Pioneering Quotes

• Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

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• The pioneers of a warless world are the young men (and women) who refuse military service.

  Albert Einstein

  Peace, Military, War

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• It is not easy to be a pioneer - but oh, it is fascinating!

  Elizabeth Blackwell

  Pioneers, Easy, Fascinating

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• 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

  Thinking, Ideas, Spirit

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• Do whatever you do intensely. The artist is the man who leaves the crowd and goes pioneering. With him there is an idea which is his life.

  Robert Henri

  Artist, Men, Ideas

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• Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Eye, Wings, Pioneers

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.75

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• Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.

  Nancy Astor

  Lonely, Pioneers, May

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• On all sides, life is surrounded by hostility. This puts us under an obligation.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Responsibility, Pioneers, Sides

  Wilhelm Reich (1973). “The Discovery of the Orgone”

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• Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.

  Thomas J. Watson

  Organization, Progress, Spirit

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

  Eric Hoffer

  Failure, Expression, Land

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• We are all time voyagers leaving history in our wake, pioneering into the future.

  Erwin McManus

  Leaving, All Time

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2006). “Chasing Daylight: Seize the Power of Every Moment”, p.7, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Gene Autry was a pioneering star in the early days of music, radio, film, television and rodeo performances. I am proud to posthumously honor such an inspiring role model.

  Adam Schiff

  Stars, Role Models, Honor

  "Senator proposes highway to honor Gene Autry". www.cnn.com. January 28, 1999.

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• Climbing is about pioneering new routes, exploring new ground, facing the unknown. Those hooked on climbing the normal routes on the eight-thousanders will miss all theat. They are wasting the best years of their climbing lives.

  Doug Scott

  Eight, Climbing, Years

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• America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Change, Stars, Past

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• 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

  Two Sides, Pioneers, Pilots

  Wilhelm Reich (1973). “The Discovery of the Orgone”

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• It seems that boredom is one of the greatest discoveries of our time. If so, there's no question but that he must be considered a pioneer.

  Luchino Visconti

  Funny, Blessing, Discovery

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• The way of the pioneer is always rough.

  Harvey S. Firestone

  Pioneers, Way, Rough

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• Good night, and good luck.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Good Night, Good Luck, Best Of Luck

  Response to Senator Joe McCarthy on CBS' See It Now, Originally Broadcast 13 April 1954

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• I think the poet is the last person who is still speaking the truth when no one else dares to. I think the poet is the first person to begin the shaping and visioning of the new forms and the new consciousness when no one else has begun to sense it; I think these are two of the most essential human functions.

  Diane di Prima

  Truth, Thinking, Two

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• 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

  Inspirational, Educational, Waiting

  "America's Best Leaders: Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com CEO". Interview with David LaGesse, www.usnews.com. November 19, 2008.

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• Pioneering spirit should continue, not to conquer the planet or space ... but rather to improve the quality of life.

  Bertrand Piccard

  Health, Space, Quality

  Twitter post from Mar 26, 2016

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• From the outset, MoMA followed the Bauhaus's strict prohibition against design that even hinted at the decorative, a prejudice that skewed the pioneering museum's view of Modernism for decades.

  Martin Filler

  Museums, Views, Design

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• Pioneering is never done in front of cheerleaders urging on a roaring grandstand of popular approval.

  George Takei

  Roaring, Done, Approval

  George Takei (2015). “To The Stars: The Autobiography of George Takei”, p.238, Simon and Schuster

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• Pioneering is the work of individuals.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Pioneers, Individual

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• 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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