Top 1200 Reaching The Top Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

My cell phone fell off my lap. I was reaching for it in the back.

I definitely want to be, long time down the road when my career ends, whenever somebody mentions a top-five center or top-five power forward, they always got to mention my name. That's how I want to be remembered.

Hard work and talent are crucial to success, and intangible qualities like heart and clutch are generally real - but luck is just as important. Nobody gets to the top by accident, but nobody’s on top without some pretty phenomenal accidents of fate.

All writers are discontent. That's because they're aware of a potential and believe they're not reaching it.

I've not got any terrible stories of what I had to do to scrabble my way to the top, obviously, because I didn't scrabble my way to the top. I just scrabbled my way to the middle!

The theater is reaching as many different demographics as it can now.

Forgiving is...recognizing the injury, owning the pain, & reaching out.

I think there is a general view that sustainability is really important. I do think it is a top priority. I don't know that it's the top priority.

Politics is the art of reaching a goal that benefits all citizens of a nation.

Don't get stuck on small. Don't stop dreaming, reaching and enhancing what you have.

I love my fans and have devoted my life to reaching out to them.

People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

With four perfectionists in the band, we have a hard time reaching perfection.

The income tax only taxed the Rockefellers, the Morgans and the Vanderbilts. It was aimed at the top 4 percent, and the top rate then in 1913, was 7 percent. Woodrow Wilson had a big ceremony and said, "I'm delighted to be president at the creation of this popular new tax."

Love is reaching out to try to get to the other person.

Why did I not join one of the top five clubs in Europe? Because I am no longer one of the top five players around, and neither are Inter among the five best clubs.

By reaching out, more comes back than you can possibly imagine.

That's a song about reaching deep inside yourself where you can completely be who you are.

Learn all you can. Growth comes from setting your goals high and reaching for the stars.

I don't think about becoming a head coach. I really don't. I'm not oblivious of people who mention it. When you are in any business, people expect to aspire to the top. I guess everyone is supposed to aspire to being the man at the top of the heap. But I never have.

If you reach deeply into yourself, you are reaching into the very essence of mankind.

I'm very much an admirer of people who are reaching for things and trying to survive.

But our waste problem is not the fault only of producers. It is the fault of an economy that is wasteful from top to bottom-a symbiosis of an unlimited greed at the top and a lazy, passive, and self-indulgent consumptiveness at the bottom-and all of us are involved in it.

The transitional concept of management is reaching the end of the road.

There are 50 people fitter than me between the top 70 to 150 in the world. There are some players not as fit as me inside the top 10 in the world. Will fitness help them? I don't think so.

This idea that there is generality in the specific is of far-reaching importance.

It would have been better if I had won, but reaching the final was perfect.

Sometimes fans, sometimes even players, they don't know the game sometimes, and they look at numbers, or they use smoke-and-mirrors as far as who's a top 15 player, who's a top 20 player.

I'm in awe of comedians that do things that I can't do, whether it be a one-liner comic like Anthony Jeselnik, whether it be social issues commentary, whether it be - hell, Carrot Top. I can't be Carrot Top. I can't.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.

In any food crisis, it is the top of the food chain that suffers the most. In the case of farmer's distress, the top of food chain is us - the end consumer.

I'm going to be one of the top four that's ever played this game, for sure. And if they don't want me to have one of those top four spots, they'd better find another spot on that mountain. Somebody's gotta get bumped, but that's not for me to decide. That's for the architects.

Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.

Science is really about individual experts reaching a consensus.

After reaching 50, I began to wonder what the root of life is.

Reaching consensus in a group is often confused with finding the right answer.

Never stop taking risks. Just keep reaching.

No, you are not to complain or question who you are, but instead, grow, reaching for the light that's inside you.

The fun of the game is right now. A lot of people don't really realize that. They think you have to get to the top to start having fun, and it's not. It's the journey getting to the top where everything is always great. I'm on the 'Ferris Bueller' thing where I look around every once in a while so I don't miss it.

Music is the surest way of reaching someone else's heart.

The Musicians Union declared you couldn't mime on Top Of The Pops, which is obviously impossible, if you've got a studio-based record that you'd worked on for a year or something. And there were a lot of terrible performances. Because on Top Of The Pops, you were just thrown onstage.

Don't you know no one can escape the power of creatures reaching out with breath alone?

In terms of the history of a far reaching movement, 20 years is not that long.

Keep on pushing the boundaries and reaching for higher heights.

On reaching a certain degree of pain we lose the world.

We would have more if the talent was there to be had. Last year, the cost of a top, world-class deep learning expert was about the same as a top NFL quarterback prospect. The cost of that talent is pretty remarkable.

A fool will lose tomorrow reaching back for yesterday

We are reaching deep within ourselves to adjust the master knob.

You find the most important thing that really grabs you, and put it right up top. Don't bury the lead. Put it at the top. Best thing to do. Never go wrong that way. It's an immutable law of journalism. It just always works.

We've ceased making progress at the top in any industry anywhere in the world . In the United States, women have had 14% of the top corporate jobs and 17% of the board seats for 10 years. Ten years of no progress.

I grew up climbing mountains in Montana and Wyoming and my wife and I were engaged on top of a mountain peak: Hyalite Peak in Montana. It was a 15-mile hike to get to the top of that, round-trip - thankfully, she said yes.

Reaching out takes nothing more than a smile.

False Hustle = cheap fouls, lunging, reaching, etc.

Hours are golden links--God's tokens reaching heaven.

I think I've been fortunate to be at the top of the game and in the media for years, and a lot of times, people want to be your friend when you're on the top. You know, there have been times when I've been injured and I never got a phone call. So that's the way it is.

We, too, need to be patient, especially when it comes to reaching new goals.

Take the level of dedication that anyone had to get to the top in any field, and apply it to self-discovery. Except that when you get to the top of anything else, it washes away. You will die. The only thing that stays with you forever is your awareness.

I thought those three years when we won championships, I really was good enough to play in the All-Star game. I felt I deserved to be in the top whatever that would be, the top 20-some players in the league. Really felt that comfortable and confident on the basketball court.

I lived on the top of one hill and the school was at the top of another hill. Nobody ever went to school by car - we didn't have any cars during the war. So that to and from school was itself a training.

You know, I'm not making top dollar, but when you're making top dollar, there are a lot of people waiting for you to fall.