Mark Twain Quotes

My talent is numbers.

The point is with good maths skills you have just wonderful opportunities and if you don't have good maths skills, there are just so many things that you won't be able to do.

I am very bad with numbers.

Without numerical fluency, in the part of life most of us inhibit, you are like a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest.

I meet so many people who are intimidated by arithmetic.

The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes.

Those who have a natural talent for calculation are generally quick-witted at every other kind of knowledge; and even the dull, if they have had an arithmetical training, although they may derive no other advantage from it, always become much quicker than they would have been.

Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.

Success is the by-product when you work toward the target.

The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.

Report followeth not all goodness, except difficulty and rarity be joined thereto.

If a man is in any sense a real mathematician, then it is a hundred to one that his mathematics will be far better than anything else he can do, and that he would be silly if he surrendered any decent opportunity of exercising his one talent in order to do undistinguished work in other fields. Such a sacrifice could be justified only by economic necessity of age.

Studies show American students are becoming less proficient in math. Experts say we should have seen this coming, but nobody could put 2 and 2 together.

Much better than the feeling of having things is the feeling of having earned things.

I've had enough success for two lifetimes, My success is talent put together with hard work and luck.

Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write!

Success treads on the heels of every right effort; and though it is possible to overestimate success to the extent of almost deifying it, as is sometimes done, still in any worthy pursuit it is meritorious.

It's not about the shoes, it's what you do in them.

Doing good stuff or stuff that you are proud of takes time and takes effort.

Those that can, do. Those that can't, complain.

A good counter needs no calculator.

This world, where much is to be done and little to be known.

And by the same token, I appreciate math, because I can't do math. If I have to read a map or figure out the tip on a restaurant bill, I might start to tear up a little bit.

Without mathematics, we are blind.

When you look at the accomplishments of accomplished people and you say, “Boy, that must have been really hard,” ... that was probably easy. And conversely, when you look at something that looks easy, that was probably hard. And so you’re never going to know which is which until you actually go and do it.