28+ Michael J. Massimino Quotes And Sayings

Following is our list of the best Michael J. Massimino quotes and sayings.

Top 10 Michael J. Massimino Quotes

1. Because being the right person isn’t about being perfect; it’s about being able to handle whatever life throws at you.
2. You only have one life. You have to spend it doing something that matters.
3. If you can learn to live with indignities in life, you can go far.
4. That’s how a team works. You help the people around you, and everybody’s better off for it.
5. You can learn a lot by getting knocked down, and I got knocked down over and over again. And every time I got up and kept going.
6. Life is funny. I’d applied to the wrong graduate program, but that eventually led me to the right grad program.
7. I realized wherever you are, if you make the most of what you’ve got, you can find a way to keep moving forward.
8. Life is not about achieving one great thing, because once that thing is over, life keeps going.
9. The important thing is having a passion, something you love doing, and the greatest joy in the world is that you get to wake up every day and do it.”
10. I know there were students in my class who were smarter than me, but I don’t know if there was anybody who worked harder than me.

Michael J. Massimino Short Quotes

• I wanted to know that if I ever got killed, I got killed doing something worthwhile.
• Going to space doesn’t make you an astronaut. Being an astronaut means you’re ready to go to space.
• It’s important to go seek help when you need it, and to give help when other people need it.
• If you propose something, you’d better be ready to run it.
• The hardest thing for me as an astronaut was to improve my swimming skills.

Michael J. Massimino Famous Quotes And Sayings

The reason we have the stars twinkle at night is because the light is being kind of blurred by the atmosphere around the Earth. That is why the Hubble Space Telescope is so good, because it is above the atmosphere. So it is kind of like looking at the sun from the bottom of a swimming pool, versus looking at the sun above the swimming pool. — Michael J. Massimino

I think the astronaut job is the best job in the world. I realized when I was older and started applying for it that it’s a pretty cool job. — Michael J. Massimino

I knew right then that I wanted to be a part of something that meaningful. I wanted to have something I was so passionate about that I’d be willing to risk everything for it. — Michael J. Massimino

The important thing in life is having a passion, something you really love doing, and you take joy in the fact that you get to wake up every day and do it. — Michael J. Massimino

If you work hard and get help from good friends, together you can overcome almost any challenge, no matter how great. — Michael J. Massimino

I think most astronauts are not risk takers. We take calculated risks for something that we think is worthwhile. — Michael J. Massimino

My odyssey to become an astronaut kind of started in grad school, and I was working, up at MIT, in space robotics-related work; human and robot working together. — Michael J. Massimino

To become an astronaut is not a question of being the best at something or things coming easy to you, but it's being a person that can work with others and not give up. And, for me, that was part of it too. — Michael J. Massimino

I applied to be an astronaut four times. I was rejected three times before I was accepted. So, it's about that, not - following your dream and not giving up. — Michael J. Massimino

I was the first person to tweet from space, but now every astronaut tweets from space and does Instagram and Snapchat and Face - they have Facebook going. I think it's more of a personal relationship they have with space now. They see it as more obtainable than me watching my superhero Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walking on the moon. It's like, there's no way I can do that. — Michael J. Massimino

Astronauts cannot pick their nicknames and can only get their nicknames from other astronauts. Any astronaut who tries to give himself a cool nickname will regret it by getting just the opposite from his astronaut friends. — Michael J. Massimino

Viewing our planet was so compelling. Words like beautiful and awesome just don't do it justice. I felt that I was looking at a paradise. I was looking at heaven. I can't imagine any place being more beautiful than our planet and how lucky we are to be able to live here. — Michael J. Massimino

At every step of the way, when I had trouble, there were people that came in, in my life that helped me. It's important to go seek help when you need it, and to give help when other people need it. And that is really more important than coming in with a gigantic brain into the astronaut program. — Michael J. Massimino