“It is easy to measure your mastery of the results via a conventional examination; it is less easy to measure your mastery of doing mathematics, of creating new (to you) results, and of your ability to surmount the almost infinite details to see the general situation.”

— Richard Hamming

Methods of Mathematics Applied to Calculus, Probability, and Statistics (1985)

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American mathematician and information theorist 1915–1998

Richard Hamming (1915–1998) American mathematician and information theorist

Methods of Mathematics Applied to Calculus, Probability, and Statistics (1985)
Context: It is easy to measure your mastery of the results via a conventional examination; it is less easy to measure your mastery of doing mathematics, of creating new (to you) results, and of your ability to surmount the almost infinite details to see the general situation.

“Mastery of content that is measurable, tangible, and translates into respect.”

Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate

Source: The Boy Crisis (2018), pp. 210

“But you see, the measure of hell you're able to endure is the measure of your love.”

Ayn Rand book Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“The difference is very easy to understand. If you enjoy the process, it's your dream. … If you are enduring the process, just desperate for the result, it's somebody else's dream.”

Salma Hayek (1966) Mexican-American actress and producer

O interview (2003)
Context: I wanted to have a voice, and it was okay if I wasn't going to be so famous or so rich. And this the one thing I learned: How do you recognize what's your true dream and what is the dream that you are dreaming for other people to love you? … The difference is very easy to understand. If you enjoy the process, it's your dream. … If you are enduring the process, just desperate for the result, it's somebody else's dream.

“That you are regularly facing challenges does not make you an unbeliever. Don’t measure your Christian life by your situation.”

T. B. Joshua (1963) Nigerian Christian leader

On Christians facing challenges - "TB Joshua Tells Fans On Facebook How To Identify Pastors Who Are Intruders" https://www.360nobs.com/2014/06/t-b-joshua-tells-fans-on-facebook-how-to-identify-pastors-who-are-intruders/ 360 Nobs, Nigeria (June 2 2014)

“Spiritual mastery is never easy. It takes much more time and personal application than physical development does. Spirtual mastery, however, is the path we are all on. Some of us simply do not choose to believe it.”

Scott Shaw (1958) American actor

The Warrior is Silent

“All is more or less proper to serve as a common measure, in proportion as it is more or less in general use, of a more similar quality, and more easy to be divided into aliquot parts.”

Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (1727–1781) French economist

§ 39
Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Wealth (1766)
Context: All is more or less proper to serve as a common measure, in proportion as it is more or less in general use, of a more similar quality, and more easy to be divided into aliquot parts. All is more or less applicable for the purpose of a general pledge of exchange, in proportion as it is less susceptible of decay or alteration in quantity or quality.

“I think that I have influenced several generations of performers in Mexico. I’m proud of that because it isn’t easy in these scenes. But then it is easy because it’s what you love to do, and it’s your passion. Even in your down times, you are always accompanied by your music.”

Lila Downs (1968) Mexican American singer-songwriter

On being a folk musician in “Lila Downs Explores Mexican Heritage Through the Pepper in New LP, ‘Al Chile’” https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-latin/lila-downs-new-lp-al-chile-interview-841209/ in Rolling Stone (29 May 2019)
Music and culture

“It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.”

Terence McKenna (1946–2000) American ethnobotanist

Source: The Archaic Revival

“Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.”

John Wooden (1910–2010) American basketball coach

“It is easy to measure your mastery of the results via a conventional examination; it is less easy to measure your mastery of doing mathematics, of creating new (to you) results, and of your ability to surmount the almost infinite details to see the general situation.”

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