As a surgeon you have to have a controlled arrogance. If it's uncontrolled, you kill people, but you have to be pretty arrogant to saw through a person's chest, take out their heart and believe you can fix it. Then, when you succeed and the patient survives, you pray, because it's only by the grace of God that you get there. Mehmet Oz
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  2. Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation. - Jalaluddin Rumi

  3. His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before. - James Joyce

  4. Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it. - Unknown

  5. I am my heart’s undertaker. Daily I go and retrieve its tattered remains, place them delicately into its little coffin, and bury it in the depths of my memory, only to have to do it all again tomorrow. - Emilie Autumn

More Quotes By Mehmet Oz
  1. I like shows that have some level of intelligence to them. When it's not as predictable, when you don't know what's coming at you.

  2. Most food you drop is still perfectly edible. If it was in your eyesight the whole time, you can pick it up and eat it.

  3. Biology always beats will power.

  4. As a surgeon you have to have a controlled arrogance. If it's uncontrolled, you kill people, but you have to be pretty arrogant to saw through a person's chest, take out their heart and believe you can fix it. Then, when you succeed and the...

  5. I saw many people who had advanced heart disease and I was so frustrated because I knew if they just knew how to do the right thing, simple lifestyle and diet steps, that the entire trajectory of their life and health would have been different.

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