Quotes About Trailblazers

The early giants of modern dance - Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis - barely left traces of their art.

Little girls and little boys need to have role models to look up to and know that, 'I'm not the first one. I'm not having to do this for the first time ever. Others have blazed the trail before me, and I can follow in their footsteps and do the same thing.'

There were several men who had blazed the trail for talking about emotions in philosophy; otherwise my work would have had even more opposition than it did.

The Hyperloop One Global Challenge started as a call to action for innovators, engineers, trailblazers, and dreamers around the world who shared our vision of creating a new mode of transportation. The Global Challenge became a movement of thousands of people from more than 100 countries over six continents.

I embrace my darker skin - always have, always will. In addition, I believe black women have always been trailblazers and trendsetters. Acknowledgement or not, we are and always have been beautiful.

The avantgarde are people who don't exactly know where they want to go, but are the first to get there.

In 1994, we had the first record by a true heavy metal band to ever hit the Billboard top No. 1 slot. We paved the way. And we always waved the heavy metal flag.

Unfortunately, pioneers will always pave the way with sacrifices.

I always say that in my career as an actress, I've always worked with people like David Lynch or Guy Maddin or Peter Weir who are considered not mainstream directors and that could be because they are like my dad. They are pioneers, and pioneers, by definition, invent something new.

In any art form, in Hollywood or in music, there is a handful of people who really, you know, move the envelope.

My understanding is that Kansas, Massachusetts, they've been more pioneers on the special education side.

Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, Dolly Parton and I were the first female headliners, where we would book our own opening acts. Before that, it was a standing joke that it was more like we had 'pretty little girl singers' opening for a male headliner.

Entrepreneurs are misfits to the core. They forge ahead, making their own path and always, always, question the status quo.

Pioneers will always get the stones, when everyone later gets the accolades.

Look at Loretta Lynn. Look at Jeannie C. Rily singing 'Harper Valley PTA' and Tammy Wynette singing about divorce. They were ahead of their times in a lot of ways.

People with dominant Egotist Imposters who are self-actualized are often strong and self-possessed leaders, direct in their interaction with others, and even protective of others. Many of them are true trailblazers. When they empower people instead of intimidating them, they are remarkable change agents.

Fore-runners

Vanderbilt, Hill, the Wright brothers—these are the American pioneers. They

The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific and religious freedom have always been nonconformists.