I'm out in left field you know, playing by myself. "

" True health care reform cannot happen in Washington. It has to happen in our kitchens, in our homes, in our communities. All health care is personal. "

" Women are much more sensitive. We know that emotionally but their organs respond to the same degree. "

" I think that we're beginning to globalize medicine now. You have to take Eastern approaches and bring them to the West, and share West with the East. "