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Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. – John Wooden
Guilt is a rope that wears thin. – Ayn Rand
If you're an ant, and you're walking along across the top of a cup of pudding, you probably have no idea that the only thing between you and disaster is the strength of that pudding skin. – Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
In the 1940s a survey listed the top seven discipline problems in public schools talking, chewing gum, making noise, running in the halls, getting out of turn in line, wearing improper clothes, not putting paper in wastebaskets. A 1980s survey lists these top seven drug abuse, alcohol abuse, pregnancy, suicide, rape, robbery, assault. (Arson, gang warfare and venereal disease are also-rans.) – George Will
It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top. – Hunter S. Thompson
Politicians should shift their thinking from how I can balance the budget to how I can attract top global talents, businesses and investments to compete in a global economy. – Med Jones
Since the beginning of business history, managers have come to realize their competitiveness depends on being able to find, develop and retain top talent – Med Jones
The bigger the hill you climb, The more you can see from the top, The more you enjoy the ride down, And the longer the ride lasts. – Frank Stephens
The single most important factor in determining the climate of an organization is the top executive. – Charles Galloway
We cannot swing up on a rope that is attached only to our own belt. – William Ernest Hocking
While technically I did not commit a crime, an impeachable offense... these are legalisms, as far as the handling of this matter is concerned it was so botched up, I made so many bad judgments. The worst ones, mistakes of the heart, rather than the head. But let me say, a man in that top job - he's got to have a heart, but his head must always rule his heart. – Richard Milhous Nixon
When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on. – Thomas Jefferson
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read President Can't Swim. – Lyndon B. Johnson
Personally, I'm in favor of democracy, which means that the central institutions of society have to be under popular control. Now, under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control. Thus, a corporation or an industry is, if we were to think of it in political terms, fascist that is, it has tight control at the top and strict obedience has to be establishedat every level--there's little bargaining, a little give and take,but the line of authority is perfectly straightforward. Just as I'm opposed to political fascism, I'm opposed to economic fascism. I think that until the major institutions of society are under the popular control of participants and communities, it's pointless to talk about democracy. – Noam Chomsky
"Whoops" is a word that should never be said by some professions - Pilots, Racing car drivers, and hair colourists come immediately to mind but Dentists also have to be up in the top five. – Richard Stubbs, Comedian, Book - " Still Life"
A clever man can see the world from a cave much better than a stupid man can from the top of a mountain! – Mehmet Murat ildan
A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. – James Reston
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top . – Unknown
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top. – Unknown
Adventure isn't hanging on a rope off the side of a mountain. Adventure is an attitude that we must apply To the day to day obstacles of life - Facing new challenges, seizing new opportunities, Testing our resources against the unknown and in the process, Discovering our own unique potentional. – John Amatt
An adventure differs from a mere feat in that it is tied to the externally unattainable. Only one end of the rope is in the hand, the other is not visible, and neither prayers, nor daring, nor reason can shake it free. – William Bolitho
Be nice to everyone on your way to the top because you pass them all on the way down. – Fred Hufnagel, Sr.
Boys are found everywhere-on top of, underneath, inside of, climbing on, swinging from, running around or jumping to. Mothers love them, little girls hate them, older sisters and brothers tolerate them, adults ignore them and Heaven protects them. A boy is Truth with dirt on its face, Beauty with a cut on its finger, Wisdom with bubble gum in its hair and the Hope of the future with a frog in its pocket. – Alan Marshall Beck
By depending on the great, The small may rise high. See the little plant ascending the tall tree Has climbed to the top. – Saskya Pandita
Capitalism needs to function like a game of tug-of-war. Two opposing sides need to continually struggle for dominance, but at no time can either side be permitted to walk away with the rope. – Pete Holiday

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