"What if...? A question we ask to hurt ourselves."

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Susan Fletcher

#Hurt Quotes #What If Quotes

“the reminder that there are people who have worse troubles than you is not an effective pain-killer ...”

Source : Mary Astor (1968). “A Place Called Saturday”
“Growing up, I realized that fame is not what you think it is. It's a little bizarre. You have to learn how to cope with that and figure out who you are.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“...for some of us, one mile can be more to walk than thirty.”
“Early on, he'd learned to enjoy simple things, things that couldn't be bought, and he had a hard time understanding people who felt otherwise.”
“Tenacious practice, practice, practice is crucial for excellence; rote repetition is underrated in America.”

Source : Amy Chua (2011). “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother”, Bloomsbury Publishing
“Don't just read it; fight it! Ask your own questions, look for your own examples, discover your own proofs. Is the hypothesis necessary? Is the converse true? Where does the proof use the hypothesis?”

Source : "I Want to be a Mathematician: An Automathography". Book by Paul Halmos, 1985.
“The introduction of the cipher 0 or the group concept was general nonsense too, and mathematics was more or less stagnating for thousands of years because nobody was around to take such childish steps...”
“I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing.”

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