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.
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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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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If you don’t know who you are, a university is an expensive place to find out.
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We have no proof, But if we extrapolate, based on the best information we have available to us, we have to come to the conclusion that, other life probably exists out there and perhaps in many places.
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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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I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.
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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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He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.
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Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.
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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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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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Geologists have a saying – rocks remember.
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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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Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically.
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I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer.
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Damn I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn’t I?
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Opportunities will be available to you that you cannot imagine.
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This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
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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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Shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead.
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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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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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Knowledge is fundamental to all human achievements and progress.
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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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History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.
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It doesn’t sound like there was time for the word on moon.
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