Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
You never know what motivates you.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Never complain and never explain.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Only the educated are free.
Who seeks shall find.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
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.