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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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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If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.
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If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?
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I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would have been a disaster.
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It's a mistake not to give people a chance to learn to depend on themselves while they are young.
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How horrible, fantastic, incredible, it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing.
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A man is simple when his chief care is the wish to be what he ought to be, that is honestly and naturally human.
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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.
