"You have to understand what it is that you are better at than anybody else and mercilessly focus your efforts on it."

-- Andy Grove

#Focus Quotes #Effort Quotes

“You never understand how dear your privacy is until you lose it.”
“For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?”

Source : "What is Mathematics?" by Richard Courant, (p. xix), 1941.
“I was born in a middle class Muslim family, in a small town called Myonenningh in a northern part of Bangladesh in 1962. My father is a qualified physician; my mother is a housewife. I have two elder brothers and one younger sister. All of them received a liberal education in schools and colleges.”
“I purge compulsively. I'm constantly shedding things.”
“Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small newspaper.”
“You can't do a machine without knowing something about how it's going to work. As for the romantics, the costumes bored me and I don't enjoy doing period clothes.”
“I ought to file charges of uncommon stupidity against you for letting her try this alone." ~ Newt, Black Magic Sanction, Kim Harrison”
“Meeting each other and leaving each other. Leaving and meeting. That's what life is!”

Source : August Strindberg (1983). “Strindberg, Five Plays”, p.242, Univ of California Press

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