Quotes About Pioneering

That's the Apple I want - I want an Apple that's bold and taking risks and being aggressive.

We are the primitives of an unknown civilization

The problem with the cutting edge is that someone has to bleed.

Every genuine poet is necessarily a Columbus. America existed for centuries before Columbus but it was only Columbus who was able to track it down.

For every difficult destination, there are thousands who stand aside and point the way for each one with courage and capacity to go before and show the way. The former are managers; the latter are leaders.

To go where no one else has ever gone before is the secret of heroism.

I lay no claim to advancing scientific data other than advancing flying knowledge. I can only say that I do it because I want to.

I had been looking for leaders, but I realized that leadership is about being the first to act.

Greatness follows those who lead the way.

Leaders don't walk in front, nor do they walk behind. They walk on completely different paths on the journey of intuition. The road that has never been taken. And so they lead.

The biggest things in life have been achieved by people who, at the start, we would have judged crazy. And yet if they had not had these crazy ideas the world would have been more stupid.

Eudora is convinced that he is a man ahead of his time." "That is rarely a good position in which to find oneself.

As soon as we left the ground, I knew I had to fly.

Please know I am quite aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.

To thrive in an ever-globalizing world, you must do what others do not do and go where others will not go.

Turing machine.

We didn't have rest days or weekends because we had to get ready as fast as possible, so we could beat the Americans, who were also racing to send a woman into space.

It was always my desire to strike new ground and help to lend weight where it was most required.

I want to be known as a professional weirdo. There aren't many Salvador Dalis or Buckminster Fullers left. If I become popular enough, I can establish the next step for records.

I was the first tenured woman at Columbia. That was 1972; every law school was looking for its woman. Why? Because Stan Pottinger, who was then head of the office for civil rights of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, was enforcing the Nixon government contract program.

Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.

I'm among the first girls ever to play Little League baseball, and to my knowledge, the very first in western Illinois. It was 1976, and I was a nine-year-old tomboy whose older brothers had played.

There was a lot of great writing couples, but I try to do it all myself. And it was practically impossible, but I still managed to be ahead of my time.

We like to talk about pioneering Mars rather than just exploring Mars, because once we get to Mars, we will set up some sort of permanent presence.