Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
I'm aware that success can overwhelm you. The perception of you can be elevated to such a status that it's not you any more.
Labor, in itself, is neither elevating or otherwise. It is the laborer's privilege to ennoble his work by the aim with which he undertakes it, and by the enthusiasm and faithfulness he puts into it.
Birth and death: there was the same consciousness of heightened existence and of her own elevated importance
Read about things that wouldn't keep you up all night long, weeping and tearing out your hair.
TRUST ADJUST An act that changes perception can elevate or lower integrity
Complete strangers can stand silent next to each other in an elevator and not even look each other in the eye. But at a concert, those same strangers could find themselves dancing and singing together like best friends. That's the power of music.
Leadership is not just a privilege, but a responsibility to which we commit ourselves to helping to elevate those around us.
There are a lot of people out there who offer roles to actors because they'll elevate their movie to a place the movie would never reach.
The space elevator's not just another competitive technology, promoted by people who simply like the idea of diminishing the luster of the thrusters. It would open wide the doors to space.
America is great not because it's a team. America is great because it is a nation whose founding documents elevated the rights of the individual.
I look at this as a second life. Every game feels like an event. Every pitch matters. I need that. It elevates your aggressiveness.
The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost.
Northern white people love the Negro in a sort of abstract way, as a race; through a sense of justice, charity, and philanthropy, they will liberally assist in his elevation.
Are your thoughts and beliefs elevating you to greater heights or blocking you from embracing your blessings?
I was 24 yesterday. Suddenly you wake up, and you get on the elevator, and there's a mirror there. And you look in the mirror, and you're an old man.
McCoy: [reference to the turbolift] Who's been holding up the damn elevator?
If I have to move up in a building, I choose the elevator over the escalator. Because one time I was riding the escalator and I tripped. I fell down the stairs for an hour and a half.
Luther Perkins: [to the cops in the elevator] How do you get those shirts so... stiff?
[Storm comes back up through the elevator] Toad: Don't you people ever die?
Sometimes its better to take the stairs because till the time the other person opens the door of the elevator, you reach your destination.
