A Mind for Numbers Quotes

“Lady Luck favors the one who tries.”
― Barbara Oakley, A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science

“The Click Moment”
― Barbara Oakley, A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science

“many more”
― Barbara Oakley, A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science

“mind recently.”
― Barbara Oakley, A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science

“regard—your”
― Barbara Oakley, A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science

“problem that”
― Barbara Oakley, A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science

“Poincaré was”
― Barbara Oakley, A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science

“mathematician who”
― Barbara Oakley, A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science

“cracked a”
― Barbara Oakley, A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science

“answer to”
― Barbara Oakley, A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science

“described how he cracked a difficult mathematical problem that he had been intensively”
― Barbara Oakley, A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science

“Enlisting the diffuse mode helps you learn at a deep and creative level.”
― Barbara Oakley, A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science

“Buddha in Blue Jeans”
― Barbara Oakley, A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science

“routine, eventually it will protect you.”3 You can prevent”
― Barbara Oakley, A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science

“We learn a great deal from our failures in math and science.”
― Barbara Oakley, A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science

“Medical imaging studies have shown that mathphobes, for example, appear to avoid math because even just thinking about it seems to hurt. The pain centers of their brains light up when they contemplate working on math.”
― Barbara Oakley, A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science

“[...]the answer to the problem suddenly came to him (Poincaré), unbidden, from a part of his brain that had continued to work on the problem while he was enjoying his vacation.”
― Barbara Oakley, A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science

“I now follow the rule of thumb that is basically: The harder you push your brain to come up with something creative, the less creative your ideas will be. So far, I have not found a single situation where this does not apply. Ultimately, this means that relaxation is an important part of hard work—and good work, for that matter.”
― Barbara Oakley, A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science

“Las teorías de la relatividad de Einsteino no surgieron de sus habilidades matemáticas (a menudo necesitaba colaborar con especialistas para hacer progresos) sino de su capacidad para imaginar cosas. Se figuraba a sí mismo como un fotón viajando a la velocidad de la luz, y entonces imaginaba cómo le percibiría un segundo fotón. ¿Qué vería y sentiría ese segundo fotón?”
― Barbara Oakley, Abre tu mente a los números

“Your thoughts rattle easily through the previously ingrained patterns and quickly settle on a solution.”
― Barbara Oakley, A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science