"Mathematics is being lazy. Mathematics is letting the principles do the work for you so that you do not have to do the work for yourself"

-- George Polya

#Hard Work Quotes #Lazy Quotes #Principles Quotes

“Keep working towards improving on yourself and keep working towards your dreams and goals because no one else will for you.”
“Waking love suffereth no sleepe: Say, that raging love dothe appall the weake stomacke: Say, that lamenting love marreth the musicall.”
“Humankind has suddenly entered into a brand new relationship with our planet. Unless we quickly and profoundly change the course of our civilization, we face an immediate and grave danger of destroying the worldwide ecological system that sustains life as we know it.”
“This is what he knew that Paul didn't: the world was precarious and sometimes cruel. He'd had to fight hard to achieve what Paul simply took for granted.”

Source : Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.192, Penguin
“I learned to stand up for myself at school where I was never too popular.”
“Writing music is sort of my hobby, but it's been falling off more and more. Doing comic books takes up my entire life.”
“You know well that government always kept a kind of standing army of newswriters who, without any regard to truth or to what should be like truth, invented and put into the papers whatever might serve the [government] ministers. This suffices with the mass of the people who have no means of distinguishing the false from the true paragraphs of a newspaper.”

Source : Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence and miscellanies from the papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.343
“One of the beautiful things about writing is that it offers an inner life that's disciplined and at the same time wild. Not in any way servile or submissive. It exists outside of institutional and other forms of authority even when being affected by them. On what almost feels like a cellular level, it's anathema to labeling and enforced divisions.”

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