Every mental pursuit takes its reality and worth from the ardour of the pursuer.
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
I swear... to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.
If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.
No one should teach who is not in love with teaching.
The passions and commitments that ignited my activity as a student are the same passions and commitments that I have today.
The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me.
The coaches can only take you so far. You have to want to learn and work.
I'm an avid bridge player. I usually go to the local bridge club three or four times a week. I've always been a game-player, and I think bridge is one of the greatest games ever invented. It's too bad that not many young people play it any more.
If you want to make films, you'll watch Kurosawa. If you want to play a violin, you listen to Seghetti. Same with somebody who has the ambition to play in the NBA. I watch a basketball game; I enjoy it. Somebody who really wants to learn to play is studying whatever is most magnificent that's going on out there.
I've become a much more serious young insect.
The top experts in the world are ardent students. The day you stop learning, you're definitely not an expert.
“I will admit, I've never had a student offer himself up for a vicious beating in order to prove he's worth my time.” “This was nothing... Once I jumped off a roof.”
The most radical, audacious thing to think is that there might be some point to working hard and thinking hard and reading hard and writing hard and trying to be of service
It was Neuberger who first taught me how to do research, both technically and as a way of life, and I owe much to him.
A scholar who loves comfort is not fit to be called a scholar.
One who will study for three years. Without thought of reward. Would be hard indeed to find.
All my pupils are the creme de la creme. Give me a girl of an impressionable age, and she is mine for life.
I really wanted to succeed. I wanted to be accepted. I read every magic book that I possibly could, studied every move, and by the time I was 12, they really accepted me, they embraced me.
To put your full belief in your Guru, because it's for your own good, because you've decided that... It's just having a lot of respect for the person and it's like that with music as well...You should love your instrument and respect it.
I become kind of obsessive about research.
I don't really think they saw anything in me, except the fact that I was interested in it. Some of the kids would miss a week here and miss a week there, I think they could see that I really enjoyed it.
Putting all of my time In learning to care And a bucket of rhymes I threw up somewhere Want a locket of who Made me lose my perfunctory view Of all that is around And of all that I do.
As long as I draw breath and am able, I won't give up practicing philosophy.
No one is more triumphant than the man who chooses a worthy subject and masters all its facts.
