Work

You know how to paint a room real fast? Just put paint rollers on your feet and somehow figure out how to skate up the walls and across the ceiling.

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy - and Jill a rich widow.

Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.

Every intern wants to perform their first surgery. That's not your job. Do you know what your job is? To make your resident happy. Do I look happy? No! Why? Because my interns are whiney. You know what will make me look happy? Having the code team staffed, having the trauma pages answered, having the weekend labs delivered and having someone down in the pit doing the sutures. No-one holds a scalpel until I'm so happy I'm Mary Freaking Poppins.

I have five rules. Memorize them. Rule number one, don't bother sucking up. I already hate you, that's not gonna change.

I can't think of a single reason why I should be a surgeon, but I can think of a thousand reasons why I should quit. They make it hard on purpose... there are lives in our hands. There comes a moment when it's more than just a game, and you either take that step forward or turn around and walk away. I could quit but here's the thing, I love the playing field.

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.