Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.
To understand God's thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
Sublime in the highest style of intellectual beauty, intellect without effort, without suffering. . . not a feature is correct – but the whole effect is more expressive of spiritual grandeur than anything I could have imagined. It makes the impression upon one that thousands of voices do, uniting in one unanimous simultaneous feeling of enthusiasm or emotion, which is said to overcome the strongest man.
We know nothing of the principle of health, the positive of which pathology is the negative, except from observation and experience. And nothing but observation and experience will teach us the ways to maintain or to bring back the state of health. It is often thought that medicine is the curative process. It is no such thing;. . . nature alone cures. . . . And what [true] nursing has to do. . . is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.
I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this-'devoted and obedient. ' This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman.
The account he gives of nurses beats everything that even I know of. This young prophet says that they are all drunkards, without exception, Sisters and all, and that there are but two whom the surgeon can trust to give the patients their medicines.
British politicians used to be good at misleading people without actually lying.
In all my documentaries I did all the camera work, but in fiction I didn't want to do it myself. I think the machinery is so heavy and demanding that you would leave the actors alone for a long time.
I think you have to have a real point of view that's your own. You have to tell it your way. And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a specific magazine's point of view because it's never going to be as good. You have to shoot for yourself and photograph [ the way] you believe it.
The noblest art is that of making others happy