"Do not waste the vast majority of your life doing something you hate so that you can spend the small remainder sliver of your life in modest comfort. You may never reach that end anyway. Resist the temptation to get a job. Instead, play. Find something you enjoy doing. Do it. Over and over again. You will become good at it for two reasons: you like it, and you do it often. Soon, that will have value in itself."

-- Adrian Tan

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“I am said to be the most beautiful woman in Europe. About that, of course, I cannot judge because I cannot know. But about the other queens, I know. I am the most beautiful queen in Europe.”
“Doubt is most often the source of our powerlessness. To doubt is to be faithless, to be without hope or belief. When we doubt, our self-talk sounds like this: 'I don't think I can. I don't think I will.'... To doubt is to have faith in the worst possible outcome. It is to believe in the perverseness of the universe, that even if I do well, something I don't know about will get in the way, sabotage me, or get me in the end.”
“Sometimes the break in your heart is like the hole in the flute. Sometimes itâ€™s the place where the music comes through.”
“My normal life is like being on holiday.”
“It was as though applied mathematics was my spouse, and pure mathematics was my secret lover.”

Source : Edward Frenkel (2014). “Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality”, p.139, Basic Books
“Don't take yourself too seriously. It just makes life all the harder. It'll all come out in the wash anyway, because God's glory eventually will eclipse everything that goes wrong on this earth. Lighten up and learn to laugh at yourself. None of us is infallible. We make mistakes in life, and more often than not, they're funny. Sometimes, being your own source of comedy is the most fun of all.”
“You may never reach a solution, but you're never absolved from the responsibility of trying.”
“One of the lessons of history is that even the deepest crises can be moments of opportunity. They bring ideas from the margins into the mainstream.”

Source : "Post-crash, investing in a better world". TED Talk, www.ted.com. July 2009.

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