I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
NEIL ARMSTRONGI think if there was anything I learned from our skipper was that it’s not how you look; it’s how you perform.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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Now and then I miss the excitement about being in the cockpit of an airplane and doing new things.
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I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks but for the ledger of our daily work.
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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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I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
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Each book holds an experience and an adventure.
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Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation.
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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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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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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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Knowledge is fundamental to all human achievements and progress.
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The single observation I would offer for your consideration is that some things are beyond your control.
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I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life.
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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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There are places to go beyond belief.
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Start at the end and work back.
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It never hurts to have friends around, so that’s why you’d form a crew.
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A picture does a great job, but it’s not nearly like being there.
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Shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead.
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I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
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Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically.
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Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying.
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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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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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If that’s there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.
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History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.
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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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