I think of myself as Special Forces, clearing the path for the infantry.
My father was a pioneer in so many ways. He was fearless, and I think that I kind of picked that up from him as well.
I look at myself as a game-changer, and I try to make that a facet of my game.
Michael Jackson is an accidental civil rights leader - an accidental pioneer. He broke ground and barriers in so many different realms in artistry, in pictures, in movies, in music, you name it.
I'm one of the people who was a pioneer in encouraging musicians, early in the game, to get interested in technology, and now all the musicians are getting into it.
I know exactly what that's all about being in a male dominated sport. Sometimes it just takes one person to step out, to be a pioneer, a trailblazer, really.
I always had a dissociative disorder. But I healed from it over the course of 14 years of big-time therapy. But, you know, I mean, everybody's kind of loony now. So I was kind of a pioneer in the mental illness thing, too.
I'm proud of my status as a pioneer in this business.
Elvis was the firstest with the mostest.
Ronda Rousey is a groundbreaker. She is one who charts through territory that has never been explored before and is one of the biggest sports stars in the world, male or female.
Being here in NXT, I want to be the leader, the top girl.
Never be a pioneer. It's the early Christian that gets the fattest lion.
A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.
I consider myself a pathfinder. I have been excavating the jungle and making the road for others to walk. I like to be the first in everything I do.
A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.
A pioneer destroys things and calls it civilization.
I'm given a lot of credit with opening the doors for Christian fiction. It was kind of a difficult field when I got into it... But I don't feel like a king.
The originator of a new concept...finds, as a rule, that it is much more difficult to find out why other people do not understand him, than it was to discover the new truth.
Marley is someone before his time, man. He's - he's almost - he's like a deity, like almost, you know what I mean? I just talk about what's going on, but of course, you know, Bob, before rappers, was already laying that kind of thing down.
That Elvis, man, he is all there is. There ain't no more. Everything starts and ends with him. He wrote the book. But for him, I'd be selling encyclopedias right now. There have been a lotta tough guys. There have been pretenders. And there have been contenders. But there is only one king.
I am the innovator. I am the originator. I am the emancipator. I am the architect of rock 'n' roll!
I don't talk about Amy Winehouse as a 'singer.' She's a pioneer. I listened to her endlessly when I started writing.
I do think there is a valid reason that Segovia commissioned the composers he did. He was very much a pioneer, and what he wanted was a very listenable repertory. But I'm interested in different aspects of the guitar, and of music.
I’m one of those people who doesn’t follow trends. I set them.
The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into a new land.
