Ladders Quotes - Page 13

• If you can't bear to have your face stepped on, don't try to climb the ladder of success.

  Evan Esar

  Trying, Faces, Bears

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• What signifies the ladder, provided one rise and attain the end?

  Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

  Ends

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• The more I move among workers and factories and other plants, the stronger I become convinced that it is advisable to have as [a company] president a practical man, preferably one who has risen from the very bottom of the ladder. Workmen, I find, have far more respect for such men than for collar-and-cuff executives knowing little or nothing about the different kinds of work which have to be done by the workers. Wherever circumstances call for placing a financier or lawyer or a papa's son at the head of a large organization, he should be made chairman or some other title, but not president.

  B. C. Forbes

  Moving, Son, Men

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• Faith builds in the dungeon and lazarhouse its sublimest shrines; and up, through roofs of stone, that shut out the eye of heaven, ascends the ladder where the angels glide to and fro,--prayer.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Prayer, Angel, Eye

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• Now it has appeared to me unfair that humanity should be engaged perpetually in calling all those things bad which have been good enough to make other things better, in everlastingly kicking down the ladder by which it has climbed. It has appeared to me that progress should be something else besides a continual parricide; therefore I have investigated the dust-heaps of humanity, and found a treasure in all of them. I have found that humanity is not incidentally engaged, but eternally and systematically engaged, in throwing gold into the gutter and diamonds into the sea.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Dust, Sea, Humanity

  "The Defendant". Book by G. K. Chesterton, 1901.

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• You are anxious before every game because you had to win it. If you didn't you went down the ladder. I felt proud of the way we beat some teams in tough games.

  Sourav Ganguly

  Team, Winning, Games

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• Climb the ladder to success escalator style

  The Notorious B.I.G.

  Style, Climbs, Escalators

  Song: Just a Memory, Album: Duets: The Final Chapter

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• You want to be free and break new ground, speak your mind, fear no man, have the neighbours acknowledge that you're a good man; and at the same time you want to be a success, make money, join the country club, get the votes and kick the other man in the teeth and off the ladder.

  Christina Stead

  Success, Country, Ambition

  Christina Stead (2012). “I'm Dying Laughing: The Humourist”, p.39, Open Road Media

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• Music sets up ladders,
  it makes us invisible,
  it sets us apart,
  it lets us escape;
  but from the visible
  there is no escape.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Music, Invisible, Musician

  Hilda Doolittle (1998). “Trilogy”, New Directions Publishing

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• The world has always needed human beings who refuse to believe that history is nothing but a dull, monstrous selfrepetition, a selfperpetuating, meaningless game, only varied in outer garb, who cannot be converted from their conviction that history signifies progress in morality, that our race is ascending on an invisible ladder from an animal nature towards divinity, from brutal violence to the wisely ordering intellect, and that the ultimate stage of complete understanding is already close at hand, indeed has almost been attained.

  Stefan Zweig

  Believe, Animal, Hands

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• My propositions serve as elucidations in the following way: anyone who understands me eventually recognizes them as nonsensical, when he has used them--as steps--to climb up beyond them. (He must, so to speak, throw away the ladder after he has climbed up it.) He must transcend these propositions, and then he will see the whole world aright.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophical, World, Way

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, David Francis Pears, Brian McGuinness (2001). “Tractatus Logico-philosophicus”, p.89, Psychology Press

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• The useless search of philosophers for a cause of the universe is a regressus in infinitum (a stepping backwards into the infinite) and resembles climbing up an endless ladder, the recurring question as to the cause of the cause rendering the attainment of a final goal impossible.

  Ludwig Buchner

  Climbing, Goal, Finals

  Ludwig Büchner (1884). “Force and Matter: Or, Principles of the Natural Order of the Universe. With a System of Morality Based Thereon”

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• My tea is nearly ready and the sun has left the sky;
  It's time to take the window to see Leerie going by;
  For every night at tea-time and before you take your seat,
  With lantern and with ladder he comes posting up the street.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Night, Sky, Tea

  1885 A Child's Garden of Verses, no.30,'The Lamplighter', stanza1.

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• Even truthfulness is but one means to knowledge, a ladder--but not the ladder.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Knowledge, Mean, Truthfulness

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• I can only sign over everything,
  the house, the dog, the ladders, the jewels,
  the soul, the family tree, the mailbox.
  Then I can sleep.
  Maybe.

  Anne Sexton

  Dog, Sleep, Jewels

  Anne Sexton, “The Other”

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• Arrogance is a weed which grows upon a dunghill; it is from the rankness of the soil that she has her height and spreadings: witness, clowns, fools, and fellows, who from nothing, are lifted up some few steps on fortune's ladder: where, seeing the glorious representment of honour above them, they are so eager to embrace it, that they strive to leap thither at once, and by over-reaching themselves in the way, they fail of the end, and fall.

  Owen Feltham

  Weed, Growing Up, Fall

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• The message to organizations is this: You have to increase the number of categories of contributing, or the types of career paths, which people can experience as successful. You cannot restrict esteem to the fewer and fewer who will be climbing up the management ladder. You need to have the majority of your people feeling like winners.

  Judith M Bardwick

  Successful, Climbing, Careers

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• Having worked my way from the bottom of the ladder to the top [of the UN] certainly helped me navigate that complexity, both political and bureaucratic.

  Kofi Annan

  Political, Way, Complexity

  Source: www.accaglobal.com

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• I really would like to be able to face all my superstitions that may have existed and walk under the ladder and do everything you're not supposed to do.

  Nicolas Cage

  May, Superstitions, Able

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• There is a phrase in trade theory; it's called "kicking away the ladder." First you violate the rules - the market rules - and then by the time you succeed in developing, you kick away the ladders so others can't do it too, and you preach about "free trade."

  Noam Chomsky

  Kicking, Phrases, Firsts

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• As you go higher up in the ladder, you look down, and it's a pretty far fall, so you tend to watch your step a bit more. That's all you can do. It's a full time job not to kill these niggas out here; every day I ask for the strength not to go off the handle and whack one of these stupid cunts.

  Gunplay

  Jobs, Stupid, Fall

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• You can't just go gay, its not like buying a ladder.

  Noel Fielding

  Funny, Humor, Gay

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• The member of a culture ... purposely avoids the relationship of intimacy; he wants the object somehow depicted and fictionalized. ... He is embarrassed when this is taken out of its context of proper sentiments and presented bare, for he feels that this is a reintrusion of that world which his whole conscious effort has sought to banish. Forms and conventions are the ladder of ascent. And hence the speechlessness of the man of culture when he beholds the barbarian tearing aside some veil which is half adornment, half concealment.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Taken, Men, Effort

  "Ideas have Consequences". Book by Richard M. Weaver. p. 26, 1948.

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• Surely it is one of the requisites of a tasteful garb that the expression of effort to please shall be wanting in it; that the mysteries of the toilet shall not be suggested by it; that the steps to its completion shall be knocked away like the sculptor's ladder from the statue, and the mental force expended upon it be swept away out of sight like the chips on the studio floor.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Fashion, Expression, Sight

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• With regard to philosophical metaphysics, I always see increasing numbers who have attained to the negative goal, but as yet few who climb a few rungs backwards; one ought to look out, perhaps, over the last steps of the ladder, but not try to stand upon them.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophical, Numbers, Goal

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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