There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up.
G. P. A. ’s are worthless as a criteria for hiring, and test scores are worthless. We found that they don’t predict anything.
If your goals are ambitious and crazy enough, even failure will be a pretty good achievement.
The focus on process rather than purpose creates an insidious opportunity for sly employees to manipulate the system.
It's feeling the sense of responsibility, the sense of ownership, to step in, to try to solve any problem - and the humility to step back and embrace the better ideas of others. Your end goal, is what can we do together to problem-solve. I've contributed my piece, and then I step back.
What we care about is, when faced with a problem and you're a member of a team, do you, at the appropriate time, step in and lead. And just as critically, do you step back and stop leading, do you let someone else?
Part of the challenge with leadership is that it's very driven by gut instinct in most cases - and even worse, everyone thinks they're really good at it. The reality is that very few people are.
I went to a school that's predominantly computer science and engineering. So, there's a real shortage of hot girls, let's say.
Flaws reveal a lot about a character and who people are. The flawed elements of a character are where I find their humanity. Those are the things I tend to identify with - the weaknesses. I don't know why, but I identify with struggle more than with success.
I realized in order to be involved in health policy, you really had to understand more than the individual patient that we as physicians, are taught to think about.
It was fine," I said stiffly. "We played Mouse Trap. " "Is that what they're calling it these days?" she asked, throwing me a terrible grin. "I have to go give Rachel a quick bath. Feel free to make yourself some cocoa or whatever you like!" She stopped short of adding ". . . future child-bride of my only son.