"No one ever accomplished anything great sitting down."

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Source : Chris Hadfield (2013). “An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth”, p.32, Pan Macmillan

Chris Hadfield

#Sitting Down Quotes #Sitting Quotes #Accomplished Quotes

“I hate having people sit in on meetings.”
“The main jokes in this film are about big things, love and life and zombies - we all get that.”
“I never go straight to the point if I can go the most difficult way. Why be simple when you can be complicated?”
“Ruins provide the incentive for restoration, and for a return to origins. There has to be an interim of death or rejection before there can be renewal and reform.”
“Producers and studios know what sells. It's nice to be one of the guys that can help sell a movie by taking his shirt off.”
“I’d always secretly believed that a love as fierce and true as mine would be rewarded in the end, and now I was being forced to accept the bitter truth.”

Source : Alma Katsu (2012). “The Taker: Book One of the Taker Trilogy”, p.61, Simon and Schuster
“To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything. Between what I do recognize and what I do not recognize there stands myself. And what I do not recognize I shall continue not to recognize.”
“For some of us, the Gypsy years can go on forever ... That isn't such a bad thing. When all is said and done, they're a lot of fun. The truth is, I liked being a Gypsy. It's who I was. And it's still a lot of who I am. Gypsy, it's a good word.”

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