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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
Saint Augustine
Success
You
Clouds
Will
First
Wish
Humility
Rise
Lay
Tower
Pierce
Begin
Plan
Descending
Foundation
We live in a world in which data convey authority. But authority has a way of descending to certitude, and certitude begets hubris.
Bret Stephens
World
Live
Way
Data
Hubris
Begets
Authority
Which
Convey
Certitude
Descending
I said to Scott that the ascent seemed to be going slowly and that I was concerned descending climbers could possibly run out of oxygen before their return to camp IV.
Anatoli Boukreev
Before
Out
Run
Possibly
Slowly
Seemed
Could
Concerned
Return
Said
Climber
Camp
Scott
Going
Oxygen
Ascent
Descending
I'm still a promising actor. It's better to be climbing even if you have a lot of falls than to be descending. Maybe that's kept me young. I haven't gotten to any peak yet.
Antonio Banderas
Me
You
Better
Young
Promising
Gotten
Still
Climbing
Falls
Lot
Than
Any
Maybe
Descending
Even
Actor
Peak
Kept
I consider descending chromatic lines and arpeggiated chords basic skills learned by any student of the guitar.
Jimmy Page
Guitar
Consider
Student
Learned
Lines
Any
Skills
Descending
Chords
Basic
I woke up one time coming out of a blackout, and I was on an airplane, descending to land in Charles de Gaulle Airport in France. And all I can think is I must have decided it was a good idea to go to France, and got my passport, and got on a plane.
Joe Walsh
Time
Good
Think
France
Airplane
Airport
Out
Must
One Time
Charles
Blackout
Idea
Got
Coming
Go
Woke
Passport
Up
Decided
Land
Plane
Descending
Good Idea
The core of the movie business remains intact and it's not descending in scope. Studios want movies that are bigger than ever.
Joel Silver
Business
Remains
Studios
Intact
Scope
Than
Want
Movie
Bigger
Movie Business
Movies
Descending
Ever
Core
When your father directed your mother in 'Orpheus Descending,' the kid's going to be a theater nerd.
Logan Marshall-Green
Mother
Father
Kid
Nerd
Directed
Going
Theater
Your
Descending
In the 'Nude Descending a Staircase,' I wanted to create a static image of movement: movement is an abstraction, a deduction articulated within the painting, without our knowing if a real person is or isn't descending an equally real staircase.
Marcel Duchamp
Painting
Our
Static
Abstraction
Knowing
Equally
Within
Without
Real
Articulated
Person
Real Person
Movement
Wanted
Staircase
Create
Deduction
Descending
Image
Most shows find themselves descending into sentimentality or earnestness at some point but, with 'Community,' the joke is always on.
Miranda Raison
Joke
Community
Earnestness
Find
Some
Point
Most
Always
Themselves
Sentimentality
Descending
Shows
As far as income goes, there are three currencies in the world; most people ignore two. The three currencies are time, income and mobility, in descending order of importance. Most people focus exclusively on income.
Tim Ferriss
Time
People
World
Focus
Three
Importance
Most
Mobility
Goes
Order
As Far As
Far
Ignore
Descending
Income
Two
One of the arrangements I'm really proud of is '21 Guns' because the chorus has this descending bass line with a suspended type of progression that immediately screamed 'Bach' to me.
Tom Kitt
Me
Bass
Progression
Bach
Type
Immediately
Guns
Because
Proud
Arrangements
Line
Suspended
Screamed
Really
Descending
Chorus
I want to ski down Mount Cho Oyu in the Himalayas when I am 85, descending from a height of 8,201 meters.
Yuichiro Miura
Down
Am
Mount
Want
Height
Ski
Descending
Owing to the difficulty of obtaining horses, Mr. Henry returns from this place. In descending the Mississippi I will request him to pay his respects to you.
Zebulon Pike
You
Will
Pay
Difficulty
Respects
Horses
Mississippi
Obtaining
Him
Returns
His
Owing
Place
Request
Descending
Henry
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