By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Wherever you are - be all there.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Leap, and the net will appear.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
That attitude does not exist so much today, but in those days there was a very sharp distinction between basic physics and applied physics. Columbia did not deal with applied physics.