Niall Marshall
@marshan
Niall Marshall
“Your input determines your outlook. Your outlook determines your output, and your output determines your future.”—Zig Ziglar
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“Get curious, not furious.”
“The secret is comprised in three words — Work, Finish, Publish.”
— Michael Faraday, one of history’s most influential scientists, offering advice to the young William Crookes, who had asked him the secret of his success as a scientific investigator
Jim Simons: "I’m not an extremely fast thinker myself; I just work hard."
That was all I needed to do—work hard, not fast. A paper I published in '68 took me five years. But it has had 1,850 citations. For a math paper, that’s an awful lot.
There’s too much emphasis on a person’s being able to answer questions quickly."
I just had to do a single thing each day, no matter how small. If it was a writing project, I could write one sentence, I could work on my draft for one minute, I could revise one paragraph. As long as I did something rather than nothing , I was making progress.
Mason Currey • Worm School, week one
“Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.”
— John Wooden
‘We learn more from our mistakes than our successes.’
Dr. Jenkins said, “You know, I put off publishing my first book far too long. I didn’t understand that publishing that first book was just turning on the faucet.”