#ladder

The biggest challenge in New Orleans has been to find workers who can climb a ladder after lunch. ↗

— Harry Anderson

#been #biggest #biggest challenge #challenge #climb

And what, O Queen, are those things that are dear to a man? Are they not bubbles? Is not ambition but an endless ladder by which no height is ever climbed till the last unreachable rung is mounted? For height leads on to height, and there is not resting-place among them, and rung doth grow upon rung, and there is no limit to the number. ↗

— H. Rider Haggard

#endeavors #greed #humanity #ladder #learning

Coming near him like a ballet dancer she took a leap towards him, and he, frightened by her vehemence, and fearing that she would crash against him, instinctively became absolutely rigid, and she felt herself embracing a statue. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#ladders-to-fire #love #stella #this-hunger #love

They courted the face on the screen, the face of translucence, the face of wax on which men found it possible to imprint the image of their fantasy. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#ladders-to-fire #this-hunger #woman #men

In this business, you're either Brad Pitt right away, or you're already going down the ladder. ↗

— Skeet Ulrich

#away #brad #brad pitt #business #down

You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure. ↗

— Zig Ziglar

#climb #costume #dressed #failure #ladder

I think when I was on the corporate ladder, it was very difficult to maintain the hours. It's a little easier when you have you're an entrepreneur. ↗

— Tory Burch

#difficult #easier #entrepreneur #hours #i

I'm not trying to get myself up a notch on the ladder by shoving somebody else down on the ladder, whether it's a candidate or the president of the United States or anybody else. I just don't believe that's the way one oughta campaign, I've never done that. ↗

— George H. W. Bush

#believe #campaign #candidate #done #down

I started at Pillsbury as a manager in one of their analysis functions, then worked my way up the corporate ladder to become vice president. Moving to Burger King was an important moment in my career. ↗

— Herman Cain

#become #burger #burger king #career #corporate

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

— Andrew Carnegie

#cannot #climb #ladder #push #unless