Osler: Time Management & Advice to students

From Osler (by Charles Bryan) 1997

p.18

Four qualities requisite for success in medicine:

The Art of Detachment, the Virtue of Method, and the Quality of Thoroughness may make you students, in the true sense of the word, successful practitioners, or even great investigators; but your characters may still lack that which can alone give permanence to powers - the Grace of Humility.

Charles Hobbs: Show me a person with high self-esteem and humility, and you will show me an effective manager of time, a tremendously powerful individual.

Thoroughness is the most difficult habit to acquire, but it is the pearl of great price, worth all the worry and trouble of the search. The dilettante lives an easy, butterfly life, knowing nothing of the toil and labour with which treasures of knowledge are dug out of the past, or wrung by patient research in the laboratories.

p.20

Realize how much time there is, how long the day is. Realize that you have sixteen wakeful hours, three or four of which at least should be devoted to making a silent conquest of your mental machinery.

Control the mind as a working machine, in it of habit, so that action becomes almost an automatic as walking, is the end of education - and yet how rarely reached! It can be accomplished with deliberation and repose, never with hurry and worry.

p.19

Value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.