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Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts. It's about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve it, especially when the stakes are high and the consequences really matter. It is about laying the groundwork for others' success, and then standing back and letting them shine.

~Chris Hadfield

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The world, when you look at it, it just can't be random. I mean, it's so different than the vast emptiness that is everything else, and even all the other planets we've seen, at least in our solar system, none of them even remotely resemble the precious life-giving nature of our own planet.

~Chris Hadfield

Topics: Different Else Emptiness Even Everything Everything Else Just Least Look Mean Nature None Other Our Own Planet Planets Precious Random Remotely Resemble Seen Solar Solar System System Than Them Vast World You

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The best simulator for spacewalking is underwater - it allows full visuals and body movement in 3D. Virtual reality is good, too, and has some advantages, like full Station simulation, not just part. Like all simulators, they have parts that are wrong and misleading: an important thing to remember when preparing for reality.

~Chris Hadfield

Topics: Advantages Best Body Full Good Important Important Thing Just Like Misleading Movement Part Parts Preparing Reality Remember Remember When Simulation Some Station Thing Too Underwater Virtual Virtual Reality Visuals Wrong

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Just taking risks for risk's sake, that doesn't do it for me. I'm willing to take risks that I think are worth it, and I've worked so hard to make sure that I survive.

~Chris Hadfield

Topics: Hard Just Make Me Risk Risks Sake Sure Survive Take Taking Taking Risks Think Willing Worked Worth Worth It I Think

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Almost everything worthwhile carries with it some sort of risk, whether it's starting a new business, whether it's leaving home, whether it's getting married, or whether it's flying in space.

~Chris Hadfield

Topics: Almost Almost Everything Business Carries Everything Flying Getting Getting Married Home Leaving Leaving Home Married New New Business Risk Some Sort Space Starting Whether Worthwhile

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Our role is to develop techniques that allow us to provide emergency life-saving procedures to injured patients in an extreme, remote environment without the presence of a physician.

~Chris Hadfield

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A lot of people live in fear because they haven't figured out how you're going to react when faced with a certain set of circumstances. I've come to terms with this by looking deeply into whatever makes me fearful - what are the key elements that get the hairs up on the back of my neck - and then figuring out what I can do about it.

~Chris Hadfield

Topics: About Back Because Certain Circumstances Come Deeply Elements Faced Fear Fearful Figured Figuring Get Going Hairs How Key Live Looking Lot Makes Me Neck Out People React Set Terms Then Up Whatever You I Can

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Every single thing that you learn really just gives you more comfort. It's something I counsel kids all the time: if someone is willing to teach you something for free, take them up on it. Do it. Every single time. All it does is make you more likely to be able to succeed. And it's kind of a nice way to go through life.

~Chris Hadfield

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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

Topics: Elegant Engineer Farm Grew Hardware Itself Like Long Long Term Mechanical Over Practical Proves Solution Somebody Term Up

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The communities and countries best at using energy to optimize a microclimate for human life are also the ones whose people have the longest average lifespans. Canada, Sweden, and Iceland - places with inhospitable winter weather - are frontrunners in sustaining human health and life.

~Chris Hadfield

Topics: Also Average Best Canada Communities Countries Energy Health Human Human Life Iceland Life Longest Optimize People Places Sustaining Sweden Using Weather Whose Winter

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Astronaut

Born: August 29th, 1959

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