Quotes

1. Quotes Some words of wisdom

2. D.L. Hughley Pressure: It can burst a pipe or create a diamond. 

3. Benjamin Disraeli The greatest good you can do for [students] is not just to share your riches but to reveal to [them their] own.

4. United States Military AcademyDepartment of Mathematics slogan Students learn mathematics by doing mathematics.

5. Paul R. Halmos, Hilbert Space Problem Book The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics.

6. Charles Vanden Eynden, Elementary Number Theory It is not sufficient for the writer to believe it; enough details must be given so that the reader will also understand and believe. The burden of making oneself understood rests with the writer.

7. John Wooden Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

8. Jeff Lewis (1995) Mathematics is a lot like eating a steak; you've got to cut it into little pieces or you'll choke. 

9. Rev. Jesse Jackson on the television show "A Different World" It is not my aptitude but my attitude that determines my altitude. 

10. Vince Lombardi Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect!

11. Alan Kulwicki1992 NASCAR Champion Luck is where opportunity meets preparedness.

12. H.S. Wall(1902-1971) The mathematician is an artist whose medium is the mind and whose creations are ideas.

13. Jeff Lewis(2002) An idea is only a thought until it is communicated.

14. H.S. Wall(1902-1971) [M]athematics is an art– the purest form of art, in which the mind is the instrument of expression.  This is the art which takes chaos and builds from it a magnificent structure of order and reason.

15. Ward Burton2002 Daytona 500 Champion You've got to drive beyond the hood of your car.

16. Michael Waltrip2001 & 2003 Daytona 500 Champion By the time people panic, it's usually too late to panic.

17. Bruce Lee(1940-1973) I cannot teach you. I can help you to explore and nothing more.

18. unknown Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

19. Vince Lombardi We are in pursuit of perfection. We will not catch it; only God is perfect. But, in our pursuit, we shall achieve excellence.

20. John Tatschl If you haven't got time to be a student, then don't be a student.

21. Thomas Alva Edison There is no substitute for hard work.

22. W. Somerset Maugham It is a great nuisance that knowledge can only be attained by hard work.

23. John Dewey Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

24. Bishop Richard Cumberland It is better to wear out than to rust out.

25. Joe Piscopo The nerds are running the world now.

26. Unknown(common weight room statement) No pain, no gain.

27. Virgil Happy is the man who can understand why things happen.

28. Merle L. Meacham In a few minutes, a computer can make a mistake so great that it takes many men months to equal it.

29. Frederick Douglas If there's no struggle, there's no progress.

30. Joseph Whitney [I]ntelligence is proved not by ease of learning, but by understanding what we learn.

31. G.C. Lichtenberg What you have been obliged to discover by yourself leaves a path in your mind which you can use again when the need arises.

32. Isaac Dworetsky The good Lord made us with two ends– one to sit on and one to think with. How well you succeed in life depends on which one you use.

33. Herbert V. Prochnow If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.

34. Yogi Berra You can see a lot just by looking.

35. Paul Erdös A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems.

36. Benjamin Disraeli Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much are the three pillars of learning.

37. Wayne Gretsky I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.

38. William Allan Neilson Not one student in a thousand breaks down from overwork.

39. George Bernard Shaw When I was young I observed that nine out of every ten things I did were failures, so I did ten times more work.

40. George Harrison,"While My Guitar Gently Weeps" With every mistake we must surely be learning.

41. Leonard Adelman, MIT co-inventor of RSA coding system Mathematicians are trained and inclined to sit and think. A mathematician can sit and think intensely about a problem for 12 hours a day, six months straight, with perhaps just pencil and paper.

42. Galileo No one will be able to read the great book of the Universe if he does not know the language, which is that of mathematics.

43. Teresa Earnhardt, CEO of Dale Earnhardt Inc. [Y]ou learn with experience. You make a mistake one time, and you learn from it and you try not to let it happen again.

44. Clint Eastwood, in "Heartbreak Ridge" Improvise, adapt, and overcome.

45. Stanford University's Bridge Project, Betraying the College Dream Of all the pre-college curricula, the highest level of mathematics one studies in secondary school has the strongest continuing influence on bachelor degree completion.

46. Jeff Lewis(2003) Lately, student errors have come more from "missed information" than "misinformation.“

47. Condoleezza Rice Find your passion!

48. Jeff Lewis(2004) Athletes are expected to perform at a higher level in college so why not expect the same from students?

49. AP Calculus Course Guidelines Page Drop a pebble into a calm lake and watch its ripples. What you do today will impact your future!

50. Vince Lombardi The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. [Y]ou can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.