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
Related Why try to fit in when you were born to stand out?” “I’m nothing special. I’m drowning,” I... IF I WAKE I’d scream, but I have no voice. The bullies stole it from me IF I WAKE You said I don’t exist in one life. What if each of these lives are designed to teach you a lesson... IF I WAKE I’m William James Carter. My friends call me Will,” he says. “I’m Lucy Janette Phillips,” ... IF I WAKE She has a long journey ahead of her. She doesn’t need to hear she will lose before she even begins IF I WAKE Woman is always fickle - foolish is he who trusts her. FRANCIS I Long ailments wear out pain, and long hopes, joy. STANISLAUS I Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace. It takes 20 years or more of peace to ma... BAUDOUIN I Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment. NAPOLEON I When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty. GREGORY I One should act in consonance with the way of heaven and earth, which is enduring and eternal. The su... I CHING The quiet and solitary man apprehends the inscrutable. He seeks nothing, holds to the mean, and rema... I CHING Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, p... I CHING Before a thunderstorm there is a build-up of tension which is only relieved by the explosive force o... I CHING Creativity comes from awakening and directing men's higher natures, which originate in the primal de... I CHING The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its tru... I CHING Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such re... I CHING The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances bo... I CHING A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then... I CHING He who possesses the source of enthusiasm will achieve great things. Doubt not. You will gather frie... I CHING Although I may not be a lioness, I am a lion's cub, and inherit many of his qualities; and as long a... ELIZABETH I Fiat justitia et pereat mundus. Let justice be done, though the world perish. FERDINAND I Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: that I have reigned with you... ELIZABETH I I am your anointed Queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. I thank God I am e... ELIZABETH I Never make a defense or apology before you are accused. CHARLES I It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy... BAUDOUIN I Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! thy father, if he had been ... ELIZABETH I Everything proceeds as if of its own accord, and this can all too easily tempt us to relax and let t... I CHING In a few years there will be only five kings in the world -- the King of England and the four kings ... FAROUK I Never make a defence or apology before you be accused. CHARLES I The daughter of debate
That still discord doth sow. ELIZABETH I 'Twas God the word that spake it,
He took the bread and brake it,
And what the word did make i... ELIZABETH I If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen... ELIZABETH I When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty GREGORY I The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delig... I. KRISHNAMURTI People are not an interruption of our business. People are our business. A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes. It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground. The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed. The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in men. Ordinary people see no diff... The intelligence is proved not by ease of learning, but by understanding what we learn. Communication is something so simple and difficult that we can never put it in simple words. Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads Let love through good deeds show. How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. ELIZABETH I In everyone's heart stirs a great homesickness. That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it. It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted. ELIZABETH I A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing. ELIZABETH I There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, an... ELIZABETH I If we still advise we shall never do. ELIZABETH I Those who appear the most sanctified are the worst. ELIZABETH I Though I am not imperial, and though Elizabeth may not deserve it, the Queen of England will easily ... ELIZABETH I The word must is not to be used to princes. ELIZABETH I The end crowneth the work. ELIZABETH I A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past. ELIZABETH I Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths. ELIZABETH I One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without. ELIZABETH I God has given such brave soldiers to this Crown that, if they do not frighten our neighbours, at lea... ELIZABETH I God forgive you, but I never can. ELIZABETH I I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that ... ELIZABETH I The past cannot be cured. ELIZABETH I The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower. ELIZABETH I I have the heart of a man, not a woman, and I am not afraid of anything. ELIZABETH I I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a pe... ELIZABETH I To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to th... ELIZABETH I I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman. ELIZABETH I I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and o... ELIZABETH I Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested. ELIZABETH I All my possessions for a moment of time. ELIZABETH I You should learn how say things with your eyes that others waste time putting into words. EYDEN I. As for my own part I care not for death, for all men are mortal; and though I be a woman yet I have ... ELIZABETH I I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married. ELIZABETH I Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dan... ELIZABETH I Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for. STANISLAUS I Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such s... ELIZABETH I Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends ... ELIZABETH I (Response to King Erik XIV of Sweden's proposal of marriage:) "[W]hile we perceive ... th... ELIZABETH I [F]rom my years of understanding ... I happily chose this kind of life in which I yet live [i.e., un... ELIZABETH I [I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having... ELIZABETH I To be vain of one's rank or place, is to show that one is below it. STANISLAS I Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience. One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first ti... To reprove small faults within due vehemence, is as absurd as if a man should take a great hammer to... Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light. Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of... Some families can trace their ancestors back three hundred years, but can't tell you where their chi... A recent survey was said to prove that the people we Americans most admire are our politicians and d... If a man defrauds you one time, he is a rascal; if he does it twice, you are a fool. Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog. Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it ... Freedom also includes the right to mismanage your own affairs. Let your friends be the friends of your deliberate choice. The man who has strong opinions and always says what he thinks is courageous - and friendless. Friendship is love with understanding. So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him a genius Your life can't go according to plan if you have no plan. Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment. Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue.
