Quotes Tagged "ladder"

Go higher and higher, until it becomes impossible to bring you down, I wanna use a microscope to locate you, don't even dream of coming down.

We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards.

If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void.

As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.

We need to conceptualize; we need to articulate conservative domestic policy with a laser focus on opportunity, on easing the means of ascent up the economic ladder.

I describe my career path as a zigzag, not a ladder.

There's this idea that at the lowest rungs of the social ladder in an African family is a childless woman - and the lowest rung of all is a motherless child.

You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.

My failed corporate career became the fodder for the 'Dilbert' comic. Once it became clear I would not be climbing any higher on the corporate ladder, it freed me to mock managers without worrying that it would stall my career. Most failures create some sort of unplanned freedom. I took full advantage of mine.

Problem-solving becomes a very important part of our makeup as we grow into maturity or move up the corporate ladder.

When you are going up the corporate ladder or the government ladder, you have to take some risk.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

There was one time I wrestled Eddie Guerrero in a ladder match for the custody of my son.

As awkward as it is to manoeuvre a ladder around the squared circle, there is an incredible art to 'excellently executing' a ladder match.

The further you get up the corporate ladder, the farther you get from the actual filmmaking process.

The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.

I don't like being told what to do and kissing you-know-what to get up the corporate ladder.

We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.