One of the things you realize with a lot of high achievers: You have to figure out a way to make things their idea.
Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
I was immediately smitten with an attraction to this culture, not in the sense of high culture but of the basic way people behaved towards one another.
I am subject to very powerful lows. When you have highs, you have terrible lows. When you pinpoint that you are responsible for everything that happens to you, it is very frightening.
They're on the right road, but there's a long way to go on concussions, not only in the NFL, but college football, high school football and all football.
We wait, starving for moments of high magic to inspire us, but life is full of common enchantment waiting for our alchemists eyes to notice.
No writer for the press, however humble, is free from the burden of keeping his purpose high and his integrity white.
When people feel they're getting to speak into what's being preached, there is high built-in motivation to participate.
Twins are a high-risk pregnancy, by definition. The quieter I am, the longer I can keep them growing.
Whenever you are faced with someone who has made far more errors in judgment and far more mistakes than you, you have a tendency to get on your high horse.
In his 30 years of broadcasting and publishing fiction, Garrison Keillor has set the laugh bar pretty high.
There are over 500,000 registered sex offenders across the country, and statistics have shown that the recidivism rate for those criminals is high.
In the garden of our house, when I was three. My brothers and I had a jumping wall. I remember it as enormously high, but it was probably only about a foot and a half.
And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.
My high-school papers, my college-application essays, read like Norman Mailer packed in a crunchy-peanut-butter sandwich.
Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.
I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows.
Choose your battles wisely. Unless you have a very high chance of victory, spare your energy and walk away
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I had never done any theater in high school, which actually worked to my benefit. I didn't develop any bad habits.
In a high-IQ job pool, soft skills like discipline, drive and empathy mark those who emerge as outstanding.
