Gene Kranz Quotes

You can not operate in this room unless you believe that you are Superman, and whatever happens, you're capable of solving the problem.

Gene Kranz

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• Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Want
  • Unique
  • Athlete

• I realize we're not promised tomorrow. Believe me, I realize that. But if God blesses me and lets me stay, I love my life so much, it is such a good life. I am eager to throw myself at His feet, but I don't want to get on the first busload that is going.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • Life
  • Good
  • God

• I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.

  

  B. B. King
  • Good
  • Horrible
  • Chords

• You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Life
  • Important
  • Children

• I've got a PowerPoint deck that I use for internal presentations, and there's a slide on it that asks, 'What percentage of your game is combat versus exploration versus puzzle solving versus platforming,' and I refuse to answer that question.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Game
  • Question
  • Exploration

• I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.

  

  Ed Harris
  • People
  • Work
  • Thought

• The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Important
  • Problem
  • Numbers

• You get caught up in hitting home runs and seeing how far you can hit them, and your swing changes.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Up
  • Home
  • Changes

• With Donald Trump as president and Republicans in control of Congress, our healthcare is under attack.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Control
  • Trump
  • Health care

• Just as the Supreme Court has said that women have the right to choose whether or not to be parents, men should also have that right.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Men
  • Women
  • Parents

• I think people would be most surprised to know that I love scary movies.

  

  Olivia Holt
  • People
  • Think
  • Know

• I've done approximately 15 films, and most of the things I've done have either been stunt or costume work.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Work
  • Done
  • Most

• Melody is king, and don't you ever forget it. Lyrics appear to be out front, but they're not; they're just an accompanying factor. If they're good, you're really in good shape. Lyrics are written to be rewritten.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Good
  • King
  • Forget

• The cynicism that you have is not your real soul.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Real
  • Soul
  • You

• I really wanted to do something positive on the Internet. I wanted to try to get young people talking about, thinking about, life's big questions-make it cool and OK to wonder about the heart, the soul and free will and God and death and big topics like that, big human topics.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• I'm a big believer that your life is basically a sum of all the choices you make. The better your choices, the better opportunity to lead a happy life.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Opportunity

• I was studying theater management, business stuff. About that time, I realized I really didn't like that, and it threw me into a panic attack a little bit. I was under the assumption that the first job you get out of college is the job you have for the rest of your life.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Life
  • Time
  • Business

• The key to making a good forecast is not in limiting yourself to quantitative information.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Good
  • Yourself
  • Information

• The best music always results from ecstasies of logic.

  

  Alban Berg
  • Music
  • Logic

• Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?

  

  Arthur Miller
  • Action
  • Paradise

• In other words, science and religion occupied two separate spheres; in the pope’s view, Darwin might have explained where the human body came from, but that had nothing to do with the spiritual and divine aspects of human existence.

  

  Edward Humes
  • Science
  • Religion
  • Existence

• It's not the job of government to help the poor. The church is the mechanism that God put on earth to help the poor.

  

  Rich Mullins
  • Earth
  • Government
  • Church

• Spending and tax cut decisions must be both fiscally responsible and fair to our working families. I believe that fiscal responsibility is the way to create prosperity for America and secure the retirement of America's seniors.

  

  Blanche Lincoln
  • Believe
  • America
  • Responsibility

• You can not operate in this room unless you believe that you are Superman, and whatever happens, you're capable of solving the problem.

  

  Gene Kranz
  • Believe
  • Problem
  • Happens