Peter Criss 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.

Like all pioneers I have labored more in faith and hope.

The pioneers get all the arrows.

Pioneers will always get the stones, when everyone later gets the accolades.

I think the character of a man is to establish something where no one else has ever done before.

That would be pretty cool being the first one to do the quint.

Pioneering is the work of individuals.

I am accused often of too much experimentation.., but what else should I do when all other factors of man are in the same condition. I thrust forward into space as science and the rest do.

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.

It is the swimmer who first leaps into the frozen stream who is cut sharpest by the ice; those who follow him find it broken, and the last find it gone. It is the men or women who first tread down the path which the bulk of humanity will ultimately follow, who must find themselves at last in solitudes where the silence is deadly.

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.

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

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.

In a word I was a pioneer, and therefore had to blaze my own trail.

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

I have always had an instinct for doing new things. Call it good or bad, I love to experiment.

It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.

For me, I love to dream big, and I love to find ways to be a bit of an explorer. These days, it seems like everything is padded and comes with warning labels.

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

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.

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

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

Be first and be lonely.

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

I break ground. I trailblaze.