Mehmet Oz Quotes

I've never been interested in things that sparkle and shine; I'm more interested in people.

My job is about playing people. And I think once you lose touch with people, what do you play?

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

I've never bought this idea of taking a therapeutic distance. If I see a student or house staff cry, I take great faith in that. That's a great person; they're going to be a great doctor.

I wanted to show people that doctors are humans, too. It's important for us to be around other people - that way, we can understand our patients better rather than just walking into a room, barking orders, and walking out.

I put a lot of emphasis on how to treat people. The reason for this is simple. The real success of our personal lives and careers can best be measured by the relationships we have with the people most dear to us - our family, friends, and coworkers. If we fail in this aspect of our lives, no matter how vast our worldly possessions or how high on the corporate ladder we climb, we will have achieved very little.

We know how to be doctors, nurses, lawyers. We know how to be tweeters. We know how to be everything. But how do you just be people? How do you be present with one another? How do you be honest with one another? How do you be compassionate towards one another, forgiving towards one another? We know what to do. We don't know what to be, how to be.

I understand how to read people, and nurture them and guide them, and let them be free to do what they want to do.

I envy people who have the capacity to sit with another human being and find them endlessly interesting, I would rather watch TV. Of course this becomes eventually known to the other person.

No, I'm not clever. I've always cared more for people than for ideas.

If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.

Understanding people certainly impacts your ability to communicate with others.

It's dangerous to be people-blind.

The ability to understand people is a choice.

To write prescriptions is easy, but to come to an understanding with people is hard.

The ability to understand people is one of the greatest assets anyone can ever have.

Often people who are wonderful with animals aren't always terribly good with human beings.

Empathy takes time, and efficiency is for things, not people.

Through the years I've learned to gain the trust of humans. I'm really good at gaining the trust of animals and I have developed the same ability with humans. I don't make people feel wrong, I just make people aware. I have learned to make people laugh.

I just like people. I'll hold a conversation at a gas station. It's not about the fame and the fortune, I just like people.

Even before I did stand-up, I've always been the kind of guy - and I talk about it on stage - who says I like people and I always look for the good in people. I say, 'Every person has something good about them, if you can just find it.'

I really like feeling connected to people and feeling like I have a good, solid sense of empathy.

Empathy is about standing in someone else's shoes, feeling with his or her heart, seeing with his or her eyes. Not only is empathy hard to outsource and automate, but it makes the world a better place.

The man who can put himself in the place of other men, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for him.

I don't think a guy that really has no understanding about people, or has no interest in understanding people would make a good film composer.