Quotes About Pioneering

I love being the first person to play a part. I really get a big thrill out of it.

I feel like a pioneer with the split-fingered fastball. I was the first one to really throw it pretty much 100 percent of the time. It was a pitch that I had to have. If I didn't have it, I wouldn't have been in the big leagues.

My great forte in killing buffaloes was to get them circling by riding my horse at the head of the herd and shooting their leaders. Thus the brutes behind were crowded to the left, so that they were soon going round and round.

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.

Prototyping is about doing small experiments at low cost, using what you have to hand.

For a long time, just skating in the Olympics had been my goal because not many Koreans had done it.

Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music and jazz in the home all the time.

It was a black and white only computer at the time, but it kept me fascinated.

A land may be said to be discovered the first time a European, presumably an Englishman, sets foot on it.

Throughout the day no time for memorandums now. Go ahead! Liberty and independence forever.

America is now a space-faring nation. a frontier good for millions of years. The only time remotely comparable was when Columbus discovered a whole new world.

As time goes on, I realize more and more that, beginning in the early 30's, David Smith began setting the precedent for what was to come later for many of us.

I did not realize at the time, as I have discovered since, that anyone who attempts any thing original in this world must expect a bit of ridicule. Clarence Birdseye

I'm a text artist. It's an unsung art form because it's so ahead of its time.

Standing now astride two cultures, Olive had unwittingly made history: she was the first known tattooed white female in the United States.

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But to me, MAP was a robot Columbus.

I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador — an adventurer, if you want it translated — with all the curiosity, daring, and tenacity characteristic of a man of this sort.

it was a brave man who ate the first oyster

The days of pioneering, of lassies in sunbonnets, and bears killed with axes in piney clearings, are deader now than Camelot; and a rebellious girl is the spirit of that bewildered empire called the American Middlewest.

A frontier is never a place; it is a time and a way of life.

From the first moment of independence, the United States has been dedicated to innovation as a way of government and a way of life.

I do not follow any tradition. I may stand at the beginning of one.

Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.