Quotes About Pioneering

And even in circumstances less critical, women were almost always welcomed in new enterprises that hadn't yet become either prestigious or profitable—whether it was early radio or early cattle drives.

smart woman can do very well in this country. —A young woman in nineteenth-century California

And Emerson once claimed that we Americans needed the boundless West in order to become ourselves, to stop being pseudo-Europeans.

In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high.

The thought of being the first openly gay male ever to compete in the Winter Olympics - I totally embrace that.

The regions of the North Pole situated within the eighty-fourth degree of north latitude have not yet been utilized, for the very good reason that they have not yet been discovered.

I was the first woman to speak ever at the National Press Club, and they gave me a necktie.

My first day in the police was July 16, 1972. I was the only woman in the IPS. I remember getting a lot of questions. Are you sure you want to do this? Have you thought about your family? Why did you choose to be here? There was a lot of amazement and doubt.

Madam Walker's name gets thrown out as either the savior of black women's hair or she's the evil devil.

I know my theories and findings are hard for you to accept because they are so original and extraordinary.

Nothing has ever gotten in my way. They say, 'Wally, you're a girl, you can't do that.' I said, 'Guess what, doesn't matter what you are, you can still do it if you want to do it,' and I like to do things that nobody's ever done before.

I want to stay ahead and to stay ahead you always have to be thinking out of the box.

So, it's a very, you know - maybe we're wrong in - you know, we go around thinking the innovator is the person who's first to kind of conceive of something. And maybe the innovation process continues down the line to the second and the third and the fourth entrant into a field.

Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.

One of my other nicknames was Thomas Edison, because I invented so many moves.

Imagine if Steve Jobs or Thomas Edison or Albert Einstein were all alive 10, 20, 30 years before we know them to be alive; it would have advanced the world that much sooner.

Small wayside stations have always fascinated me. Manned sometimes by just one or two railway employees, and often situated in the middle of a damp subtropical forest, or clinging to the mountainside on the way to Simla or Darjeeling, these little stations are, for me, outposts of romance, lonely symbols of the pioneering spirit that led men to lay tracks into the remote corners of the earth.

In short, we want an independent, liberated and socialist Iraq. Furthermore, we want Iraq to play a vanguard role in the area, particularly in the Arab homeland. We want Iraq to play a pioneering role in consolidating the anti-imperialist line of policy on the international level.

For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that's just the price of being first sometimes.

In addition to hydropower, Oregon and the Northwest have pioneering companies leading the way in environmentally friendly energy technology.

Basic research is when I'm doing what I don't know what I'm doing.

Im so ahead of my time my parents havent met yet

The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it.

Here is a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly all its successors.