Zitat des Tages über Sockel / Pedestal:
It's still a mystery to me, but even though my mother was like an older sister to me, I kind of put her up on a pedestal.
We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
I've always said that the experience of meeting an artist that you are in awe of and that you hope to create with one day is usually disappointing because you put them up on a pedestal, and then you're like, 'Wow, that's not a nice person.'
The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.
Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.
When people get placed upon a pedestal - when they start chasing after that person on the pedestal - they become mannequin-like.
I think... I'm perceived as an everyperson. There is no pedestal. I'm no different from anybody else.
Today they're praising you sky high, place you on a pedestal and tomorrow they don't want to know you.
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal.
You get built up and put on a pedestal and then people want to bring you down. It can be hurtful. Some people try to make me look bad or not a nice person but it's completely false.
The idea of celebrity has always been very strange to me because it's taking the focus away from the music and attaching it to a person. When we put someone on a pedestal or idolize them, we're giving our own power away.
It was an experience that was exceptional. People frequently ask what it was like and it truly was inspiring. Sometimes during his lifetime, people would try and put him on a pedestal and that's not where he wanted to be, but he was really a great individual.
It's interesting in American culture. We like to build people up and then push them off the pedestal, and then we want to see them come back. Like Britney Spears, and a lot of people, it's what we do, and it's not like that in other parts of the world.
I think we do people a great disservice by putting them on a pedestal and not allowing them to be human.
I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.
I don't think any player lives up to his potential, because people out there put you so high on a pedestal, you'll never be as good as they expect.
It's extremely difficult to say what one actually means by 'sculpture' other than, in a provisional sense, it's something that goes on the floor or a pedestal, and loosely applies to a certain history of the use of that term.
If people don't know their pastor, it's easy to put the pastor on a pedestal and depersonalize him or her. It's also easy for pastors, who don't know their congregations, simply to classify congregants as saved or unsaved, involved or not involved, tithers or non-tithers.
A lot of people put all that stuff on a pedestal, and they won't touch it. But I don't think that's the reason they did that. I think they played that stuff out of pure joy.
Hollywood people want to build you up and make you famous only to knock you off you're the pedestal they built for you.
'Deal or No Deal' works nicely with my ADD/ADHD symptoms. I show up, meet the contestants, and move around the set. I'm not stuck behind a pedestal reading trivia questions. I've always had problems sitting still and listening for long periods of time. The show spares me these challenges. I can live in the moment. It's like a standup act.
I'm not set on a pedestal where I think I'm too high and mighty.
I was writing a chapter of Beautiful Evidence on the subject of the sculptural pedestal, which led to my thinking about what's up on the pedestal - the great leader.
I'd like to see the word 'entrepreneur' knocked off its pedestal. Being 'entrepreneurial' is something I look for not only in founders to invest in, but also employees to hire.
I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I want to be known as a nice and normal person, but my skills are a little more excelled.
I've learned that being a celebrity is like being a sacrificial lamb. At some point, no matter how high the pedestal that they put you on, they're going to tear you down.
The kids put you on a pedestal. I didn't like it.
Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual.
The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.
I don't think there are many kids who sit around and want to be actors. I don't think there are many kids who want to sit around and want to be senators. But so many of us want to be athletes, so we're envious of them, and we put them up on that pedestal.
I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I just want to be reasonably successful and live a normal life with all the conveniences to make it so.
I am and always will be a sinner. But that's the beautiful thing about Jesus. I'll always try to be a better person in the eyes of God. But I'm not all of a sudden stepping up on a pedestal and saying I'm holier than thou, 'cause I'm not!
A gender line... helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
I kind of put people from the past up on a pedestal; I don't think, in a lot of ways, that we're at their level.
People see you sing in a certain way, in a long dress, and you are put on a pedestal like you have never made a mistake in your life.
