Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Leap, and the net will appear.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Well done is better than well said.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
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.