Chris Hadfield Quotes
Top 60 wise famous quotes and sayings by Chris Hadfield
Chris Hadfield Famous Quotes & Sayings
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It's not enough to shelve your own competitive streak. You have to try, consciously, to help others succeed.
On the day of the Boston Marathon bombings, for example, I actually knew more about what had happened than the CAPCOM I'd called.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.