Eileen Collins Quotes

Houston, Discovery, wheels are down. We're all happy to be back again.

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• I remember the moon landings, and Apollo was the paradigm by which all progress was measured at that time. And I knew that creating a true space-faring civilization was both possible and practical. What I failed to realize was that the effort would fail due to bureaucratic inertia and political apathy.

  

  Karl Schroeder
  • Time
  • Remember
  • True

• Any manager can do well in an expanding market.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Market
  • Well
  • Manager

• As a team, we have a lot of work ahead of us in FY16 and beyond, but I am confident that, working together, we will make Microsoft a leader in the mobile-first, cloud-first world.

  

  B. Kevin Turner
  • World
  • Work
  • Together

• Women are not all single-issue voters.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Women
  • Single
  • Voters

• Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Men
  • Happy
  • Woman

• It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Time
  • Good
  • Bad

• I had the benefit of watching good people show me what it really is to be an actor – the day in and day out of it.

  

  Talia Balsam
  • People
  • Good
  • Actor

• I'm easy to hate. I get it.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Hate
  • Easy
  • Get

• I pick and choose my battles, but I overthink everything because I have to think about everything.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Think
  • Everything
  • Choose

• Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Work
  • Yourself
  • Speak

• All of a sudden to get all of this attention, and to be away from home and working all the time was hard. I was on planes all the time. I didn't see my friends. I cried a lot. It was quite terrifying.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Time
  • Home
  • Friends

• I like to read, even though it was really tough, because I could go anywhere in the world in a book, and I could have so many adventures in a book.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • World
  • Book
  • Tough

• So if I keep making mistakes on Broadway or tape or film, producing, directing or acting, I can go along and do it - so long as I'm not investing too much capital in these things.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Long
  • Acting
  • Mistakes

• The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.

  

  Jack London
  • God
  • Mother
  • Class

• I always believe that one can't interfere in another's work. Once I start work on any film, I surrender myself completely and blindly follow the director.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Myself

• Mostly for social media, Twitter or Instagram becomes so much more fun when you can be boastful and say whatever you want. You can be so full of yourself and ridiculous when you're a heel.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Fun
  • Yourself
  • Social Media

• Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Business
  • Attitude
  • Sales

• Making movies is about creating illusions, and they can be subtle illusions, but it's all a cumulative effect as you make these little tweaks. It kinda adds up to something, hopefully.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Up

• Christian Science has always appealed to the middle-classes and the upper middle classes. In part, this is because it requires a certain amount of education to study 'Science and Health' to the degree that Christian scientists do. It's not an easy book to read! It's 700 pages, and it's written in a nineteenth-century manner and diction.

  

  Caroline Fraser
  • Book
  • Science
  • Education

• After a good, successful torture, she was as happy as I ever saw her. I guess everyone needed a hobby.

  

  Laurell K. Hamilton
  • Good
  • She
  • Happy

• We see less of Dave, certainly, and he's kind of fallen out of the sphere of our group, mostly because he's working on his show, and has kind of lost the fun of the party.

  

  Bruce McCulloch
  • Fun
  • Lost
  • Party

• Expand the definition of 'reading' to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines, action adventure, and, yes, even websites. It's the pleasure of reading that counts; the focus will naturally broaden. A boy won't read shark books forever.

  

  Jon Scieszka
  • Action
  • Reading
  • Focus

• Houston, Discovery, wheels are down. We're all happy to be back again.

  

  Eileen Collins
  • Happy
  • Discovery
  • Houston