Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
If you wait for the big things, you can wait for the little ones. [Also known as:]He who awaits much can expect little.[El que espera lo mucho espera lo poco.]
If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.
For scientific endeavor is a natural whole the parts of which mutually support one another in a way which, to be sure, no one can anticipate.
A thing long expected takes the shape of the unexpected when at last it comes.
