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“Attitudes are capable of making the same experience either pleasant or painful.”

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John Powell, born on September 18, 1963, is a renowned film score composer. His works are known for their unique style and rich emotional expression, contributing to the success of many Hollywood blockbusters. more

“So much goes into doing a transplant operation. All the way from preparing the patient, to procuring the donor. It's like being an astronaut. The astronaut gets all the credit, he gets the trip to the moon, but he had nothing to do with the creation of the rocket, or navigating the ship. He's the privileged one who gets to drive to the moon. I feel that way in some of these more difficult operations, like the heart transplant.”

Way Feels Heart Difficult Creation Moon Patient Credit Ships Operations Surgery Privileged Preparing Rockets Astronaut Donors Transplants Heart Transplant

Author:Denton Cooley

“[The heart is] really a fascinating organ. It's about the only organ in the body that you can really witness its function. Doing things. And so on. Some of the other organs you can witness, like the intestines, will have this sort of peristaltic motion. But nothing that can compare with the activity of the human heart.”

Humans Heart Body Activity Function Witness Compare Fascinating Organs Human Heart Intestines

Author:Denton Cooley

“Get a scalpel, and practice just, say, cutting a piece of meat or something like that. You sort of learn how you want to hold your fingers, and that sort of thing, and try to become graceful when you operate.”

Want Trying Practice Pieces Cutting Fingers Meat Surgery Scalpels

Author:Denton Cooley

“An institution that suffers from a plethora of leaders is surely in a bad way.”

Way Suffering Leader Institutions

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“Organization is simply the means by which the acts of ordinary men can be made to add up to extraordinary results. To this idea of progress that does not wait on some lucky break, some chance discovery, or some rare stroke of genius, but instead is achieved through systematic, cumulative effort, the engineer has contributed brilliantly.”

“It is this ideal of progress through cumulative effort rather than through genius—progress by organised effort, progress which does not wait for some brilliant stroke, some lucky discovery, or the advent of some superman, has been the chief gift of science to social philosophy.”

Doe Has Beens Philosophy Social Waiting Effort Progress Genius Lucky Discovery Ideals Organization Brilliant Chiefs Strokes Advent Organised Cumulative

Author:William Wickenden

“Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead.”

Philosophy

Author:Stephen Hawking

“Effective science began when it passed from the occasional amateur into the hands of men who made the winning of knowledge their special function or profession.”

Men Made Hands Science Winning Knowledge Special Function Profession Passing Passings Occasional

Author:William Wickenden

“The essence of modernity is that progress no longer waits on genius; instead we have learned to put our faith in the organized efforts of ordinary men. Science is as old as the race, but the effective organization of science is new. Ancient science, like placer mining, was a pursuit of solitary prospectors. Nuggets of truth were found, but the total wealth of knowledge increased slowly. Modern man began to transform this world when he began to mine the hidden veins of knowledge systematically.”

“Science began to be powerful when it began to be cumulative, when observers began to preserve detailed records, to organize cooperating groups in order to pool and criticize their experiences.”

Order Powerful Records Groups Organization Preserves Criticize Pool Organize Observers Cumulative Cooperating

Author:William Wickenden

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