The battle of life is already half won by the young man who is brought in contact with high officials; and the great aim of every boy should be to do something beyond the sphere of his duties- something which attracts the attention of those over him.
People mistake their limitations for high standards.
The adventurous state of mind is a high house. . . The joy of adventure is unaccountable. This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
It's always said that when one is a soldier who dies in battle, you go to a very high world. There's a great and good karma for the soldier who dies in battle because it's an extended selfless giving.
Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.
I enjoyed seven years at Wimbledon and there were high and low points.
If I reformed school, I would do two things: We can improve a child's IQ by three percent by teaching them a foreign language by seven-years-old. We shouldn't be waiting until high school when they are neurologically not ready to learn it. Second, we emphasize reading too young.
Great teachers have high expectations for their students, but higher expectations for themselves.
A high performer is someone who says, 'I want to be the best at what I'm doing. '
It may be glorious to write Thoughts that shall glad the two or three High souls, like those far stars that come in sight Once in a century.
I was not especially enthusiastic about opera when I was young, and I thought I would never write one. I felt it was an art form of the past, with expensive singers exposing their high notes, and bad theater, and ridiculous stories which don't concern us. But then little by little I realized that it can be defined very differently, that on the contrary opera can be something profound and not superficial - a wonderful meeting point for all the other arts.
These people that started here, they support the government now against those rebels. Why talking about what happened at the very beginning is completely different from what is happening now - it's not the same. There's very high dynamic, things are changing on daily basis. It's a completely different image. Those people who wanted revolution, they are cooperating with us.
My high school was a private school where you went to an Ivy League. That's just what was expected of you and nothing less. So I grew up never being okay with a 'B' because a 'B' was not good enough.
By this point I have a fairly high degree of confidence in my judgment, in that I don't doubt my sanity; or, even if I do, I don't have to be reassured.
Whoever established the high road, and how high it should be, should be fired.
I went through a lot of battles in high school.
I think bullying of anybody, whether they're gay or straight or anything in high school is unbearable.
Enjoy life, study hard, play hard, be kind to other people, set high standards, and don't be afraid to say "No. "
Theater will always be a huge part of my life. The high I get from doing theater is not, quite honestly, matched by many things. I like the fact that when you step out on the stage, for that given night, for better or for worse, you are the master of the boards. I love it to death.
Let us set our goals too high; let us demand more of ourselves than we believe we possess