Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Never complain and never explain.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Well done is better than well said.
James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond.
I enjoy learning technical details.