4 Quotes & Sayings By Michael J Collins

Michael J. Collins is a best-selling author, professional speaker and consultant. He was born and raised in the greater Pittsburgh area and is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh and Johns Hopkins University. Collins is a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), the Center for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (CLEED), and holds an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh's Katz Graduate School of Business Read more

After working for more than twenty years in public accounting, Collins decided to begin his own consulting business in 1997. He has authored two books, "The Essentials of Leadership" and "The Power of Working with Others", which are used in corporate leadership training programs worldwide.

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I'm taking inorganic chem and physics not because I want to but because I have to. Not every doctor wants to be a scientist. Some of us just want to take care of sick people. I can't help thinking that medicine is more closely aligned to the humanities than to the sciences. I can't help thinking that I could learn more about being a good doctor from William Shakespeare than I could from Isaac Newton. After all, isn't understanding people at least as important as understanding pathology? . Michael J. Collins
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Why do we always think our pain will be less if we can make others suffer more? Michael J. Collins
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It was the first time I had ever seen someone die, and it wasn't what I expected... I stood there waiting for something momentous to happen, for someone to say something profound, but there was nothing... I still had the childish notion that since my life was so important, all lives were so important. Since my death would be so cataclysmic, all deaths would be so cataclysmic. Michael J. Collins