Quotes about "Mindfulness & Presence"

I was both loved and hated for being upfront. But I was just being myself. ”

Becoming an astronaut was a little bit of happenstance for me. ”

The first 6 hours of being in orbit were a little difficult on my stomach. I think things just didn't know where to go! ”

Ventilation is needed to ensure we get air disbursed throughout the Station. Air stagnates without flow, so it is essential to have good ventilation so one doesn't end up in a bubble of CO2 by accident and then not be able to breathe. ”

I flew helicopters, and I loved flying helicopters on the East Coast when I did a couple of deployments out to the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf. ”

When any part of the Station is moved from its designated location to do a repair, we really risk losing things. ”

You can hover in the air if you want, or you can push off of something and glide through the air - just like a fish. I also think it is like being a fish, since you can catch food in your mouth easily because it is suspended in the air - just like when you put fish food in a tank - the fish swim up to it, open their mouths, and eat the food. ”

It's not like being a writer is a very lucrative career, but you know, you just know when you've found what you're really meant to do. ”

Poverty is just a word. I mean, how do you dismantle capitalism? It's through small actions. It's through breaking down poverty as a lived experience of not enough food, of your health not being good. So those are things that we can actually work on without ever having to call a politician. ”

In my mind, a bubble or over-hyped cycle is driven by something good happening, which is used as a baseline for the next good thing. ”