I work for perfection, for perfection's sake. I don't care what the external reasons are. And it's much more like a ballerina on opening night. You've done what you've got to do. When you go out, the purpose is to turn a perfect turn. You are not thinking about the future of the company, you are not thinking about your future, you're not thinking about the critics, it is you and the perfect turn.
Story MusgraveI'm such a long-term investor, I've never really let go and celebrated what I did with the Hubble telescope.
Story MusgraveIโm not a risk taker. But astronauts are professionals, so you get out on the field and play ball. I tried to take it in stride because thatโs what I had to do to get into space. Thatโs where I belong, and Iโm pretty good at it.
Story MusgraveIt's hard to say what drives a three year-old, but I think I had a sense that nature was my solace, and nature was a place in which there was beauty, in which there was order.
Story MusgraveIt is humanity's destiny to explore the universe. When we start thinking and working on that cosmic level, we will transcend our parochial differences and tribal natures and become global creatures, solar system creatures. Then we will figure out where we fit in.
Story MusgraveWhitman expressed the whole universe in his poetry and in his catalogues. That attitude almost defines what we call American romanticism, or American transcendentalism. I feel particularly close to them, because I am now out in the universe. Iโm in a position to see nature from another point of view, to be outside the earth and see the big picture.
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