Mae Jemison Quotes

I'm finding myself. I'm finding things I'm good at, things I need to work at.

One of the main focuses of my training sessions is to help individuals find their unique voices in the learning process. We all have our strengths, our weaknesses, our styles of learning, our personalities. Developing introspective sensitivity to these issues is critical to long-term success.

My view is that you have to deal with who you are. It's hard work, in a way, but somebody has to do it.

As I learn more about myself, I think people learn more about me as well. It seems to correlate that way. I learn how to represent myself more as it goes on.

I think after going through some scandals and realizing that if I'm growing as a person, and I'm acknowledging my mistakes, and I'm constantly bettering myself to be the best me that I can possibly be, what more can I really be?

I learned the most about myself, and you ask what I learned? Well, I learned my strengths and my weaknesses, and it's far more important to learn about your weaknesses than your strengths.

To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.

It's more important to know your weaknesses than your strengths.

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

You don't find out who you are unless you work at it.

I think almost everything in life is life-experience, personality-driven.

I believe that I have such a vanilla life. But maybe I come with a different perspective. I'm always trying to improve myself.

I would like to think that I'm more different from my character than I am.

As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self-understanding, and this is something that can't be taught.

I always write to understand my place in the world. I can see myself and my life unfold on the page, and I can understand my strengths, my weaknesses - I can see where I need to step up a bit.

I prefer stories about people who are, in a sense, trying to find better versions of themselves.

I've done thousands of interviews in my life, and it's a format that I quite enjoy, because I think of questions in interviews as an opportunity to sort of gauge my growth in a way. It gives me an idea of how I'm navigating this world that I'm in.

I always thought of myself as a later bloomer, so I like some of my work more later than earlier.

Know yourself to improve yourself.

A degree of self-awareness is extremely valuable... I hope I have that going forward.

It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be.

I'm constantly trying to work on the person that I am and work on my shortcomings, and I guess I want people to know that it's ok to be a work in progress, as long as you keep trying to figure it out. But that search and that discovery is what makes life kind of rich, and it's what makes life rich... period.

Everything that I've done has made me who I am today. You know, it's cliche, but it's true.