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Quotes About Pioneering

I was one of the early guys from my generation to have hair on his face. Me and Tom Selleck, and I was first.
~ Sam Elliott
He was a master of the PowerPoint presentation nearly a century before it existed.
~ Scott Anderson
It's time to open the space frontier to citizen explorers.
~ Buzz Aldrin
I was lucky that when Lorne Michaels came looking for women comedy writers, there werent too many in New York at the time. I was at the top of a very short list. I think that was all good fortune.
~ Anne Beatts
I tended to do a lot of shows that were ahead of their time and didn't run very long.
~ Brent Spiner
Brubaker and Phillipss books have always been about eight years ahead of their time.
~ Brian K. Vaughan
If you want to go into space first time on a new vehicle that's never been flown, you want to go with a pro.
~ Robert Crippen
Chashkin Sar was virgin, and we climbed it for the first time, and afterwards, the people renamed it as Samina Baig.
~ Samina Baig
Many cartoons I've drawn have been controversial, perhaps a little before their time, certainly when I was getting started.
~ Terry Mosher
The man with a new idea is a Crank until the idea succeeds.
~ Mark Twain
Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.
~ Ayn Rand
Dioscorides, an expert on medicinal plants, had ample material on which to base a pioneering treatise on bubonic plague.
~ Stacy Schiff
Patrick said that the problem was that since everything has happened already, it makes it hard to break new ground.
~ Stephen Chbosky
Birth of a Railroad
~ Stephen E. Ambrose
Forerun thy peers, thy time, and letThy feet, millenniums hence, be set In midst of knowledge, dream'd not yet.
~ Alfred Tennyson
She was herself, the original. Everyone else was just a copy.
~ Jon Courtenay Grimwood
Shirley "Cha Cha" Muldowney, who was the first female Top Fuel dragster champion, but
~ Eric Metaxas
example, developed the World Wide Web as a lead user working at CERN. The World Wide Web was certainly
~ Eric von Hippel
FIRST EDITION
~ Erin Hunter
There was no hip-hop before Afrika Bambaataa.
~ KRS-One
I used to do this one club called New York Sound Factory where I played house, hip-hop, and dancehall. I was one of the first DJs in the South to play everything.
~ Lil Jon
I want to make history.
~ Rhea Ripley
The first HIV movie in India, 'Nidaan,' was done by me which at that time nobody dared to even try.
~ Mahesh Manjrekar
There aren't as many women in my industry in comedy as there should and could and hopefully will be, but it is interesting growing up watching a woman in a male-dominated industry and kind of, like, plowing ahead.
~ Aisling Bea