Ladder Quotations

There were periods of my life when a lot of people didn't believe in me. I still had faith in myself. I really had to ask myself life questions. Where do I see myself in five years? Create a ladder for yourself, and walk up the steps. Climb that ladder.

We need more good jobs that reward hard work with rising wages, dignity, and a ladder to a better life.

When I turned 16, I got my driver's license like the rest of my classmates, but I also got an extra present: a two-day practice session in a Formula Ford: my first open-wheel racing car and the first step on the ladder toward becoming a professional driver.

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.

Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.

When you're at a public pool or in your friend's backyard, knowing that your kids can get in and out of the water and protect themselves can make all the difference in the world. Something as simple as being able to flip over and get to the ladder can save a life. You can start your kids in lessons as early as you want - it's never too soon.

Working 40 hours a week used to mean a minimum standard of living and a foothold on the first rung of the economic ladder to the middle class.

We had a week's worth of practices two weeks ago, and it was just enough to get the ladder set and establish the varsity team, and that's about it. We've been playing some lobby tennis inside the high school and running in the gym.

We're just focusing on Northern Durham, one game at a time. The guys have a poster of a ladder in the locker room, and we're not jumping ahead.

Let us weep in our darkness, but weep not for him!Not for him who, departing, leaves millions in tears!Not for him who has died full of honor and years!Not for him who ascended Fame's ladder so high:From the round at the top he has stepped to the sky.

She's not as friendly as Bob, I'll tell you that much. When we let her go she flew into the light, and we had to get a ladder to get her down.

My life is fairly normal. I didn't wake up one morning and find out that I'm suddenly a star, with people clamoring at me. I feel like I'm moving up the ladder just a little, which is fine.

My 68-year-old mother, Dora Simpson, got up on a ladder and painted one of these rooms. She and my sons - Issac, Terry, Nakia and Tony - helped with the cleanup and painting. I'm grateful to all the people who've helped us get started, especially Ray Parrish,

Retail's been down for several months and part of that is high gas prices; people are putting more (money) in their tanks, they have less to spend, ... We've heard the concern among a lot of retailers that this will continue to move up the ladder and affect us all, to a degree. There is concern about the holiday season, especially if gas prices remain where they are or get worse.

People who work full-time in America should not have to live in poverty - simple as that. Too many jobs don't pay enough to get by, let alone get ahead. Too many people are finding the rungs on the ladder of opportunity further and further apart.

If we can get the domestic heat to such a temperature, just possibly we can reach down that ladder and say, 'come on dudes, I'll give you a hand up'.

I am always happy up a ladder with a paintbrush in my hand. And I wish I had more time to spend in the garden - not least because I get good ideas for writing when I'm out there.

For me that's a stairway to heaven. Let's hope it'll be a ladder of hope and inspiration for the future.

For us right now, getting home-ice advantage in the playoffs is absolutely critical. We want to get as high up the ladder as we can because of how competitive it is right now. Every home game we get as an advantage is important.

He had to negotiate the rope ladder down to the launch. It was not an easy task, but no one offered to help him. Eventually, he managed.

We've got to take care of business inside our division. For us right now, getting home ice advantage in the playoffs is critical. We want to get as high up the ladder as we can.

He's a great coach. He's done a tremendous job for me here. I think it's not just the coaching ability you're getting; you're getting a great person, too. He's very passionate about this profession, and that's why he's climbed the ladder so quickly.

The Pac-10 is the best conference in the nation with USC and Stanford having won each of the last three national championships. It is our goal to start climbing the ladder in the conference and finish in the upper half of the league.

Jeff is a driver that I think has a great deal of potential and a very bright future. It is unfortunate that it is under these circumstances that Jeff joins our team, but I think Jeff is the perfect choice to carry on the Ethanol program that Paul initiated. Jeff has paid his dues and worked his way up through the ladder system. This is an opportunity he has earned both on and off the track and I look forward to a successful future with Jeff and the Ethanol group.

