Ladders Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• I find no fault in Him."...You can find fault in anyone else, but you can find
  no fault in Jesus. Holy, harmless, undefiled, sinless: there He is! Christ is God's way to man; Christ is man's way to God. Christ is the true Jacob's ladder. By Him the penitent sinner, the believing soul, the redeemed child of God may come unto the Father and enter into the house of many mansions.

  George W Truett

  Jesus, Children, Father

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• To lunch with the important ... that should be the daily goal of those for whom life is not a playground but a ladder.

  Rose Macaulay

  Ambition, Lunch, Goal

  Rose Macaulay (Dame.) (1923). “Mystery at Geneva”

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• Men do their hardest work at the bottom of the ladder, not at the top.

  William Feather

  Work, Men, Hardest

  William Feather (1949). “The Business of Life”

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• As a general rule, when something gets elevated to apple-pie status in the hierarchy of American values, you have to suspect that its actual monetary value is skidding toward zero. Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent. Same thing with work: would we be so reverent about the 'work ethic' if it wasn't for the fact that the average working stiff's hourly pay is shrinking, year by year.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Zero, Work, Motherhood

  Ms., Oct. 1986

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• When one wants to become cognizant of the color and the texture of the soil, one does not get a ladder; one gets a shovel. When one wants to get into touch with the texture of the universal mind, one does not go to Boston; one goes to the Bowery.

  Djuna Barnes

  Boston, Color, Mind

  Djuna Barnes, Alyce Barry (1989). “New York”, Sun & Moon Pr

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• Remember that you will never reach a higher standard than you yourself set. Then set your mark high, and step by step, even though it be by painful effort, by self-denial and sacrifice, ascend the whole length of the ladder of progress.

  Ellen G. White

  Ambition, Sacrifice, Self

  Ellen G. White (2013). “Christ's Object Lessons - Illustrated”, p.264, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The freedom that comes with globalization is freedom for the rich and powerful nations to further exploit and further marginalize those at the bottom of the social ladder.

  Anita Roddick

  Powerful, Rich, Globalization

  Anita Roddick (2001). “Take It Personally: How to Make Conscious Choices to Change the World”, HarperThorsons

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• When you take out individual initiative, individual responsibility, and the hope that every individual is born with, to better their lives, to climb the economic ladder, to pursue happiness, that is, in fact, a neoslavery.

  Niger Innis

  Responsibility, Facts, Economic

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• When you're an immigrant, you're at the bottom of the ladder. You might not be at the bottom of the ladder economically. Those contradictions led me to feel that the role in society I was given didn't jive with my sense of myself. I think, in fact, that is the case with most people. Everybody feels themselves to be in an original relationship to creation, and feels confined by their social role.

  Vijay Seshadri

  Thinking, People, Might

  "You Are Vijay Seshadri". Interview with Laura Standley, logger.believermag.com. June 10, 2014.

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• We spend a remarkably small, shamefully small, percentage of our income on food. We manage to spend money on lots of other things. All up and down the social ladder you find people with plenty of money for cell phones, home entertainment systems, all other forms of entertainment.

  Michael Pollan

  Home, Phones, Cells

  "Michael Pollan: The Omnivore’s Dilemma". Interview with Anne E. McBride, leitesculinaria.com. March 20, 2007.

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• Life is like the rungs on a ladder. The reason they are placed so close together is that we can learn to take baby steps and reach our destinations safely.

  Tom Baker

  Baby, Together, Life Is Like

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• However, for the man who studies to gain insight, books and studies are merely rungs of the ladder on which he climbs to the summit of knowledge. As soon as a rung has raised him up one step, he leaves it behind. On the other hand, the many who study in order to fill their memory do not use the rungs of the ladder for climbing, but take them off and load themselves with them to take away, rejoicing at the increasing weight of the burden. They remain below forever, because they bear what should have bourne them.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Memories, Book, Men

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.93, Publishdrive

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• We admire people who work hard, who are objective and thorough. We detest office politicians, toadies, bullies, and pompous asses. We abhor ruthlessness. The way up our ladder is open to everybody. In promoting people to top jobs, we are influenced as much by their character as anything else.

  David Ogilvy

  Jobs, Character, Hard Work

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• The poor pay more, and that's one of the reasons people get trapped at the bottom of the economic ladder.

  Elizabeth Warren

  People, Pay, Reason

  "Coming to a Post Office Near You: Loans You Can Trust?". www.huffingtonpost.com. February 01, 2014.

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• The traditional metaphor for careers is a ladder, but I no longer think that metaphor holds. It just doesn’t make sense in a less hierarchical world... Build your skills, not your resume. Evaluate what you can do, not the title they’re going to give you. Do real work. Take a sales quota, a line role, an ops job. Don’t plan too much, and don’t expect a direct climb. If I had mapped out my career when I was sitting where you are, I would have missed my career.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Jobs, Real, Thinking

  Sheryl Sandberg's Speech on Harvard Business School Class Day in Cambridge, Massachusetts., www.huffingtonpost.com. May 30, 2017.

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

  Zig Ziglar

  Moving, Maturity, Makeup

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• America's education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Opportunity, America, Generations

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• The Christian knows to serve the weak not because they deserve it but because God extended his love to us when we deserved the opposite. Christ came down from heaven, and whenever his disciples entertained dreams of prestige and power he reminded them that the greatest is the one who serves. The ladder of power reaches up, the ladder of grace reaches down.

  Philip Yancey

  Christian, Dream, Opposites

  Philip Yancey (2008). “What's So Amazing About Grace?”, p.180, Zondervan

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• Community colleges provide higher education where people live, helping to build strong ladders of opportunity that allow people to secure a foothold in the middle class.

  Thomas Perez

  Strong, Opportunity, College

  "Investing in Skills to Build a Secure Middle Class" by Thomas E. Perez, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 17, 2014.

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• Races always are good to show where you are reaching in your training as well as to keep you sharpened. Every race, in my program, I put it in a special way like a ladder, climbing up slowly and slowly to the next one. I see where my training is, and that is like a test.

  David Rudisha

  Climbing Up, Race, Training

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• I think there has to be the sense that once you have climbed the ladder of success, that you don't push it away from the building.

  Madeleine Albright

  Thinking, Building, Ladder Of Success

  Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2010.

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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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• 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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