Dean Ornish Quotes

My job as a physician is to make sure I have provided my patients with the best options to make the decisions that affect their lives.

I don't believe that you can make decisions on anything without having all of the details.

It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins.

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.

I think that you make the best choice with the information that you have before you at that given time.

Investing in health will produce enormous benefits.

Common sense is in medicine the master workman.

Had Rumsfeld said at any time 'get me a report on what's going on', he could have had it. You're right, it depends on choices that we make, which parts of the world we want to be in immediate contact with.

I approve designs not because I think I am more gifted or somebody who can see ahead three or four years from now, but just to make sure that the design is a logical, rational decision, taken after analyzing pros and cons.

My job is to provide the president with the richest possible consideration, so that he knows what is at stake in whatever decision he makes.

You should have a fund of knowledge of something and out of that you make up you mind.

When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.

We all want more information available when making health care decisions for ourselves and our families.

Health care probably contributes a lot more to the common wealth than finance.

As population susceptibilities are better understood, we will be in a better position than we are in today to make informed decisions about risk management.

The health of our nation is the wealth of our nation.

We should not get ourselves committed until we know how everything will come out.

In the intelligence business you are almost never completely wrong or completely right.

A great many decisions just can’t be made with confidence because the data just doesn’t exist …. [however] just because we don’t have the information doesn’t mean that we can’t get it.

One cannot guarantee that if we have good intelligence, good policy will necessarily follow. But we can guarantee that if we have poor intelligence, poor policy will necessarily follow.

As an intelligence analyst you have to tell the president what you know, what you think you know and what you don’t know.

When you help make people healthier, it makes the nation healthier; it makes the world healthier. It makes the economy healthier.

I can't ever remember being struck by lightning when making a big decision. It's always about taking in more and more data points and making tack adjustments as you figure it out. I call customers, suppliers, industry analysts and try to get as much information as possible.

Women have been late-in-the-game deciders. They weigh all of the issues, all of the images, and all of the information and make a choice almost at the last minute.

The way we work in public health is, we make the best recommendations and decisions based on the best available data.