All Quotes

Medicine's good for some people. Not for me.
‐‐ Shaun Alexander

Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence.
‐‐ James Bryce

Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.
‐‐ Plutarch

Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists. The doctor/psychiatrist figures in my writing are alter egos of a kind, what I would have been had I not become a writer - a personal fantasy that I've fed into my fiction.
‐‐ J. G. Ballard

Medicine, which I wouldn't be without, has also been a force for... less good. For example, if you look at our mishandling of the immune system, using antibiotics in children and avoiding infection, we've certainly increased the risk of asthma.
‐‐ Robert Winston

Medicine will be personalized and preventive: Your genome might predict that you have an 80 percent chance of breast cancer by the time you are 50, but if you take a preventive drug starting when you are 40, the chance will drop to 2 percent.
‐‐ Leroy Hood

Medicine, you have to take it. A vitamin is nice to have, but honestly, you can skip it.
‐‐ Paige Craig

Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
‐‐ Abraham Verghese

Medicines are only fit for old people.
‐‐ Napoleon Bonaparte

Medicines are unusual commodities. Important drugs can save the lives and protect the health of millions. Their consumption can bring huge benefits, by helping patients to avoid infection and preventing serious damage to the economies of families, nations and even humanity at large.
‐‐ Thomas Pogge

Medieval alchemists, despite their lust for gold, considered mercury the most potent and poetic substance in the universe. As a child, I would have agreed with them.
‐‐ Sam Kean

Medieval justice was a quaint thing.
‐‐ Frederick Pollock

Medieval learning was really advanced.
‐‐ Terry Jones

Mediobanca is undervalued but less undervalued than other banks.
‐‐ Ennio Doris

Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.
‐‐ Claude Bernard

Mediocre men work at their best; men seeking excellence strive to do better.
‐‐ Edwin Louis Cole

Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
‐‐ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people.
‐‐ Nick Saban

Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress.
‐‐ Jeff Bezos

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
‐‐ Benjamin Disraeli

Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.
‐‐ Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Mediocrity is underrated.
‐‐ Mary-Louise Parker

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
‐‐ Arthur Conan Doyle

Mediocrity scares me. It's the fear of not being as good as you want to be. If you give over to that fear, it will sabotage you. As much as I can, I try to use that fear to guide me.
‐‐ Chris Pine

Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.
‐‐ Ellen Glasgow

Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.
‐‐ Thich Nhat Hanh

Meditation changes your character.
‐‐ Henepola Gunaratana

Meditation demands an astonishingly alert mind; it is the understanding of the totality of life in which every form of fragmentation has ceased.
‐‐ Jiddu Krishnamurti

Meditation doesn't have to be complicated. What I do is about as simple as you can get. You could just count the beads, one, two, three, with your eyes closed or open, whatever makes you happy.
‐‐ Lou Reed

Meditation, especially for people who don't know very much about it and think it's this very hippy dippy thing, can really be powerful, terrifying even, as it lifts the rug up on your subconscious and the dust comes flying out.
‐‐ Amanda Palmer

Meditation had never been tried before in a medical center, so we had no idea whether mainstream Americans would accept a clinic whose foundation was intensive training in meditative discipline.
‐‐ Jon Kabat-Zinn

Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books.
‐‐ Alice Walker

Meditation hasn't separated me from my life and my friends and my work. It's just made my fear go away, so I can just be that much more engaged.
‐‐ Rivers Cuomo

Meditation is a great way to keep my body well-centered while juggling shooting schedules and recording sessions.
‐‐ Ariana Grande

Meditation is a lifelong process. Give it a try. As you get deeper and more disciplined into the process, you'll get deeper and more disciplined in your mind and life.
‐‐ Brendon Burchard

Meditation is a state of mind which looks at everything with complete attention, totally, not just parts of it. And no one can teach you how to be attentive. If any system teaches you how to be attentive, then you are attentive to the system, and that is not attention.
‐‐ Jiddu Krishnamurti

Meditation is about getting to a place where you're approaching things in a more calm, centering place rather than allowing yourself to get caught up in it.
‐‐ Tony Cardenas

Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness. It's like the ultimate rest. It's better than the best sleep you've ever had. It's a quieting of the mind. It sharpens everything, especially your appreciation of your surroundings. It keeps life fresh.
‐‐ Hugh Jackman

Meditation is not following any system; it is not constant repetition and imitation. Meditation is not concentration.
‐‐ Jiddu Krishnamurti

Meditation is not the construction of something foreign, it is not an effort to attain and then hold on to a particular experience. We may have a secret desire that through meditation we will accumulate a stockpile of magical experiences, or at least a mystical trophy or two, and then we will be able to proudly display them for others to see.
‐‐ Sharon Salzberg

Meditation is not to avoid society; it is to look deep to have the kind of insight you need to take action. To think that it is just to sit down and enjoy the calm and peace, is wrong.
‐‐ Nhat Hanh

Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end.
‐‐ Swami Sivananda

Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality.
‐‐ Richard Gere

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
‐‐ Voltaire

Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation; and honor the reward of action.
‐‐ Francis Quarles

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.
‐‐ Owen Feltham

Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.
‐‐ Jeremy Taylor

Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching, you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence.
‐‐ Jiddu Krishnamurti

Meditation is to dive all the way within, beyond thought, to the source of thought and pure consciousness. It enlarges the container, every time you transcend. When you come out, you come out refreshed, filled with energy and enthusiasm for life.
‐‐ David Lynch