To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Well done is better than well said.
Know or listen to those who know.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
I can, therefore I am.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
You never know what motivates you.
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.