Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

If I hadn't become a photographer, I would have loved to become a doctor. I would have loved to have done something that actually helped people and changed their lives.

Medicine has always been my calling.

My mother wanted me to be a doctor.

I love to take care of people, which is why I went to nursing school.

Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the earliest records of every culture on earth. It is hard to think of a more dependable or enduring occupation, harder still to imagine any future events leading to its extinction.

I wanted to be a surgeon, possibly influenced by the qualities of our family doctor who cared for our childhood ailments.

My sister is a nurse and saves people's lives.

When I decided to become a doctor, I was very, very young, when my mother, her seventh child, became pregnant, and she was feeling terrible pain, and I could not know how to help her. And my mother died in front of my eyes, without knowing why, which diagnosis. So I decided to be a doctor.

My family's very medical, so as a field, that, I think, it's so important and wonderful, something I'm definitely interested in. Just not for a living!

Originally, I was in high school, and I was studying biology, and I got really interested in the field of medicine. And then, I got a lot of early exposure to it because my father's a physician, and I saw the relationship that he had with his patients, and it was something that drew my attention to how wonderful the field was.

The best medicine for despair is service.

In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can.

I am a doctor - it's a profession that may be considered a special mission, a devotion. It calls for involvement, respect and willingness to help all other people.

I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.

Practicing medicine is not only my vocation, it gives me an opportunity to continue to be in direct contact with people, to see them and hear their needs.

That's why charity work is very selfish at the same time, because it makes you feel good.

As a doctor, I've learned the importance and value of listening.

Lest when I am gone you may be at a loss for an epitaph for me, let me give you one - He Fed Fevers.

I feel like giving back is in my blood.

No time is better spent than that spent in the service of your fellow man.

If I wasn't a designer, I would love to be a doctor. That is my fantasy, my dream. A doctor will give you a tablet if you have a headache, and I will give you a dress, and we both make you feel good.

Everything good that's ever happened to me came out of helping others.

I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.

I have found that the only thing that does bring you happiness is doing something good for somebody who is incapable of doing it for themselves.

Medicine grounds me, it centers me, that's why I continue to do it.