Atul Gawande Quotes

You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it.

But all of my efforts served only to make me better acquainted with the difficulty, which in itself was something.

I never was content unless I was trying my skill...or testing my endurance.

We learn by pushing ourselves and finding what really lies at the outer reaches of our abilities.

I want the joy of knowing that I am doing something with my life, the joy of battle.

Over and over again, I'm trying to express or communicate these big and small struggles to the world, and really to myself.

I love to see how far you're able to go, both in skills but also emotionally how far I can push myself.

What I always do in times of trouble or stress is to try and do something I don't know how to do.

I'm the kind of guy who really likes a challenge. It's more rewarding.

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

I love a challenge.

The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what's best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you're banging your head against a brick wall all the time.

I don't like doing things that are too easy.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

I'm always looking for a new thing that really terrifies me that I think I can't do it and accomplish that.

Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light.

If the material is challenging, it forces you to challenge yourself when handling it.

I enjoy the element of pushing yourself, learning something new, whether it's a dance step, a scene, an emotion.

What drives me now is the fact that I feel like I still have so many tricks that I want to learn and so many things that I can still do. And so many cool things outside of sports that I have been doing.

I think that there is something about the ritual of making things more difficult that people find meaning in.

I like to push myself, you know.

Always it's like big challenge for me. Every point is a big challenge. So I do everything I can.

I think without struggle, you can't grow as a person - I think you need that in your life.

I want to scare myself when I choose what I want to work on.