Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Wherever you are - be all there.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
I can, therefore I am.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
You never know what motivates you.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
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.