Ladders Quotes - Page 5

• They let you dream just to watch them shatter, you're just a step on the boss man's ladder.

  Dolly Parton

  Dream, Work, Men

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• Talking about the past is like a cat's trying to explain climbing down a ladder.

  Robert Lowell

  Cat, Past, Climbing

  Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell (2008). “Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell”

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• As you reach for understanding, you find that your ladder of facts isn’t long enough, and you try to extend it by adding a rung of faith. Eventually you see that the task is hopeless, and you put away your ladder of facts and go get a ladder of faith.

  Robert Breault

  Faith, Long, Understanding

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• The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. 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. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Music, Spring, Fall

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• From top to bottom of the ladder, greed is aroused without knowing where to find ultimate foothold. Nothing can calm it, since its goal is far beyond all it can attain. Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.

  Emile Durkheim

  Dream, Wall, Reality

  Emile Durkheim (2005). “Suicide: A Study in Sociology”, p.216, Routledge

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• NOTORIETY, n. The fame of one's competitor for public honors. The kind of renown most accessible and acceptable to mediocrity. A Jacob's-ladder leading to the vaudeville stage, with angels ascending and descending.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Leadership, Kindness, Angel

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.85, Courier Corporation

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• A serious adult story must be true to something in life. Since marvel tales cannot be true to the events of life, they must shift their emphasis towards something to which they can be true; namely, certain wistful or restless moods of the human spirit, wherein it seeks to weave gossamer ladders of escape from the galling tyranny of time, space, and natural law.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Law, Space, Adults

  Fritz Leiber, H. P. Lovecraft (2004). “Fritz Leiber and H.P. Lovecraft: Writers of the Dark”, p.14, Wildside Press LLC

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• In order for us to reach success, we must first find, the ladder.

  Robert M. Hensel

  Success, Order, Firsts

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• Which brings me to the question of why we always 'fall' in love. One falls down steps, off ladders, into rivers and down mountains. If love is so wonderful, why don't we soar in love or climb in love?

  Judith McNaught

  Falling In Love, Love Is, Rivers

  Judith McNaught (2016). “Tender Triumph”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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• She tries to turn too soon, and the ladder smacks into Fernando's shoulder. "Oh! Sorry, Nando." The jolt knocks his glasses askew. He smiles at Christina and takes the glasses off, shoving them into his pocket. "Nando?" I say to him. "I thought the Erudite didn't like nicknames?" "When a pretty girl calls you by a nickname," he says, "it is only logical to respond to it.

  Veronica Roth

  Girl, Sorry, Glasses

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• Individually the disciple and friend of Jesus who has learned to work shoulder to shoulder with his or her Lord stands in this world as a point of contact between heaven and earth, a kind of Jacob’s ladder by which the angels of God may ascend from and descend into human life. Thus the disciple stands as an envoy or a receiver by which the kingdom of God is conveyed into every quarter of human affairs.

  Dallas Willard

  Jesus, Angel, Heaven

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• All that matters in life," the grey man went on, "is to climb the ladder of success, amount to something, own things. When a person climbs higher than the rest, amounts to more, owns more things, everything else comes automatically: friendship, love, respect, et cetera..." "Isn't there anyone who loves you?" Momo whispered.

  Michael Ende

  Love You, Men, Friendship Love

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• Mental purity will come through constant chanting of the divine name. This is the simplest way. You are trying to cross the ocean of transmigration, the cycle of birth and death. The mantra is the oar of the boat; it is the instrument you use to cross the samsara of your restless mind, with its unending thought waves. The mantra can also be compared to a ladder that you climb to reach the heights of God realization.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Ocean, Restless Mind, Names

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• If a young aspirant had a modicum of skill and a busy typewriter she or he would sooner or later get a foothold in one of the magazines and a leaping start on the ladder upward.

  James A. Michener

  Writing, Typewriters, Skills

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• Truth is a matter of direct apprehension-you can't climb a ladder of mental concepts to it.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Truth, Matter, Apprehension

  Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.285, Faber & Faber

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• In the Eucharist, priest and people together come to concelebrate. Here the ladder Jacob saw only as a dream becomes for us a reality, the medicine that cures our souls.

  Arthur Middleton

  Dream, Reality, Medicine

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• Success is as dangerous as failure.
  Hope is as hollow as fear.
  
  What does it mean that success is a dangerous as failure?
  Whether you go up the ladder or down it,
  you position is shaky.
  When you stand with your two feet on the ground,
  you will always keep your balance.
  
  What does it mean that hope is as hollow as fear?
  Hope and fear are both phantoms
  that arise from thinking of the self.
  When we don't see the self as self,
  what do we have to fear?
  
  See the world as your self.
  Have faith in the way things are.
  Love the world as your self;
  then you can care for all things.

  Laozi

  Fear, Failure, Mean

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• When a really new product comes along, it's almost always a mistake to hang a well-known name on it. The reason is obvious. A well-known name got well-known because it stood for something. It occupies a position in the prospect's mind. A really well-known name sits on the top rung of a sharply defined ladder. The new product, if it's going to be successful, is going to require a new name. New ladder, new name. It's as simple as that.

  Al Ries

  Mistake, Successful, Simple

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• In beautiful things St. Francis saw Beauty itself, and through His vestiges imprinted on creation he followed his Beloved everywhere, making from all things a ladder by which he could climb up and embrace Him who is utterly desirable.

  Bonaventure

  Beautiful, Saws, Beloved

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• Be sure that, as you scramble up the ladder of success, it is leaning against the right building.

  Stephen Covey

  Success, Effectiveness, Building

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• When you get to No 10, you've climbed there on a little ladder called 'the status quo'. And when you are there, the status quo looks very good

  Tony Benn

  Looks, Politics, Littles

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• When you're a coach you've got to go up the ladder, you've got to be ready to travel. That's the nature of coaching

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Nba, Coaching

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• Every positive change - every jump to a higher level of energy and awareness - involves a rite of passage. Each time to ascend to a higher rung on the ladder of personal evolution, we must go through a period of discomfort, of initiation. I have never found an exception.

  Dan Millman

  Change, Courage, Energy

  Dan Millman (1992). “No Ordinary Moments: A Peaceful Warrior's Guide to Daily Life”, p.81, H J Kramer

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• Men have torn up the roads which led to Heaven, and which all the world followed; now we have to make our own ladders.

  Joseph Joubert

  Men, Heaven, Religion

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