Quotes About Pioneering

I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador

Like buried treasures, the outposts of the universe have beckoned to the adventurous from immemorial times...

Mary Shelley may well have invented science fiction. I think she did! But after that it seemed to be a boys' game.

That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black, and a woman proves, I would think, that our society is not yet either just or free.

but also thought of everything, invented everything and changed everything.

You are not here to duplicate and replicate. You are here to initiate.

The longstanding neglect of the fascinating, pioneering group of women writers of the Romantic period is now a thing of the past . . . [but] our merely recognizing their existence does not mean that our work is done.

But artists didn't need to achieve "firsts", and Hughes wanted to be an artist.

To my knowledge, I was the first guy really to do what I do. And then later on different comedians started trying doing it.

Life in Australia is more equal and less competitive than in America; but there are dozens of similarities...migrations to a new land, the mystique of pioneering (actually somewhat different in the two countries), the turbulence of gold rushes, the brutality of relaxed restraint, the boredoms of the backblocks, the feeling of making life anew. There may be more similarities between the history of Australia and America than for the moment Australians can understand.

When everyone zigs, zag. Life is all about trying to get somewhere first.

Life is difficult for those who have the daring to first set out on an unknown road. The avant-garde always has a bad time of it.

I'm interested in making a path instead of following a trail, and that's what I want to do in life - in everything I do.

Firsts were important

Firsts are special.

He signed the letter: George Washington Gale Ferris.

The future awaits those with the courage to create it.

What art should do, I think, is advance the generation into the next era. It should be one step ahead of the ordinary, ahead of what is already known. Art is what pulls on the next age. I'm not saying that my art is that, but that it would be good if it could be.

You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things.

Westward, ever westward.

What if Picasso had gone to the Moon? Or Andy Warhol or Michael Jackson or John Lennon? What about Coco Chanel? These are all artists that I adore.

I like to open new doors and blaze new trails through the jungle and all that whatnot. What keeps me goin' all these years is changin' it up.

I am the fastest woman on four wheels.

Each time these pioneers expanded into new realms, they discovered the old ways wouldn't work. Whenever a new domain was inhabited by humans, old survival patterns were left behind and new patterns created.