#cian

The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing. ↗

— Ben Okri

#away #both #common #doing #draw

I think that what trips up a lot of great musicians is that they become involved with too many things that aren't where their strengths lie. ↗

— Will Oldham

#great #i #i think #involved #lie

It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#been #funny #i #lifelong #musician

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down. ↗

— Robert Orben

#down #know #place #politicians #taxes

The fact of the matter is right now politicians and insurance companies are making decisions. We're saying we want doctors to be making decisions. And I think that will lead to a higher-quality, lower-cost system over time. ↗

— Peter Orszag

#decisions #doctors #fact #i #i think

The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind. ↗

— Paracelsus

#comes #healing #mind #must #nature

What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them? ↗

— Paracelsus

#could #cure #discovered #diseases #make

The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities. ↗

— Paracelsus

#heed #lives #must #patient #peculiarities

The only dreams that matter are the ones you have when you're awake. ↗

— John O'Callaghan

#active #attempt #do-something #dreams #goal

Actually John, Paul Rutherford, and Trevor Watts, and several other rather well known English jazz musicians had got their training by joining the Air Force, which was a pretty standard way for people to get some kind of musical education in those days. ↗

— Evan Parker

#air #air force #days #education #english