Quotes About Trailblazing

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

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

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

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

I'm extremely blessed to have the extraordinary mother that I have, and I don't mean Diana Ross, I mean the mother. My mom paved a road that didn't exist, as did Oprah.

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

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

A great artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre.

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.

I hope that I am winning a way which others will keep open.

Making it through the ceiling to the other side was simply a matter of running on a path created by every other woman's footprints.

I never thought a basketball shoe would be named after a woman, let alone me.

The best creates, the rest follows

Unruly geeks change the world

We should stop wasting taxpayer funds on ridiculously expensive government missions to nowhere that return little value and blaze no useful trail for others to follow. Of course we should spend much more on science - and yes, use robots to do that science when it makes sense.

The way of the pioneer is always rough.

Before Missy, there was no comparison to what Missy was doing.

I was always excited about doing things with people that were ahead of their time, that were sort of out of sync with the rest of society.

I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.

Repeatedly I have been impressed to learn that to reach a goal never before attained, one must do things never before done.

Where's the glory in repeating what others have done?

Willie O'Ree

I always want to be on the cutting edge.