Jim Lovell Quotes

• 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

  Motivational, Success, People

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• Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job.

  Jim Lovell

  Thankful, Jobs, Might

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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

  Distance, Moon, Thumbs Up

  "In the Shadow of the Moon". Documentary, History, www.imdb.com. 2007.

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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

  Moon, Outlook On Life, Imagination

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• Houston, we've had a problem here.

  Jim Lovell

  Houston, Problem

  Transmission on Apollo 13 mission to the moon, 13 Apr. 1970.

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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

  Loneliness, Moon, Oasis

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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

  Stars, Moon, White

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• You need to be a person who makes things happen.

  Jim Lovell

  Needs, Make Things Happen, Persons

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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

  Loneliness, Earth, Realizing

  "Earth never looked so good". www.foxnews.com. December 21, 2015.

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• Please be informed, there is a Santa Claus.

  Jim Lovell

  Santa, Santa Claus, Ufo

  Jim Lovell, Jeffrey Kluger (2006). “Apollo 13”, p.55, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I never thought I didn't have a card to play.

  Jim Lovell

  Persistence, Play, Cards

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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

  Stars, Real, Space

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• The Earth from here is a grand oasis in the big vastness of space.

  Jim Lovell

  Oasis, Space, Earth

  "Moon talkers: What astronauts talked about in space" by Jackie Hicken, www.deseretnews.com. July 20, 2016.

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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

  Airplane, Boys, Years

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• For most of the time carrier aviation is more challenging than flying in a spacecraft

  Jim Lovell

  Flying, Challenges, Aviation

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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

  Moon, Space, Looks

  "Day 3: 'Houston, we've had a problem'". Apollo 13 Flight Journal, history.nasa.gov. May 30, 2017.

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• The Moon is essentially gray - no color - looks like plaster of paris - soft of gray sand.

  Jim Lovell

  Airplane, Moon, Color

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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

  Military, Moon, Rocks

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• Err Houston, we've had a problem. [pause] We've had a main B bus undervolt.

  Jim Lovell

  Apollo, Houston, Problem

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