"If you attack a mathematical problem directly, very often you come to a dead end, nothing you do seems to work and you feel that if only you could peer round the corner there might be an easy solution. There is nothing like having somebody else beside you, because he can usually peer round the corner."

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Source : Michael Atiyah (1988). “Collected Works: Michael Atiyah Collected Works: Volume 1: Early Papers; General Papers”, p.214, Oxford University Press

Michael Atiyah

#Peers Quotes #Might Quotes #Problem Quotes

“There is the danger of over preparation, of loss of spontaneity; over rehearsal is the most terrible thing you can imagine. We do have a very close association between costume and set designer, though. And the cameraman is very important, of course.”
“I mean, it's pretty hard to fight and hate and be angry when you're making music, isn't it?”
“I would that you were either less beautiful, or less corrupt. Such perfect beauty does not suit such imperfect morals. [Lat., Aut formosa fores minus, aut minus improba vellem. Non facit ad mores tam bona forma malos.]”
“Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.”
“Know how to replace in your heart, by the happiness of those you love, the happiness that may be wanting to yourself”
“...so young, so lonely and naive, that she imagined herself as some sort of vessel to be filled up with love. But it wasn't like that. The love was within her all the time and its only renewal came from giving it away.”

Source : Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.247, Penguin
“The hardest part of art-making is living your life in such a way that your work gets done-over and over-and that means, among other things, finding a host of practices that are just plain useful.”

Source : David Bayles, Ted Orland (2001). “Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking”, p.61, Image Continuum Press
“You must understand the texture of your hair before you choose a style.”

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