Failure Quote by Chris Hadfield

I think most astronauts are not risk takers. We take calculated risks for something that we think is worthwhile.

— Michael J. Massimino

“If you telescope out 10 years and know with 100% certainty that it is a path of disappointment and regret, and if we define…

— Timothy Ferriss

Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Of course risk is part of spaceflight. We accept some of that to achieve greater goals in exploration and find out more about ourselves…

— Lisa Nowak

“Risk is the increased consequence of failure.”

— Michael Bane

“mission as overkill, which threatened to derail the entire operation. Just before the launch of the operation”

— Marc Ambinder

So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong…

— Sally Ride

Many risks fail because they were not taken in time. Too many risks are postponed until unnecessarily elaborate preparations are made. This does not…

— David Viscott

After the loss of Columbia a couple of years ago, I think we were reminded of the risk. All of us, though, have always…

— Mark Kelly

Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.

— Ferran Adria

“There are risks in every action. Every success has the seed of some failure.”

— Liz Wiseman

“I think about the schoolchildren who saw their experiments blow up on Orbital, rebuilt them, and saw them blow up on SpaceX. I hope…

— Scott Kelly