"My method to overcome a difficulty is to…" — George Polya
"My method to overcome a difficulty is to go round it."
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47 Quotes by George Polya
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Quite often, when an idea that could be helpful presents itself, we do not appreciate it, for it is so…
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The world is anxious to admire that apex and culmination of modern mathematics: a theorem so perfectly general that no…
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The elegance of a mathematical theorem is directly proportional to the number of independent ideas one can see in the…
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The first rule of discovery is to have brains and good luck. The second rule of discovery is to sit…
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Mathematics is the cheapest science. Unlike physics or chemistry, it does not require any expensive equipment. All one needs for…
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When introduced at the wrong time or place, good logic may be the worst enemy of good teaching.
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Where should I start? Start from the statement of the problem. ... What can I do? Visualize the problem as…
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If you have to prove a theorem, do not rush. First of all, understand fully what the theorem says, try…
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A great discovery solves a great problem, but there is a grain of discovery in the solution of any problem.…
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Look around when you have got your first mushroom or made your first discovery: they grow in clusters.
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The future mathematician ... should solve problems, choose the problems which are in his line, meditate upon their solution, and…
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If the proof starts from axioms, distinguishes several cases, and takes thirteen lines in the text book ... it may…
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More Difficulty Quotes
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People that go through what I went through and people going through divorce, it's really a difficulty process; it's heartbreaking…
— David Arquette
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Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge…
— Mary Astell
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Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn…
— Saint Augustine
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Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can't really measure degrees of difficulty.
— Paul Auster
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Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties…
— Sai Baba
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My parents were divorced when I was a young teenager, and I was raised by a single mother after that.…
— Michele Bachmann
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The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which,…
— Douglas Adams
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Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend…
— Ethel Barrymore
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Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
— John Quincy Adams
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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away,…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves…
— Thomas Beecham
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