If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined... — Henry David Thoreau
The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. — Michelangelo
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom. — George S. Patton
Mediocre people hate high achievers, and high achievers hate mediocre people. — Nick Saban
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. — Dr. Seuss
The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The willingness to learn new skills is very high. — Angela Merkel
My high salary for one season was forty-six thousand dollars and a Cadillac. — Duke Snider
High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments. — Christopher Hitchens
Knowing when to walk away is wisdom. Being able to is courage. Walking away, with your head held high is dignity.
The High Notes Quotes
I like to play in the deep register. I was never a high-note specialist. My range goes from the bottom of the horn up to around C or D. High D is about it for me ... about two-and-a-half octaves, I think. But in these two-and-a-half octaves, I can say everything I have to say. — Chet Baker
Love demands expression. It will not stay still, stay silent, be good, be modest, be seen and not heard, no. It will break out in tongues of praise, the high note that smashes the glass and spills the liquid. — Jeanette Winterson
A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at certain moments. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face.
A song is a favorite song, not because the singer can hit and hold a high note, but because of the words, their meaning. — Taylor Swift
I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression, I could play what I heard inside me. That's when I was born. — Charlie Parker
Keep your head and standards high!
Mad with the love of a wife for her husband... sing for the Most High sing for no other. We are all notes in this eternal song. God plays His flute and we all dance along. — Trevor Hall
The white cracker who wrote the National Anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word "free" to a note so high nobody could reach it. That was deliberate. — Tony Kushner
If your going to learn to play lead guitar, get an electric guitar .. it doesn't have to be an expensive one .. acoustic guitars aren't good for learning lead, because you can't play up very high on the neck and they take heavier-gauge strings which makes it hard to bend notes — Eddie Van Halen
Societies raise their grandest monuments to what their cultures value most highly. As the tallest buildings in a city noted for tall buildings, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were certainly monumental. — Michael Mandelbaum
My Voice Matters Quotes
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. — Steve Jobs
Voting is not an act of political freedom. It is an act of political conformity. Those who refuse to vote are not expressing silence. They are screaming in the politician's ear: 'You do not represent me. This is not a process in which my voice matters. I do not believe you.' — Wendy McElroy
Blind people do not need a name, I am my voice, nothing else matters. — Jose Saramago
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
Talking to animals' isn't a matter of words used, it is a matter of your thoughts, your expression, and above all the tone of your voice. A harsh voice from me can make my cows jump in terror. I shouted at old Queenie once and she got such a shock that she fell down just as if she'd been shot. — Barbara Woodhouse
My voice speaking is a monkey's mouth making little mouth noises that are carrying agree-upon meaning, and it is meaning that matters. Without the meaning one has only little mouth noises — Terence McKenna
Sometimes things you write are messages to yourself. Even though I think my stuff has a particular voice because you are who you are, it's good to switch it up, professionally and personally. The dare to be great situation is always going to be the one that matters the most. — Cameron Crowe
Declarations of high confidence mainly tell you that an idividual has construced a coherent story in his mind, not necessarily that the story is true.
What's funny about my voice is, no matter what I sing, I sound like I'm really sad. I don't even mean to do it, it's just something my voice has. I think that's one of the reasons why Okkervil has been dubbed as really mopey - I have this tone to my voice that sounds like that. — Will Sheff
You write because you don't talk very well, and maybe one of the reasons that I was determined to write was that I wasn't an orator, unlike my mother and my grandfather, who both spoke beautifully and spoke all the time. Maybe I grew up with too many voices around me, as a matter of fact. — John Updike
It didn't matter what you look like. You don't have to get up at 5:30 in the morning and there's a lot to be said for that. Corpse Bride can just play all my parts from now on and I'll just do the voice. — Helena Bonham Carter
I have a right to voice my opinion, but you know - when you can't really make choices, it really don't matter. — Teyana
Keep your standards high, and any guy who is worth it will rise to meet them. — Sayings
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. — George S. Patton
You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals. — George S. Patton
People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach — Marguerite de Navarre
Integrity is the first step to true greatness. — Charles Simmons
Set your goals high and don't stop until you get there. — Bo Jackson
Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers. — Ovid
For NASA, space is still a high priority. — Dan Quayle
It's very hard to fail completely, if you aim high enough. — Larry Page
I wore a woman's antique fur jacket to my high school junior prom. — Lance Loud
If your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything. — David Foster Wallace
And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight. — J. D. Salinger
The problem is, women have stopped setting the bar high. — Steve Harvey
Guys usually know immediately that I'm high-maintenance. — Yasmine Bleeth
Sexual harassment is complex, subtle, and highly subjective. — Kathie Lee Gifford
Pandemonium, the high capital Of Satan and his peers. — John Milton
To wear dreams on one's feet is to begin to give reality to one's dreams. — Roger Vivier
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Remember that you will never reach a higher standard than you yourself set. Then set your mark high, and step by step, even though it be by painful effort, by self-denial and sacrifice, ascend the whole length of the ladder of progress. — Ellen G. White
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