3 Quotes & Sayings By Denton Cooley

Denton Cooley is the author of the New York Times bestselling autobiography, "I'm Only Laughing...Because I'm Dead." A musician and musician-writer, he has had a long and successful career as a performer and recording artist, and as a writer and composer for television and film. He is the recipient of the 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship, and his books have been nominated for the National Book Award. He is a Laureate Fellow at The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.

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I've always felt that I did well as a student because I lacked confidence. Denton Cooley
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Of the many 'firsts' with which I have been involved at the Texas Heart Institute –including the first successful human heart transplant in the United States and the first total artificial heart transplant in the world–the achievement that may have the greatest impact on health care did not occur in the operating room or in the research laboratory. It happened on a piece of paper.. when we created the first-ever packaged pricing plan for cardiovascular surgical procedures. Denton Cooley