G. H. Hardy Work Quotations

In the first half, when we were down 10 points against a team like Heritage that can bury you quickly, we called a time out and regrouped. We went full-court press. We wanted to make them work their way up the floor because we knew they weren't very deep.

Good work is no done by "humble" men. It is one of the first duties of a professor, for example, in any subject, to exaggerate a little both the importance of his subject and his own importance in it. A man who is always asking "Is what I do worth while?" and "Am I the right person to do it?" will always be ineffective himself and a discouragement to others. He must shut his eyes a little and think a little more of his subject and himself than they deserve. This is not too difficult: it is harder not to make his subject and himself ridiculous by shutting his eyes too tightly.