Skills are built not born.

Good mathematics is not about how many answers you know... It is about how you behave when you don't know.

Don't expect to be good at maths or understand things straight away. Be patient and persistent. The most powerful warriors are patience and time.

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

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today

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

MATHS = Mistakes Allow Thinking To Happen

1.00³⁶⁵=1 and 1.01³⁶⁵=37.7. Doing nothing at all versus small steps at a time. 

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

Hard work - a two way street where you get exactly what you put in.

Time is your friend, impulse is your enemy.

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

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

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

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.