Sunita Williams Quotes

If the Wright brothers hadn't put their lives on the line, we would not be flying around the world these days. So we need pioneers.

I put it in the back of my mind that someday I would fly around the world.

I am not afraid to be a pioneer. When a door is ajar, you need to open it fully. And once you are in that room, you need to see what other doors there might be and where they might lead.

Human progress has always been driven by a sense of adventure and unconventional thinking.

A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore.

We need people pushing the boundaries. Exploration is what we, as humans, do.

Walking gets too boring, when you learn how to fly.

We should be pushing our boundaries. After all, we Britons are explorers and adventurers.

Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.

New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.

My motto is more, 'If you want to find something new, look for something new!' There is a certain amount of risk in this attitude, as even the slightest failure tends to be resounding, but you are so happy when you succeed that it is worth taking the risk.

Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which men will never have to cope.

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

I pick projects according to how fascinating they are to me, and it has resulted in a broad reach. My records are actually in five different sports: balloons, airplanes, airships, gliders, and sailboats.

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something.

Any creative process is about being in a territory which isn't secure, isn't necessarily familiar, and isn't convenient in any sort of way. And that's the excitement of it.

People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.

Perhaps the spirit of adventure, be it mental or material adventure, is a factor so essential in human progress that no emphasis of it is undue.

All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas.

You've gotta dive into the abyss if you wanna get anything good. Every record, you've gotta go down in the abyss and hope that you come out of it alive.

I have always had an instinct for doing new things. Call it good or bad, I love to experiment.

Grounding airplanes to cover your butt would never have let Orville or Wilbur change the world. We would still be spending weeks to cross the Atlantic to do business in London.

What the history of aviation has brought in the 20th century should inspire us to be inventors and explorers ourselves in the new century.