Norah

“You might expect that seeing so much pain and suffering might help you keep your own difficulties in perspective but, alas, it does not.”
― Henry Marsh, Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again... who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.”
― Teddy Roosevelt

“The operating is the easy part, you know,’ he said. ‘By my age you realize that the difficulties are all to do with the decision-making.”
― Henry Marsh, Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery

“We want perfection without practice. Yet everyone is harmed if no one is trained for the future.”
― Atul Gawande, Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science