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Quotes About Pioneering

Go West, young man, and grow up with the country.
~ Horace Greeley
Westward, Ho!
~ George Peele
Without 'Twin Peaks,' there would have been no 'Northern Exposure,' 'Picket Fences,' 'X-Files' or 'Alias.' It started the movement of 'off-center' television.
~ Michael Horse
I don't know if we would have stuff like 'Deadwood' and 'Boardwalk Empire' if 'Twin Peaks' had never happened.
~ James Roday
For some reason I get this key position of being one of two people that started the company that started the revolution.
~ Steve Wozniak
When I first started playing music in 1955, there was just a small body of people that knew it. It was a very esoteric type of thing.
~ Steve Lacy
When I was growing up, there was no such thing as a touring ukulele player.
~ Jake Shimabukuro
The U.S. space program has mythologies attached to pioneering and conquering, but the Russian tradition is very different. In the Russian tradition, the ultimate goal of humanity was to resurrect all humans.
~ Trevor Paglen
A path is made by walking on it.
~ Zhuangzi
I wanted to be a female like Chyna, who broke boundaries and did things that were really special.
~ Beth Phoenix
Whether it's the experiments on 'MythBusters' or my earlier work in special effects for movies, I've regularly had to do things that were never done before, from designing complex motion-control rigs to figuring out how to animate chocolate.
~ Adam Savage
Aaron Spelling went further than anyone has ever gone for television.
~ Linda Evans
My work more than didn't fit in. It crossed willy-nilly the boundaries that people had spent their lives building up. It hits some 30 subfields of biology, even geology.
~ Lynn Margulis
America is the spirit of human exploration distilled.
~ Elon Musk
I was the first candidate to come out against this war, spoke at every anti-war march.
~ Al Sharpton
Go West, young man, go West. There is health in the country, and room away from our crowds of idlers and imbeciles.
~ Horace Greeley
There was never an idea started that woke up men out of their stupid indifference but its originator was spoken of as a crank.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
When ships to sail the void between the stars have been built, there will step forth men to sail these ships.
~ Johannes Kepler
I'm not a stunt man. I'm not a dare devil...I'm an explorer.
~ Evel Knievel
Climbing is unadulterated hard labor. The only real pleasure is the satisfaction of going where no man has been before and where few can follow.
~ Annie Smith Peck
Go West, young man, go West and grow up with the country.
~ Horace Greeley
When Hiro first saw this place, ten years ago, the monorail hadn't been written yet; he and his buddies had to write car and motorcycle software in order to get around. They would take their software out and race it in the black desert of the electronic night.
~ Neal Stephenson
It is often true that groundbreaking discoveries are made from poor data at the leading edge
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Swiss-American astrophysicist Fritz Zwicky.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson