Gene Kranz Quotes
We had risen to probably one of the greatest challenges in history, put a man on the moon in the decade. We'd created incredible technologies. But what was most important, we'd created the teams, what I call the human factor. People who were energized by a mission.
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You see, O Greeks! The enemy already acknowledge the country to be ours; for when they made peace with us, they stipulated that we should not burn the country belonging to the king, and now they set fire to it themselves, as if they looked upon it no longer as their own.
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I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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You say something, things you would rather forget, and then they are out there. It makes me anxious and I don't know why people are interested in me anyway. If I had my way, I would rather exist in a little hole and not speak to anyone.
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I want a big house with a moat and dragons and a fort to keep people out.
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Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.
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I spend most of my days pacing around, muttering that I have no ideas, feeling like I'm walking a plank.
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I was the muse of Tom Ford and Gucci for years, but that was a long time ago.
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All of a sudden, those few pages of script that he had shown me with the weird images I could visualize all of that in my brain, and I knew that there was this mad little genius at work here and I really wanted to do the film.
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April is the cruellest month.
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A private ball this was called...but Lord! my dear Sir, I believe I saw half the world!
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The resurrection is In spirit done in thee, As soon as thou from all Thy sins hast set thee free.
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Some people say, 'Write what you know.' My thing is, 'Write what scares you.'
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What happens is consciousness operates in mysterious ways. One of those ways is that the old paradigm suddenly starts to die.
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My varied listening palette is all-inclusive of all walks of life. No one individual is exempt from the human experience, so it is that intangible that is a universal truth. In that regard, I've had success in encapsulating something cosmic.
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Childhood doesn't have to be perfect, and children don't have to be beautiful. From a bit of grit may grow a pearl, and if pearl production doesn't materialise, the outcome will still be preferable to the shallowness of vanity.
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You have to have pace, you have to have high production values, you have to have interesting graphics, and you have to have attractive people. CNN could afford not to be so obedient to those commands, and for a long time, it wasn't.
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When we can demonstrate that we can take off horizontally and put something into orbit, then we can begin to talk about increasing the amount of payload. But to say, 'I'm going to do that and put people into orbit' is a real leap.
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We have to start encouraging people to step out of their comfort zones and start doing new things. Anything anybody does new, there are a bunch of naysayers.
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Once you get involved with bloodsport litigation, you can not only get drunk on your own greed but start to believe your own lies.
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During challenging times and when impassioned to act, human beings can be capable of miracles.
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We had risen to probably one of the greatest challenges in history, put a man on the moon in the decade. We'd created incredible technologies. But what was most important, we'd created the teams, what I call the human factor. People who were energized by a mission.
