Ishmael Reed Quotes

I always want to do something groundbreaking, something different. I think that's what it's always about. If you have the means to do it, why not?

I'm always trying to do things that no one has ever seen before.

There's no-one in particular that we look up to, because we strive to be something that's never gone before.

Doing what has never been done before is intellectually seductive, whether or not we deem it practical.

I'm very conscious of the idea of trying to each time present something that I haven't presented before. It's a challenge to me to find something new, to find something innovative, but it's also very exciting.

I'm always looking for the next major hurdle and doing something that the world has never seen.

In a society that glorifies the pioneers, it's easy to think that an endeavor is only worth pursuing if you can be the first to pursue it.

I guess I think about doing stuff that nobody else has done.

It's always been very important to me to try to do projects which are breaking new ground.

We like to try doing new things in the shows and doing things that we haven't done before.

Pioneering is the work of individuals.

I always try to do something nobody else has done.

My only two constants are to challenge myself and to try not to repeat myself.

When something is new and hard and bright, there ought to be something a little better for it than just being safe, since the safe things are just the things that folks have been doing so long they have worn the edges off and there's nothing to the doing of them that leaves a man to say, That was not done before and it cannot be done again.

Being able to do something that's never been done before, that's what I've always wanted to do. . . . There was nothing that was going to stand in my way of being the first.

There is no map, and charting a path ahead will not be easy. We will need to invent, which means we will need to experiment.

Figure out how to do things that have never been done before.

Lots of people were skeptical, but that's always true when you do something that hasn't been done before.

Everything we are doing is on the cutting edge of so many different industries and so many different interests. We're out there in the sunshine, and it feels fine.

Never forget that what becomes timeless was once truly new.

I like people who push the envelope.

Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.

Nintendo's philosophy is never to go the easy path; it's always to challenge ourselves and try to do something new.

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.