80 Pioneer Quotes

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Famous Pioneer Quotes

The pioneer scientist must have "a vivid intuitive imagination, for new ideas are not generated by deduction, but by artistically creative imagination." — Max Planck

It is not easy to be a pioneer - but oh, it is fascinating! I would not trade one moment, even the worst moment, for all the riches in the world. — Elizabeth Blackwell

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. - Steve Jobs

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. — Steve Jobs

An innovator is one who does not know it cannot be done. — R.A. Mashelkar

Honest pioneer work in the field of science has always been, and will continue to be, life's pilot. On all sides, life is surrounded by hostility. This puts us under an obligation. — Wilhelm Reich

I'm not a pirate. I'm an innovator. — Kim Dotcom

I am the innovator. I am the originator. I am the emancipator. I am the architect of rock 'n' roll! — Little Richard

The company that doesn’t pioneer, doesn’t take chances, and merely goes along with the crowd is liable to prove a rather mediocre investment in this highly competitive age. — Philip Arthur Fisher

Innovation and progress are achieved only by those who venture beyond standard operating procedure. — Michael Abrashoff

The pioneering spirit is less about thinking up new ideas, as ridding ourselves of dogmas and habits that hold us captive in thinking. — Bertrand Piccard

Innovators are inevitably controversial. — Eva Le Gallienne

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

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future. — Deepak Chopra

Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops. — Thomas J. Watson

I am not belittling the brave pioneer men but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle this glorious land of ours. — Edna Ferber

Short Pioneer Quotes

  • I believe in the truth of fairy-tales more than I believe in the truth in the newspaper. — Lotte Reiniger
  • Use your fear... it can take you to the place where you store your courage. — Amelia Earhart
  • We were the first to arrive in China. There were only bicycles when we opened here… — Bernard Arnault
  • Vuitton has always been a pioneer. — Bernard Arnault
  • Steve Jobs was a digital pioneer, but when he went home, he listened to vinyl. — Neil Young
  • Rebels and non-conformists are often the pioneers and designers of change. — Indira Gandhi
  • Nobody ever understands what a pioneer is doing. — Timothy Leary
  • The pioneer who fought for his liberties now has descendants who take them. — Unknown
  • Pioneering basically amounts to finding new and more horrible ways to die — John W. Campbell
  • The pioneers of a warless world are the young men and women who refuse military service. — Albert Einstein

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Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

Being A Pioneer Quotes

I was not trying to be shocking, or to be a pioneer. I wasn`t trying to change society, or to be ahead of my time. I didn`t think of myself as liberated, and I don`t believe that I did anything important. I was just myself. I didn`t know any other way to be, or any other way to live. — Bettie Page

[On being first black woman to earn a PhD in economics and first black woman admitted to Pennsylvania bar:] I never looked for anybody to hold the door open for me. I knew well that the only way I could get that door open was to knock it down: because I knocked all of them down. — Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander

But how entirely I live in my imagination; how completely depend upon spurts of thought, coming as I walk, as I sit; things churning up in my mind and so making a perpetual pageant, which is to be my happiness. — Virginia Woolf

It has always seemed to me that any man is a better man for being a hunter. This sport confers a certain constant alertness, and develops a certain ruggedness of character....Moreover, it allies us to the pioneer past. In a deep sense, this great land of ours was won for us by hunters. — Archibald Rutledge

If you're competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering. — Jeff Bezos

If we all used clotheslines, we could save 30 million tons of coal a year, or shut down 15 nuclear power plants. And you don't have to wait to start. Yours could be up by this afternoon. To be specific, buy 50 feet of clothesline and a $3 bag of clothespins and become a solar energy pioneer. — Bill McKibben

I'd like to be remembered as someone who wasn't satisfied with just one level of musicianship ... as someone who was a pioneer. — Amy Winehouse

I hear the tread of pioneers Of nations yet to be, The first low wash of waves where soon Shall roll a human sea. — John Greenleaf Whittier

I'm a firm believer in everything going digital, in a matter of years. I wanted to kind of be one of the pioneers, one of the people that jump on that bandwagon early. — Joe Budden

