116 Quotes by Margaret Heffernan

I don't think you ever know anyone until you see them in action.

If you have never failed at anything, then you haven't been trying hard enough, aren't very imaginative, or have had such extraordinarily good luck that you have come to believe you are invincible.

The medical profession is - and knows itself to be - endemically conservative and conformist.

As long as they are well-intentioned, mistakes are not a matter for shame but for learning.

I don’t think you ever know anyone until you see them in action.

Most people have their best ideas when they take their minds away from problems they’re trying to solve.

Openness isn’t the end; it’s the beginning.

Those who consistently attempt multitasking find it harder to ignore irrelevant information and take longer moving between tasks – in other words, for all their frantic activity, they’re actually wasting time. And.

Companies don’t have ideas. Only people do. And what motivates people are the bonds of loyalty and trust they develop around each other.