Shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead.
NEIL ARMSTRONGYou’ve got to expect things are going to go wrong. And we always need to prepare ourselves for handling the unexpected.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life.
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This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
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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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You’ve got to expect things are going to go wrong. And we always need to prepare ourselves for handling the unexpected.
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The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet, and our visions go rather further than that, and our opportunities are unlimited.
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Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically.
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Society’s future will depend on a continuous improvement program for the human character. And what will that future bring? I do not know, but it will be exciting.
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Opportunities will be available to you that you cannot imagine.
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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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As I stepped on the moon, I looked around, dazed magnificent. The vast, sandy silver surface was almost illusory.
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Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.
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Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.
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It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.
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It’s a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It’s an interesting place to be. I recommend it.
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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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