Quotes About Pioneering

One of the Life Saving men snapped the camera for us, taking a picture just as the machine had reached the end of the track and had risen to a height of about two feet.

We laid the track on a smooth stretch of ground about one hundred feet north of the new building.

Every student of science, even if he cannot start his journey where his predecessors left off, can at least travel their beaten track more quickly than they could while they were clearing the way: and so before his race is run, he comes to virgin forest and becomes himself a pioneer.

Most remember the groundbreaking first in sports; few remember the third or fourth to follow in those tracks. That's not downplaying anyone's achievements but rather recognizing that there comes a time when simply being there is no longer good enough for the record books.

I didn't mean for it to cause such a furor, but I was the first guy to ever do the national anthem with a guitar. Everyone else had the big brass band. Nowadays it's tracks that they sing to, but in my day, we had no tracks. And I was the only orchestra that I knew that was the best orchestra and that was me and my guitar.

The organization that I joined when I went to work, the trade association called the Bureau of Advertising, became the first of many over the years in which I was the only woman.

We all [Ed Simmons,Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis] started together, so there were no rules - anything we wrote became television.

I can't understand why men make all this fuss about Everest-it's only a mountain.

Dare to walk the path that others have feared to travel, and a leader shall then be born.

If you're competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering."1 - JEFF BEZOS, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, AMAZON

Be as bold as the first man or [woman] to eat an oyster.

If you only do what others have already done, you will only feel what others have already felt. However, if you choose to achieve something that no one has ever done, then you will have a satisfaction that no one else has ever had.

Seriously, I would go in a second. I'd be the first actor in space and I'd love to do it.

Three words that are the beating heart behind why many explorers or adventurers do what they do. 'Because it's there.

I became famous for the fact that I would break many, many limits. People said, 'He does all these crazy things.' But oddly it was a crazy thing only because scientists and climbers said, 'Everest and the 8,000-meter peaks without oxygen - impossible. Messner is becoming sick in his head.'

I want to go up there so bad, I've had my sights set since 1962.

Einstein was a great advocate of the notion that good ideas look absurd at the beginning. Camus expressed a similar view.

I was one of the first women partners at my law firm, the first woman in my Minnesota prosecutor job, and the first woman elected from my state to the Senate. So advice from women who had done similar things was important for me.

I see similarities between Jackie Robinson and myself.

You were the first in every way that counted.

I get curious about new things. My real strength is going into a field that has not been investigated before, and finding new approaches to it.

I really believe that, as human beings, we have an innate need to explore, to see what's around the corner.

It is very important to lead the field and innovate in game design.

I believe in being an innovator.