Overthinking. I tend to conflate the amount of time spent on something with how good it is. Sometimes intuition is better than proof, and gut instinct better than hours of “work.”

I’m prone to overexplaining things –- when my own understanding of them is shaky. The better I know something, the shorter my prose.

They had large resources of compulsion at their disposal, but I was stubborn. Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn. In all the twelve years I was at school no one ever succeeded in making me write a Latin verse or learn any Greek except the alphabet. I do not at all excuse myself for this foolish neglect of opportunities procured at so much expense by my parents and brought so forcibly to my attention by my Preceptors.

My half measures are really not good measures.

As a businesswoman, I admire Indra Nooyi, because of the way she is transforming Pepsi into a 'healthy' fast food organisation

I am very impatient, impulsive, proactive and often act in haste.

I really want to bring an innovative drug to the global market.

I faced a number of credibility hurdles linked to gender, youth and the nature of my business venture.

I wanted to get into medical college.

I guess my learning about regulatory strategies is much better now, and I may have designed many clinical trials differently - for example, oral insulin.