#1. ASTRONAUT ALAN BEAN
The most important quality I have noticed in successful people is that they have a dream.
They want to be someone or something.
They want to have something.
They want to go somewhere.
THEY THINK AND WORK TOWARD THAT DREAM EVERY DAY.
I often ask people who tell me their dream, “What did you do today to move closer to your dream?”
Eighty-five percent didn’t do anything.
They are planning to do something next week; they’re just too busy today.
These 85 percent will probably never see their dream come true.
Ask yourself the same question: “What have I done today to make my dream come true?”
If the answer is “nothing specific,” then you will never make it unless you
change your ways.
-- from Work Smart Not Hard by Alan Bean
#2. ASTRONAUT JAMES P. DUTTON
“It started in the eighth grade when the school librarian kind of coerced me into writing to NASA to find out how to become an astronaut.”
#3. ASTRONAUT JAMES A. LOWELL
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.
