“Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.” StillsEarthSkySonMountainAmbitionLaughterRaisesVainToilMadmenSurveysMy Ambition Book:The Works of Alexander Pope Esq Source: The Works of Alexander Pope Esq
“Man can never come up to his ideal standard. It is the nature of the immortal spirit to raise that standard higher and higher as it goes from strength to strength, still upward and onward. The wisest and greatest men are ever the most modest.” MenStillsSpiritHigherStandardsIdealsRaisesCome UpImmortalModestWisestGreatest Man Book:Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke Source: Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke
“I think it would be nearly impossible to find someone who has contributed more to South Carolina than Carroll Campbell. His efforts to transform South Carolina's economy and raise our state's income levels are still paying dividends today.” ThinkingStillsStatesWould BeTodayLevelsEffortEconomyImpossibleRaisesSouthIncomeImpossibilityCarolinaDividendsSouth Carolina Author:Mark Sanford
“Whenever I speak at the United Nations, UNICEF or elsewhere to raise awareness of the continual and rampant recruitment of children in wars around the world, I come to realize that I still do not fully understand how I could have possibly survived the civil war in my country, Sierra Leone.” WorldChildrenStillsWarCountrySpeakNationsRealizingUnitedAwarenessRaisesAround The WorldCivil WarElsewhereSurvivedUnited NationsSierraRecruitmentUnicefSierra Leone Author:Ishmael Beah
“Certain countries long ago succeeded where the U.S. has failed in commercializing their air traffic control systems, putting them in the hands of private or quasi-private operators able to raise capital, charge fees, and invest in growth, free of meddling by congressional pork barons. You want a drone-friendly air traffic control system? This is the place to start. Our FAA isn't blindly anti-drone but simply marooned in a system that still needs thousands of eyeballs gazing at radar terminals and out of cockpit windshields.” WantNeedsLongStillsCountryHandsAbleCertainGrowthAirRaisesFriendlyLong AgoTrafficFeesRadarDronesGazingPorkOperatorsEyeballsMeddlingCockpitAir Traffic ControlTraffic Control Author:Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.
“The healthy spirit of self-help created among working people would, more than any other measure, serve to raise them as a class; and this, not by pulling down others, but by levelling them up to a higher and still advancing standard of religion, intelligence, and virtue.” PeopleStillsSelfHelpingSpiritClassVirtueSelf HelpHigherHealthyStandardsRaisesPullingAdvancing Author:Samuel Smiles
“A teacher who can show good, or indeed astounding results while he is teaching, is still not on that account a good teacher, for it may be that, while his pupils are under his immediate influence, he raises them to a level which is not natural to them, without developing their own capacities for work at this level, so that they immediately decline again once the teacher leaves the schoolroom.” MayStillsShowsNaturalLevelsResultsTeacherInfluenceTeachingCapacityAccountsRaisesDevelopingDeclinePupilsGood Teacher Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein