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

Just stick with it, what seems hard now will one day be your warm up.

The road to success is like a staircase. If you want to succeed, double your failure rate

You can hire a tutor but you can't hire someone to practice for you.

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

No one starts out on top. You have to work your way up.

Skills are built not born.

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

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

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

Everything you want is on the other side of fear

The bad news is time flies, the good new is that you're the pilot.

There are no bad mistakes in maths, only discoveries.

Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard.

Try and do one thing each day that you would really rather not do.