It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.
Source: In A Remarkable Woman, by Anne Edwards, 1985.
-- Katharine Hepburn, (May 12 1907-2003), US actress; Her films spanned 50 years including The African Queen, 1951; On Golden Pond, 1982.