If you so choose, even the unexpected setbacks can bring new and positive possibilities. If you so choose, you can find value and fulfillment in every circumstance.
I am able to ride the bike and think clearly about strategy and tyres. I also have positive thinking. I am very constructively critical.
If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything.
It's fine to work on any problem, so long as it generates interesting mathematics along the way - even if you don't solve it at the end of the day.
There is no struggle, rift, fight between those who claim the banner of the tea party and those who are in the Republican Party. We work together.
Some people make sharp distinctions sort of between their recreational musings and their professional work. I don't make that distinction very much.
All children are curious and I wonder by what process this trait becomes developed in some and suppressed in others. I suspect again that schools and colleges help in the suppression insofar as they meet curiosity by giving the answers, rather than b...
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Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.
One age misunderstands another; and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own nasty way.
Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it.
I think it is silly to be amateur about anything when one has an opportunity of learning.
So long as you've got your friends about you, and a good positive attitude, you don't really have to care what everyone else thinks.
At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fascinated by simultaneous equations and read ahead of the class to the end of the book.
In the war, most young men were inducted into the armed forces at the age of 17. A group of students was permitted to attend university before taking part in wartime research projects.
When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As a result, I was not comfortable with formal lectures and receiving regular homework assignments.
When I joined Ford, in the late 1970s, I felt strongly we could not forever be a huge user of natural resources without there being consequences. But I was alone in my thinking in those days.
It was really fun being in Tara's trailer, working on my lines. Tara is such an amazing actress. She's so good at what she does. I learned a lot from watching her.
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.
It was as though applied mathematics was my spouse, and pure mathematics was my secret lover.
