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Quotes & Notes:
- Examine your fears, examine your wishes, and make each day a little bit better, so that’s what I try to do on a daily basis.
- “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” -Theodore Roosevelt.
“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.” -Joseph Campbell
- If I had to choose any one (to be who I look up most to) it would have to be my dad. I work four days a week and have Friday, Saturday, Sunday off. He would have called Friday, Saturday, Sunday off a vacation. His work ethic is really a large part of who I am today.
- The one thing in the spirit of full authenticity, I was a terrible undergraduate student. Serendipitously when I was working for the basketball team, the team dentist, Dr. Kurt Custer, I started talking to him and told him about how I was feeling about athletic medicine and I told him I was looking for something else and later had about an hour meeting with him and literally in one hour he convinced me to become a dentist.
- Immediately after dental school, I went to a one-year residency in South Carolina. From there I served two years with a deployable dental unit in Germany and so we were all trained up and ready to go to Iraq, and then they ended up closing down the military base, and then I ended up in Italy of all places.
- I was on a track for partnership and it seemed really good, but you learn a lot about yourself when you are in that situation. My dad always said “David you are too damn independent, “ and I think that is how it played out is it eventually partnership wasn’t the best route for me.
- I downloaded the audio series, Piranha Marketing, by Joe Polish and that led me into this spiral of never-ending learning about marketing.
If you keep doing just another filling, then you are just another dentist, and that is not why I went to dental school, that is not why I do what I do.
- Overcome your excuses, even when you feel like you have nothing to do with your situation, then you have complete control of the outcomes.
- Dr. David would recommend every dentist read Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey.
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