Quotes by Jim Lovell - Page 1

There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.
Jim Lovell / Astronaut
Motivational
Success
People
Successful
Things Happen
Watches
Wonder
Things
Person
Need
Make
Who
You
Watch
Happen
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Houston, we've had a problem.
Jim Lovell / Astronaut
Space
Houston
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Houston, we've had a problem here.
Jim Lovell / Astronaut
Houston
Problem
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I take the NASA physical every year.
Jim Lovell / Astronaut
Nasa
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Please be informed, there is a Santa Claus.
Jim Lovell / Astronaut
Santa
Santa Claus
Ufo
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I never thought I didn't have a card to play.
Jim Lovell / Astronaut
Cards
Persistence
Play
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You need to be a person who makes things happen.
Jim Lovell / Astronaut
Make Things Happen
Needs
Persons
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We do not realize what we have on Earth until we leave it.
Jim Lovell / Astronaut
Earth
Leave
Realize
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The Earth from here is a grand oasis in the big vastness of space.
Jim Lovell / Astronaut
Space
Earth
Oasis
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Boys like either dinosaurs or airplanes. I was very much an airplane boy.
Jim Lovell / Astronaut
Airplane
Dinosaurs
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Err Houston, we've had a problem. [pause] We've had a main B bus undervolt.
Jim Lovell / Astronaut
Apollo
Houston
Problem
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I was born a year after Lindbergh made his historic trip across the Atlantic.
Jim Lovell / Astronaut
Historic
Atlantic
Trip
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For most of the time carrier aviation is more challenging than flying in a spacecraft
Jim Lovell / Astronaut
Aviation
Challenges
Flying
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The Moon is essentially gray - no color - looks like plaster of paris - soft of gray sand.
Jim Lovell / Astronaut
Airplane
Color
Moon
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After six successful Apollo flights, including two lunar landings, people were getting bored.
Jim Lovell / Astronaut
Apollo
Bored
Including
Six
Flights
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I was a naval officer and aviator. I tested airplanes and got selected to be an astronaut later on.
Jim Lovell / Astronaut
Airplane
Astronaut
Naval
Selected
Tested
Officer
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In space-flight terms, six landings on the moon back in the Sixties and Seventies doesn't mean much.
Jim Lovell / Astronaut
Moon
Seventies
Six
Terms
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The moon is essentially gray, no color; looks like plaster of Paris or sort of a grayish beach sand.
Jim Lovell / Astronaut
Beach
Color
Gray
Looks
Moon
Paris
Sand
Essentially
Plaster
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The vast loneliness is awe-inspiring and it makes you realize just what you have back there on Earth.
Jim Lovell / Astronaut
Earth
Loneliness
Realizing
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Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job.
Jim Lovell / Astronaut
Jobs
Thankful
Ability
Difficult
Might
Problem
Job
Be Thankful
Less
Were
Problems
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From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go.
Jim Lovell / Astronaut
Science
Decided
Miracle
Moon
World
Just
Now
Go
Where Man World
Live
Man
Walked
Where
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It looks to me, looking out the hatch, that we are venting something. We are venting something out into the - into space.
Jim Lovell / Astronaut
Space
Looks
Moon
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I could put my thumb up to a window and completely hide the Earth. I thought, 'Everything I've ever known is behind my thumb.'
Jim Lovell / Astronaut
Earth
Window
Behind
Could
Ever
Hide
Put
Thumb
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The fascination to go into space has existed for hundreds of years. But as we do things and they're successful, people get bored.
Jim Lovell / Astronaut
Bored
Fascination
Successful People
Existed
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Years
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The real friends of the space voyager are the stars. Their friendly, familiar patterns are constant companions, unchanging, out there.
Jim Lovell / Astronaut
Space
Real
Stars
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I would suspect strongly that over a period of time, if we put our mind to going to Mars, it will be a consortium of several countries.
Jim Lovell / Astronaut
Mars
Time Mind Will
Several
Strongly
Suspect
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People say, 'Did you violate Heaven?' Well, God is down here, too. If you believe in God, you believe in God here as well as 240,000 miles away.
Jim Lovell / Astronaut
Heaven
Miles
God Believe People
People Say
Violate
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Mars is a long ways away. The moon is only 240,000 miles, but Mars is in the millions. It's too risky without spending more time going to the moon.
