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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.

Neil Armstrong

I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Adult Business Life Risk
It’s a strange, eerie sensation to fly a lunar landing trajectory not difficult, but somewhat complex and unforgiving.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Complex Difficult Forgiveness Land Lunar Sensation Strange
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 ARMSTRONG

Ability Capacity Contribution Father Happiness Human Knowledge Limitation Race Realization Work
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 ARMSTRONG

Bite Business Motivational Overconfident Snap Thinking Try
I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Achievement Actual Century Expectation Substant Success
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.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Advantage Avoid Characteristics Craft Fly Manner Natural Pilot
I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Astronaut Attraction Fly Moon
Knowledge is fundamental to all human achievements and progress.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Achievement Fundamental Human Knowledge Progress
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.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Blue Earth Eyes Giant Planet Pretty Space Stuck Thumb
Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Emotion Fear One Liner
This blowing dust became increasingly thicker. It was very much like landing in a fast moving ground fog.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Blow Dust Fog Ground Increase Land
I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Earth Planet Thumb
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 ARMSTRONG

Ability Capacity Contribution Father Happiness Human Knowledge Limitation Race Realization Work
I can honestly say – and it’s a big surprise to me – that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Dreams Honesty Moon Surprise
This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Giant Leap Man ManKindness Motivational Step
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.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Character Continue Depend Excitement Future Human Improvement Program Society

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 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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