Quotes About Pioneering

Chandler's first book is famously incoherent

What would the United States be like if it had not those reservoirs of triumphant will-power, the historical facts of the War of Independence, of the giant American statesmen, and of the pioneering progress into the West, which every American citizen has at his mental command and into which he can plunge for revivification at any minute? To have a difficult history makes, perhaps, a people who are bound to be difficult in any conditions, lacking these means of refreshment.

True greatness is when your name is like ampere , watt , and fourier —when it's spelled with a lower case letter.

Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. —RALPH WALDO EMERSON

it takes someone brave to do what everyone else is afraid to do first.

If any young man is about to commence the world, we say to him, publicly and privately, Go to the West

Who never walks save where he sees men's tracks makes no discoveries.

I've gone where the hand of man has never set foot.

If there be one man, more than another, who deserves to succeed in flying through the air, that man is Mr. Laurence Hargrave, of Sydney, New South Wales.

I long to set foot where no man has trod before.

Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.

America can take man to the moon, and America can take men to Mars - and beyond.

Men should be explorers no matter how old they are.

What a lot of people don't know, because in a lot of TV and movies, they have a lot of men talking about computers - it was a woman who invented the first compiler!

I want to be the first black man on the moon

There is no thrill of mortal danger to surpass that of a lone man trying to create something that never existed before.

While conservatism and self-protection might be likened to winter, night, and death, the spirit of pioneering and attempting to realize ideals evokes images of spring, morning, and birth.

Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I've been called a great adventurer.

My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.

In a lot of ways I was a generation ahead of my generation; I had a working mother wheneveryone else's mother was staying at home.

An innovator is one who does not know it cannot be done.

Groundbreaking innovators generate and execute far more ideas.

Every start on an untrodden path is a venture which only in unusual circumstances looks sensible and likely to succeed.

It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.