Top 39 One Of Mae Jemison Quotes
#1. The future never just happened. It was created.
Mae Jemison
#2. When the ancients discovered 'Phi', they were certain they had stumbled across God's building block for the world.
Dan Brown
#3. I was walking home one night and a guy hammering on a roof called me a paranoid little weirdo. In morse code.
Emo Philips
#4. Greatness can be captured in one word: lifestyle. Life is God's gift to you, style is what you make of it.
Mae Jemison
#5. As an astronaut, you have a very defined set of tasks to do. Those tasks may require you to work 60, 70 or 80 hours a week.
Mae Jemison
#6. I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.
Mae Jemison
#7. Once I got into space, I was feeling very comfortable in the universe. I felt like I had a right to be anywhere in this universe, that I belonged here as much as any speck of stardust, any comet, any planet
Mae Jemison
#8. I think science fiction helps us think about possibilities, to speculate - it helps us look at our society from a different perspective. It lets us look at our mores, using science as the backdrop, as the game changer.
Mae Jemison
#9. You have the right to be involved. You have something important to contribute, and you have to take the risk to contribute it.
Mae Jemison
#10. Never limit yourself because of others' limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Mae Jemison
#11. I went to school at night in L.A. to brush up on my engineering while I applied to the astronaut program. I really did not know if I would get in. It was the year after the Challenger accident in 1987.
Mae Jemison
#12. If you will be humble and ask God what to do, I promise you that he will always prepare a way for your deliverance.
Henry B. Eyring
#13. The problem is, that it's easy to adopt the attitude of losers.
Lou Holtz
#14. The stones of which the strongest London buildings are made, are not more real, or more impossible to be displaced by your hands, than your presence and influence have been to me, there and everywhere, and will be.
Charles Dickens
#15. Whoso does not see that genuine life is a battle and a march has poorly read his origin and his destiny.
Lydia M. Child
#16. Science provides an understanding of a universal experience. Arts provide a universal understanding of a personal experience.
Mae Jemison
#17. But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.
Lydia M. Child
#18. I do not paint in front of but from within nature.
Arshile Gorky
#19. I saw 'Clueless' probably when I was about 8 or 9 years old. And, I had certain films that I would fall asleep so it was 'Clueless' for quite a long time, and I used to just watch it every single night and knew every single line, every single quote.
Saoirse Ronan
#20. If you're a racist, right now, in 2011 ... You just look like a retard, man.
Christopher Titus
#21. We should put away the militaristic outlook. The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
Akbar Ganji
#22. Free will I have often heard of, but I have never seen it. I have always met with will, and plenty of it, but it has either been led captive by sin or held in the blessed bonds of grace.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#23. Autism is not a disability, it's a different ability.
Stuart Duncan
#24. When God made the color purple, God was just showing off.
Mae Jemison
#25. Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live.
Mae Jemison
#26. The message from the hedge-leaves, Heed it, whoso thou art; Under lowly eaves Lives the happy heart.
John Vance Cheney
#27. I remember reading about Mae Jemison, that astronaut. That was immensely fantastic to me. This woman went to the moon!
Juliana Rotich
#28. Sometimes people ask me how difficult the astronaut program was, but being in Sierra Leone, being responsible for the health of more than 200 people, seven days a week, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, at age 26 - that prepared me to take on a lot of different challenges.
Mae Jemison
#29. Some people are born to suffer. It never stops for them, not for a second ... they are made for it - sustained by it.
Michael Robotham
#30. Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations. If you adopt their attitudes, then the possibility won't exist because you'll have already shut it out ... You can hear other people's wisdom, but you've got to re-evaluate the world for yourself.
Mae Jemison
#31. We look at science as something very elite, which only a few people can learn. That's just not true. You just have to start early and give kids a foundation. Kids live up, or down, to expectations.
Mae Jemison
#32. Sciences provide an understanding of a universal experience, Arts are a universal understanding of a personal experience ... they are both a part of us and a manifestation of the same thing ... the arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity
Mae Jemison
#33. The thing that I have done throughout my life is to do the best job that I can and to be me.
Mae Jemison
#34. Some of the most fun people I know are scientists.
Mae Jemison
#35. What we find is that if you have a goal that is very, very far out, and you approach it in little steps, you start to get there faster. Your mind opens up to the possibilities.
Mae Jemison
#37. Some people say they feel very small when they think about space. I felt more expansive, very connected to the universe.
Mae Jemison
#38. I wanted to be a professional dancer for a period of time, and I did a lot of dancing and choreography and got paid for it.
Mae Jemison
#39. My parents were comfortable with me exploring areas that they were not proficient in. Some parents just aren't comfortable with that.
Mae Jemison
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