Levels Quotes - Page 21

• To connect to people at the deepest level, you need stories.

  Robert McKee

  People, Needs, Stories

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• In [Yogananda's] celebrated Autobiography of a Yogi, he offers a stunning account of the 'cosmic consciousness' reached on the upper levels of yogic practice, and numerous interesting perspectives on human nature from the yogic and Vedantic points of view.

  Robert S Ellwood

  Views, Practice, Interesting

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• The Senate has passed a new bill that requires TV stations to lower the volume level on commercials. This is great, a hundred of the most powerful people in the nation have managed to do the same thing my remote does.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Powerful, People, Doe

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• We have the highest graduation rates, the broadest health care access, and the greatest level of home ownership and workforce participation in the country. And we did it all with a small population in a cold state that coastal big shots refer to as fly-over land.

  Tim Pawlenty

  Country, Home, Land

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• Earth allows several levels for Soul to gain experience in life, including the mineral, plant, fish, animal and human stages.

  Harold Klemp

  Animal, Tree, Soul

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• It's possible at any time during a player's career to get into top physical shape or to try to win every game! But you can't teach skills to an old player. Youth coaches should keep in mind that individual skills need to be nurtured at an early age. Players who haven't mastered the fundamental skills become frustrated because the game gets too difficult for them as they move into higher levels.

  Claudio Reyna

  Moving, Winning, Player

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• When I signed this past summer, Lou Lamoriello, Jacques Lemaire, and I agreed that if we were unable to find a suitable fit in which I would be able to compete and contribute at the level I expect from myself, then I would simply step aside.

  Brendan Shanahan

  Summer, Past, Would Be

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• It’s very hard to be an innovator at the highest level in any discipline. For some chefs it’s merely about combining ingredients, but that’s something you can do with your eyes closed.

  Ferran Adria

  Eye, Discipline, Ingredients

  "What next for El Bulli mastermind Ferran Adrià?". Interview with Stuart Husband, www.telegraph.co.uk. August 2, 2012.

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• I have always looked at it this way: If you strive like crazy for perfection - an all-out assault on total perfection - at the very least you will hit a high level of excellence, and then you might be able to sleep at night. To accomplish something truly significant, excellence has to become a life plan.

  Charlie Trotter

  Crazy, Sleep, Night

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• Well Ice H20 is my company that I plan to take to the next level with new artists, books, movies and so forth. It's more like a multimedia brand that I want to take to the next level and put some talented people on.

  Raekwon

  Book, Artist, Ice

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• Rowing, particularly sculling, inflicts on the individual in every race a level of pain associated with few other sports. There was certainly pain in football during a head-on collision, pain in other sports on the occasion of a serious injury. That was more the threat of pain; in rowing there was the absolute guarantee of it every time.

  David Halberstam

  Sports, Football, Pain

  David Halberstam (2012). “The Amateurs: The Story of Four Young Men and Their Quest for an Olympic Gold Medal”, p.73, Open Road Media

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• Veganism has given me a higher level of awareness and spirituality, primary because the energy associated with eating has shifted to other areas. If you’re violent to yourself by putting [harmful] things into your body that violate its spirit, it will be difficult not to perpetuate that [violence] onto someone else.

  Dexter Scott King

  Energy, Body, Violence

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• Beware of Methodologies. They are a great way to bring everyone up to a dismal, but passable, level of performance, but at the same time, they are aggravating to more talented people who chafe at the restrictions that are placed on them.

  Joel Spolsky

  People, Way, Restriction

  "Big Macs vs. The Naked Chef". Personal Website, www.joelonsoftware.com. January 18, 2001.

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• Well, yes. I believe that children's souls are the inheritors of historical memory from previous generations. It's just that as they grow older and experience the everyday world that memory sinks lower and lower. I feel I need to make a film that reaches down to that level. If I could do that I would die happy.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Children, Memories, Believe

  "A god among animators" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2005.

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• It is astounding how much the immune system is strengthened by reducing daily mental stress levels with either visualization or meditation. The other great tonic for the immune system is love—loving ourselves as well as others.

  Bernie Siegel

  Stress, Meditation, Reducing

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• Somethings get easier. You get more confident in your abilities and you learn what kind of stories sell and what don't. But your standards kept going up with your skills, the business aspect of writing grows more complicated, and it becomes really hard to maintain any semblance of a balanced life the longer you're at this. No matter what level you're at, writing is always difficult.

  Lori Wilde

  Writing, Skills, Stories

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• As a typically ambitious player, I did what all others of that ilk do: Everything I could do to gain advantage for my PCs and rise in level as rapidly as possible.

  Gary Gygax

  Player, Ambitious, Gains

  "What's in a Name?". Dragon Magazine, No. 318, 2004.

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• We always cherish and miss the time passed yet struglling for a better future but after moving to next level we feel the past was beautiful

  Salman Ahmad

  Beautiful, Moving, Past

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• There are no coincidences. Every event we experience and every person we meet has intentionally been put in our path to help raise our level of consciousness .

  Cheryl Richardson

  Events, Path, Helping

  Cheryl Richardson (2005). “The Unmistakable Touch of Grace”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• I have been using the word 'other' as though it were self-explanatory, yet who the 'other' is must always be something of a mystery. It is a mystery at an immediate level in the sense that no person is entirely knowable.

  Stephanie Dowrick

  Self, Mystery, Persons

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• Every major accomplishment in a man's life requires a major level of commitment.

  Jim George

  Commitment, Accomplishment, Majors

  Jim George (2008). “A Man After God's Own Heart: Devoting Your Life to What Really Matters”, p.7, Harvest House Publishers

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• I believe that all genial classrooms share at least five characteristics that guide their instruction regardless of content or grade level. These characteristics are (1) freedom to choose, (2) open-ended exploration, (3) freedom from judgment, (4) honoring every student's experience, and (5) belief in every student's genius.

  Thomas Armstrong

  Believe, Genius, Belief

  Thomas Armstrong (1998). “Awakening Genius in the Classroom”, p.60, ASCD

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• Bodybuilding is men on a stage in their underwear wearing brown paint showing other men their muscles. It is training for appearance only, and at the contest level requires a degree of vanity, narcissism, and self-absorption that I find distasteful and odd

  Mark Rippetoe

  Bodybuilding, Men, Vanity

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• Your optimism today will determine your level of success tomorrow.

  Jon Gordon

  Optimism, Today, Impossible Becomes Possible

  Jon Gordon (2014). “The Carpenter: A Story About the Greatest Success Strategies of All”, p.38, John Wiley & Sons

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• It doesn’t matter how old you are, what level of schooling you’ve had or where you live—stalking is innate to the female psyche. We’ve all been there.

  Kristan Higgins

  Female, Where You Live, Matter

  Kristan Higgins (2014). “Fools Rush In”, p.9, HQN Books

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