Joan Lunden Quotes

I break ground. I trailblaze.

I always say, the greatest cost of leading is the cost of paving the way.

The pioneers get all the arrows.

I'm about making history and doing things that haven't been done before.

I feel like so much of what I'm doing is making a road where there is no road and inviting people on that road with me. It's scary. It's scary, but I can't listen to the voices that are saying form is the only way, or that there is only this kind of form or that kind of form.

The footsteps of a pioneer become ultimately the highway of a nation.

I have always thought that while it's wonderful to be the first to do something, you don't want to be the last.

It is the swimmer who first leaps into the frozen stream who is cut sharpest by the ice; those who follow him find it broken, and the last find it gone. It is the men or women who first tread down the path which the bulk of humanity will ultimately follow, who must find themselves at last in solitudes where the silence is deadly.

People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.

In a word I was a pioneer, and therefore had to blaze my own trail.

I felt like I was trailblazing. And that's what I did.

Like all pioneers I have labored more in faith and hope.

The man with a new idea is a crank until his idea succeeds.

Pioneering is the work of individuals.

I try to carve my own way so the actors who come after me will say, "I want to do it like Columbus did it."

There is no map, and charting a path ahead will not be easy. We will need to invent, which means we will need to experiment.

It's really exciting to be a part of something new that's pushing boundaries.

A pioneer is not someone who makes her own soap. She is one who takes up her burdens and walks toward the future.

XXIX Traveler, there is no path. The path is made by walking. Traveller, the path is your tracks And nothing more. Traveller, there is no path The path is made by walking. By walking you make a path And turning, you look back At a way you will never tread again Traveller, there is no road Only wakes in the sea.

I put all of my resources into pushing the evolution in an industry that is notoriously backwards and I enjoy pushing that envelope,.

You can't be a sort of pioneer.

The things that haven't been done before, Are the tasks worthwhile today; Are you one of the flock that follows, or Are you one that shall lead the way? Are you one of the timid souls that quail At the jeers of a doubting crew, Or dare you, whether you win or fail, Strike out for a goal that's new?

Let me just say this - sometimes being a trailblazer is highly overrated.

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

It's just exciting to be part of something that is brand-new.