#in

I had done everything I could do as an astronaut, and we have a long line of inexperienced astronauts waiting for their first missions, and so my role really should be to step aside and help them prepare for their missions, rather than to try to get another mission. ↗

— Leroy Chiao

#aside #astronaut #astronauts #could #done

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#travel #dreams

I think it's good to have competition. Now we have a third country that can launch astronauts, so it's good for all of us. It makes us a little bit more competitive and wanting to be the leader. ↗

— Leroy Chiao

#bit #competition #competitive #country #good

The most interesting thing was looking out the window and taking photographs of different places on Earth. ↗

— Leroy Chiao

#different places #earth #interesting #interesting thing #looking

There is no one area of chemical engineering that specifically helped me in my career as an astronaut, it was more the general education in engineering. Also, it was a very difficult and rigorous course. So, it made me strong and resourceful. ↗

— Leroy Chiao

#area #astronaut #career #chemical #course

First, this isn't about telecommuting, because we still have offices that people will come to regularly when they need to brainstorm together, meet with clients, or do research in the library. ↗

— Jay Chiat

#because #brainstorm #clients #come #first

One is that that's the way we started and we thought there would be more value and less confusion if the business model was just based on delivering news that's of value to Web sites. ↗

— Jay Chiat

#business #business model #confusion #delivering #just

Critics? How do they happen? I know how it happened to me. I would send a poem or story to a magazine and they would say this doesn't suit our needs precisely but on the other hand you sound interesting. Would you be interested in doing a review? ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#doing #hand #happen #happened #how

DeLillo never seems committed to me to what he is writing. Very nice surfaces, but he's got nothing underneath. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#got #me #never #nice #nothing

Faulkner sat in our living room and read from Light in August. That was incredible. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#faulkner #incredible #light #living #living room