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.

Hepburn frames success and fame as temporary waypoints in a longer, impersonal process. The repeated “plow” suggests steady labor and forward motion rather than glamour; “make a hit” is only one moment in a cycle where others inevitably overtake you, and then are overtaken in turn. “Time levels” compresses the idea that reputation, competition, and even hierarchy are eroded by time: achievements fade, generations replace one another, and the ledger of who is “ahead” is continually rewritten. The quote reads as both stoic consolation and sober realism—an argument for persistence and perspective rather than fixation on being first.