You’ve got to expect things are going to go wrong. And we always need to prepare ourselves for handling the unexpected.
NEIL ARMSTRONGIt 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.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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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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Geologists have a saying – rocks remember.
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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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If you don’t know who you are, a university is an expensive place to find out.
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Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation.
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Shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead.
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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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Man must understand his universe in order to understand his destiny.
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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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Every flying machine has its own unique characteristics, some good, some not so good.
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No matter when you had been to this spot before, a thousand years ago or a hundred thousand years ago, or if you came back to it a million years from now, you would see some different things each time, but the scene would be generally the same.
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Opportunities will be available to you that you cannot imagine.
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Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.
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The regret on our side is, they used to say years ago, we are reading about you in science class. Now they say, we are reading about you in history class.
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We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could ever have expected.
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