Quotes About Pioneer

I didn't really think too much about being any kind of pioneer. The truth is, I actually kind of caught onto a couple of really great coat tails in my career. The things were already moving when I got involved in both cases, really - Poco and the Eagles.

I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.

Lonnie was ahead of his time, but at the same time he was right in there with Albert Collins's Cool Sounds.

Someone like Billie Jean King is completely my idol.

Why is this place named Burnt Boot? Martin asked. Back in the days of the cattle drives old Hiram Cleary got tired of lookin' at the back end of cattle all day. He sat down right out there and pulled off his boot, threw it in the fire so he couldn't go no further, and built a store to sell stuff to the people comin' up the trail. He was an ancestor to my husband, Gladys answered.

You can really call Irene Dunne 'The First Lady of Hollywood', because she's the first real lady Hollywood has ever seen.

My brother was the first in Lancaster to have a Fender Stratocaster.

Guitar Player Magazine says Dick Dale is the father of Heavy Metal, blowing up 48 amplifiers, creating the first power amplifier.

Father Nicholas Steno, is often identified as the father of geology.

Street cred. Anybody who got in before '97 is considered OK – from '97 to 2000 it can go either way, maybe they're not not always cool, but usually they're not quite the kind of full-service dickhead you're seeing in the business now." "He's considered cool?" "No, he's a dickhead, but one of the early ones. A pioneer dickhead.

They are the small segment of the population that will adopt a cool product early on and infect everyone else with the bug.

In such doubtful matters, where you have to work as a pioneer, you must be able to put some trust in your intuition and follow your feeling even at the risk of going wrong.

I am proud of my racing trophies," Seppala once said, "but I would trade them all for the satisfaction of knowing that my dogs and I tried honestly to give our very best in humanitarian service to our fellowman, regardless of race, creed, color, in Alaska's pioneer days. Often the going was rough—sometimes my courage was greater than my team's—several times I was ready to quit but was ashamed because of the great fighting heart of the Siberian Husky.

I am patient zero.

I'm glad I've established this as my zone: 'the taboo breaker.'

America once had the clarity of a pioneer axe.

You can surmount the obstacles in your path if you are determined, courageous and hardworking. ... Do not fear to pioneer, to venture down new paths of endeavor.

Galileo called doubt the father of invention; it is certainly the pioneer.

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.

Born of a noble father and a saintly mother, President Hinckley learned as a young boy the truths of the restored gospel from his faithful parents. He came to respect deeply and value highly his pioneer heritage.

If you're a pioneer and you come up with something that can change the world and you turn round and say 'I'm not going to share this idea with anyone,' then you only impact the few and not the many.

Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice.

If what you want does not exist, why not create it?

History doesn't mean dates and wars and textbooks to me; it means the unconquerable pioneer spirit of man.