"The primary goal of management education was, as originally conceived, to imp..."
"The primary goal of management education was, as originally conceived, to impart knowledge that could be applied to a variety of real-world business situations."
"I think teens are drawn to these speculative books that portray what might happen and what could happen."
"There are three things that can be organized: time, space, and work. Note that, despite what many believe, you cannot organize people - you can only organize the work that people do."
"I wanted to be a veterinarian, but slipped up when I hit organic chemistry."
"I'm one of the people that were divorced by 30, which is apparently a growing group... Obviously it's something that affects you forever. It's going to be interesting to see in ten, twenty years what kind of lasting effect young divorce has on the people that are doing it because it's becoming more and more common."
"I think good kids TV has got to have layers. It has to have compelling characters that everyone loves, but you can't dumb it down."
"I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated very badly with something that was called genocide in those days."
"Despite what you might guess, when monitoring your breathing, your body doesn't care whether you're inhaling enough oxygen. It cares only whether you're expelling enough carbon dioxide - that's the gas that sets off the panic button when you're suffocating."
"When it comes to your hero, what the readers really fall in love with are his flaws. No one ever falls in love with a perfect hero."
"I have grandchildren who are going to need every cent I make."
"Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire."
"I'm in the entertainment business, where you're only as good as your last show."
"The strength of any weakness within us is the degree to which it is feared."
"Kindness is loving people more than they deserve."
"I'm not a representative of Pakistan; I'm just an example that Pakistanis are different from each other. I believe it in my fiction and I believe it personally."
"Love and marriage are wonderful arenas in which to place a character. We are most likely to risk our morals and beliefs while in love. Betrayal gives tremendous insights into a character as well."
"There is a very conservative element of crime writers that don't recognise what I do is crime fiction."
"The world we live in has been and is being increasingly politicised so that our daily experience is more and more a matter of public policy."
"I firmly believe that a story is only as good as the villain."
"I worked with Stanley Kubrick for almost a year back in 1990, trying to develop the screen story for his project 'Artificial Intelligence,' which is about a robot boy who wishes to become a real boy, a future scientific fairy tale inspired in the myth of Pinocchio."
"My father was very outwardly religious."
"I had a realization in the midst of my happy marriage that I had kind of lost most of my friends - my male friends in particular. And I started wondering if my wife, who was certainly my best friend, supplanted those relationships."
"The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair."
"You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for children, for - if you are honest - you have no idea where childhood ends and maturity begins. It is all endless and all one."
"Vice stirs up war, virtue fights."
