“When I was in graduate school in Princeton, I was told to take three courses. One of them to work on really hard, another to work on moderately hard, and the third one just to absorb. In my case, I never showed up to the latter class, taught by Robert Gunning, on Several Complex Variables. Several Complex Variables (Cn) was starting to get vary fashionable then, but I decided to specialize in n=1/2.” HardSchoolScienceThreeCoursesClassCasesTaughtDecidedThirdsMathematicsComplexesStartingLatterGraduatesVaryFashionableVariablesGraduate SchoolPrinceton Author:Richard Askey
“My mother saved our home with a minimum wage job. But in the 1960s, a minimum wage job would support a family of three above the poverty line. Not today. Not even close. I understood right then that people can work hard, they can play by the rules, and they can still take a hard smack.” PeopleStillsHardPlayHomeRealityTodayJobsMotherThreePoliticsLinesWorkJusticeMoneyFamilyPovertyHistorySupportGenerationsPolicyHard WorkEthicsUnderstoodHuman RightsSavedIdeologyMinimum1960sCivilityMinimum WageSmackFood Stamps Author:Elizabeth Warren
“I never had the sense of myself as an accomplished artist, and I always had to work three times as hard as anyone else to make mypieces as good as they could be. I am never completely satisfied. There always seems to be something just beyond my reach.” HardSeemsArtistThreeSatisfiedAccomplishedThree Times Author:Toshiko Takaezu
“The secret is contained in a three-part formula I learned in the gym: self confidence, a positive mental attitude, and honest hard work. Many people are aware of these principles, but very few can put them into practice. Every day I hear someone say, 'I'm to fat. I need to lose twenty-five pounds, but I can't. I never seem to improve.' I'd hate myself if I had that kind of attitude, if I were that weak. I can lose ten to forty pounds rapidly, easily, painlessly, by simply setting my mind to it.” PeopleIfsNeedsMindKindI CanSelfHardSeemsHateThreeLosesSecretAttitudePrinciplesPracticeFiveHonestHard WorkTenWeakTwentiesSelf ConfidenceSettingFatsSettingsFortyPoundsGymFormulasTwenty FiveMental AttitudePositive Mental AttitudeHate Myself Book:Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder Source: Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder
“[As a writer] you have to have the three D's: drive, discipline and desire. If you're missing any one of those three, you can have all the talent in the world, but it's going to be really hard to get anything done.” IfsWorldHardDoneDesireThreeTalentMissingDiscipline Author:Nora Roberts
“The most conventional customs cling to the table. Farmers who wouldn't drive a horse too hard expect pie three times a day.” HardThreeHorseTablesCustomsFarmersConventionalPieThree TimesHousework Author:Ellen Swallow Richards