John Gicking

“But it’s not only the breadth and quantity of knowledge that has made medicine complicated. It is also the execution—the practical matter of what knowledge requires clinicians to do.”
― Atul Gawande, The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“Let us not disdain the ass,”
― Johann David Wyss, The Swiss Family Robinson; or Adventures in a Desert Island

“Being trapped is just a position, not a fate. You get out of it by addressing and eliminating each part of that position through small, deliberate actions—not by trying (and failing) to push it away with superhuman strength.”
― Ryan Holiday, The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph