Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.
NEIL ARMSTRONGYeah, 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.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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Gliders, sail planes, they’re wonderful flying machines. It’s the closest you can come to being a bird.
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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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It’s a strange, eerie sensation to fly a lunar landing trajectory not difficult, but somewhat complex and unforgiving.
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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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Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
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Figure out how to build a brand and stick by it so people know what to expect.
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It never hurts to have friends around, so that’s why you’d form a crew.
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I only go in a small fraction of an inch, maybe an eighth of an inch, but I can see the footprints of my boots and the treads in the fine sandy particles.
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Research is creating new knowledge.
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I tell you, we’re going to be busy for a minute.
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He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.
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Opportunities will be available to you that you cannot imagine.
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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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It’s a great thing for a man to walk on the moon. But it’s a greater thing for God to walk on the earth.
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Start at the end and work back.
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