Quotes

1
Quotes

• Some words of wisdom

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D.L. Hughley

• Pressure
• It can burst a pipe
• or create a diamond. 

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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 Academy Department of
Mathematics slogan

• Students learn mathematics
• by doing mathematics.

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Paul R. Halmos, Hilbert Space Problem Book

• The only way to learn mathematics
• is to do mathematics.

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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.

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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.

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H.S. Wall (1902-1971)

• The mathematician is an artist
• whose medium is the mind
• and
• whose creations are ideas.
•  

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Jeff Lewis (2002)

• An idea is only a thought
• until it is communicated.

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H.S. Wall (1902-1971)

• Mathematics 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.

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Ward Burton 2002 Daytona 500 Champion

• You've got to drive beyond
• the hood of your car.

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Michael Waltrip 2001 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Frederick Douglas

• If there's no struggle,
• there's no progress.

30
Joseph Whitney

• Intelligence is proved
• not by ease of learning,
• but by understanding what we learn.

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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.

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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.

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Paul Erdös

• A mathematician is a machine
• for turning coffee into theorems.

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Benjamin Disraeli

• Seeing much,
• suffering much,
• and studying much
• are the three pillars of learning.

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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.

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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.

• You 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.

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Jeff Lewis(2003)

• Lately,
• student errors have come more from
• "missed information"
• than
• "misinformation.

47
Condoleezza Rice

• Find
• your
• passion!

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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!

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Vince Lombardi

• The dictionary is the only place that success
  comes before work.
• Hard work is the price we must pay for success.
• You can accomplish anything if you're willing
  to pay the price.

51
James A. Michener

• Character consists of what you do
• on the third and fourth try.

52
Aerosmith, "Livin' On the Edge"

• If you can judge a wise man
• by the color of his skin,
• then, mister,
• you're a better man than I.

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How can I pass your class?Taken from
lthttp//www.rif.org/gt)

• Reading is fundamental.
• But you don't really "read" a mathematics book,
• you need to "write" a mathematics book
• by taking notes and working examples as you go.

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If I Wanted to Study I Would Have Gone to a Real
College

• The most important thing students can learn is
  how to learn on their own.
• Technology is rapidly changing the world
• and those who cannot teach themselves
• will find their mere knowledge of the
  fundamentals
• insufficient for future challenges.

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John Wooden

• There's no great fun,
• satisfaction,
• or joy
• derived from doing something that's easy.

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Sting,reflecting on his early career as a
teacher

• It dawned on me
• about two weeks into the first year that
• it was not teaching that was taking place in the
  classroom,
• but learning.

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Steven Zucker, Johns Hopkins University

• The mathematics textbook,
• although sometimes hard to read,
• goes at the reader's pace.

58
Michael Jordan

• I can accept failure.
• Everyone fails at something.
• What I cannot accept is not trying.

59
John Wooden

• Failing to prepare
• is
• preparing to fail.

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unknown

• People are afraid
• of things they do not understand.

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Charles Vanden Eynden

• When reading a mathematics text,
• not only do you need a pencil and paper
• but you need to visualize what is going on
• Just like reading an erotic novel.

62
Jeff Lewis(2006)

• My job is to challenge students to think
• so that when they need to think,
• it won't be such a challenge.

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H.S. Wall

• I wonder if mathematics isn't rather a state of
  mind,
• an analytic mind,
• which can size up a situation,
• discard the unimportant,
• fit disorganized facts into a pattern,
• and know when a problem is solved.

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• If we approach the teaching of mathematics with
  this as our axiom,
• it might be that we could make essential
  progress.

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• For instance,
• we would no longer apply the old principle of
  supplying answers to problems!
• Part of the scientific mind is
• the critical ability to know when the problem is
  solved.

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Chinese proverb from R.L. Moore,quoted by Paul
R. Halmos in I Want to be a Mathematician

• I hear, I forget
• I see, I remember
• I do, I understand.

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R.L. Moore, (1882-1974)

• That student
• is taught the best
• who is told the least.

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• The End