“It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.”
“I am always amazed how much a certain facility with a special and apparently narrow technique can accomplish.”
Source: Adventures of a Mathematician - Third Edition (1991), Chapter 5, Harvard Years, p. 96
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Polish-American mathematician 1909–1984Related quotes
“And it's amazing how much noise people ignoring each other can make.”
Source: Benny and Babe
Edgar Davids, 2000 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/4752511/Guardiola-books-his-chance-to-face-Zidane.html.
“If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.”
“It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.”
“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit”
This is attributed to Truman in some sources, but a similar saying is recorded as early as 1909 https://books.google.com/books?id=bidJAAAAIAAJ&dq=how%20much%20%22care%20who%20gets%20the%20credit%22&pg=PA26#v=onepage&q=how%20much%20%22care%20who%20gets%20the%20credit%22&f=false.
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“You'd be amazed how much research you can get done when you have no life whatsoever.”
Source: Ready Player One