Mae Jemison Quotes

Great goals are reached step by step.

When you plan and prepare carefully, you can legitimately expect to have success in your efforts. An optimistic, positive mind is far more likely to come up with creative solutions than a mind that dwells on setbacks and difficulties. Bottom line: expect success and you can achieve it!

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

I always take things step by step and match by match.

You achieve long-term success step by step. Try to achieve your goals one at a time, like you do target practice.

Life is a series of baby steps along the way and if you add up these tiny little steps you take toward your goal, whatever it is, whether it's giving up something, a terrible addiction or trying to work your way through an illness. When you total up those baby steps you'd be amazed over the course of 10 years, the strides you've taken.

To secure the ground we gain, and gain what more we can, is, I think, the wisest course

I just try to focus on one step at a time, what I have to do or what the team has to do to get here.

If I focus on the short-term goals, then the long-term goals are going to be in my favor.

Ultimately, every great endeavor consists of many little steps.

If you're running a 26-mile marathon, remember that every mile is run one step at a time. If you are writing a book, do it one page at a time. If you're trying to master a new language, try it one word at a time. There are 365 days in the average year. Divide any project by 365 and you'll find that no job is all that intimidating.

Don't look at the big picture as the only achievement. Start with set, smart goals and work up to something bigger.

Avoid people who tell you that something you want to do is not possible.

Remember to dream big, think long-term, underachieve on a daily basis, and take baby steps. That is the key to long-term success.

The person determined to achieve maximum success learns the principle that progress is made one step at a time.

When people can see a vision and simultaneously recognize what can be done step by step in a concrete way to achieve it, they will begin to feel encouragement and enthusiasm instead of fright.

It is one thing to see the forward path and another to be able to take it. But it is better to have an ambitious plan than none at all.

If you put your mind to doing whatever it is you want to do, good things can happen.

Getting from point A to point Z can be daunting unless you remember that you don’t have to get from A to Z. You just have to get from A to B. Breaking big dreams into small steps is the way to move forward.

You can get to where you want to be from wherever you are-but you must stop spending so much time noticing and talking about what you do not like about where you are.

Any big task if you look at the grand picture... it seems to big to accomplish, so just watch the footstep in front of you... And that's what I do; try and win little battles every day.

I think making movie is kind of like getting fat people to walk 20 miles. If you just do it 100 yards at a time, and nobody knows how far they are going, they can do it!I would include myself in those fat people! You do this little by little and you don't realize your potential, or you don't realize how really rich, and how far you can go.

If you are clear where you are going and you take several steps in that direction every day, you eventually have to get there. If I head north out of Santa Barbara and take five steps a day, eventually I have to end up in San Francisco. So decide what you want, write it down, review it constantly, and each day do something that moves you toward those goals.

I knew that whatever I set my mind to do. I could do.