Quotes About Pioneering

This is Manchester, we do things differently here.

Charlie Christians' contributions to the electric guitar are as big as Thomas Edisons' contributions to the world.

When I first tried to get a record deal for my original music, labels didn't understand what these instruments were meant to be doing

Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky were not classical musicians while they were alive and active, they were the rock stars of their day.

I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.

To be the first to enter the cosmos, to engage, single-handed, in an unprecedented duel with nature-could one dream of anything more?

That's the nature of research you don't know what in hell you're doing.

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.

We shall not cease from exploration

Every genuine poet is necessarily a Columbus. America existed for centuries before Columbus but it was only Columbus who was able to track it down.

By the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon, and it will be American.

Doing differently what's already done is old and boring. Do something new, that's yet to be done.

When anything is going to happen in this country, it happens first in Kansas

You can all go to hell; I will go to Texas

John Maynard Keynes criticized fiduciaries for preferring to "fail conventionally" rather than taking, as Swensen so often does, direct responsibility for independent, even pioneering thought and action.

My mom was truly an iconic figure, a great journalist and a pioneering woman who died at 54 of cancer without ever having revealed to viewers that she was ill.

Gorgo, who may be considered the first woman cryptanalyst

I invented 'It's a good thing' before you were even born.

As soon as we left the ground, I knew I had to fly.

Remember, every great leader (or visionary or brave thinker) was initially laughed at. Now they are revered.

It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.

I know that I'm breaking down barriers. And I know that in the end I'm doing a great thing.

History has never seen Emmitt Smith. I don't care what has come before me. That's why they call it history you create new history.

Gene Autry was a pioneering star in the early days of music, radio, film, television and rodeo performances. I am proud to posthumously honor such an inspiring role model.