I saw a picture in the newspaper ? it was the art newspaper out of London ? of a young man on a ladder painting over the largest mural of the face of Saddam in Baghdad.

I saw where the fire department was at and knew there was no way they could get to them with a ladder and, by the grace of God, He just gave me the energy and the power to climb up those things,

Playing PGA Tour events makes her better. I think she gets psyched watching the guys and seeing their ability. It raises her level. It helps her up the ladder of improvement.

Our only ladder truck is more than 20 years old. Have you ever heard of metal fatigue?

My philosophy of life is when you get up the ladder you want to reach back and give someone a hand, just like someone did for you years before. They are wonderful role models and the very personification of caring.

Many diseases can be prevented or improved by personal lifestyle choices, ... Lifestyle Ladder will identify the specific health risks an employee faces, and give that individual the education and support needed to address those risks and improve their health.

I'm still here watching. I called two animal rescue services and, you know what, neither one offered to help. I've got an eight-foot step ladder and a limb cutter if we need it.

I would like Mike to coach out his career here. What's left on his contract or not left on his contract is not the issue. I think Mike is at the top of the coaching ladder and I think he'll stay there. So there's no reason for me to be thinking about changing head coaches. That thought never crosses my mind, and I don't think it ever will.

Mick is on the record as saying that he would like this to be his last job, so hopefully we can get back up the ladder again and he can coach for as long as he wants to.

You can conduct your business so that it will be a ladder by which every willing employee may climb to riches himself.

We have teams pressing us. We have teams that are almost in the same situation as we are. It would be great for us to step ahead of them and up the ladder in our standings.

To go beyond reason we have to climb up the ladder of reason and go to the top of it. This will not upset reason as it is interested only in assembling the facts, whatever they might be. Reason is an ever-loyal tool; imagination an ever-failing fool.

We've got a lot of work to do. We're starting much farther down the ladder than we have in the past and we're not climbing as quick as we have. They are working harder than I've seen to try to get over that hill.

What I remember perhaps most is starting up that ladder and looking over my shoulder and looking at those footprints down there and realizing that they were really mine and that there weren't going to be any (more) for a long time to come.

We climbed the ladder and carefully removed it. The bird was conscious. However, the injury on his leg was bad.

We are climbing a ladder while others take the elevator. We make progress, but others make it faster.

This truck is going to have to be replaced, ... Even if I don't get a ladder truck, I'm going to have to have a pumper.

You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.

We will play our ladder matches at the end of the week (today, Friday).

What is really crucial is that we can consistently hold our own in the front five, that is where teams will attack us and we have to resist that. If we had had a bit more luck and maybe a little bit more experience we could have won two or three more games, what we have got now will close the gap and give us the little bit extra to cross the line in some of those games. We are optimistic but also realistic. We are still at the bottom end, if not the bottom, of the funding ladder and we have to be realistic. If we get injuries we don't have a great deal of depth. If we get a few injuries we might struggle to be competitive.

You jump off the ladder and hopefully you land on the boat. But when you make the jump, there's no guarantee the boats won't do something unexpected.

We think of it as a ladder effect, and the fire can quickly move up into the crowns of the trees. That's when the wildfires move really fast.

These are the games you have to win. We've got to start climbing the ladder back into a playoff spot and get better in our division.

The speed of recent gains in telecoms was surprising. But people who had been climbing up a ladder without a break finally looked down to see how far they've come.

Any opportunity to get on the ladder is welcome. But a deal like this should be thought through carefully - 18 is young to take on a mortgage commitment, especially with a 100 per cent loan.

The bread which is taken, blessed, broken and shared out, is Christ, who is that ladder linking heaven and earth and on which angels ascend and descend. The place in which we celebrate becomes our Bethlehem, a house of bread in which we are surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses, the living and the departed.

You need a 40-foot ladder to clean the gutters. I can't even pick up a 40-foot ladder.

