Levels Quotes - Page 15

Filipinos are not a reading people, and despite the compulsory course on the life and works of Rizal today, from the elementary to the university levels, it is accepted that the 'Noli me Tangere' and 'El Filibusterismo' are highly regarded but seldom read (if not totally ignored). Therefore one asks, how can unread novels exert any influence?

If everyone is to be made responsible for everything they do, you must extend responsibility beyond the level of conscious intention.

Japan has joined the sanctions against the Russian Federation. How are we going to further economic relations on a new and much higher basis, at a higher level under the sanctions regime?

Have you set high standards in the past that make it clear what level of performance you demand?

My personal taxes are 53% of my taxable income. That's 36% on the federal level and 17% for state and local.

The story of evolution unfolds with increasing levels of abstraction.

I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties.

Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.

On a personal level, as a Christian, it will not be Barbra Streisand I'm standing in front of when I have to make an accounting of my life.

I think neuroscience is obviously very esoteric, but I think there are aspects of it that can absolutely be brought down to the level of an interested 11-, 12-, 13-year-old easily.

Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure.

I'm well known because I do music at a professional level, and a certain magnitude.

I try to get as close to a childlike level as possible because we were all artists back then.

You have to like everything that you're painting. Maybe on a narrative level it seems harsh... but I like everything in all my paintings. It's as if you need to be less intelligent at that level.

It is historically the case that virtually every new zone incorporated into the world-economy established levels of real remuneration which were at the bottom of the world-system's hierarchy of wage-levels.

By choosing to live above the ordinary level we create extraordinary problems for ourselves.

To get to that next level, you gotta learn to get comfortable being uncomfortable.

And then I went round the corner and there's a Van Gogh portrait, and you just think, well, this is another level. A higher level, actually. I love the Sargent, but it's not the level of Van Gogh.

At one level you're condemned to the voice you have. But within those confines, you have a certain amount of freedom to range among your possible voices.

We feel more emotion... before an amateur photograph linked to our own life history than before the work of a Great Photographer, because his domain partakes of art, and the intent of the souvenir-object remains at the lower level of personal history.

Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.

I think the president's comfortable with a certain level of violence.

A problem is a question you haven't yet answered to a level that has fulfilled you.

Everything has some consciousness, and we tap into that. It is about energy at its most basic level.

Those experienced in work must take up the study of theory and must read seriously; only then will they be able to systematize and synthesize their experience and raise it to the level of theory, only then will they not mistake their partial experience for universal truth and not commit empiricist errors.