"I recall once saying that when I had given the same lecture several times I couldn't help feeling that they really ought to know it by now."

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Source : John Edensor Littlewood, Béla Bollobás (1986). “Littlewood's Miscellany”, p.135, Cambridge University Press

John Edensor Littlewood

#Feelings Quotes #Lectures Quotes #Helping Quotes

“The idea of going around to somebody else's flat or house and sitting around in a comfy room and having a really good hi-fi system and listening to a whole album all the way through, then chatting for a few minutes, then maybe putting another album on . . . does that happen today?”
“Housework is like bad sex. Every time I do it I swear I will never do it again. Until the next time company comes.”
“It's almost therapeutic driving there and driving back (to North Carolina), with the time you get to think about things as well as create checklists.”
“Things can be low on the food chain, but that doesn't mean they're lowly...”
“I like to push myself beyond the limit every now and again.”
“I became interested in building furniture, because I couldn't find pieces I really loved for myself and my clients. I picked stuff up from the street, and tweaked those pieces to make them what I really wanted. It became a career!”

Source : Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com
“Fool! You may hate me...But I...I haven't stopped thinking of you for a single day.”
“A pupil is a great resource.”

Source : Hudson Stuck (2007). “Ascent of Denali”, p.32, Cosimo, Inc.

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