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It's not enough to shelve your own competitive streak. You have to try, consciously, to help others succeed.

Every single day you're the result of what you did on the days prior.

An astronaut who doesn't sweat the small stuff is a dead astronaut.

On the day of the Boston Marathon bombings, for example, I actually knew more about what had happened than the CAPCOM I'd called.

Sweat the small stuff. Without letting anyone see you sweat.

Anyone who views him- or herself as more important than the "little people" is not cut out for this job

If you start thinking that only your biggest and shiniest moments count, you're setting yourself up to feel like a failure most of the time.

In a crisis, the "why" is irrelevant.

Mir has long since been deorbited and burned up in the atmosphere.

Having a plan of action, even really mundane action, was a huge benefit in terms of adaptation to a radically new environment.

The danger is different from the fear ... [practice] what to do if things go wrong, as well as right.

There is no problem so bad that you can't make it worse

I've put a lot of my life into making it possible to fly in space at all.

Being certified as a user means you have basic knowledge and can turn things on and off;

I wasn't destined to be an astronaut. I had to turn myself into one.

Anticipating problems and figuring out how to solve them is actually the opposite of worrying: it's productive.

She is an uber-doer, exactly the kind of person you want riding shotgun when you're chasing a big goal and also trying to have a life.

We broke into Mir using a Swiss Army knife. Never leave the planet without one.

Every decision you make, from what you eat to what you do with your time tonight, turns you into who you are tomorrow and the day after that.

If you don't like airline food, you'll probably have the same impression of space station food. I would not fly to space for the food.

To be one of the world's top space robotic arm operators is a necessary skill for an astronaut, but it doesn't have much carry-over.

Focus on the journey, not on arriving at a certain destination.

Good leadership means leading the way, not hectoring other people to do things your way.

Sometimes when people find out I'm an astronaut, they ask, "So what do you do when you're not flying in space?

Life is just a lot better if you feel you're having 10 wins a day rather than a win every 10 years or so.

Spaceflight isn't just about doing experiments, it's about an extension of human culture.

Cynicism is the easiest of all reactions, right? But it's also so disappointing and self-defeating.

Space is not a good place to mix foods because as soon as you take something out of the package, it becomes a flying object.

in 2007, Suni Williams ran the Boston Marathon in space, which took her only 4 hours and 24 minutes.)

No one ever accomplished anything great sitting down.

Capcom, or capsule communicator.

And now for Return to Flight, I'm chief of robotics working in the astronaut office in Houston, as a Canadian.

I'm a mechanical engineer, and I grew up on a farm, so I like practical hardware - somebody's elegant solution that proves itself over the long term.

For whatever reason, I decided: 'I'm 18, I'm a man, I'm going to grow a moustache' - and it was pathetic for years - it was awful.

Kazakhstan is not easy to get to unless you live in Kyrgyzstan.

When you're the author of your own fate, you don't want to write a tragedy.

What I did each day would determine the kind of person I'd become.

Value the wisdom of humility, as well as the sense of perspective it gives you.

As an astronaut, especially during launch, half of the risk of a six-month flight is in the first nine minutes.

I was born in Sarnia, Ontario; a small town, it's where oil was pretty much discovered in North America.

What really matters is not the value someone else assigns to a task but how I personally feel while performing it.

You can't change the bricks, and together, you still have to build a wall.

As I have discovered again and again, things are never as bad (or as good) as they seem at the time.

The cool things about space is when you put your pants on here, you can put them on two legs at a time.

You can get claustrophobia and agoraphobia - a fear of wide, open spaces - simultaneously on a spacewalk.

the phone rang, and I picked it up in the kitchen. It was Mac Evans, asking if I wanted to be an astronaut.

The exercise really had a lot less to do with water survival than with deliberate teamwork.

No aeroplane you've ever gotten into had less than thousands of flights before they took their first passenger. Because vehicles are unsafe at first.

I've been lucky enough to fly to space twice.

I've had a chance to fly a lot of different airplanes, but it was nothing like the shuttle ride.

By looking at the difference between perceived danger and actual danger, you can fundamentally change your reaction.

In any field, it's a plus if you view criticism as potentially helpful advice rather than as a personal attack.

Data gathered on the Shuttle and ISS help power Google Maps;

We are not machines exploring the universe, we are people.

You should have a fear of some things. That doesn't mean it incapacitates you from your ability to figure out a way to deal with it.

Fatherhood is the unending imperfect task of turning yourself into your dad while secretly maintaining the unbridled elation of your boyhood

Now, as an astronaut, I have to bring a Sharpie with me everywhere - so I have a pen to sign autographs.

"What's the next thing that's going to kill me?" is a mantra for pilots and astronauts.

The rule of thumb is that you need a day on Earth to recover from each day in space,

Remember, nobody changes the world on their own.