“People seemed to have two different selvesan experiencing self who endures every moment equally and a remembering self who gives almost all the weight of judgment afterward to two single points in ...”

“Just ticking boxes is not the ultimate goal here. Embracing a culture of teamwork and discipline is. And if we recognised the opportunity, the two-minute WHO checklist is just a start.”

“No matter what measures are taken, doctors will sometimes falter, and it isn't reasonable to ask that we achieve perfection. What is reasonable is to ask that we never cease to aim for it.”

“In the end, people don't view their life as merely the average of all its momentswhich, after all, is mostly nothing much plus some sleep. For human beings, life is meaningful because it is a story...”

“We are all plagued by failures - by missed subtleties, overlooked knowledge, and outright errors. For the most part, we have imagined that little can be done beyond working harder and harder to cat...”

“Instead they choose to accept their fallibilities. They recognised the simplicity and power of using a checklist.”

“A human being in this aged nation of ours is a very wonderful whole, the slow creation of long interchanging influences; and charm is a result of two such wholes, the one loving and the one loved.”

“The more one judges, the less one loves.”

“[N]one of us drinks the chalice of our existence to the last drop. None of us is fully obedient. Each of us falls short of the human nature entrusted to us.”