#shoulders

Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders. ↗

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

#mathematicians #other #shoulders #stand

I look at the careers of people I'm standing on the shoulders of. People like Lena Horne, Ella Fitzgerald, Sammy Davis Jr., and Sarah Vaughan. These are icons I wanted to emulate, and I feel like they've been holding me up for quite a long time. ↗

— Dionne Warwick

#careers #davis #ella #ella fitzgerald #emulate

One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without. ↗

— Elizabeth I

#head #his #man #shoulders #without

I knew that by getting behind the wheel of the car and having had something to drink, the responsibility laid on my shoulders. ↗

— Tracey Gold

#car #drink #getting #had #having

Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#carrying #duration #favors #fortune #her

Much responsibility rests upon the shoulders of the song leader; it is not infrequently within his power to make or break a meeting. ↗

— Paul Harris

#his #infrequently #leader #make #meeting

Fame and stardom sat very easily on Elizabeth Taylor's shoulders. ↗

— Francesca Annis

#elizabeth #fame #sat #shoulders #stardom

I've worked with a lot of real heavy hitters, and Quentin is maybe heads and shoulders, at least a forehead, above just about anybody I've ever worked with. ↗

— David Carradine

#above #anybody #ever #forehead #heads

You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#carrying #crowd #many #only #out

If 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself: 'Dijkstra would not have liked this', well that would be enough immortality for me. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#dirty #doing #enough #i #i am