"Being with an insanely jealous person is like being in the room with a dead mammoth."

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Source : "Mike Nichols: The Special Risks And Rewards Of The Director's Art" by Barbara Gelb, www.nytimes.com. May 27, 1984.

Mike Nichols

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“I am suggesting that quality in undergraduate education means giving students a perspective that is global.”

Source : Ernest L. Boyer (1997). “Ernest L. Boyer, Selected Speeches, 1979-1995”, Jossey-Bass
“One of the difficulties in bringing about change in an organization is that you must do so through the persons who have been most successful in that organization, no matter how faulty the system or the organization is. To such persons, you see, it is the best of all possible organizations, because look who was selected by it ad look who succeeded most in it. Yet, these are the very people through whom we must bring about improvements.”
“I'm trying to make the world a more open place by helping people connect and share.”
“Everyone I know who used to be in the intelligence community is moving into the corporate world.”
“When we are able to receive life's challenges as koans rather than problems, they become interesting and exciting, rather than ponderous and depressing.”
“Fifty years ago my Mother stood on this stage accepting this award; She was fortunate enough to have my Dad with her. Fifty years later, I'm fortunate enough to have my Dad with me. I love you, Dad.”
“What starting your company means: you will lose your stable income, your right to apply for a leave of absence, and your right to get a bonus. However, it also means your income will no longer be limited, you will use your time more effectively, and you will no longer need to beg for favours from people anymore.”
“Here is this three-pound mass of jelly you can hold in the palm of your hand, and it can contemplate the vastness of interstellar space. It can contemplate the meaning of infinity and it can contemplate itself contemplating on the meaning of infinity.”

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