You not only have changes in personnel, but you have increased involvement from the division of administration as this moves up the ladder which is typical of most state contracts. We have a heavy burden on our end in terms of how this project moves forward and how the taxpayers' dollars are spent.

A lot of the things that Geoff handed down to Rob, Rob is now handing down to these guys. It's a neat little ladder of leadership.

They had a fire truck ladder extended to the car and broke the glass in the car. They started walking each of these people one by one down the ladder from the car.

They're all climbing the ladder (toward a state championship).

There's a whole second ladder of users: anybody requiring that kind of clean room space.

It was strange when I first came to the airline. The pilots freaked out because they suddenly saw their CEO pushing the ladder (to the plane),

It's a real shame because Jessica pitched well enough to win. It seems like we keep climbing the ladder and then take a few steps down just when we are close to the top. We never made the proper adjustments at the plate and don't seem to understand defensively what we need to do to just get out of the inning.

I told them we are here to work hard and get ready for a special season. Hopefully, we've moved up the ladder a little bit.

It's quite the opposite. They've risen up the corporate ladder and achieved some success, they're happy with what they've accomplished at work, they've had their children, and now there's this 'Now what?' question. 'Do I want something more? Different? What do I want that's going to give me a sense of meaning and purpose?' I've actually had patients make radical changes. One woman left her job as CEO of a company and opened a craft shop.

It's quite the opposite, ... They've risen up the corporate ladder and achieved some success, they're happy with what they've accomplished at work, they've had their children, and now there's this 'Now what?' question. 'Do I want something more? Different? What do I want that's going to give me a sense of meaning and purpose?' I've actually had patients make radical changes. One woman left her job as CEO of a company and opened a craft shop.

Consumers are moving up the ladder and buying more sophisticated phones. Demand is still strong,

The bed is just gorgeous. It's bright and colorful. It looks like a whole bunch of mattresses piled up. But it's an optical illusion. It's really just fabric, stuffing, nails and a staple gun. It's so tall, you need a ladder to get in.

It's incredibly easy to get caught up in an activity trap, in the business of life, to work harder and harder at climbing the ladder of success only to discover it's leaning against the wrong wall.

It's been difficult for a lot of players to move up the ladder the past couple of seasons.

It's huge. We're two teams that are in the same position and fighting to climb up the ladder and back into the playoff race.

I've had a productive season when some players out there have been struggling. I've climbed a few rungs of the ladder and I'm still enjoying it, so I haven't got anything to moan about.

It went from being kind of a mom-pop business, where you got what you wanted and you knew what you needed to do, to a franchise. You were just part of the corporate ladder or the bottom line. There was no personal touch.

The world of work is not a straightforward career ladder as it was years ago. It's more like a jungle gym.

They won't get a hotel room on the 25th floor. They know a ladder won't reach that high. So they stay 15 and below. And wherever they go, they're looking for fire exits.

The ladder truck's got some mechanical problems, ... This truck is going to have to be replaced.

The ladder of success can not be climb with your hands in your pocket.

I'm pleased for the three girls. They should enjoy it, but also it should give them motivation to continue up the ladder of those kind of awards.

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.

I just remember how good it felt to stand on that ladder and cut down that net. Just to remember putting on that hat and saying that we were champions. To come back to Tallahassee and everybody act like we were celebrities was great.

I heard the window go out and then I see him, and he said they had a ladder in the back.

Grand Prix Masters drivers have reached the top of the ladder and have nothing left to prove. We can compete without fear of offending anyone.

These immigrants often don't speak English well and don't have much education, but they're physically capable. It's the first step in the ladder to the American dream.

You've been climbing the ladder for 30 years, trying to get a great racehorse.

And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.

The medium does convey a large part of the message. There is a ladder of emotional temperature attached to communications, and e-mail tend to the coldest of the lot.

One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, ''Well, I'll have a go, too.''

We make a ladder of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.

This has been an issue that we've been raising for over two years. And during that time those at the end of the economic ladder have been falling further and further behind.