The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
It's always too early to quit.
Know or listen to those who know.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Wherever you are - be all there.
After a storm comes a calm.
Who seeks shall find.
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.