You’ve got to expect things are going to go wrong. And we always need to prepare ourselves for handling the unexpected.
NEIL ARMSTRONGHow we use the knowledge we gain determines our progress on earth, in space or on the moon. Your library is a storehouse for mind and spirit. Use it well.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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Opportunities will be available to you that you cannot imagine.
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I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life.
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I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.
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How we use the knowledge we gain determines our progress on earth, in space or on the moon. Your library is a storehouse for mind and spirit. Use it well.
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I believe that the message of Apollo XI was that in the spirit of Apollo, a free and open spirit, you can attack a very difficult goal and achieve it, if you can all agree and work together to achieve that goal.
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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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NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve.
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Each book holds an experience and an adventure.
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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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If you don’t know who you are, a university is an expensive place to find out.
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If that’s there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.
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I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
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It doesn’t sound like there was time for the word on moon.
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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 one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.
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I think if there was anything I learned from our skipper was that it’s not how you look; it’s how you perform.
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I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
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I tell you, we’re going to be busy for a minute.
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Pilots naturally fly the craft in such a manner as to take advantage of its good characteristics and avoid the areas where it is not so good.
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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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History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.
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It’s different, but it’s very pretty out here. I suppose they are going to make a big deal of all this.
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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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The importance of the new plant of progress and in the fruits it will bear.
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I am comfortable with my level of public discourse.
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I can honestly say – and it’s a big surprise to me – that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.
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