"Do you realize what we accomplished today? Today the spaceship was born."

-- Walter Dornberger

#Today Quotes #Realizing Quotes #Spaceships Quotes

“You will never truly know yourself or the strength of your relationships until both have been tested by adversity.”
“Be the same still mountain self and mountain peace no matter what the external conditions.”
“To talk about photos rather than making them seems idiotic to me. It's as though I went on and on about a woman I adored instead of making love to her.”
“Show me a novelist â€“ or, indeed, a reader â€“ who wasnâ€™t a socially awkward, self-conscious adolescent, prone to clumsiness and excessive reading and Iâ€™llâ€¦ well, Iâ€™ll probably bang my shoulder on the door frame as I storm out. Many of the most unforgettable female fictional protagonists are gauche, self-doubting, plain and think too much.”
“The young man who's had the Guggenheim fortune behind him all his life - he can hire all the authorities on the subject to teach him how to do a monologue, but he's never going to have the right stuff to pull it off. If he doesn't walk out onstage needing to walk out there, he doesn't have a dream of doing well.”
“Man is the only creature disposed to kill huge numbers of members of his own species, and his instrument is usually the state.”
“Many, many times, the kids with the less talent become the better athletes because they're more dedicated to achieving their full potential.”

Source : Red Auerbach, Joe Fitzgerald (1986). “On and Off the Court”, Bantam
“A break in the established order is never the work of chance. It is the outcome of a man's resolve to turn life to account.”

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