Ladders Quotes - Page 10

• Space is about 100 kilometers away. That’s far away—I wouldn’t want to climb a ladder to get there—but it isn’t that far away. If you’re in Sacramento, Seattle, Canberra, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Phnom Penh, Cairo, Beijing, central Japan, central Sri Lanka, or Portland, space is closer than the sea.

  Randall Munroe

  Japan, Sea, Sri Lanka

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• The time between Bachelor's degree and a PhD, the median time is over 11 years. So then you're still only on a tenure ladder, you're not tenured. So it generally takes 6 to 8 years after that to get tenure. So that's a very long period of what's essentially apprenticeship, of insecurity.

  Louis Menand

  Years, Long, Insecurity

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Nothing is going to happen to you if you throw salt on the floor, stand under a ladder, or see eight black cats on the street.

  Penelope Cruz

  Cat, Eight, Black

  "Exclusive: Penélope Cruz on Shooting the 2013 Campari Calendar". Interview with Kristina Soriano, www.elle.com. November 13, 2012.

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• I say all the time that if you really want to feel alive, it's not through striving for yourself. If you really want to feel alive, it's not through trying to get more things or get more success or climbing a corporate ladder or getting to the top. Because, once you get there, you realize that you don't really find happiness in that. If you want to feel alive and if you want to feel peace and happiness, give your life away. Do something that is outside of yourself for someone else. I think that's the way to truly feel alive.

  Natalie Grant

  Thinking, Climbing, Giving

  "Natalie Grant’s whirlwind success continues with 'Hurricane'". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• When I was a child, my society lifted me up - though education primarily, as well as through other kinds of cultural stimulation. It wasn't just my parents or my religious community. The entire society lifted me up to the bottom rung of the ladder. Then they said, "Girl, it's up to you whether or not you climb." I don't have a problem with that. I think that is the best way to go about living.

  Marianne Williamson

  Girl, Religious, Children

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• While I was in college, I became a page at ABC. Suddenly I was working for Good Morning America, local news, national news. The page is the lowest rung of the ladder, and it's the also the place where you can ask any question and not feel dumb.

  Anne Sweeney

  Morning, College, America

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Let`s teach those people that when they go to work, they get skills, they meet people, they get opportunities, they get to climb the ladder, they get much better off than the person who`s just sitting at home receiving those things.

  Benjamin Carson

  Home, Opportunity, Skills

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Darkness comes. In the middle of it, the future looks blank. The temptation to quit is huge. Don't. You are in good company... You will argue with yourself that there is no way forward. But with God, nothing is impossible. He has more ropes and ladders and tunnels out of pits than you can conceive. Wait. Pray without ceasing. Hope.

  John Piper

  Tunnels, Way Forward, Waiting

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• You have to give kids from ordinary families a ladder. You have to show them there's a way out.

  Tony Parsons

  Kids, Giving, Ordinary

  "Tony Parsons: 'I didn't obey any of the rules'". Interview with Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. June 9, 2012.

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• The cross is the only ladder high enough to touch Heaven's threshold.

  George Dana Boardman Pepper

  Easter, Heaven, Enough

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• Climbing the economic ladder has been very hard for me; I still feel a great deal of guilt towards those I left behind.

  Elena Ferrante

  Climbing, Guilt, Economic

  "Elena Ferrante: 'Anonymity lets me concentrate exclusively on writing'". Interview with Deborah Orr, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2016.

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• Affirmative action ignores our society's real minorities - members of the disadvantaged classes, no matter what their race. We have this ludicrous bureaucratic sense that certain racial groups, regardless of class, are minorities. So what happens is those "minorities" at the very top of the ladder get chosen for everything.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Real, Class, Race

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• For the Christian mystics, detachment meant to leave attachment so that God could enter you and take over completely and you could climb the ladder to their heaven. Kind of crazy, but what the hell?

  Gerald Stern

  Christian, Crazy, Attachment

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Since the industrial revolution, cities, and especially the inner cities, were the places for the newly arrived. Voluntary immigrants seeking economic betterment, refugees, the bohemians, the artists - all of those people were crammed into densely populated neighborhoods and tenements. And as people climbed up the economic ladder they moved out, which really accelerated with the "white flight" phenomenon in the '60s and '70s.

  Cleve Jones

  Artist, Cities, White

  "Legendary LGBT Activist Wants You to Get Up and Fight". Interview with Alexander Sammon, www.motherjones.com. December 6, 2016.

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• Footwork is definitely key for a linebacker. We make our money playing laterally. You've got to be able to move side to side and play sideline to sideline. So doing quick feet drills like ladders and keeping your footwork right is important.

  Brandon Spikes

  Moving, Keys, Play

  Source: www.nfl.com

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• As products of our highly competitive and specialized society, with all its ladders and ceilings, neat compartments, titles, and categories, to remain in an expanded state can feel like swimming upstream.

  Judith Hanson Lasater

  Swimming, Ceilings, Titles

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• I had to discover very quickly that class origins cannot be erased, regardless of whether we climb up or down the sociocultural ladder.

  Elena Ferrante

  Class, Climbs

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Once you get off the ladder you'll never get back on.

  Michael Marmot

  Get Back

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• The inspiration for this movie [Something New] was this Newsweek article that came out a couple of years ago that talks about 42.4 percent of black women in America aren't married. Black women are shooting up the corporate ladder way faster than our black male counterparts. And (black men) are either dating outside their race, in jail or dying. And so if you want to have a family, you want to be married, you have to look at other options.

  Sanaa Lathan

  Couple, Inspiration, Men

  "Sanaa Lathan tries 'Something New'". The Associated Press Interview, www.today.com. August 4, 2010.

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• I grew up in the South Side, and when we would have snow and blizzards and drifts, we would jump off the garage roof into the snow. Now if I'm up on a step ladder and I think I'm going to fall, it's a foot and a half off the ground, but I'm panicked about it. So I'm afraid of ladders and those beds.

  Jimmy Pardo

  Fall, Thinking, Feet

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In terms of language, English is very dominant vis-Ã-vis African language. That in itself is a power relationship - between languages and communities - because the English language is a determinant of the ladder to achievement.

  Ngugi wa Thiong'o

  Achievement, Community, Language

  Source: www.alternet.org

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• Success is about happiness and security, rather than hitting any particular sort of job or rung on the career ladder.

  Suw Charman-Anderson

  Jobs, Careers, Hitting

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• At the other end of the scale I was there with a whole lot of young British athletes so I was getting to see them take their first steps on the international ladder. I'd like to think maybe in five years time I'll look back and I'll forget all about the lost luggage and I'll forget about the horrible hotel, but I'll remember these wonderful athletes stepping onto the track for the first time.

  Jill Douglas

  Athlete, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• When the President picks someone who is his ideological soul mate, that's his right, in my reading of "advise and consent." I do think, though, the more you get up the ladder, when someone is no longer accountable to the President, and more importantly, will stay in office after the President, the standard gets tougher and tougher.

  Russ Feingold

  Reading, Thinking, Office

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. April 30, 2002.

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• I often say songwriting is like trying to climb down a ladder at night. You put your foot on the next rung and test it out and make sure it holds and then you reach for the next one.

  Crowder

  Night, Feet, Trying

  "David Crowder, Neon Steeple". Interview with Nate Fancher, www.natefancher.com. August 22, 2014.

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