Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Wherever you are - be all there.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
It's always too early to quit.
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.