J. Robert Oppenheimer Quotes

You can't win every game, so I've just got to get back to work and get better next week.

I'm not an expert, but I want to be.

Each experience I go through - marriage, my public life, my personal life - I'm learning as I go.

I'd like to be wise. You have to go through a lot to get there, but I'm willing to go through a lot.

There is no royal road to a successful life, as there is no royal road to learning. It has got to be hard knocks, morning, noon, and night, and fixity of purpose.

Don't forget, I'm 39. I didn't come here just for the money to impress myself. I'm not saying I am going to be dominating. I'm not saying I'm going to be good. But I can promise you I will do all the right things to play.

You just stay the course, and do what it is that you do, and grow while you're doing it. Eventually it will either come full circle, or at least you'll go to bed at night happy.

I've become a much more serious young insect.

I think because I am as earnest as I am, people were accepting of my evolving into a certified, legitimate, and grown up and I did take three years off.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.

Throughout your life advance daily, becoming more skillful than yesterday, more skillful than today. This is never-ending.

When I first got into this league, I knew a lot. But I made myself better by listening and working hard.

The Indian players put in a lot of efforts and are eager to learn as much as possible which is very important.

Through zeal, knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow.

The secret to climbing up is to put your heart into your work.

Anything there is that I can do for you, I will do for you; anything there is that I cannot do, I will learn to do.

It took me a lifetime.

You're always going to face criticism, you're always going to face challenges, but those things are there to make you stronger and more committed.

If you want learning, you must work for it.

Always stay focused. Always give and try your best.

You can't aspire to have heightened senses, whereas you can aspire to tell the truth, every single second, and you can aspire to be dogged and just never let anything be enough, never give in, and never give up.

I grow old, ever learning many things.

I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. In each, it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which comes shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit. One becomes, in some area, an athlete of God. Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

You must completely dedicate yourselves to it. To do less will be to let down your country, your state, your parents, your teachers, and ultimately, yourselves. Remember this: The only good citizen is the well-educated citizen.