Habits

"Habits are learned.  Choose them wisely." -- From The Practicing Mind by Thomas M. Sterner

Coincidence versus Fate

"But only in youth does coincidence seem the same as fate.  Later, we know that the real course of our lives is decided within us; our paths may seem to diverge from our wishes in a confused and pointless way, but in the end the way always leads us to our invisible destination." -- Stefan Zweig in The World of Yesterday

Identity

"We overestimate what we are not and underestimate who we really are".  -unknown

Training

“We don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.” - Archilochos

Leadership

"Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality" - Warren Bennis

Knowledge and Wisdom

"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom." -- Isaac Asimov

"Hope" in Research

Research should be motivated by hope, but not built upon it.