Walter Dornberger famous quotes

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This third day of October, 1942, is the first of a new era in transportation, that of space travel
-- Walter Dornberger

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Do you realize what we accomplished today? Today the spaceship was born.
-- Walter Dornberger

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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
First of all, directing is an idea that you have of a total flow of images that are going on, which are incidentally actors, words, and objects in space. It's an idea you have of yourself, like the idea you have of your own personality which finds its best representation in the world in terms of specific flows of imaginary images. That's what directing is.
We live in an era of consumerism and it's all about desire-based consumerism and it has nothing to do with things we actually need.
I am fascinated by history and particularly the Victorian era.
We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return ...
Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.
If at first you don't succeed/You can dust it off and try again/Dust yourself off and try again.
Beginning with the first bite, and for every bite after, that try to chew ten times.
That's already been tried before only means the first attempt got it wrong.
When I first started, I just wanted to work. I wouldn't necessarily do anything, but I'd pretty much almost do anything at the very beginning.

Walter Dornberger famous quotes

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