Donnie Yen Quotes

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.

The term 'disrupter' has become an accolade, like first-responder or something.

I was a little bit ahead of my time.

I've realized that I've pioneered many things and have been a front-runner in a lot of things. I did many things ahead of time.

I don't want to be a follower; I want to be a leader and create new waves.

A pioneer is not someone who makes her own soap. She is one who takes up her burdens and walks toward the future.

A genius may perhaps be a century ahead of his age and hence stands there as a paradox, but in the end, the race will assimilate what was once a paradox, so it is no longer paradoxical.

I'm proud of my status as a pioneer in this business.

I look at myself as a game-changer, and I try to make that a facet of my game.

I believe I was ahead of my time.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

I'm often accused of being ahead of my time, but it's simply not true. The truth is that everybody else is behind.

When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.

A great man is one who deliberately causes something important to a happen, the probability of which seemed low before he took up the task. A great man is a man who gives history a turn which it could scarcely have taken without him. They give history a twist which nobody would have predicted. Great men leave permanent effects.

I don't think anything Ronda Rousey does is going to be the norm. I think everything she does is going to set a new trend and blaze a new trail.

I am the innovator. I am the originator. I am the emancipator. I am the architect of rock 'n' roll!

I consider myself a pathfinder. I have been excavating the jungle and making the road for others to walk. I like to be the first in everything I do.

A lot of stuff I do, 10 years later it becomes popular.

He who anticipates his century is generally persecuted when living, and always pilfered when dead.

At the end of the day, you want to be always the one that's one step ahead of everybody, and when it comes to hip-hop, culture and art, you want to be that signature guy.

My show was revolutionary, ground-breaking. When I came on the scene, people were not doing a thing.

Don't follow trends, start trends.

I'm somebody who seems to stumble into things 10 or 20 years before the rest of the world does.

I mean, when you're a pioneer and you are at the forefront of an offensive, you're going to be the most optimistic person.

A great man is the man who does something for the first time.