We have to be very careful not to blame the patients. A lot of the conversation [around patient engagement] has been, how do we get them to do stuff? To me, that's not engagement.
Raising children has made me more patient and selfless.
I grew up in the inner city and have spent a lot of time there and have dealt with a lot of patients from that area and recognize that we cannot have a strong nation if we have weak inner cities.
When a problem arises, don't fight with it or try to deny it. Accept and acknowledge it. Be patient in seeking a solution or opening, and then fully commit yourself to the resolution you think advisable.
I just think there's something in the non-fiction form that allows you to see things clearly, if you're patient.
The Bible says the fruit of the spirit is longsuffering. I'll tell you one thing about fruit: you will never see a fruit factory. Isn't that right? You see a shirt factory, but you see a fruit orchard. You see, there is no fruit without life. You cannot manufacture patience. The fruit of the Spirit is patience.
You don't knit because you are patient. You are patient because you knit
Being patient even in the thickest of storms can be the one device that may catapult you over any obstacle.
I am like a doctor. I have written a prescription to help the patient. If the patient doesn't want all the pills I've recommended, that's up to him. But I must warn that next time I will have to come as a surgeon with a knife.
Set not thyself to attain much rest, but much patience.
Less than 1 percent of the patients treated are alive at the end of five years.
Be patient. Your future will come to you and lie down at your feet like a dog who knows and loves you no matter what you are.
You can't be patient if you're not strong.
We can do anything, or almost, but how balanced, magnanimous, and modest one has to be to do anything! And also how patient. It is as true in the arts as anywhere else.
The theological virtue of hope is the patient and trustful willingness to live without closure, without resolution, and still be content and even happy because our Satisfaction is now at another level, and our Source is beyond ourselves.
There is among doctors, in acute hospitals at least, a presumption of stupidity in their patients.
Drugs don't work in patients who don't take them.
In all technai or arts (medicine perhaps most of all), there is a self-exhilaration on the part of the practitioner (the intoxication of the ego with its own potency) which is infectious: the patient enjoys a placebo-effect which redounds to the ego of the "artist. "
Bless us Lord, this Christmas, with quietness of mind; Teach us to be patient and always to be kind.
Your heart matters most, so be gentler and more patient with yourself, and their hearts matter most, too, so be kinder and more compassionate to others.