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Gene Kranz

"Mission Control will be perfect. When you leave this meeting today you will go to your office and the first thing you will do there is to write "Tough and Competent" on your blackboards. It will never be erased. Each day when you enter the room these words will remind you of the price paid by Grissom, White, and Chaffee. These words are the price of admission to the ranks of Mission Control."

Source : "The Kranz Dictum". Gene Kranz's address to his branch and flight control team on the Monday morning following the Apollo 1 disaster, January 30, 1967.

Gene Kranz

#Writing Quotes #White Quotes #Safety Quotes

“I'm probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.”

Source : Interview with Erik Davis, www.fandango.com. July 12, 2012.
“You can do anything you want, even if you are being told negative things.stay strong and find motivation”
“It takes a long time to write a book. I'm not going to spend that much time trying to deliver a message. The reason I do it is because I want to understand something myself. It's not a delivery device, it's an inquiry device. Didactic fiction to my mind never works. It backfires.”
“When you do the first half of life well, you have a good sense of yourself.”
“God saves us because He loves us. It has nothing to do with our goodness or nobility, our achievements or agility. Our salvation depends completely upon our Savior.”
“It isnâ€™t only art that is incompatible with happiness, itâ€™s also science. Science is dangerous, we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.”
“I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life. Some of them. Not all.”
“If you can't understand the blues, you don't know much”

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