Motivational Quotes

Men don't pay attention to small things.

I found what I was looking for at Langley.

This was what a research mathematician did.

I went to work every day for 33 years happy.

Never did I get up and say I don't want to go to work.

Many professors tell you that you'd be good at this or that,

but they don't always help you with that career path.

Let me do it.

You tell me when you want it and where you want it to land,

and I'll do it backwards and tell you when to take off.

I see a picture right now that's not parallel,

so I'm going to go straighten it.

Things must be in order.

I was just excited to have challenging work to do

and smart people to work with.

In math,

you're either right or you're wrong.

Everything was so new

the whole idea of going into space was new and daring.

There were no textbooks,

so we had to write them.

I was excited at something new,

always liked something new,

but give credit to everybody who helped.

I didn't do anything alone but,

try to go to the root of the question and succeeded there.

We needed to be assertive as women in those days

assertive and aggressive and the degree to

which we had to be that way depended on where you were.

I had to be.

I counted everything.

I counted the steps to the road,

the steps up to church,

the number of dishes and silverware I washed...

anything that could be counted,

I did.

Everything is physics and math.

Take all the courses in your curriculum.

Do the research.

Ask questions.

Find someone doing what you are interested in!

Be curious!

I don't have a feeling of inferiority.

Never had.

I'm as good as anybody,

but no better.

Girls are capable of doing everything men are capable of doing.

Sometimes they have more imagination than men.

Like what you do,

and then you will do your best.

From a child,

I had an inordinate desire for knowledge and especially music,

painting, flowers, and the sciences,

Algebra being one of my favorite studies.

No books ever go into my laboratory.

The thing I am to do and the way are revealed to me

the moment I am inspired to create something new.

Without God to draw aside the curtain, I would be helpless.

Only alone can I draw close enough to God to discover His secrets.

God cannot use you as He wishes until you come

into the fullness of His Glory, Do not get alarmed,

my friend,

when doubts creep in.

That is old Satan.

Pray,

pray,

pray.

Human need is really a great spiritual vacuum

which God seeks to fill...

With one hand in the hand of a fellow man in need

and the other in the hand of Christ,

He could get across the vacuum.