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...strengths. I was ready to meet Harvard head-on and no longer worried about becoming diseased by the place. Stanford's innoculation prevented growth of the germ which, I discovered, had been inside of me all along. Once I had recognized my ambitious nature, I could keep my competitive zeal in check and deal with Harvard people without developing compulsive anxiety attacks about who I was and where I was going...
Nicholson's patience and zeal are exceptional. When he works over a script, not only are key phrases underlined and notes made, but almost every word is assigned a number, which signifies beats and pauses. "I'm at least 75% of every character I play," Nicholson says. "For the rest, I try to find a character's positive philosophy about himself. You have to search out and adopt the character's own justifications and rationalizations...
...putdowns may be born of an admirable zeal to avoid mouthing hypocrisy and cant. On the other hand, cynicism-or la belle indifference, as Muggeridge would have it-can be a pose too. For the fact implicit in the very act of writing his autobiography is Muggeridge's assumption that the reader will find neither his life nor his account of it a waste of time. And he is right on both counts...
ALEXANDER HEARD, U.S. educator (chancellor, Vanderbilt University): No concept of leadership is complete without the element of zeal and fervor, an almost spiritual element. Martin Luther King had it. Adolf Hitler had it, so did Gandhi and Nehru. The Old Testament prophets had it. It's commitment, it's a kind of self-confidence which can be egotistic and arrogant. But a degree of it has to be there. The leader must have a belief in what he is doing, almost a singlemindedness...
...Herbert J. Stern, 37, used his prodigious memory and zeal for work to enforce high morality in positions of public trust. As U.S. Attorney for New Jersey, he waged a war on corruption that yielded indictments of 70 public officials-including a mayor, secretaries of state, an ex-speaker of the New Jersey assembly, a police chief, assorted judges, postmasters, highway superintendents, even a U.S. Congressman. A graduate of Hobart and the University of Chicago Law School, Stern headed the investigation of the Malcolm X murder case as assistant district attorney in New York City. It led to three convictions...