The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple. “Success is achieved and maintained by those who keep trying." - by Napoleon Hill • The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. -- Ferdinand Foch • Make your mistakes work for you by learning from them. -- Donald Trump • If one advances confidently in the directions of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. -- Henry David Thoreau • Don't worry about things you can't control. • Everybody needs some inspiration, Everybody needs some motivation, mix it up with some imagination, and use your natural gifts. -- The Kinks • Most of us have lives too small for our spirits. -- Studs Terkel • Don't worry about moving slowly, worry about standing still. -- Chinese proverb • Be careful with whom you associate. Loser's rub off! -- Donald Trump • I hope to die young at a very old age. • The real secret of success is enthusiasm. -- Walter Chrysler, entrepreneur • Always give more than what's expected. -- Donald Trump • If we did all the things we were capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. -- Thomas Edison • We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. -- Charles Kingsley, poet • I'll never reach my destination, If I never try, So I will sail my vessel, 'Til the river runs dry. -- Garth Brooks • Bloom where you are planted. • For the most part I do the thing which my own nature drives me to do. -- Albert Einstein • An activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better. – John Updike, writer • Regret for things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. -- Sydney J. Harris, writer • Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson • Money is an article which may be used as a universal passport to everywhere except heaven, and as a universal provider for everything except happiness. -- Wall Street Journal • Work like you don't need money, love like you've never been hurt, and dance like no one's watching. -- U2 • Listen. Don't just wait to talk. -- Donald Trump • Keep away form people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. -- Mark Twain • Never stop striving, never stop learning, never stop teaching. • Do what's right. • Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. -- Anaïs Nin • The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -- Elbert Hubbard • Neither you nor the world knows what you can do until you have tried. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson • The most difficult thing is to just start the ball rolling. Once it starts, it's actually more difficult to stop it. -- Butch Lovelace • Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. -- Thomas Edison • Work hard. Someone's always watching. -- Donald Trump • So many times people end up fixated on doing things rights, that they end up doing nothing at all. -- The Wright Brothers • Your imagination is a preview to life's coming attractions. -- Albert Einstein • The secret of getting ahead is getting started. • I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake. -- John D. Rockefeller • The next time you feel the urge to procrastinate -- just put it off. • The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change. -- Carl Rogers and Jerome Freiberg, authors of Freedom to Learn • I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. -- Thomas Jefferson • It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It's what we do consistently. -- Anthony Robbins, best-selling author • A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. -- Richard Bach • I've missed 3000 shots. Twenty-six times the game-winning shot has been trusted to me, and I've missed. I've lost over 300 games. I've failed over and over and over again, and that is why I've succeeded. -- Michael Jordan • Fall seven times, stand up eight. -- Japanese proverb • Don't compromise your principles. -- Donald Trump • Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. -- Thomas Edison • Never give in. Never. Never. Never. Never. -- Winston Churchill • Great people create great acts of kindness. -- Cervantes • Many of the things you can count don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count. -- Albert Einstein • You have not lived a perfect day, unless you've done something for someone who will never be able to repay you. -- Ruth Smeltzer • We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. -- Winston Churchill • Without deviation, progress is not possible. -- Frank Zappa • If you don't have a positive attitude in business and in life, you will never, ever be successful. -- Donald Trump • There's nothing in your life you can't learn from, if you respond with the right attitude. -- Rick Warren • Life is it's most exciting when it's full of possibilities -- Coolmath Karen • The clearer your vision of what you seek, the closer you are to finding it. • If you're not lighting any candles, don't complain about being in the dark. • I will never give in until the day that I die. I'll get myself some independence, carve out a future with my two bare hands. -- The Alarm • It ain't what you don't know that gets you in trouble; it's what you know for sure that ain't so. -- Mark Twain • If at first you don't succeed, you're like everyone else who went on to greatness. -- Patrick Combs • Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen. -- Lee Iacocca, Chairman Chrysler Motors • Don't play for safety -- it's the most dangerous thing in the world. -- Hugh Walpole, writer • Treat people how you want to be treated. -- Donald Trump 1. Success in math does not depend on how many answers you know, but by what you do when you don't know the answer." 2. The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible. --Einstein 3. Mathematics is the structure created and/or discovered in the human attempt to solve problems. Randy Maddox 4. "Mathematics is the Queen of the Sciences, and number theory the queen of mathematics.." -- Carl Friedrich Gauss 5. "If one puts an infinite number of monkeys in front of typewriters, and lets them clap away, there is a certainty that one of them will come out with an exact version of the 'Iliad.'" -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb 6. "We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the internet, we know this is not true." -- Professor Robert Silensky 7. "Small minds discuss persons. Average minds discuss events. Great minds discuss ideas. Really great minds discuss mathematics." front of typewriters, and lets them clap away, there is a certainty that one of them will come out with an exact version of the 'Iliad.'" -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb 8. "One machine can do the work of fifty men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man." 9. "If I have seen farther than other men, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants." -- Isaac Newton 10. "When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes." -- Erasmus 11. "Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it." -- Buddha 12. "A mind is a fire to be kindled, not a vessel to be filled." -- Plutarch 13. "The world is not given to you by your parents. It is loaned to you by your children." -- Kenyan proverb 14. "If a man hasn't found something he will die for, he isn't fit to live." -- Martin Luther King, Jr. 15. "In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have." -- Lee Iacocca 16. "What happens to you in life is not as important as your attitude toward it." 17. "The second most important job in the world, second only to being a good parent, is being a good teacher." -- S.G. Ellis 18. "The more you know, the less sure you are." -- Voltaire 19. "Well done is better than well said." -- Ben Franklin front of typewriters, and lets them clap away, there is a certainty that one of them will come out with an exact version of the 'Iliad.'" -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb 20. "Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare." -- Descartes 21. "Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency." -- Descartes 22.