Saying and Doing, have quarrel’d and parted.
Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.
One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours — all you can do for eight hours is work.
One must work and be bold if one really wants to live.
Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
My husband and I were so closely united by our affection and our common work that we passed nearly all of our time together.
Life is not the means for the achievement of an esthetic ideal of perfection; on the contrary, the work is an ethical symbol of life.
Let no man who is not a Mathematician read the elements of my work.
It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves to put other people down or make fun of them or maybe make a mockery of their work, and that doesn’t make me feel good at all.
It is my earnest desire that some of you should carry on this scientific work and keep for your ambition the determination to make a permanent contribution to science.
If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less than excellent work.