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The reality is that we know that this universe, that our galaxy, has billions of stars. We know that... MAE JEMISON You have to actually be weighted to something to do the moonwalk, you know. MAE JEMISON One Hundred Year Starship really is about the idea that is we pursue an extraordinary tomorrow; we... MAE JEMISON I'd love to go into space again if there were a mission to Mars. I'd also love to go to a co... MAE JEMISON When I left NASA, I was looking at how you could use space technologies for developing countries'... MAE JEMISON There is a fascination with the idea that one has 'seen someone else do something' before on... MAE JEMISON When I was a little girl, I thought when I had an opportunity to go into space, I thought I would at... MAE JEMISON I want to make sure that that future that we're creating is one that is the best it can be for p... MAE JEMISON I wanted to be a professional dancer for a period of time, and I did a lot of dancing and choreograp... 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MAE JEMISON Sometimes people ask me how difficult the astronaut program was, but being in Sierra Leone, being re... MAE JEMISON The drills we do, where you're telling kids to memorize things, don't actually work. What wo... MAE JEMISON The biggest challenge we all face is to learn about ourselves and to understand our strengths and we... MAE JEMISON My perspective is the Earth will be here. It just may not be habitable to our life form. We get conf... MAE JEMISON We are all tasked to balance and optimize ourselves. MAE JEMISON Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations. MAE JEMISON I believe the biggest impediment we have right now with going to Mars is public commitment. More peo... MAE JEMISON Timidity does not inspire bold acts. MAE JEMISON Painted skies-I've seen so many that cannot compare to your ocean eyes. MAE In winter I go skiing on Saturdays and Sundays when the slopes are quieter due to changeover day for... 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MAE WHITMAN People should recognize who you are and how you can act rather then how famous you are. MAE WHITMAN I really love poetry. I'm a big E.E. Cummings fan and a big Walt Whitman fan, and I have a big b... MAE WHITMAN I love doing voice-over. It's one of my favorite things. MAE WHITMAN You do have to continue, as you grow as a human, checking in and going, 'Is this what I want? Am... MAE WHITMAN I only have room to do things that I have a love for in my life. MAE WHITMAN I'm a single child. I wanted a little brother or a little sister growing up, but when I think ab... MAE WHITMAN My mom had an audition for a commercial when I was about two and a half, and I ran in crying and int... MAE WHITMAN The coming-of-age story has sort of become a joke. It's something to capitalize on, and that is ... MAE WHITMAN I feel like I am a lot of who I am because I watched these shows that said it was okay to be a total... MAE WHITMAN I had a friend where it turned out that she hated my guts, all through our friendship. I thought she... MAE WHITMAN Every time I go to Comic-Con, I'm jacked. I want to dress up and walk the floor and answer quest... MAE WHITMAN Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office. MAE WEST I never loved another person the way I loved myself. MAE WEST A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in. MAE WEST It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men. MAE WEST When women go wrong, men go right after them. -Mae West. MAE WEST Men are my hobby, if I ever got married I'd have to give it up. MAE WEST So many men, so little time. MAE WEST Women are as old as they feel and men are old when they lose their feelings. MAE WEST When women go wrong, men go right after them. MAE WEST It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean. MAE WEST I believe that it's better to be looked over than it is to be overlooked. MAE WEST Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes. MAE WEST I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure. MAE WEST Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution. MAE WEST He who hesitates is last. MAE WEST Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from. MAE WEST Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided. MAE WEST Sex is an emotion in motion. MAE WEST Good sex is like good bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand. MAE WEST His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork. MAE WEST I never said it would be easy, I only said it would be worth it. MAE WEST He who hesitates is a damned fool. MAE WEST Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere. MAE WEST I'm single because I was born that way. MAE WEST I only like two kinds of men; domestic and foreign. MAE WEST I go for two kinds of men. The kind with muscles, and the kind without. MAE WEST A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction. MAE WEST My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you're boned,... MAE WEST When you get the personality, you don't need the nudity. MAE WEST It ain't sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any. MAE WEST Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now ju... MAE WEST When I have to choose between two evils, I always try to pick the one I haven't tried before. MAE WEST Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie. MAE