S.R. Hardy Quotes

When it comes to success. Rent is due everyday

Choices are at the root of every one of your results.

Psychological studies reveal that 95 percent of everything we feel, think, and achieve is a result of a learned habit!

Don't fake it till you make it. Just get busy making it!

It's not the big things that add up in the end; it's the hundreds, thousands, or millions of little things that separate the ordinary from the extraordinary.

Seek out positive people who have achieved the success you want to create in your own life. Remember the adage: “Never ask advice of someone with whom you wouldn’t want to trade places.

Doubt is part of the human drama. But don't let it consume you-let it motivate you.

Tracking is a simple exercise. It works because it brings moment-to-moment awareness to the actions you take in the area of your life you want to improve

If we want to succeed, we need to recover our grandparents’ work ethic.

Only when you’re willing to take 100 percent responsibility for making the relationship work will it work. Otherwise, a relationship left to chance will always be vulnerable to disaster.

Your waking adult life is going to be spent in what you do professionally, so you'd better like the journey and not just aim for the destination.

Lack of true progress may not be a result of not doing what one is supposed to, but lack of focused effort trying not to do too much.

Mathematics may, like poetry or music, "promote and sustain a lofty habit of mind."

The "seriousness" of a mathematical theorem lies, not in its practical consequences, which are usually negligible, but in the significance of the mathematical ideas which it connects.

Most people can do nothing at all well

Bombs are probably more merciful than bayonets

Greek mathematics is the real thing. The Greeks first spoke a language which modern mathematicians can understand... So Greek mathematics is 'permanent', more permanent even than Greek literature.

The study of mathematics is, if an unprofitable, a perfectly harmless and innocent occupation.

The primes are the raw material out of which we have to build arithmetic, and Euclid's theorem assures us that we have plenty of material for the task.

A month's intelligent instruction in the theory of numbes ought to be twice as instructive, twice as useful, and at least 10 times as entertaining as the same amount of 'calculus for engineers'.

... Philosophy proper is a subject, on the one hand so hopelessly obscure, on the other so astonishingly elementary, that there knowledge hardly counts.

As history proves abundantly, mathematical achievement, whatever its intrinsic worth, is the most enduring of all.

No one should ever be bored. … One can be horrified, or disgusted, but one can’t be bored.

A chess problem is simply an exercise in pure mathematics.

Chess problems are the hymn-tunes of mathematics.

No mathematician should ever allow himself to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game

I do not know an instance of a major mathematical advance initiated by a man past fifty

As Littlewood said to me once [of the ancient Greeks], they are not clever school boys or "scholarship candidates," but "Fellows of another college."

The public does not need to be convinced that there is something in mathematics.

I do have high expectations, like anyone does. I expect myself to do well. It comes with all of the work I've put in and what I expect from that work.

I know what I want and I'm going to work to get it.

A lot of things are going right. More is going right than wrong, for sure.

I'm starting to swing the bat now like I know I can. You can't really explain it. I'm just seeing the ball good and everything is going my way.

I'm proud of what I have accomplished so far in my career, but the finish line is nowhere in sight. Still, it's fun to look back before we move forward.

My fans are a huge superpower for me and my survival.

I was able to complete a motocross track at my house, and that's something I've always enjoyed. That time away is really what developed the passion I needed to come back and compete.

The need to compile lists is a personality disorder, as is the need to assert the superiority of some things over other things.

...she moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness.

But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.

When women are secret they are secret indeed; and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover.

Well, these sad and hopeless obstacles are welcome in one sense, for they enable us to look with indifference upon the cruel satires that Fate loves to indulge in.

But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.

The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.

You could sometimes see her twelfth year in her cheeks, or her ninth sparkling from her eyes; and even her fifth would flit over the curves of her mouth now and then.

But no one came. Because no one ever does.

You ride well, but you don't kiss nicely at all.

I wish I had never been born--there or anywhere else.

Of love it may be said, the less earthly the less demonstrative. In its absolutely indestructible form it reaches a profundity in which all exhibition of itself is painful.

I have felt lately, more and more, that my present way of living is bad in every respect.