Quotes About Trailblazing

I was a cheerleader in grammar school. There were no cheerleaders in that school I made them have them.

A great man is the man who does something for the first time.

I see myself as attempting to break ground. I definitely am trying to create my own genre here... I'm attempting to tell stories in a very new and entertaining way.

The period characters I have played have all been these wonderfully forward-thinking women.

It's a pretty cool feeling to be the person to knock down a barrier - just like the Williams sisters did in tennis or Tiger Woods in golf.

I love being the first person to play a part. I really get a big thrill out of it.

I am thrilled to share the news that Andrew Sullivan is bringing his trailblazing journalism to 'The Daily Beast.'

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

I was the first person to go to university from my family.

It's always difficult when going from one field to another especially when you're the first person to make the jump and when you've had so much success in that first field. I got a lot of pushback but I kept going.

I was always a rebel in the sense that I always wanted to go my own road and do something that nobody else has done.

It felt amazing to be one of a handful working female directors in Hollywood.

During my time, fortunately or unfortunately, I had no idea what Miss Universe was supposed to be like because nobody from India had won the title before me.

Brubaker and Phillipss books have always been about eight years ahead of their time.

The man with a new idea is a Crank until the idea succeeds.

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

Women who have managed to get successful normally have had to carve out pretty much their own route for doing it, because there are few roadmaps for how, as a woman, you become successful. You think about having to do it yourself, you carve your own way. Does that relate to being Jewish?

I want to make history.

I have often been many companies' first experience with a gender-variant model. I am proud of that because I think I have broadened their horizons in my own way.

'Boldly going where hundreds have gone before' does not make headlines.

I want to be in the Guinness Book of World Records. And I don't have the patience to grow the longest fingernails in the world. Why not be the fastest woman on four wheels? It makes complete sense.

Everything we did we were setting the tone for the world.

There aren't, like, four Aquamans before me. I get to set the tone for it.

I have tried to be a leader. I have tried in my role of being one of the first women at Google, let alone the first woman to have a baby, to really try to set the tone that this is a great place to work for diversity reasons.