Quotes About Pioneering

If you go back to the early days of aviation, the guys designing it built it, and then they got in it and flew it. I mean, who does that anymore?

I learned to fly an airplane, and had my own airplane during the 1960s.

There were many, many other 'Django' films following mine, with other actors and directors, but there is only one 'Django.'

Eventually we're going to go to Mars, and I firmly believe the first person that sets foot on Mars will get there on a Boeing rocket.

I've enjoyed being a part of something from the beginning, when we were still finding our footing.

I don't want to follow in the footsteps of anybody that went before, because they didn't do what I want to do.

What I really want to do is be in the forefront of game development once again myself.

To kind of be on the forefront of things here in NXT is definitely a big feather in my cap.

I want to believe humanity has not forgotten how to explore.

I've been fortunate to come on places where the question isn't why did I do it? The question to me is always, why didn't anybody else do it before me? Those are the ones that I scratch my head about.

I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.

2012 will be seen as the beginning of the frontier era in space.

Next time we meet it'll be on the soil of your new world.

It was very unusual for anyone to be her own person in the wild West.

Laura Ingalls Wilder's 'Little House' series is a national treasure, beloved by generations. But what I love most is the peek it provides into the planting, harvesting, hunting, and preparing of the foods that America's settler families ate in the late 1800s.

There is in every American, I think, something of the old Daniel Boone - who, when he could see the smoke from another chimney, felt himself too crowded and moved further out into the wilderness.

Hank Williams was playing rock-n-roll before rock-n-roll was.

I want to establish myself as the first Eric Davis, not the next Willie Mays.

When you choose your fields of labor go where nobody else is willing to go.

Black and white players hadn't appeared together in public before Teddy Wilson and I began working with B.G.

Thus I was able to make pioneering measurements of the height and physical scale of plasma clouds in the ionosphere and also to estimate wind speeds in this region.

People ask, 'What are the scientific questions you're going to answer?' New Horizons doesn't have any of those; it's purely about raw exploration... We're not 'rewriting the textbook' - we're writing the textbook from scratch.

I owe a debt of gratitude to two other living Justices. Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg paved the way for me and so many other women in my generation. Their pioneering lives have created boundless possibilities for women in the law. I thank them for their inspiration and also for the personal kindnesses they have shown me.

I am immensely overwhelmed and thankful to Filmfare and the Times Of India Group for bestowing on my father and my guru the honor he truly deserves. It is prodigious to see the Best Music Album Award being named in memory of the man who pioneered and changed the face of music industry in India.