“What we find is that if you have a goal that is very, very far out, an...” — Mae Jemison Quote

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.

When I was a little girl, I thought when I had an opportunity to go into space, I thought I would at a minimum be working on Mars or another large planet because we were doing all of these incredible things.

We are all tasked to balance and optimize ourselves.

The best way to get students involved in science and want to follow either science careers or incorporate it in their lives or to achieve science literacy is to expose them to the various jobs in STEM. It's broad from biologists to electricians to nanotechnologists to building fusion engines. It's a wide range of things.

I approach writing stories as a recorder. I think of my role as some kind of reporting device - recording and projecting.

Just trying not to have a weakness in any part of my game - that's always been the approach in all aspects of my game: when the team needs me to run block, needs me to pass block, whether it comes naturally or not.

The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.

I gauge success in years, not weeks. The weekend box-office approach to book launches is short sighted and encourages crappy books.

To watch King Lear is to approach the recognition that there is indeed no meaning in life, and that there are limits to human understanding.