"When you have some skills but don't fully……" — Chris Hadfield
"When you have some skills but don't fully understand your environment, there is no way you can be a plus one. At best, you can be a zero. But a zero isn't a bad thing to be. You're competent enough not to create problems or make more work for everyone else. And you have to be competent, and prove to others that you are, before you can be extraordinary. There are no short-cuts, unfortunately."
—
Chris Hadfield
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
75 Quotes by Chris Hadfield
Chris Hadfield has 75 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Decide in your heart of hearts what really excites and challenges you, and start moving your life in that direction.…
-
I guarantee if you walk into 100 spider webs, you will have changed your fundamental human behavior. And you can…
-
The rough and ready improvisational quality to life on board the International Space Station is reminiscent of a long trip…
-
In any new situation, whether it involves an elevator or a rocket ship, you will almost certainly be viewed in…
-
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…
-
Life off Earth is in two important respects not at all unworldly: you can choose to focus on the surprises…
-
In my experience, fear comes from not knowing what to expect and not feeling you have any control over what’s…
-
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…
-
As I have discovered again and again, things are never as bad (or as good) as they seem at the…
-
Competence means keeping your head in a crisis, sticking with a task even when it seems hopeless, and improvising good…
See all 75 quotes by Chris Hadfield »
More Bad Quotes
This quote is filed under Bad Quotes,
one of 14,431 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing.
— Dario Argento
-
Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
— Aristophanes
-
Bad men are full of repentance.
— Aristotle
-
It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's…
— Julian Assange
-
Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen…
— Richard Bach
-
I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles -…
— Richard Armitage
-
There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,…
— Karen Armstrong
-
If my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been 'Catch Me In Two Days'.
— Frank Abagnale
-
People that go through what I went through and people going through divorce, it's really a difficulty process; it's heartbreaking…
— David Arquette
-
If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?'…
— Arthur Ashe
-
From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any…
— Isaac Asimov
-
The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end.…
— Chinua Achebe
See all 14,431 Bad Quotes »