Christa McAuliffe Quotes

We're all shocked by new ideas, and we're less shocked when we hear them again. And less shocked when we hear them a third time.

It's not always about 'Can you do the job?' It's about 'Can you fit in with the team?'

I was really nervous, because I was certain it was going to be bigger than anything I'd ever done before. But I was relieved when I actually discovered that there was a family atmosphere on the set, with a brother-sister team, Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson running it all.

George Allen was afraid of my image. He wasn't afraid of me.

I just want to go to the right team. The team that wants me. The team that believes in my potential.

When I jumped ship from Roush Racing to Hendrick Motorsports, I couldn't believe the amount of personnel here that get along with each other. It's pretty amazing that there are so many people under one roof, where Roush is more spread out and it feels so different.

People will assume what a record is going to be like and they are loath to even give it a listen.

I'm terrorized by a fear of failure. Failure is always there.

I find New York very frightening, I must say.

It'll be a challenge for me to come in and fit with a team that's already good.

Most of the people that work for me are my friends, and I'd like to keep it that way.

When it was time to come out, I was obviously scared, as most people are.

Every job still feels like the first time.

I've always been afraid to fight in New York. I don't know why. I always had this weird feeling.

I don't feel like I'm the type of performer who's going to knock your socks off. I'm trying to get over my nerves.

I'm afraid of everything. I'm not a naturally courageous person.

I'm constantly scared. I'm constantly fearful of what's to come and people don't realize that just because you're doing something doesn't mean that you're fearless but you get up every day and you do it. It takes a lot of courage to be real.

Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding.

Everything is dangerous to him that is afraid of it.

Anyplace of work where you have a cross section of work, you have mini-ecosystem. A little representation of what the planet is. You have the Alpha Dog. You have the young ones, the old ones. The pissed off one. The quiet one.

You can only die once, so do not die a thousand times worrying about it.

Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth

I was nervous about writing Slow Regard.

If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.

Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living.