Math Class Quotes

• The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics.

  Paul Halmos

  Learning, Math, Way

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• Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Funny, Life, Motivational

  "An Enemy Called Average". Book by John L. Mason, 1990.

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  We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

  Winston Churchill

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

  Norman MacEwen

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• Fifty percent of all doctors graduate in the bottom half of their class - Hope your surgery went well!

  Simone Elkeles

  Math, Class, Doctors

  Simone Elkeles (2011). “Rules of Attraction”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

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• In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years.

  Bill Gates

  Math, Years, Class

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• Believe it or not, lots of people change their majors and abandon their dreams just to avoid a couple of math classes in college.

  Danica McKellar

  Change, Dream, Couple

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• I was very disruptive. I was horrible. I didn't learn like all the other kids. I had to sometimes take my tests out in the hallways because I couldn't focus. But, my teachers would come see me in the plays and were like "I don't understand how you can focus and be in the moment in a play and you go into math class and you can't focus."

  Eliza Coupe

  Teacher, Kids, Math

  "Eliza Coupe on the Comedic Origins of Happy Endings, Her Passion for Michael Fassbender, and her Obsession with Ace Ventura". GQ Interview, www.ucbcomedy.com. February 2012.

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• If you don't take enough math classes or science classes or writing intensive classes, you're not going to be prepared to compete in college or the workplace -- no matter what your diploma says.

  Rod Blagojevich

  Writing, Math, College

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• In colleges, there are no gender separations in courses of study, and students can freely choose their majors. There are no male and female math classes. But women generally choose college courses that pay less in the labor market. Those are the choices that women themselves make. Those choices contribute to the pay gap.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Education, Money, Work

  Phyllis Schlafly (2015). “Phyllis Schlafly: Volume I”, p.60, Creators Publishing

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• We need more math classes, we need more science. It's the art of math and the art of science that creates all the innovation, and we have a tradition of great arts, great music.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Art, Math, Class

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The New York Times - but the whole country gives it that weight. It's like the Asian kid in math class. Everybody in the media cheats off The New York Times.

  Bill Maher

  Country, New York, Kids

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• The ultimate act of cowardice is the fat-headed wrestling guy sitting behind the frail kid in math class, clipping him on the ear, saying: 'What are you going to do about that, faggot?' That is cowardice. When the bullets start flying past that jock's saucer-shaped ears, that's not cowardice. That's payback.

  Doug Stanhope

  Kids, Wrestling, Math

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• When I got to college, I was intending to study film. But I found that my brain was feeling mushy, so I took a few math classes. I started doing really well at them, and solving equations was this, like, drug rush.

  Danica McKellar

  Math, College, Class

  "Danica McKellar Promotes New Math Book By Posing in Lingerie for 'Maxim'" by JJ Duncan, www.zimbio.com. May 12, 2010.

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• In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn't been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A's without taking a book home. I didn't go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam.

  Bill Gates

  Book, Home, Math

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• It's kind of hard to rally around a math class.

  Bear Bryant

  Football, Math, College

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• In college, you had to worry about that math class or this exam that's coming up on Tuesday, but not in the professionals. You eat, sleep, and do everything related to your craft - and your craft is football. You can be at it from sunup to sundown.

  Cam Newton

  Football, Sleep, Math

  Interview with Jonathan Durbin, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 20, 2011.

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• Ask your child for information in a gentle, nonjudgmental way, with specific, clear questions. Instead of “How was your day?” try “What did you do in math class today?” Instead of “Do you like your teacher?” ask “What do you like about your teacher?” Or “What do you not like so much?” Let her take her time to answer. Try to avoid asking, in the overly bright voice of parents everywhere, “Did you have fun in school today?!” She’ll sense how important it is that the answer be yes.

  Susan Cain

  Teacher, Children, Fun

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.258, Broadway Books

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• Our eyes met in the math class. How were we to know that trigonometry would lead to matrimony?

  Sophie Kinsella

  Eye, Math, Class

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• Hundreds,' Joe says. 'Hundreds and hundreds. But then again, I'm old.' So old, Jesus was in your math class,' I say. I crack myself up.

  Deb Caletti

  Jesus, Math, Class

  Deb Caletti (2009). “The Fortunes of Indigo Skye”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• When I originally entered UCLA, I had planned to go for a film major, but I kept finding myself taking math classes for fun, 'cause I missed them from high school!

  Danica McKellar

  Fun, School, Math

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I was in high school, I was in a special math class. I was infatuated with physics, particularly nuclear physics, Einstein, and the Big Bang. I read a lot about black holes. And partly because I'm so lazy I thought you could do all this just by looking at the sky and thinking up universes. It didn't seem like hard work when I was a kid, so I enrolled in this class.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  School, Kids, Hard Work

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

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