"I carried this problem around in my head basically the whole time. I would wake up with it first thing in the morning, I would be thinking about it all day, and I would be thinking about it when I went to sleep. Without distraction I would have the same thing going round and round in my mind."

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

Andrew Wiles

#Morning Quotes #Sleep Quotes #Science Quotes

“I've always thought of myself as a role model even before being a 'celebrity.' I've always been doing charity work and volunteering in the community since I was 8, so when you do that, I think you just assume that role when you put yourself out there.”
“At 60, I could do the same things I could do at 30, if I could only remember what those things are.”
“In the words of Agatha Swanburne, founder of Swanburne Academy, 'Every book is judged by its cover until it is read.'”
“There's always the pressure to make the movie good.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“You get to a certain point in your life where you get closer to the end of your life than the beginning, and it colors your life, in a way.”

Source : Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. July 19, 2011.
“Presidents have to be very organized to govern successfully, and solo artists rarely succeed.”

Source : Source: www.politico.com
“I get tired of talking when I want to be silent.”
“Practical life teaches us that people may differ and that both may be wrong: it also teaches us that people may differ and both be right. Anchor yourself fast in the latter faith, or the former will sweep your heart away.”

Source : Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”

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