Levels Quotes - Page 75

Hebb place the Law of Effect at the synaptic level by proposing a correlation model of synaptic modification similar to that of Hayek (1952). This work was seminal in providing a basis for many subsequent theoretical studies . .

The beginning [of Lincoln in the Bardo] is strange, and I did a lot of work calibrating that so that a reader with a certain level of patience would get through it and in the nick of time start to figure out what was going on. In a short book, you can do that.

I don't feel like I have the intelligence to really inhabit a consistently high level of prose.

The intensity of a national culture should be represented by... the general education level and... the exceptional merit of a small elite of pioneers.

I've always loved performing. It was always very exciting for me. I don't get too nervous when I'm playing, but on every stage, it's a little different. I'm always excited, but sometimes, the level of anxiety to perform is greater.

The rates of taxation climb and the levels of capital decline, until the only remaining wealth beyond the reach of the regime is the very protein of human flesh, and that too is finally taxed, bound, and gagged, and brought to the colossal temple of the state - a final sacrifice of carnal revenue to feed the declining elite.

Religion can only change when the emotions which fill it are changed; and the religion of personal fear remains nearly at the level of the savage.

I've always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you.

I'm not completely against khakis. It's just the level that you have to wear them. The higher you pull them, then more excruciating it is.

When I'm not actually doing my work, I'm planning it or thinking about it or reading things that on some level are transformed into performance fantasies. I have no active interests.

Change, if it is to be long lasting, must occur on the unseen levels first

Are you willing to take the Big Leap to your ultimate level of success in love, money, and creative contribution?

You can't manufacture the feeling of being in a small crowd and connecting on every single level to the very last person in the very last row in the back.

Television is a big roulette table on so many levels. That's all it is for actors.

Most likely, the system of mutual relations that has evolved in Eastern Europe and Asia corresponds to another level of governance.

At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.

I think being on a set where people arent being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and respect, is really uncomfortable.

Water always seeks the easiest path, the common level of life.

If you spend too much time in a place like that your power level will be lowered and these beings will annoy you.

Some people are like psychic sponges, they drain power form others constantly. They lower your awareness because they are at a lower level. If you spend too much time with them, you get pulled down.

The universe is pretty cool. You always exist in one form or another. You are a wave and you are changing and moving from one level to another.

I would suggest your awareness is your karma. How you feel generates your level of attention.

In lower levels things are dark, gray, experiences are shallow. You become alienated from those around you.

When you manipulate others your attention level drops and you become prey, for you have dropped to the plane of manipulation.

When our power level is down sufficiently, we die.