Quotes
Authors
John Edensor Littlewood

"I constantly meet people who are doubtful, generally without due reason, about their potential capacity [as mathematicians]. The first test is whether you got anything out of geometry. To have disliked or failed to get on with other [mathematical] subjects need mean nothing; much drill and drudgery is unavoidable before they can get started, and bad teaching can make them unintelligible even to a born mathematician."

Source : "Littlewood's Miscellany".

John Edensor Littlewood

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“At the end of the day it's not a weight contest, it's a visual contest. And it doesn't matter what you say you weigh, if you don't look that big then you don't look that big.”
“But baseball was different... You stood and waited and tried to still your mind. When your moment came, you had to be ready, because if you f****d up, everyone would know whose fault it was. What other sport not only kept a stat as cruel as the error, but posted it on the scoreboard for everyone to see? ... You could only try so hard not to try too hard before you were right back around to trying too hard. And trying hard, as everyone told him, was wrong, all wrong.”
“The mind which is free from passions is a citadel, for man has nothing more secure to which he can fly for refuge and for the future be inexpugnable . He then who has not seen this is an ignorant man: but he who has seen it and does not fly to this refuge is unhappy.”
“If you want to get my attention, wear a pirate outfit.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I used to pray that God would do this or that; now I pray that God will make His will known to me.”
“Ending a sentence with yo, is like saying, I don't want a job. Not today. Not ever. Know what I mean yo?”
“The things that come to us easily, our propensities, are carried on a deep subconscious level into our next life. There are no coincidences.”
“The casting directors that were aware of The Real World looked at me as a joke. It was so hard to get away from that.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes".

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