“Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God's spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.”
"Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch."
- Florence Nightingale
Awareness
"No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this – ‘devoted and obedient.’ This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman."
- Florence Nightingale
Belief
"I did not think of going to give myself a position, but for the sake of common humanity."
- Florence Nightingale
Compassion
"“Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.”"
- Florence Nightingale
Compassion
"The world is put back by the death of everyone who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality."
- Florence Nightingale
Personal Growth
"You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."
- Maya Angelou
Creativity
"Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless."
- Jamie Paolinetti
Creativity
"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."
- Herman Melville
Creativity
"I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying."
- Oscar Wilde
Creativity
"Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too."
- Isabel Allende
Creativity