Quotes About Pioneering

You want to know the problem with going somewhere no one's ever been? It takes so damned long to get there.

Had I considered over the course of time the moments where maybe I was the first woman to do this or that, it would have scared the absolute daylights out of me.

We've always wanted to aim to be the only one and hopefully one day we'll be able to create this new genre called Babymetal.

The best business you can go into you will find on your father's farm or in his workshop. If you have no family or friends to aid you, and no prospect opened to you there, turn your face to the great West, and there build up a home and fortune.

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.

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.

We were the only band that played with D.R.I. and C.O.C., and then Celtic Frost and Venom. We were doing shit that nobody else was doing, and we didn't care. I never took myself that seriously.

To step into shoes long since worn is a great task by any means, but to step into shoes never yet worn, well, that is a feat few have dared to embark upon.

I became the first licensed woman watchmaker in Holland. And

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

The companies that won't do well will be the me-too companies: the fifth, sixth, seventh version of Twitter, etc.

From a very early age, I knew I wanted to be Carl Denham.

Geraldine Ferraro, the first woman to run for vice president, died from multiple myeloma. Frank Reynolds, the ABC anchorman, who I had talked to toward the end of his life, not knowing what he had, died from it. Later I found out that Frank McGee, who was the Today Show host, died from it.

Before she made her bid for the U.S. presidency in 1872, Victoria Woodhull worked as one of the first female stockbrokers in the country, starting a firm, Woodhull, Claflin & Company, with her sister in 1870.

There was a time Michael Jackson couldn't get his video on MTV because he was considered to be 'urban.' The Michael Jackson. So I literally have to be the Michael Jackson of apparel in order to break down the doors for everyone who will come after I'm gone, after I'm dead.

Video games are engineered now, but the step I am trying to take, no one can engineer.

All my records and videos were groundbreaking.

Before me, nobody was making two to three-minute videos in Hindi.

When it comes to the world around us, is there any choice but to explore?

until we do what has not yet been done, what has not been done shall remain undone

Basic research is to work at the very edge, the very border of, of knowledge, and move that border forward. You look and look for new secrets, and you don't know where it's going to lead you.

I don't follow precedent, I establish it.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. They told me computers could only do arithmetic.