We are all maths people : step 1 - do maths and step 2 - be a person. 

In order to become better than anybody else you must first become better than yourself.

Work ethic is important, because, unlike intelligence, athleticism, or charisma, or any natural attribute, it’s a choice.

Time is your friend, impulse is your enemy.

Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today. If today you have no time, it means tomorrow you'll be too tired and the next day you'll be something else.

There is great wisdom in being able to realise that you don’t understand something before it goes too far.

If you really want something you’ll find a way. If you don’t you’ll find an excuse.

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

Success is not final and failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.

Tomorrow is worth more than yesterday but less than today.

Pure mathematics is in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

Shoot for the moon and even if you miss you’ll land among the stars/

I have not failed, I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

It is never too late to turn an unproductive day into a productive one.