Modesty is for winners

[recceranger]

There’s always a bigger fish! 

[michael8554]

What makes it even worse is, I've heard of Dick Bass, but couldn't pick him out in a crowd.

But Neil Armstrong would get at least a glimmer of recognition from most folk.

Michael

[neil phillips]

The first hand accounts he could of learned, if he had learned to listen more rather than just keep talking 

[tomato]

From what I have read about Neil Armstrong I think he would have enjoyed listening and not being quizzed about the moon landing while being on the flight.

[neil phillips]

16 minutes ago, tomato said:

From what I have read about Neil Armstrong I think he would have enjoyed listening and not being quizzed about the moon landing while being on the flight.

I agree he very much did seem like that shying away from the limelight. Still the questions that where missed boggles the mind

[Mr Spock]

People who talk about their achievements a lot tend to be insecure.

[tooth_dr]

Obviously there is a take home message here, but was this actually written in memoires or just some random meme someone created on the internet?

[Mognet]

I did a little digging and it seems to be a quote from Roger Horchow in The Art of Friendship (https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/6732.Roger_Horchow) Still no idea if it's genuine, but it seems that Bass himself objected to the tale even though he did seem to be on the talkative side (https://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/2000/december/living-legends-largemouth-bass/)

 

As for Armstrong's humility, this quote from Neil Gaiman says a lot

Quote

On my second or third night there, I was standing at the back of the hall, while a musical entertainment happened, and I started talking to a very nice, polite, elderly gentleman about several things, including our shared first name. And then he pointed to the hall of people, and said words to the effect of, “I just look at all these people, and I think, what the heck am I doing here? They’ve made amazing things. I just went where I was sent.”

And I said, “Yes. But you were the first man on the moon. I think that counts for something.”

 

[saac]

I love this quote :

“I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer, born under the second law of thermodynamics, steeped in steam tables, in love with free-body diagrams, transformed by Laplace and propelled by compressible flow.”      Neil Armstrong

Jim

[Felias]

Literally, the brain surgeon sketch!

 

[kirkster501]

“Most people don’t listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.” –Stephen R. Covey

Neil Armstrong was most definitely a listener to learn. 

Edited December 16, 2021 by kirkster501

[Macavity]

True Heros - Unlike Beavis & Butthead ("Two Boys sharing One Brain"! lol)
don't have to be totally alike? Idem Astronomers... Scientists... etc. etc.

Prompted by this idea, I found a Mike Collins quote on the relationship
between Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin... (ISTR): "Affable Strangers"?
He compared that with some [later] "Drinking Buddies" Apollo Crews. 🤔

To me, that is *professionalism*... An ability to work with (trust) someone
who may have a VERY different personality/wordview/etc. to yourself. 😎
Something that once attracted me to Science... and Amateur Astronomy.

But these days, thanks to the internet... "Popular Science"etc., we all have
to be CLONES? We can *ban* anyone who doesn't "think" just like us? 🥳

P.S. Ah, Climbers! A slightly ODD lot? [teasing!]. From the "good guys"
who push the *mummified corpses* off Everest, to the "bad guys" (the
30's politically indoctrinated) who gave their LIVES for their Friend(s). 🤔

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Edited December 16, 2021 by Macavity