32 Quotes by Jonny Kim

Once someone is no longer a threat, you look at them like anybody else.

My father was the classic epitome of a very hard immigrant-worker. He made up for his lack of education by working really hard... He worked six days a week for as long as I can remember.

Don't let that hunger for the unknown go away. That curiosity is so important, so you should maintain that passion for what you do.

High school was interesting. For a lot of people, high school was just a big social experiment, and I think the value of high school was not so much learning how to be a great student... but I think it's learning how to interact with people and be social. I would say that in that endeavor, I completely failed.

My only expectation, which I tell my kids very, very often, is that they follow their heart.

Going into the Navy was the best decision I ever made in my life because it completely transformed that scared boy who didn't have any dreams to someone who started to believe in himself.

I fundamentally believed in the NASA mission of advancing our space frontier, all the while developing innovations and new technologies that would benefit all of humankind.

When I was a young kid, I didn't have a lot of confidence.

I didn't have the confidence from my childhood, but dreams are possible and all good things in life are hard to get, so persevere and don't give up!