A pioneer should have imagination, should be able to enjoy the idea of things more than the things themselves. — Willa Cather

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More Pioneer Quotes

I regard irreligious people as pioneers. If there had been no priesthood the world would have advanced ten thousand times better than it has now. — Anandi Gopal Joshi

If you are in trouble anywhere in the world, an airplane can fly over and drop flowers, but a helicopter can land and save your life. — Igor Sikorsky

There's nothing on it worthwhile, and we're not going to watch it in this household, and I don't want it in your intellectual diet. — Philo Farnsworth

Further more Yemen is leading pioneer in democratic practice, lots of brothers and friends testified on that. — Ali A. Saleh

Further more Yemen is leading pioneer in democratic practice, lots of brothers and friends testified on that. — Ali Abdullah Saleh

I want to find the intersection between digital media and traditional media and be pioneering the endeavor to merge the two worlds. — Logan Paul

Cell phones have changed us from a nation of self-reliant pioneer types into a bunch of men standing alone in supermarkets saying, ‘Okay, I’m in the tampon aisle, but I don’t see it.' — John Gierach

The climbing community of Nepal have always been the pioneers of 8,000ers, but they never got the respect they deserve. I want to represent the Nepalese climbing community. — Nirmal Purja

My hope is that Stennis will continue to pioneer in the future those advanced propulsion systems that will take us to Mars and beyond. — Fred Haise

You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger. Cheerful endurance of hardships and contempt of surroundings become a virtue in a pioneer. Comfort is a comparatively new thing in the United States. — Ida Tarbell

In the US, the 50s and 60s marked the documentary's golden age, especially at CBS, where pioneering televison journalist Edward R Murrow, immortalised in George Clooney's Good Night, and Good Luck, produced such landmark investigations as the CBS Reports programme Hunger in America. — Naomi Wolf

There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different. — Alfred P. Sloan

Men like Henry George [ the pioneer of land value taxation] are rare, unfortunately. One cannot imagine a more beautiful combination of intellectual keenness, artistic form, and fervent love of justice. — Albert Einstein

The history of my state of Oklahoma offers a great example of pursuing the American Dream. It was built and settled by pioneers moving West to seek better lives. — Mary Fallin

Diesel pioneered the idea of luxury denim, and we still drive this market. But it encompasses more: the consumers love the brand, the lifestyle, the mentality of Diesel. — Renzo Rosso

There will certainly be no lack of human pioneers when we have mastered the art of flight....Let us create vessels and sails justed to the heavenly ether, and there will be plenty of people unafraid of the empty wastes. In the meantime we shall prepare, for the brave sky-travelers, maps of the celestial bodies. — Johannes Kepler

To replace the old paradigm of war with a new paradigm of waging peace, we must be pioneers who can push the boundaries of human understanding. We must be doctors who can cure the virus of violence. We must be soldiers of peace who can do more than preach to the choir. And we must be artists who will make the world our masterpiece. — Paul K. Chappell

The wilderness is gone, the buckskin man is gone, the painted Indian has hit the trail over the Great Divide, the hardships and privations of pioneer life which did so much to develop sterling manhood are now but a legend in history, and we must depend upon the Boy Scout movement to produce the MEN of the future. — Daniel Carter Beard

I think it's cool that people kind of look at me as one of the originators of online video and one of the pioneers of YouTube because I've worked really hard to build an audience and make content that I'm proud of. — Shane Dawson

In the face of the economic plight, it is our task to become pioneers of simplicity, that is, to find a simple form for all of life's necessities, which is at the same time respectable and genuine. — Oskar Schlemmer

Dr. Shapiro is a pioneer in the field of helping people overcome trauma and negative past experiences. — Daniel Amen

A man of distinguished, beautiful eloquence, and persistent, over pressing thought... Ameen Rihani was one of the foremost pioneers of modern illumination. He firmly believed in the significance of reviving the Arab spirit and protecting the freedom of thought and the freedom of human conscience. — Mikhail Naimy

A pioneer is a man who turned all the grass upside down, strung bob-wire over the dust that was left, poisoned the water, cut down the trees, killed the Indian who owned the land and called it progress. — Charles Marion Russell

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