"Always try the problem that matters most to you."

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Source : "Andrew Wiles on Solving Fermat". "NOVA" Interview, www.pbs.org. November 1, 2000.

Andrew Wiles

#Trying Quotes #Matter Quotes #Problem Quotes

“Fat is a barrier, a bellicose statement to others that, to some, justifies hostility in kind. The world says to the fat person, "Your fatness is an affront to me, so we have the right to treat you as offensively as you appear." Fat is not merely viewed as another type of tissue, but as a diagnostic sign, a personal statement, and a measure of personality. Too little fat and we see you as being antisocial, fearful and sexless. Too much fat and we see you as slothful, stupid, and sexually hung up.”
“As soldiers we have few saving graces. Perhaps our willingness to die for what we believe in is all that matters.”
“Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.”

Source : Karl Jay Shapiro (2004). “Creative Glut: Selected Essays of Karl Shapiro”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher
“For a moment she turned in a circle, staring at her hands, which she held high and useless, close to her breast. She bobbed and shambled like an ape doing a trick, and her face was the silly, bewildered face of a joker's victim. And yet she could make no move that was not beautiful. Her trapped terror was more lovely than any joy that Molly had ever seen, and that was the most terrible thing about it.”
“Some cry: 'Love me!!' Others: 'Don't love me!!' But a certain genus, the worst and most unhappy, cries: 'Don't love me and be faithful to me!!'”
“Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.”
“The student ends up ***** after time with the teacher, hanging on her every word, and forgetting that this is about him or her, the student, not the teacher.”
“I see life everywhere I look. I get the energy off the water.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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