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Tom Wolfe
America's Master Novelist
So I managed to get into that program at Yale, which turned out to be a terrific choice for somebody who wants to write. A bad choice if you want to -- as I was going to do -- be a teacher, because there are not that many American Studies departments. And a lot of the people who graduate from that program would end up at the bottom of the heap in somebody's history department or English department. But, it's absolutely great for writers. I discovered sociology there, which was like a light bulb going on over my head. Like most liberal arts students, I'd always looked down my nose at sociology as this kind of bogus science. When I finally had to deal with it in graduate school, I quickly came to the conclusion, which I maintain to this day, that it is, in fact, the queen of the sciences. I won't get into this, but biology, in my mind, is a subset of sociology, not the other way around.
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John Wooden
Basketball's Coaching Legend
John Wooden: Just do the best you can. Don't worry. I think the pressure -- you'd better put pressure on yourself and do a good job. And if you put pressure on yourself to do a good job, you'll do a good job. Nobody can do more than that. If you're affected by those alumni and those outside pressures or what not, if you're worried about your job for any other reason, you have reason to. But I can say honestly, and I'm very sincere about it, the pressure didn't bother me. The pressure didn't bother me. It gets to be like Richard Washington, who hit that shot to win the Louisville game. Someone said, "How in the world did you have what you set up to get Washington that shot?" And I said, "He's the wonder shooter." I said, "First of all, he's a pretty good shooter." I said, "Second, Richard's loose as a goose. And if he misses? To him, you can't make them all." But he didn't expect to miss, because he's a good shooter. He expected to make that shot. Now if I had let somebody else shoot that shot, they'd feel they have to make it. If you feel you have to do it, that, I think, hurts your chances of doing it. It's kind of like character and reputation. Your character is what you are, and you're the only one that truly knows that. Your reputation is what others perceive it to be, and they can be wrong. So which is the most important? What you really are. It doesn't make any difference what others might think. You'd like for them to think well of you, but it really doesn't make any difference. You'd just like for them to. But boy, it's very important what you think about yourself. That's very important. That's probably the most important thing there is.
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Shinya Yamanaka
Embryonic Stem Cell Research
Shinya Yamanaka: When I went to my second lab, in Nara, it was my first time to be the so-called "principal investigator." So I became independent for the first time in my scientific career. That means I will have to have many students and many post-docs, so I thought I really have to have some wonderful research project in my own lab to attract as many people as possible. So I thought what the goal should be, and I thought making stem cells from patients' own cells should be my goal. That was the beginning of my full research.
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