Pioneering Quotes - Page 2

• One thing I hate about the New Deal is that it is killing what, to me, is the American pioneering spirit. I simply do not know what to tell my own boys, leaving school and confronting this new world whose ideal is Security and whose practice is dependence upon government instead of upon one's self. All the old character-values seem simply insane from a practical point of view; the self-reliant, the independent, the courageous man is penalized from every direction.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Hate, Independent, School

  Journal entry for April 15, 1937. "The Ghost in the Little House" by William V. Holtz. Chapter 14, 1993.

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• I owe a debt of gratitude to two other living Justices. Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg paved the way for me and so many other women in my generation. Their pioneering lives have created boundless possibilities for women in the law. I thank them for their inspiration and also for the personal kindnesses they have shown me.

  Elena Kagan

  Gratitude, Kindness, Inspiration

  Opening Statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee at the USSC Justice Confirmation Hearings, delivered 28 June 2010

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• California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.

  Ed Begley, Jr.

  California, Car, Environmental

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators of sensibilities. The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.

  Susan Sontag

  Two, Creative, Culture

  Susan Sontag (2014). “A Susan Sontag Reader”, p.177, Macmillan

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• The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.

  Susan Sontag

  Two, Minorities, Moral

  Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

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• The early ELP albums were pioneering in a way.

  Greg Lake

  Albums, Way

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• I want to thank the pioneering women who years ago opened the doors of politics in Costa Rica. My government will be open to all Costa Ricans of good faith.

  Laura Chinchilla

  Government, Doors, Years

  "Costa Rica elects first woman president". www.cnn.com. February 8, 2010.

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• A hundred years ago, when Richard Strauss, who has already been quoted and already been heard today, and other creative people, laid the foundation stone for the joint assertion of their rights and interests, they had pioneering work ahead of them in Germany.

  Johannes Rau

  Rights, Years, People

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• Katz traces the courageous role of Black women in settling the West (and] deftly shows how these pioneering spirits helped stabilize early communities in Texas, Oklahoma, California and elsewhere.

  Herb Boyd

  Oklahoma, Texas, California

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• There is more openness in LA to possibilities than on the East Coast of America. There is a pioneering spirit there that stems from the reason people went out there in the first place-to find something new.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  America, People, East

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• Rock is all about writing your own script; it's all about pioneering.

  Courtney Love

  Writing, Rocks, Scripts

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• While conservatism and self-protection might be likened to winter, night, and death, the spirit of pioneering and attempting to realize ideals evokes images of spring, morning, and birth.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Morning, Spring, Winter

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• Buddhism holds that everything is in constant flux. Thus the question is whether we are to accept change passively and be swept away by it or whether we are to take the lead and create positive changes on our own initiative. While conservatism and self-protection might be likened to winter, night, and death, the spirit of pioneering and attempting to realize ideals evokes images of spring, morning, and birth.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Buddhist, Morning, Spring

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• I don't think I have ever been as inspired by any character that I have played. I was deeply moved by Temple's courage and her resourcefulness.. She is really pioneering in both the world of autism and animal rights. She has encouraged an incredibly positive change in the world.

  Claire Danes

  Character, Animal, Thinking

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• For throughout history, you can read the stories of women who - against all the odds - got being a woman right, but ended up being compromised, unhappy, hobbled or ruined, because all around them, society was still wrong. Show a girl a pioneering hero - Sylvia Plath, Dorothy Parker, Frida Kahlo, Cleopatra, Boudicca, Joan of Arc - and you also, more often than not, show a girl a woman who was eventually crushed.

  Caitlin Moran

  Girl, Hero, Odds

  Caitlin Moran (2012). “How to Be a Woman”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• We're doing some very exciting, bold things, pioneering content on mobile and for broadband, ... My vision is to say, as we take the strategy forward, we are doing it to deliver public remit. We're thinking less and less about C4 and more about the brand family.

  Tim Duncan

  Thinking, Vision, Strategy

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• I therefore concluded, and decided unhesitatingly, that there are three stars in the heavens moving about Jupiter, as Venus and Mercury about the Sun; which at length was established as clear as daylight by numerous other observations.

  Galileo Galilei

  Stars, Moving, Science

  "The English Renaissance: An Anthology of Sources and Document". Book by Kate Aughterson (p. 383), June 1, 2002.

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• In honoring the Wright Brothers, it is customary and proper to recognize their contribution to scientific progress. But I believe it is equally important to emphasize the qualities in their pioneering life and the character in man that such a life produced. The Wright Brothers balanced sucess with modesty, science with simplicity. At Kitty Hawk their intellects and senses worked in mutual support. They represented man in balance, and from that balance came wings to lift a world.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Success, Brother, Believe

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• In the four decades of philanthropy that have paralleled my business career, I've found that the same principles apply whether you're providing access to capital to grow a business, creating a new paradigm for medical research, or pioneering innovative approaches to education: Empower the most talented people in each field and encourage them to pursue their passions.

  Michael Milken

  Encouragement, Business, Passion

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• I built the solenoid and with great expectations late one evening I pressed the switch which sent a current of 40 amperes through the coil. The result was spectacular-a deafening explosion, the apparatus disappeared, all windows were blown in or out, a wall caved in, and thus ended my pioneering experiment on liquid hydrogen cooled coils!

  Nicholas Kurti

  Wall, Science, Expectations

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• There is no freeway to the future, no paved highway from here to there. There is only wilderness, uncertain terrain. There are no roadmaps, no signposts. So pioneering leaders rely upon a compass and a dream

  James M. Kouzes

  Dream, Rely Upon, Leader

  James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner (1987). “The leadership challenge: how to get extraordinary things done in organizations”, Jossey-Bass, 1988

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• The wealth gathered by Jamsetji Tata and his sons in half a century of industrial pioneering formed but a minute fraction of the amount by which they enriched the nation. The whole of that wealth is held in trust for the people and used exclusively for their benefit. The cycle is thus complete; what came from the people has gone back to the people many times over.

  J. R. D. Tata

  Son, People, Gone

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• If an aircraft is able to fly day and night without fuel, propelled only by solar energy, let no one claim that it is impossible to do the same thing for motor vehicles, heating and air-conditioning systems or computers, etc. This project voices our conviction that a pioneering spirit with political vision can together change society and and reduce society's dependence on fossil energies.

  Bertrand Piccard

  Night, Air, Motor Vehicles

  "Solar-powered plane reaches new heights". CNN interview, edition.cnn.com. April 19, 2010.

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• Awareness-mindfulness-is the first step in healing. In Counterclockwise, Dr. Ellen Langer eloquently describes how becoming more aware of our beliefs and expectations allows us to powerfully transform our lives for the better. A pioneering, beautifully-written book.

  Dean Ornish

  Book, Healing, Expectations

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• My mom was truly an iconic figure, a great journalist and a pioneering woman who died at 54 of cancer without ever having revealed to viewers that she was ill.

  David Frum

  Mom, Cancer, Figures

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