Jim Lovell famous quotes

04-12-2025

Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job.
-- Jim Lovell

#Jobs #Being Thankful #Might
There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.
-- Jim Lovell

#Successful #People #Watches
Well, Frank, my thoughts are very similar. The vast loneliness up here at the moon is awe-inspiring, and it makes you realize what you have back there on earth. The earth from here is a grand oasis in the big vastness of space.
-- Jim Lovell

#Loneliness #Moon #Oasis
We learned a lot about the Moon, but what we really learned was about the Earth. The fact that just from the distance of the Moon you can put your thumb up and you can hide the Earth behind your thumb. Everything that you've ever known, your loved ones, your business, the problems of the Earth itself-all behind your thumb. And how insignificant we really all are, but then how fortunate we are to have this body and to be able to enjoy loving here amongst the beauty of the Earth itself.
-- Jim Lovell

#Distance #Moon #Space
The lunar flights give you a correct perception of our existence. You look back at Earth from the moon, and you can put your thumb up to the window and hide the Earth behind your thumb. Everything youve ever known is behind your thumb, and that blue-and-white ball is orbiting a rather normal star, tucked away on the outer edge of a galaxy.
-- Jim Lovell

#Stars #Moon #Blue
I didnt go into the NASA program to pick up rocks or to go the moon or anything else. I went in there because I was a military officer, and that was the next notch in my profession.
-- Jim Lovell

#Military #Moon #Rocks
I was born a year after Lindbergh made his historic trip across the Atlantic. Boys like either dinosaurs or airplanes. I was very much an airplane boy.
-- Jim Lovell

#Airplane #Boys #Years
It looks to me, looking out the hatch, that we are venting something. We are venting something into the-into the space.
-- Jim Lovell

#Moon #Space #Looks
Err Houston, we've had a problem. [pause] We've had a main B bus undervolt.
-- Jim Lovell

#Apollo #Houston #Problem
You need to be a person who makes things happen.
-- Jim Lovell

#Needs #Persons #Things Happen
I never thought I didn't have a card to play.
-- Jim Lovell

#Persistence #Play #Cards
The real friends of the space voyager are the stars. Their friendly, familiar patterns are constant companions, unchanging, out there.
-- Jim Lovell

#Stars #Real #Space
For most of the time carrier aviation is more challenging than flying in a spacecraft
-- Jim Lovell

#Flying #Challenges #Aviation
When I circled the moon and looked back at Earth, my outlook on life and my viewpoint of Earth changed... Earth is a spaceship, just like Apollo - and just like Apollo, the crew must learn to live and work together. We must learn to manage the resources of this world with new imagination.
-- Jim Lovell

#Moon #Imagination #Working Together
The Earth from here is a grand oasis in the big vastness of space.
-- Jim Lovell

#Oasis #Space #Earth
The vast loneliness is awe-inspiring and it makes you realize just what you have back there on Earth.
-- Jim Lovell

#Loneliness #Earth #Realizing
Houston, we've had a problem here
-- Jim Lovell

#Houston #Problem
Please be informed, there is a Santa Claus.
-- Jim Lovell

#Santa #Santa Claus #Please
The Moon is essentially gray - no color - looks like plaster of paris - soft of gray sand.
-- Jim Lovell

#Airplane #Moon #Color

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