"I wasn’t destined to be an astronaut. I……" — Chris Hadfield
"I wasn’t destined to be an astronaut. I had to turn myself into one."
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75 Quotes by Chris Hadfield
Chris Hadfield has 75 quotes on this site.
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Decide in your heart of hearts what really excites and challenges you, and start moving your life in that direction.…
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I guarantee if you walk into 100 spider webs, you will have changed your fundamental human behavior. And you can…
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The rough and ready improvisational quality to life on board the International Space Station is reminiscent of a long trip…
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In any new situation, whether it involves an elevator or a rocket ship, you will almost certainly be viewed in…
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Sweat the small stuff. Without letting anyone see you sweat.
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Early success is a terrible teacher. You're essentially being rewarded for a lack of preparation, so when you find yourself…
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Life off Earth is in two important respects not at all unworldly: you can choose to focus on the surprises…
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In my experience, fear comes from not knowing what to expect and not feeling you have any control over what’s…
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It’s not enough to shelve your own competitive streak. You have to try, consciously, to help others succeed.
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If you start thinking that only your biggest and shiniest moments count, you're setting yourself up to feel like a…
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As I have discovered again and again, things are never as bad (or as good) as they seem at the…
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Competence means keeping your head in a crisis, sticking with a task even when it seems hopeless, and improvising good…
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It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and…
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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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I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely…
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I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time.
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I was the first Navy, Marine or Air Force person who had been an astronaut to return back to the…
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The purpose of going to Mars is for humans to first begin to occupy, permanently, another planet in the solar…
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To send humans back to the moon would not be advancing. It would be more than 50 years after the…
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Being a leading man... that's like saying, 'I want to be astronaut.' That's not going to happen.
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I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my…
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Some of the senior people, the very senior astronauts, shook my hand and said, 'K.C., you did a great job.…
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