The bar is high. But now you have a ladder.


Larry Brooks

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He should not become the new high bar.
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Mark did set a high bar. It is certainly going to be a big void to fill.
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They are the bar now.
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Absolutely this competition is worthwhile, we have now played all bar one player on our list.
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You need a 40-foot ladder to clean the gutters. I can't even pick up a 40-foot ladder.
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I feel like I've set the bar fairly high, and I want to keep living up to that bar.
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Mother Superior jump the gun...
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Tremble: your whole life is a rehearsal for the moment you are in now.
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I've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.
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Larry is a very smart man. You can quote me on that.
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A show of confidence raises the bar.
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They've set the bar high and met it in terms of land preservation.
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Teen pregnancy is really high right now. You wonder why anybody would want to have a baby so young.
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A great future starts with what you can see
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What will make you a star is in you
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They wanted me to play third like Brooks so I did play like Brooks - Mel Brooks.
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They wanted me to play third like Brooks so I did play like Brooks - Mel Brooks.
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What we don't need in a school or a classroom is for a teacher to say, 'These poor black children. T...
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Building castles in the air is only wise if you build a ladder to reach them.
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Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.
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Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.
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If you're meeting someone for the first time after three hours of hair, makeup, and styling, you...
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I have a stepladder. It's a very nice stepladder but it's sad that I never knew my real ladder.
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Ambition is putting a ladder against the sky.
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I want children, but at the moment the liberty I have now finally, has a far too high value.
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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
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Did you know that what you really, really, really want ...you now have?
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You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.
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We're comfortable with that range. It's a bit like the high jump, and the bar has gone up for 2006.
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Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.
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PHILLIPS BROOKS
Just keep taking chances and having fun.
GARTH BROOKS
In the future, I'm sure there will be a lot more robots in every aspect of life. If you told peo...
RODNEY BROOKS
When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that th...
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other eth...
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
I've always thought of myself as a reporter.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing wi...
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, e...
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this ident...
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
First fight. Then fiddle.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poem...
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes...
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it wer...
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
Look at what's happening in this world. Every day there's something exciting or disturbing t...
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
We are each other's magnitude and bond.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
I believe this with all my heart: The greatest coach of all time in my eyes is my mom. She's ins...
SCOTT BROOKS
I'm very thankful to players like John Stockton and Spud Webb. They've made it possible for ...
SCOTT BROOKS
Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But i...
MEL BROOKS
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
PHILLIPS BROOKS
I guess 'The Player' was a pretty good L.A. movie. And 'Chinatown.' Was there ever a...
ALBERT BROOKS
It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!
GARTH BROOKS
We rode pretty hard for about 30 or 40 kilometers, but eventually it got a bit disorganized. There w...
BEN BROOKS
It will be a lot funnier. It will have a lot more raw material, as I call it.
BEN BROOKS
We started to execute more and our team did not have as many turnovers. We just played better as a t...
BEN BROOKS
The sponsors were even more keen because they wanted to have more of a brand awareness down here.
BEN BROOKS
The Herald Sun Tour is one of the premier cycling events in Australia, so the boys and I are keen to...
BEN BROOKS
I was his host for nine Phoenix Opens and would fly him over in a private jet. I always tried to tel...
BEN BROOKS
Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.
BELLAMY BROOKS
I probably learned, being in 'Taxi Driver' before I made my first film, I would come to the ...
ALBERT BROOKS
A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up hi...
MEL BROOKS
I like Chris Rock. He's dangerous.
MEL BROOKS
One reason that cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
People used to complain that selling a president was like selling a bar of soap. But when you buy so...
DAVID BROOKS
We're doing everything we can. Mainly the program draws from Harwich and Brewster, even though we go...
BILL BROOKS
We have a calendar raffle starting up, and we've sold cookie dough and had can drives. We're looking...
BILL BROOKS
The main thing is we want to increase the amount of kids in the program. The numbers are off; that's...
BILL BROOKS
We've always tried to enforce the law that no one from a foreign country can cross except at an offi...
BILL BROOKS
Are Mr. and Mrs. Gaines going to be on the second floor gawking?
BILL BROOKS
Generally, in hospitals, there is some morbidity and some mortality that results from giving the wro...
BILL BROOKS