Jim Lovell / Astronaut
Mars
Miles
Moon
Time Long More
Risky
To The Moon
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I was born a year after Lindbergh made his historic trip across the Atlantic. Boys like either dinosaurs or airplanes. I was very much an airplane boy.
Jim Lovell / Astronaut
Airplane
Boys
Years
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I was only a hero by default. The flights were few and far between. There weren't that many astronauts. The moon flights were so interesting and exciting.
Jim Lovell / Astronaut
Default
Hero
Moon
Astronauts
Flights
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For some time, I thought Apollo 13 was a failure. I was disappointed I didn't get to land on the moon. But actually, it turned out to be the best thing that could have happened.
Jim Lovell / Astronaut
Failure
Apollo
Disappointed
Land
Moon
Turned
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I didnt go into the NASA program to pick up rocks or to go the moon or anything else. I went in there because I was a military officer, and that was the next notch in my profession.
Jim Lovell / Astronaut
Military
Moon
Rocks
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I didn't go into the NASA program to pick up rocks or to go the moon or anything else. I went in there because I was a military officer, and that was the next notch in my profession.
Jim Lovell / Astronaut
Military
Moon
Nasa
Profession
Rocks
Anything Else
Notch
Officer
Pick
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My view is that we should go back to the moon, build up the infrastructure to make flights there commonplace - be comfortable with it - then use that infrastructure to expand and go to Mars.
Jim Lovell / Astronaut
Commonplace
Infrastructure
Mars
Moon
Expand
Flights
To The Moon
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We didn't slow down, unlike the others, when we got to the moon because we needed its gravity to get back, so we hold the altitude record. I never even thought about it. Records are only made to be broken.
Jim Lovell / Astronaut
Broken
Gravity
Moon
Needed
Records
Altitude
Unlike
Slow
To The Moon
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If you're going to go into space, you have to have an objective, a mission. Where do you want to go? Earth orbit? The moon? Mars? What's the technology to get there? You develop the technology for the mission.
Jim Lovell / Astronaut
Mars
Moon
Orbit
Mission
Objective
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Well, Frank, my thoughts are very similar. The vast loneliness up here at the moon is awe-inspiring, and it makes you realize what you have back there on earth. The earth from here is a grand oasis in the big vastness of space.
Jim Lovell / Astronaut
Loneliness
Moon
Oasis
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When I circled the moon and looked back at Earth, my outlook on life and my viewpoint of Earth changed... Earth is a spaceship, just like Apollo - and just like Apollo, the crew must learn to live and work together. We must learn to manage the resources of this world with new imagination.
Jim Lovell / Astronaut
Imagination
Moon
Outlook On Life
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We got to the moon on Christmas Eve 1968, at the end of a poor year for this country. We had Vietnam. We had civil unrest. We had the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King. But we went around the moon and saw the far side for the first time. A script writer couldn't have done a better job of raising people's hope.
Jim Lovell / Astronaut
Christmas
Christmas Eve
Country
Done
First Time
Luther
Moon
Poor
Unrest
Vietnam
Time Hope Done
Job
Writer
Around
Better Job
Side
Year
Civil
Eve
Far
Got
Saw
Martin
Martin Luther King
Raising
Robert
Script
To The Moon
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The lunar flights give you a correct perception of our existence. You look back at Earth from the moon, and you can put your thumb up to the window and hide the Earth behind your thumb. Everything youve ever known is behind your thumb, and that blue-and-white ball is orbiting a rather normal star, tucked away on the outer edge of a galaxy.
Jim Lovell / Astronaut
Moon
Stars
White
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The lunar flights give you a correct perception of our existence. You look back at Earth from the moon, and you can put your thumb up to the window and hide the Earth behind your thumb. Everything you've ever known is behind your thumb, and that blue-and-white ball is orbiting a rather normal star, tucked away on the outer edge of a galaxy.
Jim Lovell / Astronaut
Space
Earth
Existence
Galaxy
Moon
Normal
Perception
Window
Ball
Behind
Star
Correct
Flights
Hide
Outer
Rather
Thumb
Tucked
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We learned a lot about the Moon, but what we really learned was about the Earth. The fact that just from the distance of the Moon you can put your thumb up and you can hide the Earth behind your thumb. Everything that you've ever known, your loved ones, your business, the problems of the Earth itself-all behind your thumb. And how insignificant we really all are, but then how fortunate we are to have this body and to be able to enjoy loving here amongst the beauty of the Earth itself.
Jim Lovell / Astronaut
Distance
Moon
Thumbs Up
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