Brandon Sanderson Quotes

I had a friend who was the King's surgeon in England. One day I asked him what makes a great surgeon. He replied, "What distinguishes a great surgeon is his knowledge. He knows more than other surgeons. During an operation he finds something which he wasn't expecting, recognizes it and knows what to do about it." It's the same thing with advertising people. The good ones know more. How do you get to know more? By reading books about advertising. By picking the brains of people who know more than you do. From the Magic Lanterns. And from experience.

We can learn something from every single medical interaction. Every case, every patient has a lesson to teach us.

I did get to shadow some amazing brain surgeons, a female brain surgeon in Toronto, another surgeon in London. And then we had a surgeon onset [of Doctor Strange] every day. So and he taught me to do sutures and was practicing on turkey breasts, raw turkey breasts.

I saw my friends in medical school seeming to be more engaged with the real world. That provoked a sort of jealousy, and I decided to go to medical school after all.

From the very commencement the student should set out to witness the progress and effects of sickness and ought to persevere in the daily observation of disease during the whole period of his studies.

The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.

When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.

Read every book, blog, website, whatever, about what you want to be an expert in.

There's only one thing I know what to do, so I'm pretty much otherwise unemployable. The idea that you can make a living from exercising your only skill is wonderful. And it's wonderful to be read. It's a really exciting and happy thing to be read.

I studied in a medical college and qualified myself as a medical graduate.

I was going to go to school to become a neurological surgeon.

The kind of doctor I want is one who when he's not examining me is home studying medicine.

By keeping my hand in that, it's the way I keep learning. The main way you learn in medicine is by practicing and working with patients.

I don't think enough journalists read enough - literature, history. You've got to keep reading all through your career.

Prior to my call to the Twelve, I served as a medical doctor and surgeon.

I'm basically a creature of habit - I do practically the same thing every week, every day of every week: I go to the office, I meet people, I write, I read, and, of course, I give lectures.

I've watched people quit YouTube to become doctors.

I once thought about being a doctor, but then I'd have to work for a living.

It is strange that there should be so little reading in the world, and so much writing. People in general do not willingly read, if they can have any thing else to amuse them.

Read an hour every day in your chosen field. This works out to about one book per week, fifty books per year, and will guarantee your success.

I study harder now than I ever did in college or high school. There's just so much pressure to know what's going on, and I feel like, especially with social media, there's always new information coming out on the teams, the players, the coaches, and the games. You can never be fully read enough, and I'm just constantly reading articles, watching games, and trying to read blogs.

I refuse to write the same story twice. I keep experimenting. I keep learning how to work. I've been at it pretty much 50 years, and I'm now beginning to learn how to do the job well.

Would you like to go to a doctor who had taken his last medical course in 1948? You have to keep changing and keep learning so that you are constantly challenging yourself, adding a few new songs to your program every chance you get. If you don't, the world will pass you by.

The less experienced a doctor is, the higher are his notions of professional dignity . . .

When I graduated from high school I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library 3 days a week for 10 years.