Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Know or listen to those who know.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
You never know what motivates you.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
After a storm comes a calm.
Never complain and never explain.
Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.