“I was always changing, starting from the back and going to the front. But nobody ever failed me.”
"Men don’t pay attention to small things."
- Katherine Johnson
Awareness
"You are no better than anyone else, and no one is better than you."
- Katherine Johnson
Belief
"There’s nothing to it; I was just doing my job."
- Katherine Johnson
Integrity
"I found that as long as I conducted myself with professionalism and proved my worth through my work, people would eventually ignore the barriers of race and gender."
- Katherine Johnson
Integrity
"You can change people’s perceptions by breaking barriers and proving them wrong with your accomplishments."
- Katherine Johnson
Courage
"We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated."
- Maya Angelou
Resilience
"Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."
- Winston Churchill
Resilience
"Criticism is the best sign you’re onto something."
- Michael Lopp
Resilience
"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."
- David Brinkley
Resilience
"We are really competing against ourselves. We have no control over how other people perform."
- Pete Cashmore
Resilience