We are all tasked to balance and optimize ourselves.
“We are all tasked to balance and optimize ourselves.”
— Mae Jemison · Balance
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We are all tasked to balance and optimize ourselves.
“We are all tasked to balance and optimize ourselves.”
— Mae Jemison · Balance
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“We are all tasked to balance and optimize ourselves.”
“A big part of engaging kids in science is not getting the single, correct answer; it's being willing to work with students to discover the correct answer.”
“We have to change the way people look at scientists. Today, they are the nerds, the geeks. Instead, we want some of the cool kids to say, 'Hey, this is all right.'”
“There is a fascination with the idea that one has 'seen someone else do something' before one can achieve it. Maybe that's true in some cases, but clearly it is not a requirement. I knew what I wanted to do.”
“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.”
“I think we know how to do Mars.”
“I try to keep a balance between conceptional or intellectual comprehension and emotional understanding.”
“The major work of the world is not done by geniuses. It is done by ordinary people, with balance in their lives, who have learned to work in an extraordinary manner.”
“You can maintain work-life balance even while pursuing careers.”
“The foreign press seems obsessed with the Freedom Tower, as if it was the only thing going on here. In fact, we're trying to keep a huge juggling act in balance, with the tower as just one of the many balls in play.”
“What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom 'to' and freedom 'from.'”
“There was, when I came to New York in the 1970s, no more profound or moving experience than MoMA, an almost perfect piece of 20th Century modernist expression, existing in an extraordinary balance - modestly, functionally, elegantly - with the extraordinary art it held. This place changed my life. I was transformed by every visit.”