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"A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder."

"Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you."

"In this world, there are instruments to acquire instruments; 'here', there is the instrument to attain the Final Goal (Self Realization)."

"Goal..., let's see this year how far I can reach... and the year which is comming it will be a number above the goal number."

"Think for now.... when you reach where you wanted, think there and there and finally you will be there where you wanted."

"Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal."
Explore more quotes by John L. Phillips

"My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was certainly quite an inspiration."

"We're going to be focusing our science on things that will take us farther and longer into space. For many of those experiments, the crew members are human guinea pigs, which is fine; that's part of my job. I don't mind being a human guinea pig."

"I never made a career decision based solely on my desire to be an astronaut. I attended the Naval Academy because I wanted to be a Navy pilot. I majored in math because math had always come pretty easily to me and I liked it."

"We would like to carry out 100 percent, or maybe more, of our scientific program; I would like to devote some of my spare time toward extra scientific work."

"Even with only two people on board, where maintenance is a large piece of our working day, we still have time to do scientific research. We have to be ready to support those Shuttle visits in a lot of different ways."

"I think it's going to be a very important, unique data set in terms of measuring the behavior of your lower body in space and trying to figure out what we can do to preserve bone and muscle density."

"Every day, we get a little bit closer to the kind of expertise and the kind of experience we're going to need to go there. I'd love to be the guy walking on Mars."

"The Space Shuttle will stop directly below the Space Station and Sergei and I will be looking out two different windows looking straight down at the Space Shuttle."

"It took me a long time to get selected as an astronaut. In fact, I applied for 20 years before I was selected."

"In the 19th Century people were looking for the Northwest Passage. Ships were lost and brave people were killed, but that doesn't mean we never went back to that part of the world again, and I consider it the same in space exploration."
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