America’s education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next.
If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?
As one climbs up the ladders in society, one starts feeling more and more like an owner, less like a member of it.
You don’t want to get to the top of the ladder only to find out you had it leaning up against the wrong wall.
You cannot climb up to a true leadership position unless you use the ladder of integrity!
A pity to survive night flights over St. Georges Channel only to crack my skull falling from a ladder.
Got on! Got on! It's not a question of getting on. That's the wrong view altogether. The Classics aren't a ladder leading to quick success.
I thought you were going to— you’re standing under my window. Aren’t you supposed to climb up here or something?” “My ladder’s at home.
When you reach the middle of your career ladder, turn it the other way around and slide down to the top
Life is like a one rung ladder, some days you can be on the top and bottom of the world at the same time
I have no doubt that my M.B.A. from New York University's Stern School of Business was one of the best investments I ever made. It helped me climb the corporate ladder and become an entrepreneur.
You can forget trying to climb the success ladder, all you will ever need in life is brought to you in the Cosmic Ordering elevator.
Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.
Every author really wants to have letters printed in the paper. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.
You might think about putting some heavy-duty hooks into the ceiling joists and beams so that you can have a rope ladder, or a small swing inside your house.
We need to conceptualize; we need to articulate conservative domestic policy with a laser focus on opportunity, on easing the means of ascent up the economic ladder.
There's many things that you can do with your life. It doesn't necessarily - I think if you're in a creative sphere, or if you're hungry for experience, then those experiences don't necessarily happen like rungs of a ladder or in a linear way.
I did Star 80, which was a magnificent experience as well, but still, I was at the height of my career at the beginning. Then I had to jump down the ladder and climb back up again, which I didn't understand. That was very hard.
I believe that access to a university education should be based on the ability to learn, not what people can afford. I think there is no more nauseating a sight than politicians pulling up the ladder of opportunity behind them.
God loves us too much to leave us in the hell of unhappiness that comes from trying to do his job. Into the slavish misery of our ladder-defined lives, God condescends.
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...
