"Competence means keeping your head in a crisis, sticking with a task even when it seems hopeless, and improvising good solutions to tough problems when every second counts. It encompasses ingenuity, determination and being prepared for anything."

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Source : Chris Hadfield (2013). “An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth”, p.28, Pan Macmillan

Chris Hadfield

#Determination Quotes #Mean Quotes #Tasks Quotes

“I want to be one of the top guys in the back end and make sure I keep our team in line and doing the right things in front of me.”
“But you've slipped under my skin, invaded my blood and seized my heart.”

Source : Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Poison Study”, p.246, Harlequin
“A skunk is better company than a person who prides himself on being 'frank'.”
“When she left me I stood out in the thunderstorm, hoping to be destroyed by lightning. It missed, first left, then right.”

Source : Jim Harrison, Ted Kooser (2013). “Braided Creek: A Conversation in Poetry”, p.29, Copper Canyon Press
“No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up.”

Source : "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe". Play by Jane Wagner, 1985.
“If you lose your reason, you lose it into the hands of God....It's the only place where anything is safe. And when you're dead it's only what's there you'll have. Nothing else.”
“The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.”
“A zygote is the beginning of a new human being (i.e., an embryo).”

Source : Keith L. Moore, T. V. N. Persaud (2003). “The developing human: clinically oriented embryology”, W B Saunders Co

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