Quotes About Determination

One of the nice things about math and science is it's obvious, you get the answer or you don't get the answer.

No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it.

In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done is quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it.

All things happen by virtue of necessity.

Anything that is theoretically possible will be achieved in practice, no matter what the technical difficulties are, if it is desired greatly enough.

We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.

...They are merely scars, not mortal wounds and you must use them to propel you forward.

Building a business is not rocket science, it's about having a great idea and seeing it through with integrity.

Just because an apple falls one hundred times out of a hundred does not mean it will fall on the hundred and first.

I'm no quitter, unless it comes to human relationships or math and science.

Do it for yourself. The universe will be around to collect its cut later.

The world was full of locked doors, and he had to get his hand on every key.

It is our task, both in science and in society at large, to prove the conventional wisdom wrong and to make our unpredictable dreams come true

The minds that rise and become really great are never self-satisfied, but still continue to strive.

Science rejects the indeterminate.

One word characterizes the most strenuous of the efforts for the advancement of science that I have made perservereingly during fifty-five years; that word is failure

When I was 19 years old, I wrote my first book. I took a computer science class, and the book was garbage. I thought I could write a better one, so I did.

Mars and my own stupidity keep trying to kill me.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Once bitten twice shy? Sure, but... why not get a bigger dog and bite them back?

speak hard, steal the air.

She thinks of her mother, sitting cross-legged, sewing marigolds into garlands for the gods, telling her: "The biggest mistake we make is thinking we are powerless

Jane woke, stretched, and decided to kill herself. If she hadn't found a reason to live by the end of the day she would jump from the rig. It felt good to have a plan.

It's a good day to do great things!