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- $n$-hour rule $(n\geq 2)$: Change the subject at least every $n$ hours or you'll be depressed. So basically, DJ your subjects.
- Understanding just means getting used to. - @Copper.hat
- It's less about the sequences themselves and more about what they let you do - @Ben Steffan, as an answer to my question "Spectral sequence doesn't motivate me. algebra overflow".
- If it were easy, I wouldn't even start.
- Life is full of belief. It's a leap of faith.
- If you want something you’ve never had, you have to do something you've never done.
- I believe that the idea or a source of mathematical concepts or theorems is simple (even if it's actually not).
- So, reading anything related to math requires mind-reading. What you're really doing is reading or decoding what the author really has in mind.
- How Math Works
- Try not to be a narcissist. For example, don't expect to understand a new concept at once without much trouble.
- "Always have three problems that you're working on - an easy one, usually an exercise to master a recently learned concept, a moderately difficult one, maybe a generalization of some recent result of someone else, and a very hard one, perhaps a well-known conjecture. When you're stuck on one problem, move to the next." - Saharon Shelah.
- "I think it's rarely about what you actually learn in class... it's mostly about things that you stay motivated to go and continue to do on your own." - Maryam Mirzakhani
- Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. - Bertrand Russell
- The goal of the "rushed" class was not to make you a master but to give you enough knowledge to know where to Google for the things you really need. - Xander Henderson
- We don't get to choose our time. - Ancient one
- Grit your teeth and look straight ahead, Even if you stop and crouch down, time won’t wait for you or snuggle you and grieve along with you. – Kyojuro Rengoku
- Difference between amateurs and professionals - Jeremy:
