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It's not enough to shelve your own competitive streak. You have to try, consciously, to help others succeed.
— Chris Hadfield
An astronaut who doesn't sweat the small stuff is a dead astronaut.
— Chris Hadfield
On the day of the Boston Marathon bombings, for example, I actually knew more about what had happened than the CAPCOM I'd called.
— Chris Hadfield
Sweat the small stuff. Without letting anyone see you sweat.
— Chris Hadfield
Anyone who views him- or herself as more important than the "little people" is not cut out for this job
— Chris Hadfield
If you start thinking that only your biggest and shiniest moments count, you're setting yourself up to feel like a failure most of the time.
— Chris Hadfield
In a crisis, the "why" is irrelevant.
— Chris Hadfield
Mir has long since been deorbited and burned up in the atmosphere.
— Chris Hadfield
Having a plan of action, even really mundane action, was a huge benefit in terms of adaptation to a radically new environment.
— Chris Hadfield
The danger is different from the fear ... [practice] what to do if things go wrong, as well as right.
— Chris Hadfield
There is no problem so bad that you can't make it worse
— Chris Hadfield
Being certified as a user means you have basic knowledge and can turn things on and off;
— Chris Hadfield
I wasn't destined to be an astronaut. I had to turn myself into one.
— Chris Hadfield
Anticipating problems and figuring out how to solve them is actually the opposite of worrying: it's productive.
— Chris Hadfield
She is an uber-doer, exactly the kind of person you want riding shotgun when you're chasing a big goal and also trying to have a life.
— Chris Hadfield
Every decision you make, from what you eat to what you do with your time tonight, turns you into who you are tomorrow and the day after that.
— Chris Hadfield
If you don't like airline food, you'll probably have the same impression of space station food. I would not fly to space for the food.
— Chris Hadfield
To be one of the world's top space robotic arm operators is a necessary skill for an astronaut, but it doesn't have much carry-over.
— Chris Hadfield
Focus on the journey, not on arriving at a certain destination.
— Chris Hadfield
Good leadership means leading the way, not hectoring other people to do things your way.
— Chris Hadfield
Sometimes when people find out I'm an astronaut, they ask, "So what do you do when you're not flying in space?
— Chris Hadfield
Life is just a lot better if you feel you're having 10 wins a day rather than a win every 10 years or so.
— Chris Hadfield
Spaceflight isn't just about doing experiments, it's about an extension of human culture.
— Chris Hadfield
Cynicism is the easiest of all reactions, right? But it's also so disappointing and self-defeating.
— Chris Hadfield
Space is not a good place to mix foods because as soon as you take something out of the package, it becomes a flying object.
— Chris Hadfield
in 2007, Suni Williams ran the Boston Marathon in space, which took her only 4 hours and 24 minutes.)
— Chris Hadfield
No one ever accomplished anything great sitting down.
— Chris Hadfield
Capcom, or capsule communicator.
— Chris Hadfield
And now for Return to Flight, I'm chief of robotics working in the astronaut office in Houston, as a Canadian.
— Chris Hadfield
I'm a mechanical engineer, and I grew up on a farm, so I like practical hardware - somebody's elegant solution that proves itself over the long term.
— Chris Hadfield
For whatever reason, I decided: 'I'm 18, I'm a man, I'm going to grow a moustache' - and it was pathetic for years - it was awful.
— Chris Hadfield
Kazakhstan is not easy to get to unless you live in Kyrgyzstan.
— Chris Hadfield
What I did each day would determine the kind of person I'd become.
— Chris Hadfield
As an astronaut, especially during launch, half of the risk of a six-month flight is in the first nine minutes.
— Chris Hadfield
I was born in Sarnia, Ontario; a small town, it's where oil was pretty much discovered in North America.
— Chris Hadfield
What really matters is not the value someone else assigns to a task but how I personally feel while performing it.
— Chris Hadfield
As I have discovered again and again, things are never as bad (or as good) as they seem at the time.
— Chris Hadfield
The cool things about space is when you put your pants on here, you can put them on two legs at a time.
— Chris Hadfield
You can get claustrophobia and agoraphobia - a fear of wide, open spaces - simultaneously on a spacewalk.
— Chris Hadfield
the phone rang, and I picked it up in the kitchen. It was Mac Evans, asking if I wanted to be an astronaut.
— Chris Hadfield
The exercise really had a lot less to do with water survival than with deliberate teamwork.
— Chris Hadfield
No aeroplane you've ever gotten into had less than thousands of flights before they took their first passenger. Because vehicles are unsafe at first.
— Chris Hadfield
I've been lucky enough to fly to space twice.
— Chris Hadfield
I've had a chance to fly a lot of different airplanes, but it was nothing like the shuttle ride.
— Chris Hadfield
By looking at the difference between perceived danger and actual danger, you can fundamentally change your reaction.
— Chris Hadfield
In any field, it's a plus if you view criticism as potentially helpful advice rather than as a personal attack.
— Chris Hadfield
Data gathered on the Shuttle and ISS help power Google Maps;
— Chris Hadfield
We are not machines exploring the universe, we are people.
— Chris Hadfield
You should have a fear of some things. That doesn't mean it incapacitates you from your ability to figure out a way to deal with it.
— Chris Hadfield
Fatherhood is the unending imperfect task of turning yourself into your dad while secretly maintaining the unbridled elation of your boyhood
— Chris Hadfield
Now, as an astronaut, I have to bring a Sharpie with me everywhere - so I have a pen to sign autographs.
— Chris Hadfield
"What's the next thing that's going to kill me?" is a mantra for pilots and astronauts.
— Chris Hadfield
The rule of thumb is that you need a day on Earth to recover from each day in space,
— Chris Hadfield
Remember, nobody changes the world on their own.
— Chris Hadfield