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“What I did each day would determine the kind of person I’d become.”
― An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
― An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
“Early success is a terrible teacher. You're essentially being rewarded for a lack of preparation, so when you find yourself in a situation where you must prepare, you can't do it. You don't know how.”
― An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
― An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
“I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe.”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
“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.”
― An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
― An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
“Still, I also know that most people, including me, tend to applaud the wrong things: the showy, dramatic record-setting sprint rather than the years of dogged preparation or the unwavering grace displayed during a string of losses. Applause, then, never bore much relation to the reality of my life as an astronaut, which was not all about, or even mostly about, flying around in space.”
― An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
― An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
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