I studied medicine so I could help others - set a leg or whatever - and it's given me a great deal of satisfaction. Fred Hollows More Quotes by Fred Hollows More Quotes From Fred Hollows Every eye is an eye, when you're doing the surgery there that is just as important as if you were doing eye surgery on the prime minster or the king. Fred Hollows medicineeyekings To my mind, having a care and concern for others is the highest of the human qualities. Fred Hollows concern-for-othersqualitymind I believe that the basic attribute of mankind is to look after each other Fred Hollows communitybelievepeople When I've seen an opportunity I haven't sat down and called a committee meeting, We've gone and done it. Fred Hollows communityleadershipopportunity You disappoint yourself more often by not doing things because of cowardice and temerity than you ever did by doing things that turn out to be wrong. Fred Hollows disappointcowardiceturns I have been lucky in that I've been alive at times when the things that I wanted to do were capable of being done. Fred Hollows alivedonewisdom Each year in Africa about two and a half million people go blind...and they just go blind... they sit around in their huts. Fred Hollows twopeopleyears The neglect this implied, the suffering and wasted quality of human life were appalling. Fred Hollows communityleadershipsuffering
