Levels Quotes - Page 13

• The hatred Americans have for their own government is pathological, if understandable. At one level it is simply thwarted greed: since our religion is making a buck, giving a part of that buck to any government is an act against nature.

  Gore Vidal

  Government, Giving, Hatred

  "The State of the Union". Esquire Magazine, May 1975.

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• The standard of matrimony is erected by affection and purity, and does not depend upon the height, or bulk, or color, or wealth, or poverty of individuals. Water will seek its level; nature will have free course; and heart will answer to heart.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Heart, Color, Water

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• Transitional forms are generally lacking at the species level, but they are abundant between larger groups.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Groups, Paleontology, Fossils

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History”, p.260, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina

  Constance Baker Motley

  College, Black, South Carolina

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• Culture is the deeper level of basic assumptions and beliefs that are shared by members of an organization, that operate unconsciously and define in a basic 'taken for granted' fashion an organization's view of its self and its environment.

  Edgar Schein

  Fashion, Taken, Self

  "Organizational Culture and Leadership: A Dynamic View". Book by Edgar Schein, 1985.

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• When we say that leadership is a choice, it basically means you can choose the level of initiative you want to exercise in response to the question, ‘What is the best I can do under the given circumstances?’

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, Mean, Exercise

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• Quite often, ambition operates on a level of irritation. Not even jealousy, just irritation.

  Geoff Dyer

  Ambition, Irritation

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• What I talked about in it was the idea of celebrity, and celebrities being treated like blacks were in the '60s, having no rights, and the fact that people can slander your name. I said that in the toast. And I had to say this in a position where I, from the art world, am marrying Kim. And how we're going to fight to raise the respect level for celebrities so that my daughter can live a more normal life. She didn't choose to be a celebrity. But she is. So I'm going to fight to make sure she has a better life.

  Kanye West

  Daughter, Art, Crazy

  "Kanye West Weighs In On 45-Minute Wedding Toast, Marrying Kim and Being a Blowfish". abcnews.go.com. July 21, 2014.

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• Perhaps some day someone will explain how, on the level of man, Auschwitz was possible; but on the level of God, it will forever remain the most disturbing of mysteries.

  Elie Wiesel

  Men, Forever, Mystery

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “Legends of Our Time”, p.6, Schocken

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• We may as well face it: the whole level of spirituality among us is low. We have measured ourselves by ourselves until the incentive to seek higher plateaus in the things of the Spirit is all but gone (We) have imitated the world, sought popular favor, manufactured delights to substitute for the joy of the Lord and produced a cheap and synthetic power to substitute for the power of the Holy Ghost.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Joy, Faces, Gone

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• It is scarcely possible that the eyes of contemporaries should discover in the public felicity the latent causes of decay and corruption. This long peace, and the uniform government of the Romans, introduced a slow and secret poison into the vitals of the empire. The minds of men were gradually reduced to the same level, the fire of genius was extinguished, and even the military spirit evaporated.

  Edward Gibbon

  Military, Eye, Men

  The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ch. 2 (1776 - 1788)

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• One of the ways to make sure policies are more transparent and to help restore people's confidence in politicians... is to ensure renewal at the highest level of office.

  Pauline Marois

  People, Office, Way

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• It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality.

  Christian Lous Lange

  Spiritual, Mean, People

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• Hitler's dictatorship was the first of an industrial estate in this age of modern technology, a dictatorship which employed to perfection the instruments of technology to dominate its own people. By means of such instruments of technology, eighty million persons could be made subject to the will of one individual. Telephone, teletype, radio, made it possible to transmit the commands of the highest levels directly to the lowest organs where they were executed uncritically

  Albert Speer

  Mean, Technology, People

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• Kings and their subjects, masters and slaves, find a common level in two places - at the foot of the cross, and in the grave.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Kings, Two, Feet

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Charles Caleb Colton, p. 41, 1895.

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• Brand-image campaigns establish contact with the subconscious of the consumer below the word level. They do this with visual symbols instead of words, Mr. Martineau says, because the visual symbols are far more significant. They communicate faster. They are more direct. There is no work, no mental effort. Their sole purpose is to create images and moods.

  Rosser Reeves

  Effort, Purpose, Advertising

  "Reality In Advertising".

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• Sadly, many individuals don't know where to find God, and exclude him from their lives. When spiritual needs arise, they may look to the left, the right, or round about. But looking to other people on the same level cannot satisfy spiritual shortages. When the immortal spirit is starved, hunger persists for something more filling. Even when material success comes, there is a hollow ache - if living well falls short of living worthily. Inner peace cannot be found in affluence accompanied by spiritual privation.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Spiritual, Fall, People

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• In the case of various kinds of knowledge, we find that what in former days occupied the energies of men of mature mental ability sinks to the level of information, exercises, and even pastimes for children; and in this educational progress we can see the history of the world's culture delineated in faint outline.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Children, Educational, Knowledge

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Sir James Black Baillie (1931). “The Phenomenology of Mind”, p.16, Courier Corporation

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• NVC can be effectively applied at all levels of communication and in diverse situations: intimate relationships, families, schools, organizations and institutions, therapy and counseling, diplomatic and business negotiations, disputes and conflicts of any nature.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, School, Intimate Relationships

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• Four things have almost invariably followed the imposition of controls to keep prices below the level they would reach under supply and demand in a free market: (1) increased use of the product or service whose price is controlled, (2) Reduced supply of the same product or service, (3) quality deterioration, (4) black markets.

  Thomas Sowell

  Black, Quality, Deterioration

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• America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known.

  Pat Buchanan

  Christian, Country, Slave Ships

  "Pat Buchanan Thinks You Should Be More Thankful For Slavery, Barry Obama". The Jezebel Interview, jezebel.com. March 24, 2008.

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• The first level of practice is illuminated by the qualities of courage and renunciation.

  Jack Kornfield

  Practice, Quality, Firsts

  Joseph Goldstein, Jack Kornfield (2001). “Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation”, p.57, Shambhala Publications

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• Meditation is a vehicle for opening to the truth of this impermanence on deeper and deeper levels.

  Jack Kornfield

  Meditation, Impermanence, Vehicle

  Joseph Goldstein, Jack Kornfield (2001). “Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation”, p.26, Shambhala Publications

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• Winning companies win because they have good leaders who nurture the development of other leaders at all levels of the organization.

  Noel Tichy

  Leadership, Winning, Organization

  Noel M. Tichy (2009). “The Leadership Engine: How Winning Companies Build Leaders at E”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• One trophy is good, but two are better. That way, when a hero wears his medals on his chest, at least his steps are level as he walks by.

  Johan Cruijff

  Hero, Two, Way

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