"In any field, it's a plus if you view criticism as potentially helpful advice rather than as a personal attack."

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Source : Chris Hadfield (2013). “An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth”, p.53, Pan Macmillan

Chris Hadfield

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“Music is my biggest passion and Ive just been obsessed with it. Like, always.”
“Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.”
“Ancient traditions have long associated holy wells and springs as very special places of the Goddess or anima mundi: symbolic of the Great Mother and associated with birth, the feminine principle, the universal womb, the prima materia, the waters of fertility and refreshment and the fountain of life. The dreaming sites, as they are called, have also been associated with visions, healing, and other paranormal experiences. In ancient Greece, for example, there were more than three-hundred medical centers placed at water sources, where patients experienced healing.”
“The way to form transcends its own destination, goes beyond the end of the way itself.”
“I think that my parents' only regret is that they wasted so much money on my stupid prestigious university degree.”
“You cannot say that you are happy when you don't win.”
“I am still the Hitler of the time. This Hitler has only one objective, justice for his own people, sovereignty for his people, recognition of the independence of his people, and their rights to their resources. If that is Hitler, then let me be a Hitler tenfold. Ten times, that is what we stand for.”

Source : "'Hitler' Mugabe launches revenge terror attacks" by Peta Thornycroft, www.telegraph.co.uk. March 26, 2003.
“I'm not going to deny it. I'm a neat person, there's no question. But I don't become obsessed with it.”

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