"When I needed to overcome the low expectations of others or the bias that would be expressed in one circumstance or another, I'd keep on keeping on. And I climb over the obstacle, go around it, dig under it, fly over it. That's what kept me going. Otherwise I would have never been an astrophysicist."

--

Neil deGrasse Tyson

#Expectations Quotes #Would Be Quotes #Overcoming Quotes

“The idea of directing was something that I always had in the back of my mind, and writing as well. I began to write screenplays when I was in my 20's.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Success isnÂ´t guaranteed, but failure is certain if you arenÂ´t truly emotionally invested in your work.”
“I have quite a normal family and I'm bored with how normal my family is. I want to mess stuff up a bit. I chose the messed up characters because I find that that's acting. I want to explore emotions that you otherwise wouldn't be able to explore.”
“Theism, as a way of conceiving God, has become demonstrably inadequate, and the God of theism not only is dying but is probably not revivable. If the religion of the future depends on keeping alive the definitions of theism, then the human phenomenon that we call religion will have come to an end. If Christianity depends on a theistic definition of God, then we must face the fact that we are watching this noble religious system enter the rigor mortis of its own death throes.”
“One of the things that I learned is that you never truly know yourself until you challenge yourself. It is when you are confronted with challenges that you see what you are really made of, what is important to you and what your true aspirations are...sometimes you think that you really know yourself, and then you find out that you really don't.”
“Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.”
“When God blesses you financially, don't raise your STANDARD OF LIVING. raise your STANDARD OF GIVING.”

Source : Twitter post from Aug 24, 2013
“If you can imagine it, we can make it.”

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