Chris Hadfield Quotes

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• Decide in your heart of hearts what really excites and challenges you, and start moving your life in that direction. Every decision you make, from…
• I guarantee if you walk into 100 spider webs, you will have changed your fundamental human behavior. And you can apply this to anything, And…
• The rough and ready improvisational quality to life on board the International Space Station is reminiscent of a long trip in a sailboat: privacy and…
• In any new situation, whether it involves an elevator or a rocket ship, you will almost certainly be viewed in one of three ways. As…
• Sweat the small stuff. Without letting anyone see you sweat.
• Early success is a terrible teacher. You're essentially being rewarded for a lack of preparation, so when you find yourself in a situation where you…
• Life off Earth is in two important respects not at all unworldly: you can choose to focus on the surprises and pleasures, or the frustrations.…
• In my experience, fear comes from not knowing what to expect and not feeling you have any control over what’s about to happen. When you…
• It’s not enough to shelve your own competitive streak. You have to try, consciously, to help others succeed.
• If you start thinking that only your biggest and shiniest moments count, you're setting yourself up to feel like a failure most of the time.
• As I have discovered again and again, things are never as bad (or as good) as they seem at the time.
• Competence means keeping your head in a crisis, sticking with a task even when it seems hopeless, and improvising good solutions to tough problems when…
• I wasn’t destined to be an astronaut. I had to turn myself into one.
• The cool things about space is when you put your pants on here, you can put them on two legs at a time.
• Decide in your heart of hearts what really excites and challenges you, and start moving your life in that direction
• Don`t let life randomly kick you into the adult you don`t want to become
• Every decision you make, from what you eat to what you do with your time tonight, turns you into who you are tomorrow and the…
• There is no problem so bad that you cannot make it worse
• The Nile, draining out into the Mediterranean. The bright lights of Cairo announce the opening of the north-flowing river’s delta, with Jerusalem’s answering high beams…
• My optimism and confidence come not from feeling I'm luckier than other mortals, and they sure don't come from visualizing victory. They're the result of…

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