Levels Quotes - Page 34

• Today's beauty ideal, strictly enforced by the media, is a person with the same level of body fat as a paper clip.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Media, Paper

  Dave Barry (2011). “Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down”, p.168, Ballantine Books

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• At every level there are eight stages of intelligence. You have to turn your brain on to the circuits that are used at that level of intelligence. And there are ways to change the human brain to different stages. The things that change your brain are called 'drugs'.

  Timothy Leary

  Eight, Drug, Brain

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• Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Common Sense, Perception

  1854 Walden, or Life in the Woods,'Conclusion'.

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• In peace-armies discipline meant the hunt, not of an average but of an absolute; the hundred per cent standard in which the ninety-nine were played down to the level of the weakest man on parade.... The deeper the discipline, the lower was the individual excellence; also the more sure the performance.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Military, Army, Men

  T. E. Lawrence (2013). “Seven Pillars of Wisdom”, p.349, Black House Publishing Ltd

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• With the level of uncertainty we see today, more people are asking, how can you develop a strategy in a world that keeps changing so fast? They are afraid that a set of rigid principles will hinder their ability to react quickly. I argue that it is precisely at such times that you need a strategy.

  Orit Gadiesh

  People, Principles, Needs

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• And the beautiful open spaces, the forests of Pennsylvania, the recreational uses that come from having these green open spaces and forests, they contribute dramatically to the level of our tourism, dramatically.

  Ed Rendell

  Beautiful, Space, Tourism

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• The death tax causes one-third of all family-owned small businesses to liquidate after the death of the owner. It is also an unfair tax because the assets have already been taxed once at their income level.

  Ric Keller

  Causes, Income, Small Business

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• ... the world of nature is by no means absent from the eschatological program set out in the NT. While rarely rising to the level of an explicit emphasis, and never the chief concern in and of itself, the world of nature is an integral component of God's new creation work.

  Douglas J. Moo

  Mean, Rising, World

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• To me, human existence exists on a multiple level, not just on a two-dimensional level, not just having to be identified with what you do and what you say.

  Ornette Coleman

  Two, Existence, Multiple

  Interview with Michael Jarrett, www2.york.psu.edu. November 8, 1987.

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• There is little that gives children greater pleasure than when a grown-up lets himself down to their level, renounces his oppressive superiority and plays with them as an equal.

  Sigmund Freud

  Children, Play, Giving

  Sigmund Freud (1962). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• Women are still chronically underrepresented in U.S. politics at both a local and national level... But there is one city where those three top jobs will be filled by women for the next year. And that city is Washington D.C.

  Chuck Todd

  Jobs, Years, Cities

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. January 4, 2015.

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• All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They've been used to start revolutions and to stop wars

  Banksy

  War, Graffiti, Revolution

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• Things fall apart, so they can fall together at a higher level of order.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Fall, Order, Together

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• History is a great teacher. Now everyone knows that the labor movement did not diminish the strength of the nation but enlarged it. By raising the living standards of millions, labor miraculously created a market for industry and lifted the whole nation to undreamed of levels of production. Those who attack labor forget these simple truths, but history remembers them.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Teacher, Simple, Labour Movement

  Speech to the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL - CIO), December 11, 1961.

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• There was a time when conservative intellectuals raised the level of American public debate and helped to keep it sober. Those days are gone. As for political judgment, the promotion of Sarah Palin as a possible world leader speaks for itself. The Republican Party and the political right will survive, but the conservative intellectual tradition is already dead. And all of us, even liberals like myself, are poorer for it.

  Mark Lilla

  Party, Leader, Political

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• But the big feature of human-level intelligence is not what it does when it is works but what it does when it's stuck.

  Marvin Minsky

  Doe, Bigs, Programming

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• Education begins at the level of the learner.

  Aristotle

  Education, Learning, Learners

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• That is, sir, there can only be communication, communion, when you and I are on the same level, and with the same intensity, at the same time.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Communication, Intensity, Communion

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2003). “Can Humanity Change?: J. Krishnamurti in Dialogue with Buddhists”, p.78, Shambhala Publications

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• Those who can think, but cannot express what they think, place themselves at the level of those who cannot think.

  Pericles

  Thinking

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• I'm not satisfied. I'm still enjoying this. I still feel like I'm in the best part of my career and I can play at a high level. This is what I love to do: playing football and winning games.

  Eli Manning

  Football, Winning, Games

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• Life externalizes at the level of our thought.

  Ernest Holmes

  Our Thoughts

  Ernest Holmes (2012). “The Science of Mind Collection”, p.102, Penguin

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• If you have achieved any level of success, then pour it into someone else. Success is not success without a successor.

  T. D. Jakes

  Successors, Ifs

  T. D. Jakes (2007). “T.D. Jakes Speaks to Men, 3-in-1”, p.102, Bethany House

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• Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don't even recognize that growth is happening...Those long periods when something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath, unsure about what the next step should be, eventually become the periods we wait for, for it is in those periods that we realize that we are being prepared for the next phase of our life and that, in all probability, a new level of the personality is about to be revealed.

  Alice Walker

  Long, Personality, Waiting

  "Living by the Word: Selected Writings 1973-1987". Book by Alice Walker, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1988.

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• Lower your cortisol level. The happiest people have the lowest level of cortisol, a stress hormone that raises blood pressure and weakens the immune system. Cut the stress-more yoga, less road rage-and you'll cut your cortisol production.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Happiness, Stress, Yoga

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• Tree sitting is a last resort. When you see someone sitting in a tree trying to protect it, you know that every level of our society has failed.

  Julia Hill

  Failure, Tree, Trying

  Julia Hill (2010). “Legacy of Luna: The Story of a Tree, a Woman, and the Struggle to Save the Redwoods”, p.43, Harper Collins

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