A Quote by Joseph Campbell
Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.
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People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.
Wouldn't it be a tragedy to get to the top of the ladder and find you placed it against the wrong wall?
Some people achieve the top of the ladder and only then realise it was standing against the wrong wall.
They climbed the ladder of learning only to find it leaning against the wrong wall.
There is perhaps nothing worse than reaching the top of the ladder and discovering that you’re on the wrong wall.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
Without a mission statement, you may get to the top of the ladder and then realize it was leaning against the wrong building!
As you reach for understanding, you find that your ladder of facts isn’t long enough, and you try to extend it by adding a rung of faith. Eventually you see that the task is hopeless, and you put away your ladder of facts and go get a ladder of faith.
Training for a marathon is much like climbing a ladder. Each ring is a short-term goal that must be met in sequence in order to reach the long-term goal at the top of the ladder.
The worst mistake is to have the best ladder and the wrong wall.
It's incredibly easy to get caught up in an activity trap, in the busy-ness of life, to work harder and harder at climbing the ladder of success only to discover it's leaning against the wrong wall. It is possible to be busy - very busy - without being very effective.
In order for us to reach success, we must first find, the ladder.
An old essay by John Updike begins, 'We live in an era of gratuitous inventions and negative improvements.' That language is general and abstract, near the top of the ladder. It provokes our thinking, but what concrete evidence leads Updike to his conclusion ? The answer is in his second sentence : 'Consider the beer can.' To be even more specific, Updike was complaining that the invention of the pop-top ruined the aesthetic experience of drinking beer. 'Pop-top' and 'beer' are at the bottom of the ladder, 'aesthetic experience' at the top.
You don't feel accomplished when you get that first step on the ladder. You feel accomplished when you're on top of the ladder. I want to be on top, and I'm going to do everything in my ability to get there.
In Caribbean there is no middle class: you're either rich or you're poor. And the ladder to success is not really a ladder, it's a chain; once you reach a certain level, you can't go back and you can only keep going forward.
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