Ellen Ochoa Quotes
Being an astronaut is a wonderful career. I feel very privileged. But what I really hope for young people is that they find a career they're passionate about, something that's challenging and worthwhile.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.
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The colonel replied that he didn't care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Teaching children about entrepreneurship is much like imparting any other skill or piece of knowledge. You will provide them with ways to experience how entrepreneurship works, and you guide them toward the subjects or areas they seem to show an interest in.
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A lot of people tell me I have to trash-talk more, but I got here with my fists, fighting, not with my mouth.
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We need to see a Palestinian state.
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The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.
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I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
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Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
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Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that's just not true. They are stressed and under pressure.
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Creativity is an inherent human quality of the highest order. When we create, we become more than the sum of our parts.
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When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs.
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My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don't even remember the room. When he showed me the picture, I remembered what I wore. But it's like awards don't mean anything.
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When the tech geeks talk, I pay close attention.
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People want you to fail.
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I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.
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Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the need to pretend it's no big deal, or part of a natural progression from poetry to fiction, but often it's really just about the money, the perceived prestige.
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One can give or withhold in a manner far more effective, sophisticated, useful, which is quite invisible to people who think that giving or withholding is done by external assessment. If you seek some mark of favour or 'promotion', know that you are not ready for it. Progress comes through capacity to learn, and is irresistible. Nobody can stand between you and knowledge if you are fit for it.
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It is always easy to divide the world into idealists and power-oriented people. The idealists are presumed to be the noble people, and the power-oriented people are the ones that cause all the world's trouble.
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Whatever my father did were great films. I don't want to remake any of them.
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It takes years of building that experience as a filmmaker, as well as physically. You have to have a high level understanding of martial arts.
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Being an astronaut is a wonderful career. I feel very privileged. But what I really hope for young people is that they find a career they're passionate about, something that's challenging and worthwhile.
