Delilah Quotes

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.

There had never really been a female that was breaking down a swing. So when I'd walk into a clubhouse, I'd have to explain a little bit of who I was.

I just really love being the first to do something and that drives me to think, 'What are people not doing right now, and how can I be the best at it?'

I love being the dude that does what no else is doing in the genre. It's exciting and terrifying at the same time.

That's just what I want to do: Create a path that's unknown. It's hard in this business and this world we live in to trail-blaze. To create something different and do your own thing is hard nowadays. That's what I want to do. I want to take these matches to a whole new level and break that bar.

I always try to do something nobody else has done.

The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind of duty to other women to walk in and sit down on the chair that was offered, and so establish the right of others long hence and far distant in geography to sit in the high seats.

Have fun. Do something nobody else had done before, or has done since.

Let me just say this - sometimes being a trailblazer is highly overrated.

One of the greatest things that Apple and Jobs were very good at doing was daring to do the very different thing. It's what I did with my cookbook, frankly.

I didn't expect such a huge reaction, but I knew I was doing something different to everything else that was happening at the time.

When you are the first of anything, there is a bigger responsibility put on you.

I was always a rebel in the sense that I always wanted to go my own road and do something that nobody else has done.

I love people who break boundaries and always create something new and fresh.

If you are going to do something truly innovative, you have to be someone who does not value social approval. You can't need social approval to go forward. Otherwise, how would you ever do the thing that you are doing?

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

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

The cable makers are the ones who are willing to take risks and do something original and push the envelope some.

My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'

I think when you're doing something cutting edge like 'The Matrix,' it might mean when everybody's saying 'no' that you're really on the right track.

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

You've got to push yourself harder. You've got to start looking for pictures nobody else could take. You've got to take the tools you have and probe deeper.

I guess I much prefer the path of the contrarian: the guy who goes against the grain a bit. The careers of the people who I admire deeply - like the Coen brothers and Soderbergh - don't repeat themselves, and they make radically different films at times, and I think that's wonderful.

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