Quotes About Trailblazing

Somebody has to make good artistic films. Somebody has to break open the doors so that others also will follow and make good and meaningful films.

Eric Clapton has earned all of our respect. He is the greatest. He opened the doors for us. Without Cream, there is no Allman Brothers.

When I look back, some of the greatest people in the history of the world have created things where paths have never been with such resiliency.

Nothing that happens to you was meant to be. The only thing about you that was meant to be is you. Blaze your own trail.

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

Your success should create a path that inspires others to follow.

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

Make your own path in life when there is none!

In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones was path-breaking in many ways.

I have absolutely no problem being thought of as an action chick because, quite frankly, very few women have ever done that.

My African-American friends thought it was cool that I was racing. It's not like we had any role models out there to look up to, so everyone understood I was doing something very different.

I wanted to do something that nobody else was doing. I didn't have a mentor. There were no other women on the radio.

Ram Gopal Varma cannot have a genre at all. He creates genres.

When I first ran for office in 2010, I was 32 years old. The average age in Congress was 69. I was a brown woman whose name was Reshma Saujani - a name most people couldn't pronounce. And there was never a South Asian woman who had ever run for United States Congress before.

I was always controversial, being gay, so nothing was more controversial than that.

I think Uber is just very different; there's no model to copy. It may be the reason why we've been a lightning rod in so many ways, because we don't do anything conventional... And then I think also, as an entrepreneur, I'm a bit of a lone wolf.

My first day in the police was July 16, 1972. I was the only woman in the IPS. I remember getting a lot of questions. Are you sure you want to do this? Have you thought about your family? Why did you choose to be here? There was a lot of amazement and doubt.

Nothing has ever gotten in my way. They say, 'Wally, you're a girl, you can't do that.' I said, 'Guess what, doesn't matter what you are, you can still do it if you want to do it,' and I like to do things that nobody's ever done before.

Here is a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly all its successors.

I have always been ahead of my time.

I was the first movie star to plunge into night-time soap opera.

You will never become a category of one if you run with the pack.

As a result, the rewards for being first are enormous. It's not a linear scale. It's not a matter of getting a little more after giving a little more. It's a curve, and a steep one.

We need these figures who don't exactly go against the grain but create a new grain.