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" 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. "

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" What we have now is doctors who are actually better technically at what they're doing in their specialty than 30 or 40 years ago, but we lost the relationship, when the doctor would look people in the eye and say, 'I care about you. We can do this together.' "

" You learn how to take care of people from the women in your life. "

" As a surgeon you have to have a controlled arrogance. If it's uncontrolled, you kill people, but you have to be pretty arrogant to saw through a person's chest, take out their heart and believe you can fix it. Then, when you succeed and the patient survives, you pray, because it's only by the grace of God that you get there. "

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

" I really think it would be cowardly to pull back and not challenge the status quo, when the status quo may not be the right way for the field to go. "

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

" Medications almost always do it better if they're used in conjunction with other supports. "

" 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. "

" Medicine has always been my calling. "

" 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. "

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

" People say their weight is genetic. But it turns out that people who are overweight don't just have overweight kids. They also have overweight pets. That's not genetic. "

" If you don't know your blood pressure, it's like not knowing the value of your company. "

" I've got so many weaknesses. "

" 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. "

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

" Unfortunately, several companies are attempting to deceive consumers through the unauthorized use of my image or my name, and my attorneys are pursuing those making these false claims. "

" When there is a psyche-disrupting event in your life, it can prevent you from getting the long blocks of sleep at night that are so important to healthy aging. "

" I get up at the same time every morning. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I saw many people who had advanced heart disease and I was so frustrated because I knew if they just knew how to do the right thing, simple lifestyle and diet steps, that the entire trajectory of their life and health would have been different. "

" 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. "

" You cannot drive a system that's going to be aiming at preventing illness if everyone is not in it. The whole gaming of health insurance and health care in America is based on that fundamental principle: insure people who aren't sick and you don't have to pay more money on them. "

" You need to be proactive, carve out time in your schedule, and take responsibility for being the healthiest person you can be - no one else is going to do it for you. "

" Every hour you sit at work increases your mortality 11 percent. Think about that. "

" Medicine grounds me, it centers me, that's why I continue to do it. "

" I don't operate on smokers. I tell cigarette smokers that I can operate on you, I get paid the same. And you might even do well. But it's the wrong thing to do. So I refuse to operate on you until you stop smoking. "