Groundbreaking Work Quotes

The great creators-the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors-stood alone against the men of their time.

The band that changed my life was The Who. It's hard to pick just one album, but if I had to pick the one that really showed me how things could be done, it's 'The Who Sell Out.' They really went to town on that, doing something that no one had ever done before.

I think Lena Dunham is a very bright and very interesting writer, and what she's accomplished at such a young age absolutely impresses me.

Nobody ever understands what a pioneer is doing.

The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid advantage of mankind.

There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing.

I started putting together long-form projects, say, 22 minutes for a sitcom and 42 minutes or something like that for an hour-long show. I didn't feel like it was groundbreaking, nor would anyone think it was groundbreaking now, but at the time, people reacted like it was.

When the great innovation appears, it will almost certainly be in muddled, incomplete and confusing form. ... For any speculation which does not at first glance look crazy, there is no hope.

Frances Conroy - brilliant, brilliant actress.

Shane Douglas's work in the first 11 months as The Franchise of ECW was so groundbreaking. He made people forget about his on-air persona in WCW and successfully reinvented himself as The Franchise in ECW.

I don't think there's anything anybody's doing that the Beatles didn't at least try at some point.

I have never discovered a penicillin, and I have not worked in the mines where ores of the more Nobeliferous metals are to be found.

Can I pay any higher tribute to a man [George Gaylord Simpson] than to state that his work both established a profession and sowed the seeds for its own revision? If Simpson had reached final truth, he either would have been a priest or would have chosen a dull profession. The history of life cannot be a dull profession.

I was reminded of the Sydney Harris cartoon that said 'adding two numbers that have not been added before does not constitute a mathematical breakthrough'.

Everything was so new - the whole idea of going into space was new and daring. There were no textbooks, so we had to write them.

The brilliance of Jill Soloway is that while some people will give you Season Two, plus 10%, she's just kicked it.

My long-range mission is to be the first athlete to win the Nobel Prize.

Whatever was said about Ralph Ellison, 'Invisible Man' was considered untouchable.

'Love/Hate' was a milestone in terms of working on something at home that felt very special.

I don't want to be lofty, but it was groundbreaking, in many ways, for musical theater, so that was really thrilling to be part of The Book of Mormon . And Girls felt very much the same way - there was an excitement about it as we were doing it; I knew it was something special.

All my singles went platinum-plus.All my records and videos were groundbreaking.

I learned many things from Professor Brown, including his philosophy toward research, but there is one thing he said that I recall with particular clarity: 'Do research that will be in the textbooks.' It is not easy to do such work, but this has remained my motto.

Gabriel Byrne is just an amazing fellow and an amazing actor.

I don't want to come over as some boringly self-deprecating person. But I don't see myself as a groundbreaking writer in the way plays are structured.

I am convinced that it will not be long before the whole world acknowledges the results of my work.