Quotes About Pioneering

My favorite model of success is when people say, 'Nobody bought that first Velvet Underground album, but everyone who did started a band.'

Be not the first by whom the new is tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside," is a safe rule for those who would always retain the good opinion of that all-powerful, but somewhat unintelligent, incubus, "the average person," but the pioneer, the guide, is necessary. That is, if the world is to move forward.

Most influential of all is the philosopher Stanley Cavell, and a younger generation of philosophers who have attempted to follow his pioneering work in thinking about literature philosophically.

My talent is getting things to work that people think are many decades in the future. I say we can make them happen now.

The art world was not initially really accepting my kind of work. I was ahead of my time.

The American economy has been built and sustained by risk-taking entrepreneurs whose pioneering ideas and hard work gave birth to flourishing businesses.

If you have a vision and there is no job title for it yet. That's a vision right there!

I don't think that one thing defines me, but I know that by coming out the way that I did, sort of almost pioneering it in action sports - to take that stand - that it's always going to be a label that is stuck with me, and I know that I'll always be the 'gay skier,' and it actually doesn't bother me.

We want to take AI and CIFAR to wonderful new places, where no person, no student, no program has gone before.

I got involved when I was a graduate student at UCLA when UCLA was the first site on the net.

I have a father who was the first black student at his junior high and high school and had to do a lot to get to that point.

I was the first black director on 'Dallas.' I drove my car into the studio lot and the guard asked me who I was delivering to.

Rogers and Hammerstein were such a genius pair. They were able to touch on subject matter so far ahead of its time.

My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching.

he would have been the first to scoff at the notion of labeling himself anything other than an explorer. His words to me were, 'If you aren't willing to take the risks, then you can't make the discoveries.

A pioneering figure in the past, the future was the president of the present. You are sitting. But the future wants your chair. She is demanding.

The best thing to do is go as far out as you can get... what you regard as 'too far' - and when others follow, as they will, move on

There would be no hair growing business today had I not started it.

Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they'll turn out to be right.

I was the first f****** hippy to enter this business, you know... I was one of the first girls to say I don't give a f*** about this whole supermodel thing.

Be daring. Be first. Be different.

We never set up Yandex to imitate what others were doing. We've been in the business longer than other search engines and have created many original products.

If you're looking where everybody else is looking, you're looking in the wrong spot.

You want to be the first to do something. You want to create something. You want to innovate something...I often think of Edison inventing the light bulb. That's what I want to do. I want to drive over the bridge coming out of New York there and look down on that sea of lights that is New Jersey and say, `Hey, I did that!'