"I think there are huge lessons there, for young people who are getting started in life, as well as other people. And that is, to take responsibility for your own life. Only you are responsible for the course you take from there."

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Source : "NASA Distinguished Service Medal"". The Academy of Achievement Interview in Baltimore, Maryland, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

Story Musgrave

#Life Lesson Quotes #Responsibility Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“It takes more than going down to the video store and renting "Easy Rider" to be a rebel.”

Source : "Fictional character: Huey Walker". "Flashback", www.imdb.com. 1990.
“To have this opportunity, in light of my familys struggles, made me want to create something lasting and relevant.”
“You see, we need instruction on how to possess money without being possessed by money. We need help to learn how to own things without treasuring them. We need the discipline that will allow us to live simply while managing great wealth and power.”
“In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully.”
“What I want is an art of equilibrium, of purity and tranquility, free from unsettling or disturbing subjects, so that all those who work with their brains, and this includes business men as well as artists and writers, will look on it as something soothing, a kind of cerebral sedative as relaxing in its way as a comfortable armchair.”
“Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.”
“It's not a holiday until you overdo it!”
“A country which does not respect the rights of its own citizens will not respect the rights of its neighbours”

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