Quotes About Pioneering

I was the first boy in the Kennedy family to graduate from college.

I did not realize at the time, as I have discovered since, that anyone who attempts any thing original in this world must expect a bit of ridicule." Clarence Birdseye

A man with a new idea is a crank -- until the idea succeeds.

I sat in a garage and invented the future.

California is a place of invention, a place of courage, a place of vision, a place of the future. People who made California what it is were willing to take risks, think outside convention and build.

Americans have always built for the future. That is why we established land grant colleges and passed the Homestead Act to open our Western lands more than 100 years ago.

The only woman to whom it has been given to touch what is decisive in the present world and to have a presentiment of the world of the future.

The fishing is best where the fewest go. There is just less competition for bigger goals.

I wanted to do something nobody ever did. This goes hand in hand with my goal of changing swimming.

Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail

The key to success for Sony, and to everything in business, science and technology for that matter, is never to follow the others.

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

My mother was one of the first few blacks to integrate the University of Arkansas, graduating in 1954.

My mom was a '70s mom. She paved a road that no one had yet walked.

The governing principle of PARC was that the place existed to give their employer that ten-year head start on the future. They even contrived a shorthand phrase to explain the concept. The Alto, they said, was a time machine. Thacker

try very hard to be at the cutting edge of problems. Very often that puts me so far out in front that people are upset about it, but that's OK.

From the Greek apostolos meaning "one who is sent out." Apostles are visionary and pioneering, always pushing into new territory. They like to establish new churches, ministries, non-profits, Kingdom-minded businesses or initiatives.

Everything new sounds ridiculous until someone makes it happen.

We are a generation that settles the land, and without the steel helmet and the cannon's fire we will not be able to plant a tree and build a home.

Our role in Israel is a pioneering one, and we need people with certain strength of fiber.

Boldness is something that you cannot take away from the prophets and geniuses.

I'm the hunter," Elena reminded him. "I should go first." "Of course you may go first. When I am dead.

Cormac studied one of the portraits, vaguely identifying it as of some very early premillennial cosmonaut

He could even have come by air, as individual balloonists already had.