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“Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.”

“Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.”

“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”

“Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.”

“Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.”

“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.”

“In 1945 J.A. Ratcliffe ... suggested that I [join his group at Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge] to start an investigation of the radio emission from the Sun, which had recently been discovered accidentally with radar equipment. ... [B]oth Ratcliffe and Sir Lawrence Bragg, then Cavendish Professor, gave enormous support and encouragement to me. Bragg's own work on X-ray crystallography involved techniques very similar to those we were developing for "aperture synthesis", and he always showed a delighted interest in the way our work progressed.”

“The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.”

“A problem is a chance for you to do your best.”

“Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but world's champions.”