Sunita Williams Quotes

I have great people, smart people that are around me and we love the challenge. I guess it's like climbing a mountain or building a building. It's a challenge but you love every challenge that it brings or presents itself.

As a team, you need to come from behind every once in awhile just to do it. Good for the attitude. It makes it exciting. And when everybody knows you have to throw it... that makes it fun too.

Working together during the past three years, we have confounded the skeptics and the cynics. We've shown that here in Virginia, Democrats and Republicans can come together, put politics aside, and make tough decisions when times demand it.

Everybody that's on a set - from the director to the grips to the electricians - it's all about problem solving. So, as empowered as you can make everybody feel, that's really important.

We've learned a lot by building the International Space Station, the good, the bad. But, the fact is is that working together as a team, unity aboard that space station, we can accomplish great things.

My teams have never been supposed to be able to do the things that they do.

Whether it is a small thing or big one, step-by-step you can make things happen.

I look at the group I've got and then I decide what strengths and weaknesses they have and then I formulate an appropriate way the players can work in order to be collectively successful.

What you have to have is very smart, motivated, dedicated, and focused engineers and focus them on the right goal.

Every team has problems. Championship teams have problems and whatnot.

To do things that are as complicated and challenging as spaceflight, you have to have all disciplines represented to get the job done.

I always set small goals and work towards them to achieve them.

That's just always the way my mind has worked, is taking something that seems impossible, or too big, and then breaking it down into these pieces so that I know how to get there.

As we know, lots of people working together to solve problems doesn't happen often enough, particularly here in Washington.

If I have learned anything from my time in Congress, it is that the only way we are going to solve the big problems our country faces is by working together.

I've never been known for being a team player, but I've adjusted to being part of a big cast and it has worked out beautifully.

It's not just about winning or losing, but to learn about teamwork, learn about sportsmanship, learn about discipline. The value of working together for a common goal. Have the emphasis on fundamentals, not just games.

In football, as in life, as in business, everything can be talked about and discussed.

I love hanging out with skilled and motivated people.

People need to know their role to produce performances and results.

I'm really looking forward to joining 'Mike & Mike.' It will be a tremendous challenge.

I have to put my team in a good situation.

Working together on solving something requires a high level of humility and a high level of self-awareness.

Every one of us in Congress has a responsibility to keep working together and stay focused on what matters.

I love the process of collaboration... to me it just makes sense.