By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Never complain and never explain.
Well done is better than well said.
I can, therefore I am.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
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.