"Life is just the same as learning to swim. Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!"

-- Alfred Adler

#Mistake Quotes #Persistence Quotes #Swim Quotes

“The REAL American Dream is not about a garage full of new cars, winning the lottery, or retiring to a life of ease in Florida. It's about doing work that has meaning, work that makes a difference, and doing that work with people you care about.”
“The Adderall Diaries is phenomenal. With jittery finesse and a reformed tweaker's eye for detail, Stephen Elliott captures the terrifying, hilarious, heart-strangling reality of a life whose scorched-earth physical and psycho-emotional dimensions no one could have invented - they absolutely had to be lived. By all rights, the author should either be dead or chewing his fingers in a bus station. Instead, he may well have written the memoir of an entire generation.”
“Mathematics is an escape from reality.”
“A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.”
“Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the velocity.”
“Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.”
“Is it not the artist who - like our dreams - dissolves the pretenses that hide us from ourselves, disclosing both our self-serving fantasies and our unsuspected potentialities?”

Source : Dorothy Norman (1969). “The Hero: Myth, Image, Symbol”, Anchor Books
“Do not imagine that mathematics is harsh and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealisation of common sense.”

Source : "Life of Lord Kelvin". Book by Silvanus Phillips Thompson, 1910.

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