Breaking New Ground Quotes

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

New ideas are difficult just because they are new. Repetition has somehow plastered over the gaps and inconsistencies in the old ones, and the new cannot penetrate.

Nobody ever understands what a pioneer is doing.

The things that haven't been done before, Are the tasks worthwhile today; Are you one of the flock that follows, or Are you one that shall lead the way? Are you one of the timid souls that quail At the jeers of a doubting crew, Or dare you, whether you win or fail, Strike out for a goal that's new?

It's hard to be the first. It's almost as if I'm subject to a different level of inspection.

When you're given something new, it's always exciting 'cause you're the first one to do it. You're not having to live up to any expectations, or be compared to anyone who's ever done it before.

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

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

I try to carve my own way so the actors who come after me will say, "I want to do it like Columbus did it."

Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction.

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.

Give me more. Let's do what has not been done.

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.

An artist, to achieve anything in art, has to finally do the thing that nobody else wants to do and nobody else has thought to do.

Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi.

It is only by doing things others have not that one can advance.

I think we are living in a time, where as a whole, as a community, people do want to push the boundaries.

Anything done for the first time unleashes a demon.

If you wanted to chart new territories and head off over the horizon, you had to make sure you weren't overly influenced by what others were doing ... so it didn't matter what other bands were doing ... we did what we were doing.

It's not always as comfortable blazing the trail as it is walking on it.

It's really exciting to be a part of something new that's pushing boundaries.

I'm about making history and doing things that haven't been done before.

Where's the glory in repeating what others have done?

I've always been noted for being original and doing different thing. So for me to hop on the train that's going on would be - shoot, if I wanted to hop on the train, I might as well have hopped on gangsta rap back when it was popular and tried to do that.

I come from pioneer stock, developers of the West, people who went out into the wilderness and set up home with nothing but a pair of oxen.