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Quotes About Pioneering

We sat around one night and thought that people are going to look back and say, I can't imagine there was a lot of excitement about HER going up!
~ Christa McAuliffe
Pete Dj Jones was the first person that I saw with 2 turntables. This was 1972.
~ Kurtis Blow
It can be a scary thought to do something that's never been done before.
~ Caeleb Dressel
My show was revolutionary, ground-breaking. When I came on the scene, people were not doing a thing.
~ Howard Stern
The moment I say I'm going into scooters, they say, 'You're crazy.' Six months later, when BMW comes out with an electric scooter, it's fine. But when Anand does it, because he's some small guy in India, it's not fine.
~ Anand Mahindra
We're not the new anything. We're the first 5 Seconds of Summer.
~ Luke Hemmings
All the great shows owe a lot to 'Hill Street Blues.'
~ Lennie James
The first-person shooter genre owes itself to 'Duke Nukem.'
~ Randy Pitchford
What separated Ed Murrow from the rest of the pack was courage.
~ Dan Rather
People think it's great to be ahead of your time, but it can actually be quite painful.
~ George M. Church
Pollock really invented something. No one painted like him - or de Kooning or Still.
~ Roy Lichtenstein
Why shouldn't I fly from New York to Paris? I have more than four years of aviation behind me. I've barnstormed over half of the 48 states. I've flown my mail through the worst of nights.
~ Charles Lindbergh
The same theme can be found in Carol Reed's pioneering The Stars Look Down, in which three classic avenue of escape from the working class are posited: crime, football and education.
~ Peter Wollen
People will visit Mars, they will settle mars, and we should because it's cool.
~ Jeff Bezos
I was really ambitious, so I was innovative. I was one of the first DJs to do live calls, 'cause I found this phone device that would pick up other people's voices.
~ Idris Elba
A gold medal is a goal and something that we've never done before as the United States indoor women's volleyball team.
~ Jordan Larson
Anytime you're the first to speak out against something, there's going to be a backlash.
~ Eli Roth
My name will always go down in history as the first Miss Money in the Bank. It's so cool!
~ Carmella
With 'Barely Famous', we've tapped into and created something really exciting that we'll always be proud of going forward.
~ Erin Foster
I have 'the first' attached to my name in a whole lot of different aspects when it comes to the sport of basketball.
~ Lisa Leslie
I really look forward to every single bit of it. Every time I do something in space, it will be the first time.
~ Victor J. Glover
Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
~ Sally Ride
I am not trying to be the next anyone - I am going to be the first Dolph Ziggler!
~ Dolph Ziggler
I've always wanted to know what it's like to be the first to do something.
~ Kylie Bunbury