Shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead.
NEIL ARMSTRONGWell, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
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I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks but for the ledger of our daily work.
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Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
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I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
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I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I’m damned if I’m going to use up mine running up and down a street.
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He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.
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If you don’t know who you are, a university is an expensive place to find out.
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Start at the end and work back.
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It never hurts to have friends around, so that’s why you’d form a crew.
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Geologists have a saying – rocks remember.
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Yeah, I wasn’t chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn’t planned by anyone.
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This blowing dust became increasingly thicker. It was very much like landing in a fast moving ground fog.
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The single thing which makes any man happiest is the realization that he has worked up to the limits of his ability, his capacity. It’s all the better, of course, if this work has made a contribution to knowledge, or toward moving the human race a little farther forward.
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In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
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The single observation I would offer for your consideration is that some things are beyond your control.
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