Judged by all practical standards, the value of my mathematical life is nil; and outside mathematics it is trivial anyhow. I have just one chance of escaping a verdict of complete triviality, that I may be judged to have created something worth creating. And that I have created something is undeniable: the question is about its value. The case for my life, then, or for that of any one else who has been a mathematician in the same sense in which I have been one, is this: that I have added something to knowledge, and helped others to add more; and that these somethings have a value which differs in degree only, and not in kind, from that of the creations of the great mathematicians, or of any of the other artists, great or small, who have left some kind of memorial behind them.
This ignorance of what to do with time is the number one reason why people get bored so easily when alone with nothing to do.
You must arrest every passing time and convert it into growing your knowledge and prowess in that chosen field of influence.
Most people have not become better than they were five years ago because people hardly invest time into improving their knowledge, skills, and talents.
Our world is filled with people who have only a shallow knowledge of certain skills and have remained like that for so many years without self-improvement
The reason why one man is great and another man is living in mediocrity is simply because one understood the value of time while the other did not.
To not know what to do during the vacations is just a proof that society and the school system has stolen your life from you.
It is rather your limitation that decides to what extent of greatness and to what height you are going to arise in this life. Your level of promotion in life is determined by how much you know.
The difference between one person who is living in poverty and another person living in wealth is their understanding of what to do with time.
You must know what you do with your time if you must become great in this life.