Ken Kesey Quotes

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

I went through some pretty rough patches in my life, and I've come out of them a stronger, more inspired, and energetic person.

There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome; alwayswe are invited to work.

I'm here to break boundaries, man. That's all. I'm here to be the first so that the people after me don't have to think twice about expressing themselves and being free.

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.

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

It's been a grand, elevating, life-confirming experience these last two years.

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

It was always my desire to strike new ground and help to lend weight where it was most required.

I haven't broken any new ground in the form of a film.

People need to remember that I am the first black driver in F1, so I am obviously going to be different to past drivers.

It's not a born-again thing; it was a peaceful, really, really cool moment where I just felt that I was no longer the dad anymore. I actually had become a son, and it makes things much easier from a day-to-day perspective.

To be the first person to do anything, you're a legend.

If you have a culture of respect, creativity flows. You create this energy, and then people have more desire to take risks.

AEW is history-making. When the chance presented itself to be a part of something so groundbreaking, I wasn't going to wait around any longer.

I've always wanted to know what it's like to be the first to do something.

Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants at tree, is more than all.

There is nothing pleasanter than spading when the ground is soft and damp.

Once in a rare while, somebody comes along who doesn't just raise the bar, they create an entirely new standard of measurement.

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?

You cannot mandate productivity, you must provide the tools to let people become their best.

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

You can inspire people to give you greatness, or you can micro-manage them into your own one specific kernel of an idea. To me, I think that when you inspire people to give their best, then you're going to get the best result.

Woman will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress.

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