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Bert Vogelstein
Cancer Researcher
When I was in college one of the things that one of my professors said, which only later I understood -- he was a math professor, and he was telling me that he started out in physics and he switched, and I asked him, "Why did you switch from physics? because it's a lot of fun?" And he said, "My insights into math were better." And I didn't really know what he meant because at that point I'd never had an insight into anything. But, now I know exactly what he meant. You have hunches. There's some gut feeling you have that something is right, or can be done, or is ripe for investigation.
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Bert Vogelstein
Cancer Researcher
The best thing, clearly, is that initial hunch, is that feeling you get often, at least for me, it's early in the morning. I'm lying in bed thinking and I think of something that to me at that time, seems really neat, some connection. And, nine times out of ten, after I get up and think about it and talk about it with my colleagues or my students, it turns out that it was the stupidest idea that anyone every had. But, that few minutes when you think of it, and you think that you really have come up with something that's important, that's a great feeling. And, the fact that they almost all turn out to be nothing, doesn't really matter. It was fun for the moment.
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Lech Walesa
Nobel Prize for Peace
As you know, my home country is located between two powerful nations, between Russia and Germany, who are very sociable peoples and they enjoy visiting one another, so they need to cross Poland on the way. That's why our geographical position was always tough, and we could only survive under certain circumstances. We could only survive as a nation thanks to our deep belief in God because we lived through some absolutely hopeless situations in history and on several occasions, we were erased as a country from the map of the world. But, thanks to our religious belief, we survived and in fact, we continue persisting. That's why this belief was always really deep, and it was tangible. It was not an old-fashioned religious belief -- because we continue to be a religious people -- but this is not really an outdated, old-fashioned religion, and beyond progress. Today the Polish people, myself included, find God in the newest-generation computer, because He is there. It's a question of people being able to find him there. He's very modern. He's a very modern God, and He's really very good to live with.
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Lech Walesa
Nobel Prize for Peace
Lech Walesa: A shipyard is a kind of a window to the world. In a shipyard, people are arriving from all different places around the world. There would be sailors and there would be ship owners. So, that also incited discussions about working conditions, living conditions. So people would start comparing what money they make here and what money was made elsewhere. And, the point was that those people who were aware of other things, they would revolt more quickly than the others, by comparing the achievements of one system against the other and also the working conditions and the salaries. That's why occasionally we would protest. Sometimes there were large-scale protests and sometimes they were smaller-scale protests. And, my career is actually made by those protests. Had we had better living and working conditions, I wouldn't be here talking to you.
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Herschel Walker
All-American Football Player
What I would say to them is believe in yourself. Strive to be the very best you can be. Run the race against yourself and not the guy in the other lane. The reason I say that is, as long as you give it 110 percent, you are going to succeed. But as long as you're trying to beat the guy over there, you are worried about him, you're not worrying about how you've got to perform. Believe in yourself, because I think that's the very big key, and to work hard. To dream, it takes work. To have a nightmare takes nothing. I think if you are going to dream, you've got to be willing to work, because then it can be possible. If you are going to have a nightmare, you don't have to do anything but just hide in the closet. And I say dreams are possible through a lot of hard work. People pray sometimes, and yet they're going to sit there with their hands out hoping God is going to drop money in their hands. It doesn't work like that. If you're going to pray, you've got to get out and do something, you can't just sit in the bed. That's what is so strange. If you're going to pray, you got to make an effort. That's the way it is. If you're going to dream, you've got to make an effort to get out and do something.
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