Payette Quotes

#1. I get tired of hearing it's a crummy world and that people are no damned good. What kind of talk is that? I know a place in Payette, Idaho, where a cook and a waitress and a manager put everything they've got into laying a chicken-fried steak on you.

Robert Fulghum

#2. Definitely you don't become famous by doing something bad; that's a professional death sentence.

Julie Payette

#3. Nobody is going anywhere in 10 years.

Julie Payette

#4. Angela was speechless as George continued to explain.

Charlene Whitman

#5. Putting our faith in Christ is not about trying harder; it means transferring our trust away from ourselves and resting in him.

Timothy Keller

#6. A lot of people, I think, would love to see the earth from above, wear a spacesuit. Certainly, when I was a kid, I wanted to wear a spacesuit.

Julie Payette

#7. I'm 45, and I'm still at school, essentially. Even after being assigned to the mission, I had to write a number of exams, with people commenting on my performance.

Julie Payette

#8. You're always under the microscope, and you don't know which mission you're going to get. It's a surprise.

Julie Payette

#9. Failing well means ending something that is not working and choosing to do something else better.

Henry Cloud

#10. Most people here don't have a wide emotional range. It's just the type of people astronauts are, they're required to be level.

Julie Payette

#11. It was a smart decision. You're too good for him."
I roll my eyes. "You keep saying that. Is there something you know that I don't?" I ask.
"You," he replies, matter of fact.

Katie Klein

#12. We can collaborate with a Netscape employee or partner who's halfway around the world. We can distribute information and software to customers and shareholders, and get their feedback.

Jim Barksdale

#13. I think there were times when I first started out, when I was covering Iraq - I was basically living there in 2003 and 2004 - that car bombs and attacks became so the norm that it was weird for me to leave and realize that no one else actually cared about what was going on there.

Lynsey Addario

#14. My husband and I don't worry about each other the way we might if we didn't have similar jobs. I sometimes get an email where he tells me he's heading off on a mission to do terrain avoidance 50 feet above the ground at 500 knots. And I just say, "Okay, have a good flight."

Julie Payette

#15. cleaning lady! The gunk I got out of your carpet and kitchen counters? Grrr-oss!" Sam grinned. "We'll talk about it when I get there. Bye!" He called

David Archer

#16. I am definitely a little more nervous for my colleagues when I'm working at mission control than I am myself, on the shuttle.

Julie Payette

#17. The opportunities to become an astronaut in Canada were far and few.

Julie Payette