Three Secrets to Success: Be willing to learn new things. Be able to assimilate new information quickly. Be able to get along with and work with other people.

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"The stars don't look bigger, but they do look brighter."

- Sally Ride

Awareness

"The view of Earth is absolutely spectacular, and the feeling of looking back and seeing your planet as a planet is just an amazing feeling. It’s a totally different perspective, and it makes you appreciate, actually, how fragile our existence is."

- Sally Ride

Awareness

"There are lots of opportunities out there for women to work in these fields; girls just need support, encouragement and mentoring to follow through with the sciences."

- Sally Ride

Empowerment

"I did not come to NASA to make history."

- Sally Ride

Ambition

"Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in."

- Sally Ride

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"The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck."

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"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit."

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"I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse."

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"Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence."

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