Joy Mangano Quotes

Pioneering is the work of individuals.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

If you feel driven and compelled to make your work and to be fiercely original and have something unique to say, in a compelling way, then chances are the helpers will be there for you the doors will open some, the ice will crack.

What you end up seeing when you look at history is that people who have been good at pushing the boundaries of possibility, and exploring those frontiers of good ideas and innovations, have rarely done it in moments of great inspiration. They don't just have a brilliant breakthrough idea out of nowhere and leap ahead of everyone else.

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

You don't just become number one because you sing like everybody else. There is something different you bring to the table. Make sure you are constantly getting into the newest technologies. Learn the history of what you do, and always respect the ones who came before you.

People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

My advice to young film-makers is this: don't follow trends, start them!

To me, Arnold was a pioneer in the spirit of Thomas Edison or Benjamin Franklin, while Tiger is a pioneer in the spirit of Bill Gates.

I'm looking for people who are at the cutting edge of what they do, who think out-of-the-box. Even if their work is something common today, it might have been absolutely new when they started out, so we'd like to hear of their beginnings.

A great man is the man who does something for the first time.

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

To create and do something no one else has done before - that feeling beats anything else I've felt.

Men of great genius and large heart sow the seeds of a new degree of progress in the world, but they bear fruit only after many years.

You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.

The most successful people are so original.

Nobody really invents anything that hasn't been done before.

Never take no for answer, and try to make films that turn you on.

Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.

Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.

A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance.

Every great inspiration is but an experiment - though every experiment we know, is not a great inspiration.

Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.