Quotes About Pioneering

I was the first artist, I think, to ever do an all-keyboard album. There were things that resembled it, like Stevie Wonder. A lot of his stuff was on keyboards, but he used brass and he used other things as well. I was the first artist, also, to use drum machines. I was really the one who kind of started that whole thing.

There are a lot of similarities between cyberspace and the frontier. It's pretty raw and primitive. I mean, you have to churn your own butter in cyberspace. You can't go down to the 7-Eleven and buy a stick of butter because it's not that well developed.

Jesse Stone did more to develop the basic rock-and-roll sound than anybody else.

I had this image before Boy George, before the Beatles, before the Rolling Stones.

In response to the making of DSMNY, a change in the Chelsea store became necessary. My flagship stores always have to lead the way.

I like something with a really great storyline, characters, and concept. I like doing things that are new and cutting edge.

I am not the first straight dancer or the last.

If you do something new, it will always look a little bit strange.

principio sencillo: Si no puedes ser el primero en una categoría, crea una nueva en la que puedas ser el primero.

todo el mundo le interesa lo nuevo. Poca gente se interesa por lo mejor. Si eres el primero en una categoría

If you can't be first in a category, set up a new category you can be first in.

When you launch a new product, the first question to ask yourself is not "How is this new product better than the competition?" but "First what?" In other words, what category is this new product first in?

Si lo que hago suena razonable a la mayoría de la gente, entonces no estoy trabajando en un espacio lo bastante creativo e innovador!»

Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center. Big, undreamed-of things—the people on the edge see them first." —Kurt Vonnegut

Or Dick Fosbury, who went backwards over the high jump bar for the first time in the Olympics, winning gold —" ERIC: "1968, you got it." TIM: "Ridiculed, then mimicked, and eventually made standard.

Burns collaborated with pioneering cognitive psychologist Aaron T. Beck, who believed that most depression or anxiety was simply a result of illogical and negative thinking. He

I knew there was a school where women could study astronomy. So... it never occurred to me that I couldn't be an astronomer.

In Missouri, we built the steamships that plied the Mississippi. It was people of Missouri who believed that a human being could fly across the Atlantic Ocean alone. And it was Missourians who built the capsule in which an American first orbited the earth.

We were the first all-girl band that wrote and played our own stuff. You know, the odds were really against us because rock has traditionally been dominated by men.

I went on to Oklahoma State University, who was the best flight school in the United States at that time from the mid '50s on to the '70s.

Having the opportunity to go to the U.S. Olympics was great because I was the first Latina in over 30 years to compete in gymnastics at the Olympics.

One of the things that always appealed to me about Nasa was we were always doing cool stuff that no-one's done before.

I started one of the first online video companies way back in 2003.

I've always defended Shania. She not only opened doors; she knocked several down.