"I'm honored to be the first woman to have the opportunity to command the shuttle. I don't really think about that on a day-to-day basis because I really don't need to."

-- Eileen Collins

#Thinking Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“The era of using people as production tools is coming to an end. Participation is infinitely more complex to practice than conventional corporate unilateralism, just as democracy is much more cumbersome than dictatorship. But there will be few companies that can afford to ignore either of them.”
“Come, woo me, woo me, for now I am in a holiday humor, and like enough to consent.”
“She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox. In this case, as opposed to the scrupulous method of good taste and scientific grooming, the trick had been worked by exaggerating defects; she'd made them ornamental by admitting them boldly.”
“But when the flash flood crosses your path, when the lion leaps at you from the grasses, advanced self-awareness is an unaffordable indulgence. The brain stem does its best.”

Source : Peter Watts (2014). “Firefall”, p.220, Head of Zeus
“Of all the movies I've done in my life, the one where I play a crazy awful psycho woman finds me my husband.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Building walls does not make any country great again.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“What's so great about TV is that you can get an opportunity to tell really rich stories, over the course of so many hours. It's like a novel of this type of medium.”
“Heaven and earth! How is it that bodies join but never meet?”

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