Mickalene Thomas Quotes

I think what I have done is claimed the space and pushed it forward as much as I can in relationship to who I am and how I live my life.

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• So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.

  

  Sally Ride
  • You
  • Space
  • First

• We need to accept that consumption is not the end goal of our life and stop measuring our well-being simply on the basis of earnings. We need to explicitly take the quality of our work-related life into account in judging our well-being.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Life
  • Work
  • Stop

• You get to bring your own sound system when you play an arena, all the lights and visual stuff, which I think is really cool. There's something about those old arenas, where it feels larger than life.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Life
  • Cool
  • Lights

• My life, my family and my friends are back in the U.K., so ideally I would love the kind of career that is split between London and New York.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • Life
  • Family
  • Love

• The boundary between space and the earth is purely arbitrary. And I'll probably always be interested in this planet - it's my favorite.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Earth
  • Space
  • Always

• In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Life
  • World
  • School

• My biggest fear in life is to be average.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Average

• Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Life
  • Rule
  • Dichotomy

• Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

  

  Barbara Januszkiewicz
  • Thinking
  • Change
  • Ideas

• I don't want to just be a champion, and I'm done with that. I wanna be a lightweight legend.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Done
  • Want
  • Champion

• But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program.

  

  Sally Ride
  • School
  • High
  • Space

• I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Life
  • Character
  • Myself

• Ye Gods! annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Time
  • Happy
  • Space

• People who look at Apple's success and think we look at it as, 'Okay, great, we're done,' don't appreciate what's really going on here.

  

  Craig Federighi
  • People
  • Great
  • Done

• It is of great concern that the fabric of African life, its very source of hope and stability, is threatened by divorce, abortion, prostitution, human trafficking, and a contraception mentality.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • Life
  • Great
  • Hope

• I do believe that God blessed me in life with a wonderful family, a successful career, and a loving marriage, and remain thankful for that blessing.

  

  Bonnie Tyler
  • Life
  • God
  • Believe

• I like talking about comic book process, and one of the things is that I have plans going ahead for years, and the plans constantly get thrown away and shifted. There's a difference between planning and what actually happens in life, and comics have a life of their own.

  

  Ann Nocenti
  • Life
  • Book
  • Planning

• So much about living life, to me, is about humility and gratitude. And I've tried very hard to have those qualities and be that person and I'm just so disappointed in myself that I allowed it to slip.

  

  Katherine Heigl
  • Life
  • Humility
  • Gratitude

• All the foods that you regularly eat are ones that you learned to eat. Everyone starts life drinking milk. After that, it's all up for grabs. From our first year of life, human tastes are astonishingly diverse.

  

  Bee Wilson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Drinking

• I pretty much always knew I wanted to be a writer. I was writing goofy stories when I was 7 or 8. That was what I call 'wishful-thinking writing.' I grew up in the city and always wanted a horse, but there was no way I was getting a horse. So I wrote all these stories about kids who had horses. It's still fun entering these other worlds.

  

  Ellen Potter
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• I come from a family with big hearts, so I love to put smiles on people's faces.

  

  Elliott Yamin
  • People
  • Family

• Material success is rewarding and a lot of fun, but it's not the most important thing in my life because I know when this is all over, the Master isn't going to ask me how many things I owned or how many television shows I did. I think the questions will be, What did I do to make a difference? Did I learn to live with love in my heart?

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Important
  • Live

• Whenever I'm around some who is modest, I think, 'Run like hell and all of fire.' You don't want modesty, you want humility.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Fire
  • Humility
  • Modesty

• I think what I have done is claimed the space and pushed it forward as much as I can in relationship to who I am and how I live my life.

  

  Mickalene Thomas
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Done