Logo
Quote by Alan Shepard
I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said tha

I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance of survival. And we were willing to take those odds. – Alan Shepard

Other quotes by Alan Shepard

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

Category:
teacher
Author
Alan Shepard
Read Quote

I didnt mind studying. Obviously math and the physical science subjects interested me more than some of the more artistic subjects, but I think I was a pretty good student. – Alan Shepard

Category:
Science
Author
Alan Shepard
Read Quote

Its a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that ones safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract. – Alan Shepard

Category:
Government
Author
Alan Shepard
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Success
category

Success is very ephemeral. You depend entirely on the desire of others, which makes it difficult to relax. – Eva Green

Category:
Success

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is. – Tennessee Williams

Category:
Success

Look, if you ask a child, Would you rather have a fulfilled mother or a stay-at-home Sylvia Plath, theyll pick Sylvia Plath every time. But I think its really important that children dont feel their parents emotional lives depend on their success. – Ayelet Waldman

Category:
Success

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success. – Christopher Lasch

Category:
Success

Random Quotes

My purpose… to go on with my heart and soul, devoting all my energies to Girl Scouts, and heart and hand with them, we will make our lives and the lives of the future girls happy, healthy and holy. – Juliette Gordon Low

Category:
Future

The perfect man? A poet on a motorcycle. – Lucinda Williams

Category:
Motorcycles

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics. – Carl Gustav Jung

Category:
Masses

Dawn seemed to follow midnight with indecent haste. – J.K. Rowling

Category:
Night