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To be a scholar of mathematics you must be born with talent, insight, concentration, taste, luck, drive and the ability to visualize…
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What's the best part of being a mathematician? I'm not a religious man, but it's almost like being in touch with God…
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[Mathematics] is security. Certainty. Truth. Beauty. Insight. Structure. Architecture. I see mathematics, the part of human knowledge that I call mathematics, as…
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Mathematics is not a deductive science-that's a cliché. When you try to prove a theorem, you don't just list the hypotheses, and…
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...the source of all great mathematics is the special case, the concrete example. It is frequent in mathematics that every instance of…
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The computer is important, but not to mathematics.
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It is the duty of all teachers, and of teachers of mathematics in particular, to expose their students to problems much more…
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The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics.
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The joy of suddenly learning a former secret and the joy of suddenly discovering a hitherto unknown truth are the same to…
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A good stack of examples, as large as possible, is indispensable for a thorough understanding of any concept,and when I want to…
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Mathematics - this may surprise or shock some - is never deductive in creation.
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The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics. That tenet is the foundation of the do-it-yourself, Socratic, or Texas method,…
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When you want a thing done, 'Don't do it yourself' is a good motto for Scoutmasters.
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If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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I've rarely kept my distance from kind of - I don't know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic…
— David Byrne
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A great maxim of personal responsibility and mature achievement: "Do it yourself" is now the enthroned cliche for being occupied with nonessentials.
— Louis Kronenberger
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My body is a journal in a way. It's like what sailors used to do, where every tattoo meant something, a specific…
— Johnny Depp
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When you’re training Parkour with passion, if you’re good, people will notice you. Don’t go around saying, ‘Hey look at this new…
— David Belle
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Begin where you are. Don't wait for someone else to change things for you. Do it yourself
— Norman Vincent Peale
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You can always get someone to love you - even if you have to do it yourself.
— Thomas Lansing Masson
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If you want something done right, do it yourself.
— Unknown Author
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If you want to be the best, find out what the top people do & do it yourself.
— Brian Tracy
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Here I sit, sober and perhaps even lucid, on the sort of winter's day that makes you realize a New Year is…
— Unknown Author
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I came to office with one deliberate intent: to change Britain from a dependent to a self-reliant society -- from a give-it-to-me,…
— Margaret Thatcher
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