Quote by Alan Shepard
Id like to say I was smart enough to finish six grades in five yea

Id like to say I was smart enough to finish six grades in five years, but I think perhaps the teacher was just glad to get rid of me. – Alan Shepard

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You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft. – Alan Shepard

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History
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The pilot looked at his cues of attitude and speed and orientation and so on and responded as he would from the same cues in an airplane, but there was no way it flew the same. The simulators had showed us that. – Alan Shepard

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Attitude
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A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter. – Wallace Stegner

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To the teacher weighed down with paperwork, I say: youve been messed around too often. You came into teaching to spend your time teaching children not filling in forms. – William Hague

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As a teacher at Princeton, Im surrounded by people who work hard so I just make good use of my time. And I dont really think of it as work – writing a novel, in one sense, is a problem-solving exercise. – Joyce Carol Oates

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I always wanted to be a teacher. – Nicky Hilton

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Criticism is the art of appraising others at ones own value. – George Jean Nathan

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I dont pay to have my dirty work done for me. I do it myself. – Ted Nugent

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A day of worry is more exhausting than a day of work. – John Lubbock

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