Tag: Mae Jemison
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When I left NASA, I was looking at how you could use space technologies for developing countries’ work.
Mae Jemison
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When you have teachers saying, ‘I don’t have enough time for hands-on activities,’ we need to rethink the way we do education.
Mae Jemison
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For me, it was really a childhood dream coming true. It’s sort of where the fantasy led reality, and then I got to be on the Starship Enterprise anyway. And the cool thing was – is I was the only person on this bridge who had actually been in space.
Mae Jemison
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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
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My perspective is the Earth will be here. It just may not be habitable to our life form. We get confused. We think we’re the center of everything.
Mae Jemison
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I’ve gotten this advice at different times, and it distills down to one word: purpose. Why are you here? When you start to get distracted by thoughts such as ‘Do I fit in? Does this person like me?’ – remember why you’re there and what you want to accomplish.
Mae Jemison
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Timidity does not inspire bold acts.
Mae Jemison
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When I was growing up as a little girl and as a teenager, I loved designing and making dogs’ clothes and wanting to be a fashion designer. I took art and ceramics. I loved dance.
Mae Jemison
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I’m not somebody who gets teared up or anything, but I still look up at the stars, and it gives me hope, and it gives me energy. I think one of the things that we have to think about it is, we are all a part of this universe.
Mae Jemison
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I think that people need an adrenalin rush. Folks need something aspirational; they need to do something that is hard. That’s what ignites the imagination.
Mae Jemison