Levels Quotes - Page 46

On a personal level, I don't have many individual achievements.

We don't even know what species are out there, for the most part, particularly when you get down to the microbes and very small invertebrates. They make up the mass of the organisms around us, including the soil we depend on, the soil of cornfields as well as hardwood forests. We haven't taken ecology to the point where we can even make a crude prediction of what's going to happen when we've reduced the living world down to a certain level.

Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level.

The solution is never at the level of the problem. The solution is always love, which is beyond problems.

Despite his profound incompetence on many levels, Obama has been an adept propagandist who has blamed capitalism for problems caused and magnified by socialist remedies to justify further socialist solutions. He's now doing the same thing all over again as his new socialist solutions are failing.

All sizes of film sets have the same level of excitement and friction and tension and then vast sections of boredom that define the process, so I love it all.

We are primarily the products of thinking that happens below the level of awareness.

That level of trust was what being in command was truly about--being able to lead someone not only down an unknown path, but also a seemingly wrong path, if the need called for doing so.

I was worried on a personal level because I wanted to be slightly taller than I am, ideally. But I've now accepted it. Basically, I came to the conclusion a while ago that you can either be really bitter about it or you can make loads of funny jokes.

Of all creatures on earth, we humans have the highest level of stupidity.

We live in an ironic society where even play is turned into work. But the highest existence is not work; the highest level of existence is play.

McIlroy's taken the standard of golf to one level beyond where Tiger was.

I don't believe that everybody is out of some kind of cookie cutter, so the thing that protects me is always being level with myself, even to myself.

There's a level of confidence in the actor you're working with that really helps a lot. It makes all the difference.

I would not be on the level did I not confess that I always have believed that the old Browns were a great team, one of the greatest ever organized.

I try not to be preachy, I just try to deal with people on their own level, not to try to talk down or up to a person.

I never want to be satisfied. I never want to be like, 'OK, this is good enough.' I always want to get to the next level and help the team improve.

We can solve any problem by introducing an extra level of indirection.

Scientists themselves are of surprisingly little help. They find it difficult to talk of what they do because they tend to assume detailed knowledge is required for generalities to be understood. They find it hard to grasp the concept of the meaning of their work, assuming this to be a debate that takes place at a lower level than the specialized discussions with their colleagues. When they do generalize, - or "popularize" as it is usually called with a noticeable degree of contempt - they tend to reveal a startling philosophical naiveté.

The problem is that every time people have deviated from the Disney playbook in hand-drawn animation, they've done so with staff that are nowhere near Disney-level talent or Disney-level budgets.

You get the odd person [in social media] that will write something nasty and the trick is not to engage with them on any level.

On the aesthetic level, decolonized music presents itself as a direct antagonist to the traditional values promoted by the culture industry.

It's sour grapes, I admit, I want to be more famous so people are examining my work couplet by couplet, you know what I mean? That's the level where I want to go.

I was brought up as a Catholic. I've got A-level guilt.

If you're going to establish a certain level of unreality than you have to deal with it