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Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts. It's about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve it, especially when the stakes are high and the consequences really matter. It is about laying the groundwork for others' success, and then standing back and letting them shine. Chris Hadfield
Success Best Leadership Matter Achieve Glorious Shine Consequences Others Back Focused High About Laying Crowning Motivated Goal Ultimately Stakes Them Then Really Your Team Standing Groundwork Acts Letting Keeping
The path from dreams to success does exist. May you have the vision to find it, the courage to get on to it, and the perseverance to follow it. Kalpana Chawla
Success Dreams You Perseverance Courage Vision Path Find Follow Does Exist Get May
There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen. Jim Lovell
Success You People Make Makes Wonder Person Happen Happened Successful Who Things Things Happen Watch Need
I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine. Neil Armstrong
Inspirational Believe Every Mine Finite Finite Number Heartbeats Intend Any Human Waste Number
That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. Neil Armstrong
Man Giant Small Step Leap Mankind
The stars don't look bigger, but they do look brighter. Sally Ride
Stars Look Bigger Brighter
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
Me Space Earth Giant Eye Out Pretty Struck Small Put Thumb Feel Like Felt Up Very Blotted Blue Tiny Planet Planet Earth Suddenly Shut
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 Armstrong
Believe Every Mine Running Finite Finite Number Around Exercises Doing Heartbeats Intend Any Human Waste Number
Geologists have a saying - rocks remember. Neil Armstrong
Saying Science Remember Rocks
Reach for the stars. Christa McAuliffe
Stars Reach Reach For The Stars
Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind. Neil Armstrong
History Peace Moon Men First Earth Foot Came July Mankind Planet Planet Earth Ad Here Set
Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying. Neil Armstrong
Joy Flying Take Like Pilots Walking Special
I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work. Neil Armstrong
Work Daily Guess Our Recognized Fireworks Like Piece Daily Work
Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in. Sally Ride
Science Natural Investigating Delving Coming Method Questions Up Curiosity Process Fun Posing
I'm such a long-term investor, I've never really let go and celebrated what I did with the Hubble telescope. Story Musgrave
Telescope Never Investor Long-Term Go Hubble Celebrated Did Really Let Go
We got to the moon on Christmas Eve 1968, at the end of a poor year for this country. We had Vietnam. We had civil unrest. We had the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King. But we went around the moon and saw the far side for the first time. A script writer couldn't have done a better job of raising people's hope. Jim Lovell
Christmas Hope Time People Better Job Moon King First Country Year Side Saw Civil Martin Martin Luther Martin Luther King Better Job Unrest Writer Had Robert Robert Kennedy Around First Time Got End Done Script Poor To The Moon Far Vietnam Eve Kennedy Raising Christmas Eve Luther
When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system. Kalpana Chawla
You Space Solar Stars Solar System System Feel Particular Look Piece Any Just Galaxy Land
A bird cannot fly with one wing only. Human space flight cannot develop any further without the active participation of women. Valentina Tereshkova
Women Space Bird Fly Active Further Wing Only Develop Participation Without Any Human Cannot Flight
It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract. Alan Shepard
Government Safety Space Feeling Determined Factor Bidder Contract Up Very Sobering Realize Lowest
Timing has always been a key element in my life. I have been blessed to have been in the right place at the right time. Buzz Aldrin
Life Time Key My Life Blessed Timing Right Place Right Time Always Been Place Element Right
I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth. Neil Armstrong
Earth Out Put Thumb Up Blotted Planet Planet Earth
Whenever I gaze up at the moon, I feel like I'm on a time machine. I am back to that precious pinpoint of time, standing on the foreboding - yet beautiful - Sea of Tranquility. I could see our shining blue planet Earth poised in the darkness of space. Buzz Aldrin
Beautiful Time Darkness Space Moon Back Our Gaze Earth Machine See Could Poised Feel Like Am Shining Pinpoint Up Precious Blue Tranquility Whenever Planet Planet Earth Sea Standing
It's like trying to describe what you feel when you're standing on the rim of the Grand Canyon or remembering your first love or the birth of your child. You have to be there to really know what it's like. Jack Schmitt
Love You First Birth Rim Remembering Feel Like Know First Love Child Trying Grand Grand Canyon Canyon Really Your Your Child Standing Describe
Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job. Jim Lovell
Thankful Problems Job Difficult Ability Be Thankful Someone Were Might Your Less
Do something because you really want to do it. If you're doing it just for the goal and don't enjoy the path, then I think you're cheating yourself. Kalpana Chawla
You Yourself Path Cheating Enjoy Think Something Because Doing Goal Just Want Then Really
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
You Think Bites Tried Something Overconfident Well Because Snaps Up Very Get Hard
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