However gemlike mathematical truths may be, research is but a human endeavor.
We can't have two standards, one set for the dedicated young men who want to do something ambitious and one set for those who don't.
It's not the will to win that matters-everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters.
But there's one thing about quitters you have to guard against - they are contagious. If one boy goes, the chances are he'll take somebody with him, and you don't want that. So when they would start acting that way, I used to pack them up and get them out, or embarrass them, or do something to turn them around.
Sacrifice. Work. Self-discipline. I teach these things, and my boys don't forget them when they leave.
You win games with your strengths, not your weaknesses.
Motivating people- the ingredient that separates winners from losers.
I have learned, by some experience, that virtue and patriotism, vice and selfishness, are found in all parties, and that they differ less in their motives than in the policies they pursue.
Five per cent vision is better than no vision at all. Five per cent hearing is better than no hearing at all. Five per cent flight efficiency is better than no flight at all. It is thoroughly believable that every organ or apparatus that we actually see is the product of a smooth trajectory through animal space, a trajectory in which every intermediate stage assisted survival and reproduction.
Because I've made a film with such an amazing director as Tarantino, I'm much more conscious of working with good directors from now on, so that's what's important to me. I don't really care about making a big movie - I just want to make good ones.
I did not come into contact with any Muslim before I embraced Islam. I read the Qur'an first and realized no person is perfect, Islam is perfect, and if we imitate the conduct of the Holy Prophet. . . we will be successful.