Mike Massimino Quotes

#1. 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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#2. 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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#3. 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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#4. Solitude is not absence of love, but its complement

Paulo Coelho

#5. When all you wanted was to be wanted, you wish you could go back and tell yourself what you know now.

Taylor Swift

#6. I would like to say that I was inspired to write 'Shiver' by some overwhelming belief in true love, but here's my true confession: I wrote 'Shiver' because I like to make people cry.

Maggie Stiefvater

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

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#8. 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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#9. Past and to come, seems best; things present, worse.

William Shakespeare

#10. What I strive most to achieve in art is to make you forget the material. The sculptor must ... communicate whatever struck his sensibility, so that a person beholding his work may experience in its entirety the emotion felt by the artist while he observed nature.

Medardo Rosso

#11. Nobody runs faster than the one who tries to escape his inner voice.

Irina Serban

#12. Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction.

John C. Crosby

#13. 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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#14. The wilderness is healing, a therapy for the soul.

Nicholas Kristof

#15. 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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#16. There are no verdicts to childhood, only consequences, and the bright freight of memory.

Pat Conroy

#17. As a kid in British Columbia, going back a long way, I learned to skate.

Steve Yzerman