Levels Quotes - Page 82

What flows into you from myth is not truth but reality (truth is always about something, but reality is that about which truth is), and therefore, every myth becomes the father of innumerable truths on the abstract level.

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

We only really, deeply consider what our life is when we're faced with mortality on some level.

When you get to the fourth, fifth and sixth years of a show, it's really good to have held back, so that you have somewhere to go. That also applies to levels of violence, levels of humor, levels of production value.

When I was young, it was sort of built to intimidate. Even on this very local level in this very small church in this small town, it still held that sort of - held you in the palm of its darkness.

In all American professional sports you start on a certain level and you have to work your way up through a farm system. It's really the same in acting.

On just a personal level, since I was little, I've loved fairytales, especially this one, because it is about what goes into making a beast a beast. Do you start as a beast? Do you turn into a beast because of the way that people treat you? I think it's something that is really universal and hit a chord with me when I was little, and so, hopefully we can explore some of that.

You have the ability, right now, to exceed all your previous levels of accomplishment

Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story.

It's the nature of it. The players will want to compete at the highest level they possibly can.

I enjoy my work. The reason I worked so hard all my life is because I want to be making big decisions and managing at the very highest level.

It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale and playful in intention.

Once you've proved to [the players] that you can help them become better players, you've earned their respect. They respect if you've achieved at a high level in this league, but that's not what they respect you for as a coach.

As you're implying, there's a new technology that can look even deeper into that brick and we can start getting into a level where it breaks down so that the brick isn't even there, but obviously it is because Moe can hit Curly on the head with it. It's quite bizarre and all relative.

Broadway was without doubt the hardest I ever worked in my life and the highest highs I've ever had as an actor. The unadulterated fear was on a level that was hard to explain.

If you dont measure yourself by achievement, how are you going to set achievement levels for other people?

There is no scriptural basis for segregation. The ground at the foot of the cross is level, and it touches my heart when I see whites standing shoulder to shoulder with blacks at the cross.

I mean there's certainly a lot of progressive rock and metal that exists at the underground level, which has its own vitality, as it should. But it seems to have lost its ability to really charge up the hill.

I was brought up a Catholic, for that you get an A level in guilt.

Vade Mecum I want the scissors to be sharp and the table perfectly level when you cut me out of my life and paste me in that book you always carry.

I think everybody's contemplating TV now, because mid-level and high-budget independent films are not being made now.

Success at the highest level comes down to one question: Can you decide that your happiness can come from someone else's success?

Productivity is driven at the enterprise level. Better wages, better performing workplaces, are driven at the workplace level.

The thing about global warming is that you can address it on a great number of levels - in fact you have to.

The nature of human beings is such that we tend not to drift into better behaviors. We usually have to be asked by someone to consider taking it up a level.