That way I look at it, I want to push myself to create things people could've never imagined. It's a good motto to have in the back of your head, I think.
I learned many things from Professor Brown, including his philosophy toward research, but there is one thing he said that I recall with particular clarity: 'Do research that will be in the textbooks.' It is not easy to do such work, but this has remained my motto.
I have a motto: Work to become, not to acquire.
The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.
My motto is to do everything absolutely flat out and to the best of your ability.
The Giants were supposed to have a new motto, 'Shut up and deal.'
My very best friend died in a car accident when I was 16 years old. That was the hardest blow emotionally that I have ever had to endure. Suddenly, you realize tomorrow might not come. Now I live by the motto, 'Today is what I have.'
Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration.
I have a motto on my bedroom wall: 'Obstacles are what you see when you take your eye off the goal.' Giving up is not my style. I just want to do something that's worthwhile.
I think that there's something extremely beautiful about the Olympic ideal and its motto - 'Swifter, higher, stronger' - it's such a beautiful motto, and it celebrates everything which is the antithesis of death and dissolution and entropy.
