MINUTE MUSINGS
The practice of dentistry is science combined with art. It is stressful one minute and pleasurable the next. It is positive and upbeat one day and regarded as a negative life force the next. On a regular basis, dentists and team members need food for the spirit and psyche just like they need nourishment for the body. Hence, I occasionally share some quotations and meditations from my years-in-the-making collection of "notable quotables" in the hope that these bits of wisdom and humor will inspire, cheer, and cultivate positive feelings of teamwork among dental teams. Use these adages to begin daily morning huddles, enrich staff meetings, or close practice planning retreats, or post some of them on your practice social media sites.
Think about it...
On Life
Live so you leave the woodpile higher than you found it.
Dr. Heber Simmons
On Imagination
A mind once stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimension.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
On Today
Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Belief
Our deeds become our creeds.
Eugene Peterson
On actions
What you’re doing shouts so loudly, I can’t hear what you’re saying.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Seven Stages to Stagnation
We’ve never done it that way.
We’re not ready for that yet.
We’re doing all right without it.
We tried it once and it didn’t work.
It costs too much.
That’s not my responsibility.
It won’t work.
Edwin M. Soukup
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