Quotes About Pioneering

In my opinion, the Bay is a trendsetting area.

You had to fight every inch of the way, that's what made us trailblazers.

He (Tomaz Humar) doesn't conform to existing standards; he creates them.

As companies get bigger, they have something to lose. When they do, the natural tendency is to get risk-aversive. They lose their boldness. They lose the spirit to innovate. They lose their pioneering qualities. I am bound and determined not to let that happen to Amazon.com.

If you're competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering.

Immortality is a long shot, I admit. But somebody has to be first.

I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.

The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It'll be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the ocean hadn't been reusable.

I worked hard every single day to become the NXT Women's Champion, and first of all to be the first-ever person to be from NXT to defend a championship from here at WrestleMania is absolutely insane.

I want to be the first female to main-event WrestleMania, and I just want to continue to get better and better and continue my dad's legacy.

My grandfather was one of the very, very first, if not the first, Samoan wrestlers to become known on a worldwide basis.

There were no wrestling schools in Ireland. It was completely unheard of.

When I created the Cruiserweight division in WCW, nobody called them cruiserweights in the industry at that point. That was a boxing term, not a wrestling term, but I did not want to call them junior heavyweights, light heavyweights, or anything that made them sound diminutive. I wanted it to sound special and cool.

No one iced their body in professional wrestling before me. I did it because I was 35, 36, 37. I was already what would have been considered an old timer.

I was the first Indian to take on and beat the best in professional wrestling, but I certainly don't want to be the last.

You want to talk about somebody that has changed the face of wrestling because of them being in it, I think it's pretty clear I did that.

Everything was so new - the whole idea of going into space was new and daring. There were no textbooks, so we had to write them.

resolved to go with bold entreaty whither no man had gone before, and dare the

For every SF reader of that period, Robert A. Heinlein was also a touchstone.

For me, it's always been a financial kind of scenario. I was actually the first one who signed the 'exclusive to Ring of Honor' contract. I was the first guy who ever signed one of those contracts. That was tough for me because I had no one to talk to. I had no examples to go on. I was the guinea pig.

People have had the idea to do a '90s alternative tour for a long time. I didn't come up with that; I was the first guy to basically say it was time.

I had no idea 'The Dream Weaver' would be so successful. Everything just fell into place with that album. I pioneered a number of ideas with that album and subsequent tour. The all-keyboard approach with no guitars was a new one, and I was one of the first to use a drum machine in concert. It was an amazing time.

The average tourist wants to go to places where there are no tourists.

A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a little over 120 feet from the point at which it rose into the air, ended the flight.