Mike Massimino Quotes

#1. If you work hard and get help from good friends, together you can overcome almost any challenge, no matter how great.

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#2. It's a planet," I said. "It's not what we thought it was back home. It's not this safe cocoon, man. We're out here spinning in all this chaos. The Earth is a planet. The Earth is a spaceship, and we're all space travelers.

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#3. I realized much later in life that the reason this decision between MIT and IBM was so agonizing was because it wasn't really about choosing a career; it was about deciding who I was, which part of myself I wanted to be, and that's the hardest decision any of us has to make.

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#4. Because being the right person isn't about being perfect; it's about being able to handle whatever life throws at you. I

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#5. You only have one life. You have to spend it doing something that matters.

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#6. Popping M&M's in the air and going after them and chomping them like Pac-Man. I actually gained weight in space, which no one ever does. The doctors were confounded, but I just loved eating up there.

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#7. Kennedy's address announcing the Apollo program was one of the great presidential speeches of all time. He challenged us. He excited us. We reach for impossible things, he said, "not because they are easy, but because they are hard." He

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