Levels Quotes - Page 8

• The last time Earth was 1°C warmer than today, sea levels were 20 feet higher.

  Joseph J. Romm

  Sea, Feet, Climate

  Joseph J. Romm (2007). “Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do”, William Morrow & Co

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• While the high-level climate talks pursue their stately progress towards some ill-defined destination, down in the trenches there is an undercurrent of suppressed panic in the conversations. The tipping points seem to be racing towards us a lot faster than people thought.

  Gwynne Dyer

  People, Racing, Progress

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• Sargent, when he painted the size of life, placed his canvas on a level with the model, walked back until canvas and sitter were equal before his eye, and was thus able to estimate the construction and values of his representation.

  William Rothenstein

  Eye, Able, Size

  Sir William Rothenstein (1934). “Men and memories: recollections of William Rothenstein”

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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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• This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has in common with that of classical antiquity, but with no other

  Christopher Dawson

  Civilization, Political, Common

  Christopher Dawson (2010). “The Crisis of Western Education (The Works of Christopher Dawson)”, p.95, CUA Press

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• It's been in the back of my head for five or six years, but more on the local level to get involved and try to create a better environment for my children and grandchildren.

  Jon Runyan

  Children, Years, Trying

  "Shutdown Corner interview: Congressman-elect Jon Runyan". Interview with Chris Chase, sports.yahoo.com. November 05, 2010.

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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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• To help others develop, start with yourself! When the boss acts like a little god and tells everyone else they need to improve, that behavior can be copied at every level of management. Every level then points out how the level below it needs to change. The end result: No one gets much better.

  Marshall Goldsmith

  Helping Others, Boss, Littles

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Some people use NVC to respond compassionately to themselves, some to create greater depth in their personal relationships, and still others to build effective relationships at work or in the political arena. Worldwide, NVC is used to mediate disputes and conflicts at all levels.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, People, Political

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• The various estimates of the height of the true summit vary considerably, but by taking an average of these figures it is possible to say confidently that the summit of Rum Doodle is 40,000 1/2 feet above sea level.

  William Ernest Bowman

  Average, Sea, Feet

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• I feel like I introduce another level of my creative ability on every album.

  Busta Rhymes

  Creative, Albums, Introducing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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• All life is experience, and one level is exchanged for another only when its lesson is learned.

  Henry Ford

  Lessons, Life Is

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