"Our party's most outstanding mediocrity."

-- Leon Trotsky

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“Sometimes my success is attributed to my height (which is 7'2"), which I won't deny does help to an extent. But honestly, the rest comes from a healthy mix of workout and practice everyday.”
“With tremendous clarity and wisdom, Daniel Tomasulo has crafted a memoir at once heartbreaking and uplifting. Layers of time and memoryâ€”childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, middle ageâ€”are so beautifully revealed here, a trenchant reminder that our pasts are alive inside of us. There are psychologists who can write, and writers who can psychologize, but rarely have the two met on the page with such moving, profound results.”
“But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.”
“You never replace a great scholar who retires. If you try to do that, you end up with burnt-out volcanoes.”
“If you hold onto the beauty and inspiration and the clarity that is music, you will have an anchor, you will not be too far swayed by what the world is”
“People trust those leaders who show real results of their work, rather than those who just talk about the results.”
“For the mother is and must be, whether she knows it or not, the greatest, strongest and most lasting teacher her children have.”

Source : Hannah Whitall Smith (1899). “Child Culture, Or, The Science of Motherhood”
“I read once that the true mark of a pro â€” at anything â€” is that he understands, loves, and is good at even the drudgery of his profession.”

Source : "I Want to be a Mathematician: An Automathography". Book by Paul Halmos, 1985.

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