Levels Quotes - Page 31

• Growth is a painful process.
  If we’re ever going to collectively begin to grapple with the problems that we have collectively, we’re going to have to move back the veil and deal with each other on a more human level.

  Wilma Mankiller

  Moving, Growth, Veils

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• Sustained change only happens when we shift at an emotional rather than logical level.

  Robin S

  Emotional, Logical, Happens

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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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• There is something inherent in our democracy that tends to want to level. America is a little uncomfortable in the presence of someone who is distinctly superior in whatever way.

  Carlisle Floyd

  America, Democracy, Want

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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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• 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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• Ideally, you will develop strategic response to your place in the corporate lifecycle to identify new paths of strategic renewal. You will look for new growth curves that can be started early enough to replace declining products and you will try to identify whole new curves that will take the organisation to new levels of growth as a whole.

  Max McKeown

  Curves, Growth, Trying

  Max Mckeown (2013). “The Strategy Book ePub eBook: How to Think and Act Strategically to Deliver Outstanding Results”, p.125, Pearson UK

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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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• There is simply no other exercise, and certainly no machine, that produces the level ofmuscular stimulation and growththan the correctly performed full squat.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Exercise, Machines, Squat

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• When you believe, the impossible becomes possible. What you believe will become what is true. Your optimism today will determine your level of success tomorrow. Don’t look at your challenges; look up and look out into the future. Don’t focus on your circumstances. Focus on the right beliefs that will help you build your success.

  Jon Gordon

  Believe, Optimism, Focus

  Jon Gordon (2014). “The Carpenter: A Story About the Greatest Success Strategies of All”, p.35, 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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• At the enterprise level, businesses have the talent and budget to create and enforce policies that prevent staffers from installing things themselves.

  Jeff Duntemann

  Talent, Enterprise, Policy

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• It feels better there. In real life you can eventually learn to deal with the pain and trauma, learn to cope on some level, you know? But you can never undo death, and even if you think they deserve it, killing doesn’t take away your pain, just puts you on dangerous ground that can collapse out from beneath you at any time.

  Taylor Stevens

  Pain, Real, Feel Better

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• You won't rise to the occasion - you'll default to your level of training.

  Barrett Tillman

  Training, Default, Occasions

  Barrett Tillman (1992). “The Sixth Battle”, Bantam

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• Rock musicians, and a vast array of popular-music musicians, due to their wealth, acquired through the mass of their notoriety, are able to be listened to and heard and thus are able to effect change on an international level.

  Bill Dixon

  Change, Rocks, Musician

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• I wish to note that the level of discourse in Nigeria is abysmally low, and, usually, garnished with character assassination. We allow our personal frustrations to becloud reason

  Dele Momodu

  Character, Frustration, Wish

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• The first work of the director is to set a mood so that the actor's work can take place, so that the actor can create. And in order to do that, you have to communicate, communicate with the actors. And direction is about communication on all levels.

  William Friedkin

  Communication, Order, Directors

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• When the mother herself kills her son she goes against her own nature, against her own instinct. People talk about 'choice', but when a woman does that, when she destroys the life of her unborn child, then we have arrived at the limit. The level cannot go higher regarding evil.

  Jim Caviezel

  Mother, Children, Son

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• I assemble stories-me and a hundred million other people-at the sentence level. Not by coming up with a sweeping story line.

  Amy Hempel

  People, Stories, Lines

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• I am convinced more than ever that good communication and leadership are all about connecting. If you can connect with others at every level -one-on-one, in groups, and with an audience-your relationships are stronger, your sense of community improves, your ability to create teamwork increases, your influence increases, and your productivity skyrockets.

  John C. Maxwell

  Teamwork, Communication, Community

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• Provided one has the correct level of vitamin, mineral and nutritional input, the body can overcome disease.

  Linus Pauling

  Health, Overcoming, Body

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• When you practice Transcendental Meditation you are given a key to the deepest level of life.

  David Lynch

  Keys, Practice, Meditation

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• We must use collegiality not to level people down but to bring together their strength and creativity.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Learning, Creativity

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