"In the discovery of lemmas the best aid is a mental aptitude for it. For we may see many who are quick at solutions and yet do not work by method ; thus Cratistus in our time was able to obtain the required result from first principles, and those the fewest possible, but it was his natural gift which helped him to the discovery."

-- Proclus

#Hard Work Quotes #Discovery Quotes #May Quotes

“I have to make about a million proofs of everything. I donâ€™t know, itâ€™s just a repetition, like a meditation. You come back to something and then you leave it, and then you come back again and you leave it, and each time it changes. And sometimes you have to wait for new information inside yourself to be able to finish something, to find out how it should go.”
“Never underestimate those who you scar.”
“When I'm writing a book, you can't think about your audience. You're going to be in big trouble if you think about it. You're got to write from deep inside.”
“Are you on drugs?â€ â€œNo.â€ â€œMaybe you should be.â€¦”
“I am an improviser, ... I improvise music. Whatever you want to call it all, it is all improvised music. I may capture it and go back and write it down for others, but it was originally improvised.”
“There is a law in human nature which draws us to like what we passionately condemn.”
“As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.”
“Poets are always taking the weather so personally.”

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