Choreographer, dancer and author
You called it vision, I call it analyzing what my strengths were.
Recorded · Academy of Achievement (achievement.org) · 1993
In their fifties
The densest band in the archive, and the age at which the question about what everyone in your field gets wrong tends to get its bluntest answer.
62 people · 117 answers
How has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success? Do you have a favourite failure?
26th President of the United States, 1901–1909; Governor of New York 1899–1900; Assistant Secretary of the Navy 1897–1898
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.
Recorded · The American Presidency Project, University of California Santa Barbara · 1910
Veterinary surgeon and immunologist; Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 1996
I tried for a Ph.D. scholarship to work with Cedric Mims, but was told to apply again later because he already had a "scholar" and would take only one student at a time.
Recorded · Nobel Prize Outreach · 1996
Co-founder and chief executive of Apple; co-founder of NeXT; chief executive of Pixar
I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me.
Recorded · Stanford News (Stanford University) · 2005
Stem cell biologist; Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 2012
Working at the hospital, I found that my surgical skills were not as good as I expected.
Recorded · Nobel Prize Outreach · 2012
Developmental biologist; Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 1995
As I was lazy and rarely did my homework, I finished high school with a rather mediocre exam. I almost did not pass in English language.
Recorded · Nobel Prize Outreach · 1995
If you could have a gigantic billboard anywhere, what would it say and why?
Veterinary surgeon and immunologist; Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 1996
I share Alfred Nobel's conviction that war is the greatest of all human disasters. Infectious disease runs a good second.
Recorded · Nobel Prize Outreach · 1996
Theoretical physicist; Nobel laureate in Physics, 1965
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool. So you have to be very careful about that.
Recorded · Caltech Engineering and Science (Caltech Library archive) · 1974
Chemist; Nobel laureate in Chemistry, 1999
At the age of 21, as a Moeid, I believed that behind every universal phenomenon there must be beauty and simplicity in its description. This belief remains true today.
Recorded · Nobel Prize Outreach · 1999
What is one of the best or most worthwhile investments you have ever made — of money, time, or energy?
Architect; Pritzker Prize laureate, 1995
More than 500 children under the age of 18 lost a parent in the Hanshin Earthquake; 88 of them lost both parents and became orphans.
Recorded · The Hyatt Foundation / The Pritzker Architecture Prize · 1995
British wheelchair racer, 1988–2007; member of the House of Lords
In the whole of my career, there were very few training sessions that I missed. Even when I was pregnant, I trained all the way through.
Recorded · Arch Insurance · 2022
Chemist; Nobel laureate in Chemistry, 1999
My science family came from all over the world, and members were of varied backgrounds, cultures, and abilities.
Recorded · Nobel Prize Outreach · 1999
Everyone here · A–Z
Adam Zagajewski, Ahmed Zewail, Andre Geim, Athol Fugard, August Wilson, Barack Obama, Bill Gurley, Bong Joon-ho, Brian Koppelman, Cathy Freeman, Cheryl Strayed, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, Colm Tóibín, Corazon Aquino, Dan Pallotta, Eleanor Roosevelt, Emmanuelle Charpentier, Frederick W. Smith, Geoff Dyer, Haruki Murakami, Hilary Mantel, Howard Marks, Indra Nooyi, Jeanette Winterson, Jennifer Doudna, Joyce Carol Oates, Jürgen Klopp, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Kurt Vonnegut, Malcolm Gladwell, Neil Gaiman, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nick Cave, Orhan Pamuk, Paul Farmer, Paul Graham, Peter Doherty, Peter Thiel, Phil Keoghan, Ralph Nader, Reid Hoffman, Ricardo Semler, Richard Feynman, Roddy Doyle, Satya Nadella, Sebastian Junger, Shinya Yamanaka, Steve Jobs, Suzan-Lori Parks, Sylvia Earle, Tadao Ando, Tanni Grey-Thompson, Tenley Albright, Terence Tao, Theodore Roosevelt, Tom Stoppard, Tony Elumelu, Twyla Tharp, Václav Havel, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Will Self, Yo-Yo Ma