Collected Meditations
Showing 34 quotesIf that's there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.— Neil Armstrong
I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.— Neil Armstrong
I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.— Neil Armstrong
I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They're sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they're hitting back and forth.— Neil Armstrong
As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights have been in my memories as long as I can remember.— Neil Armstrong
Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't planned by anyone.— Neil Armstrong
We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could ever have expected.— Neil Armstrong
Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.— Neil Armstrong
Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and bites you.— Neil Armstrong
It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It's an interesting place to be. I recommend it.— Neil Armstrong
I can honestly say - and it's a big surprise to me - that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.— Neil Armstrong
I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.— Neil Armstrong
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