Ladders Quotes - Page 11

• 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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• One of the sad truths about leadership is that, the higher up the ladder you travel, the less you know.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Higher, Sad Truth, Knows

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• The worst mistake is to have the best ladder and the wrong wall.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Wall, Mistake, Worst

  Twitter post from Mar 27, 2013

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• Generally the things you get offered are never things you want to do. It's a continual fight for the good parts. As you climb the ladder and get to different benchmarks, enter new stratospheres, you're just competing against all the other people in that stratosphere.

  Jordan Gavaris

  Fighting, People, Different

  "Family Ties". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 13, 2016.

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• There is a great ladder of religious cruelty, and, of its many rungs, three are the most important. People used to make human sacrifices to their god, perhaps even sacrificing those they loved the best ... Then, during the moral epoch of humanity, people sacrificed the strongest instincts they had, their 'nature,' to their god... Finally: what was left to be sacrificed? ... Didn't people have to sacrifice God himself and worship rocks, stupidity, gravity, fate, or nothingness out of sheer cruelty to themselves?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Religious, Sacrifice, Fate

  "Beyond Good and Evil" by Friedrich Nietzsche, Chapter III, Aphorism 55, 1886.

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• Paul ascended into the third heavens and he could understand the THREE PRINCIPLE ROUNDS of Jacobs ladder - the telestial, the terrestrial, and the celestial glories or kingdoms, when Paul saw and heard things which were not lawful to utter. I COULD EXPLAIN A HUNDREDFOLD MORE THAN I EVER HAVE of the glories of the kingdoms manifested to me in the vision were I permitted and were the people ready to receive them.

  Sam Smith

  People, Heaven, Vision

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• The entire life of Jesus isn't the story of somebody climbing up a ladder; it's a picture of someone coming down-a series of demotions. The problem with spending our lives climbing up the ladder is that we will go right past Jesus, for He's coming down.

  John Ortberg

  Jesus, Past, Climbing Up

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• The seven dwarfs were each on different little trips. Happy was into grass and grass alone. Happy, that's all he did. Sleepy was into reds. Grumpy, too much speed. Sneezy was a full blown coke freak. Doc was a connection. Dopey was into everything. Any old orifice will do for Dopey. He's always got his arm out and his leg up. And then, the one we always forget, because he was Bashful. Bashful didn't use drugs. He was paranoid on his own. Didn't need any help on that ladder.

  George Carlin

  Drug, Too Much, Coke

  "Toledo Window Box". Comedy album by George Carlin, 1974.

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• Climb the ladder only if it takes you to somewhere high! Some ascents may descend you to low places!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  May, Ascent, Lows

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• I can usually get the right connection with the crowd and I don't have to be jumping off ladders.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Jumping, Connections, Crowds

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• There is in the world no rock or tower of such a height that it cannot be scaled by any man (provided he lack not feet) if ladders are placed in the proper position or steps are cut in the rock, made in the right place, and furnished with railings against the danger of falling over.
  If we examine ourselves, we see that our faculties grow in such a manner that what goes before paves the way for what comes after.

  John Amos Comenius

  Fall, Cutting, Men

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• Has nature connected itself together by no bond, allowed itself to be thus crippled, and split into the divine and human elements? Well! there are certain divine powers of a middle nature, through whom our aspirations are conveyed to the gods, and theirs to us. A celestial ladder, a ladder from heaven to earth.

  Walter Pater

  Heaven, Together, Elements

  Walter Pater (2006). “Marius the Epicurean: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.81, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Neither the individual nor the race is improved by almsgiving. The best means of benefiting the community is to place within its reach the ladders upon which the aspiring can rise.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Mean, Race, Community

  Andrew Carnegie (1992). “The Andrew Carnegie reader”, Univ of Pittsburgh Pr

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• If you don't set your goals based upon your Mission Statement, you may be climbing the ladder of success only to realize, when you get to the top, you're on the WRONG building.

  Stephen Covey

  Climbing, Goal, May

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• We want to be special. We want our place in the cosmos to be central. We want evolution-even godless evolution-to have been directed toward us so that we stand at the pinnacle of nature's ladder of progress. Rewind the tape of life and we want to believe that we (Homo Sapiens) would appear again and again. Would we? Probably not.

  Michael Shermer

  Believe, Special, Progress

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• Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough. As you climb the ladder of success, be sure it's leaning against the right building. Eighty percent of success is showing up.

  Woody Allen

  Showing Up, Enough, Building

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• I got some pilot scripts and auditioned for a couple other ones, too. It was just a standard audition, where I kept going in to read and went up the ladder, in terms of people who you're performing for during those auditions. Each step of the way, I was happy with that level of audition.

  Tim Kang

  Couple, People, Levels

  Source: collider.com

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• Of course, if you think of a European or American household in the '50s, so what were the things that when people started climbing up the ladder, what did they buy? A fridge, a TV, I think piano was the number three item in say '53 or '54.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Thinking, Piano, Numbers

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The foot of the heavenly ladder, which we have got to mount in order to reach the higher regions, has to be fixed firmly in every-day life, so that everybody may be able to climb up it along with us. When people then find that they have got climbed up higher and higher into a marvelous, magical world, they will feel that that realm, too, belongs to their ordinary, every-day life, and is, merely, the wonderful and most glorious part thereof.

  E. T. A. Hoffmann

  Order, Feet, People

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• Our focus is on the forward end of things: the customer and what does he want to do? If you're buying underwear and household items ladders and everything else - I buy all sorts of stuff on Amazon Prime - why shouldn't I buy this? Any legal document, contract or otherwise, that prevents me from doing that, I don't want to be a part of.

  Gerry Lopez

  Focus, Want, Stuff

  Source: deadline.com

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• Women have made enormous progress on the lower and middle rungs of the career ladder, but we are failing to make the leap into senior positions. Everyone jumps to the conclusion that it's motherhood that holds women back, but often the big roadblock is the lack of executive presence.

  Sylvia Ann Hewlett

  Senior, Motherhood, Careers

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• Each word of Heraclitus expresses the pride and the majesty of truth, but of truth grasped in intuitions rather than attained by the rope ladder of logic.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pride, Intuition, Rope

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2012). “Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks”, p.69, Regnery Publishing

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• The very voices of the night, sounding like the moan of the tempest, may turn out to be the disguised yet tender voices of God, calling away from all earthly footsteps, to mount with greater singleness of eye and ardor of aim the alone ladder of safety and peace - upward, onward, heavenward, homeward.

  John Ross Macduff

  Nature, Eye, Night

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 431, 1895.

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• The business of a general is to kick away the ladder behind soldiers when they have climbed up a height.

  Sun Tzu

  Soldier, Height, Kicks

  Sun Tzu, Shang Yang (1997). “The Art of War”, p.47, Wordsworth Editions

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• I won't walk under scaffolding or under ladders. I wear things like a baseball player wears things that are supposed to have luck. I am superstitious about everything.

  Lauren Groff

  Baseball, Player, Luck

  "Bit And Peace: Lauren Groff’s Arcadia". Interview with Clare Stein, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 8, 2012.

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