Denton Cooley Quotes

• Un cirujano de éxito debe ser un hombre al que, cuando se le pide que nombre a los tres mejores cirujanos del mundo, le costaría decidirse por los otros dos.

  Denton Cooley

  Successful, Men, Names

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• I still take failure very seriously, but I've found that the only way I could overcome the feeling is to keep on working, and trying to benefit from failures or disappointments. There are always some lessons to be learned. So I keep on working.

  Denton Cooley

  Disappointment, Failure, Science

  "Presidential Medal of Freedom". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. April 11, 1991.

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• Creo que tengo más suerte cuando trabajo más duro.

  Denton Cooley

  Hard Work, Achievement, Work Harder

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• I think work is a privilege. ... It keeps you alive, spiritually.

  Denton Cooley

  Hard Work, Thinking, Alive

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• [The heart is] really a fascinating organ. It's about the only organ in the body that you can really witness its function. Doing things. And so on. Some of the other organs you can witness, like the intestines, will have this sort of peristaltic motion. But nothing that can compare with the activity of the human heart.

  Denton Cooley

  Heart, Body, Function

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• So much goes into doing a transplant operation. All the way from preparing the patient, to procuring the donor. It's like being an astronaut. The astronaut gets all the credit, he gets the trip to the moon, but he had nothing to do with the creation of the rocket, or navigating the ship. He's the privileged one who gets to drive to the moon. I feel that way in some of these more difficult operations, like the heart transplant.

  Denton Cooley

  Heart, Moon, Rockets

  "Presidential Medal of Freedom". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. April 11, 1991.

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• I've always thought that my exposure to competitive sports helped me a great deal in the operating room. It teaches you endurance, and it teaches you how to cope with defeat, and with complications of all sort. I think I'm a well-coordinated person, more than average, and I think that came through my interest in sports, and athletics... Playing basketball you have to make decisions promptly, and that's true in the operating room as well.

  Denton Cooley

  Baloncesto, Deportes, Pensamiento

  "Presidential Medal of Freedom". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. April 11, 1991.

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• I think confidence is something you build gradually, with experience. I've always felt that maybe one of the reasons that I did well as a student and made such good grades was because I lacked confidence. I never felt that I was prepared to take an examination, and I had to study a little bit extra.

  Denton Cooley

  Thinking, Students, Study

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• The spirit of Texas seems to pervade our everyday existence. Our desire is to be superlative, not only the largest, but also the best in the United States.

  Denton Cooley

  Texas, Everyday, Desire

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• Get a scalpel, and practice just, say, cutting a piece of meat or something like that. You sort of learn how you want to hold your fingers, and that sort of thing, and try to become graceful when you operate.

  Denton Cooley

  Cutting, Practice, Trying

  "Denton A. Cooley, M.D. on Preparation". The Academy of Achievement Intreview, www.achievement.org. April 11, 1991.

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• De las muchas "primicias" en las que he participado en el Instituto del Corazón de Texas -entre ellas el primer trasplante de corazón humano realizado con éxito en Estados Unidos y el primer trasplante de corazón artificial del mundo-, el logro que quizá tenga mayor repercusión en la asistencia sanitaria no se produjo en el quirófano ni en el laboratorio de investigación. Ocurrió en un trozo de papel... cuando creamos el primer plan de precios agrupados para intervenciones quirúrgicas cardiovasculares.

  Denton Cooley

  Heart, Successful, Impact

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• El hombre que más me inspiró, creo, fue el Dr. Alfred Blalock, que era profesor de cirugía en Johns Hopkins. Era un hombre bastante sencillo con una curiosidad ardiente. Gracias a su curiosidad hizo muchas contribuciones reales a la ciencia médica.

  Denton Cooley

  Real, Simple, Men

  "Presidential Medal of Freedom". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. April 11, 1991.

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• I've always felt that I did well as a student because I lacked confidence.

  Denton Cooley

  Students, Wells, Felt

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• Siempre he pensado que quizá una de las razones por las que me iba bien como estudiante y sacaba tan buenas notas era porque me faltaba confianza. Me faltaba confianza en mí misma, y nunca me sentía preparada para hacer un examen, y tenía que estudiar un poco más. Así que esa especie de falta de confianza me ayudó, creo, a sacar buenas notas cuando era estudiante.

  Denton Cooley

  Education, Self Confidence, Science

  "Presidential Medal of Freedom". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. April 11, 1991.

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