Michael J. Massimino Quotes

I applied to be an astronaut four times. I was rejected three times before I was accepted. So, it's about that, not - following your dream and not giving up.

Michael J. Massimino

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• I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Decision
  • Face
  • Consequences

• The goal must be to expand ourselves beyond one field of focus and use our improved access to information to solve the very real and extreme economic, environmental, and resource challenges we face as an interconnected, global society.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Real
  • Society
  • Focus

• People don't know how to listen, and it's not their fault. In school, we learn how to read, we learn how to write - but nobody teaches you how to listen.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • School
  • Learn

• If you happen to start a new country in the 1990s, you have the advantage of drafting new laws with the knowledge that the Internet is out there.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • Country
  • Knowledge
  • Start

• Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other times would have had no difficulty with it.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • Think
  • Garden
  • Modern

• Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Human
  • Difficult
  • Being

• Now my goal is to be strong. I get two classes in a week, and they'll be either barre or reformer Pilates.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Strong
  • Goal
  • Be Strong

• When you dance, it takes a lot of stamina, but it never seemed like work 'cause I was doing something that I so loved doing. It was always a joy. And you know, to have beautiful ballets made specially for you is such an honor. I always said it was better than diamonds.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Work
  • Beautiful
  • Joy

• Dancers, like all performing artists, like nothing better than to be challenged.

  

  Karen Kain
  • Better
  • Nothing
  • Dancers

• Open access is good, but we have to have ways and means where content that has been generated with a lot of effort and cost also gets the chance to monetise itself as is now beginning to happen in the West where some publications are really beginning to make their Internet revenue lines and subscription revenue lines quite significant.

  

  Raghav Bahl
  • Good
  • Beginning
  • Effort

• I'm not musical myself.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Myself
  • Musical

• I don't want to be known as a sex symbol. There's a great stigma that goes with that tag. I want to be a Sam Elliott.

  

  Sam Elliott
  • Great
  • Want
  • Sex

• It's a strange moment, the moment of creating characters who up to that moment have had no existence. What follows is fitful, uncertain, even hallucinatory, although sometimes it can be an unstoppable avalanche. The author's position is an odd one. In a sense he is not welcomed by his characters. They resist him, they are not easy to live with.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Up
  • Live
  • Author

• No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.

  

  Aphra Behn
  • Long
  • Friend
  • Sea

• God grant, that not only the Love of Liberty, but a thorough Knowledge of the Rights of Man, may pervade all the Nations of the Earth, so that a Philosopher may set his Foot anywhere on its Surface, and say, 'This is my Country.'

  

  Benjamin Franklin
  • God
  • Country
  • May

• Als auf die große Masse des Menschengeschlechts berechnet und derselben angemessen, kann bloß allegorische Wahrheit enthalten, welche sie jedoch als sensu proprio wahr geltend zu machen hat.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Die

• 'MasterChef' is the search for America's culinary amateur talent, so this is a search for the best home cook in America, and it's our job to figure out who that is.

  

  Joe Bastianich
  • Home
  • Job
  • America

• Any kid in the world can draw from strengths within - we all have the potential with that.

  

  Lily James
  • World

• People do incredible things for love, particularly for unrequited love.

  

  Daniel Radcliffe
  • People

• I did the 'Crook and Chase' show while I was in Nashville. They asked me if I had a church background, and when I said I was born a Baptist, that got the audience on fire. They must have all been Baptists.

  

  Andy Griffith
  • Church
  • Fire
  • Baptism

• I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Character
  • Think
  • Now

• I'm 69 kilos; I don't have a burden on my back.

  

  Neymar

• I think that the issue here is a fundamental fairness in having a hearing so that these issues can be explored and concerns can be raised.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Issue
  • Exploration
  • Fairness

• I applied to be an astronaut four times. I was rejected three times before I was accepted. So, it's about that, not - following your dream and not giving up.

  

  Michael J. Massimino
  • Dream
  • Accepted
  • Following