WEST You can say what you like about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins. MAE WEST It is better to be looked over than overlooked. MAE WEST My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you're boned,... MAE WEST There are no good girls gone wrong, just bad girls found out. MAE WEST Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you. MAE WEST The best way to learn to be a lady is to see how other ladies do it. MAE WEST I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it. MAE WEST I wrote the story myself. It's all about a girl who lost her reputation but never missed it. MAE WEST You're never too old to become younger MAE WEST Nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from. MAE WEST Sex is an emotion in motion MAE WEST It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any. MAE WEST Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring. MAE WEST I speak two languages, Body and English. MAE WEST You are doing your best only when you are trying to improve what you are doing MAE WEST The best way to behave is to misbehave. MAE WEST The best way to hold a man is in your arms. MAE WEST You can do what you want, but saving love doesn't bring any interest. MAE WEST A woman in love can't be reasonable--or she probably wouldn't be in love. MAE WEST When it comes to finances, remember that there are no withholding taxes on the wages of sin. MAE WEST You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are, ... MAE WEST I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it MAE WEST To err is human - but it feels divine MAE WEST An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises. MAE WEST There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out. MAE WEST Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often. MAE WEST I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing. MAE WEST Men are all alike--except the one you've met who's different. MAE WEST Men are easy to get but hard to keep. MAE WEST Few men know how to kiss well. Fortunately, I've always had time to teach them. MAE WEST Kiss and make up--but too much makeup has ruined many a kiss. MAE WEST I have always felt a gift diamond shines so much better than one you buy for yourself MAE WEST It's not what I do, but the way I do it. It's not what I say, but the way I say it. MAE WEST When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before. MAE WEST Dating should be less about matching outward circumstances than meeting your inner necessity. MAE WEST Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet. MAE WEST Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried. MAE WEST When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better. MAE WEST I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it. MAE WEST Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins. MAE WEST All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else. MAE WEST Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right no... MAE WEST Sex is emotion in motion. MAE WEST A man's kiss is his signature. MAE WEST Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit ... MAE WEST Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before. MAE WEST I used to be Snow White, but I drifted. MAE WEST I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond. MAE WEST Too much of a good thing can be taxing. MAE WEST She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong. MAE WEST Too much of a good thing can be wonderful! MAE WEST You are never too old to become younger! MAE WEST Being a teenager is hard. MAE WHITMAN Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided. MAE WEST If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning. MAE WEST A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him. MAE WEST When it comes to finances, remember that there are no withholding taxes on the wages of sin. MAE WEST I used to be Snow White -- but I drifted. MAE WEST A man in the house is worth two on the street. MAE WEST I didn't discover curves; I only uncovered them. MAE WEST A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up. MAE WEST I have found men who didn't know how to kiss. I've always found time to teach them. MAE WEST Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much eas... MAE WEST Women with pasts interest men... they hope history will repeat itself. MAE WEST Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution. MAE WEST Saving love doesn't bring any interest. MAE WEST 'Why don't you come up sometime 'n see me? I'm home every evening.... Come up. I'll tell your fortun... MAE WEST Virtue has its own reward, but no sales at the box office. MAE WEST You're never too old to become younger. MAE WEST Too much of a good thing is wonderful. MAE WEST Don't cry for a man who's left you, the next one may fall for your smile. MAE WEST I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it. MAE WEST Love isn't an emotion or an instinct--it's an art. MAE WEST I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action. MAE WEST It takes two to get one in trouble. MAE WEST An orgasm a day keeps the doctor away MAE WEST Women with "pasts" interest men because men hope that history will repeat itself. MAE WEST Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired. MAE WEST Virtue has its own reward, but has no sale at the box office. MAE WEST His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork MAE WEST