A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.

99% of genius comes from hard work, the remaining 1% comes from innate talent

There are no bad mistakes in maths, only discoveries.

Don't expect to be good at maths or understand things straight away. Be patient and persistent. Rome wasn't built in a day, but they worked on it every single day. 

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

Practice makes comfort. Expand your experiences regularly so every stretch won't feel like your first.

Each day is an opportunity to improve. Aim to be that little bit better than yesterday and better tomorrow than today.

Skills are built not born.

Fall down seven times, stand up eight.

Mistakes have the power to turn you into something better than you were before.

Nobody said it’d be easy, they just promised it would be worth it.

Start, struggle, fail, fix and learn. Repeat.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Failure to prepare = preparing to fail

There is no talent here. There is hard work and obsession. You could be anyone if you put in the time.