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“The one thing I have learned as a CEO is that leadership at various levels is vastly different. When I was leading a function or a business, there were certain demands and requirements to be a leader. As you move up the organization, the requirements for leading that organization don't grow vertically; they grow exponentially.”

Different Moving Certain Grows Levels Leader One Thing Demand Organization Function Various I Have Learned Requirements Ceo

Author:Indra Nooyi

“The founders understood that democracy would inevitably evolve into a system of legalized plunder unless the plundered were given numerous escape routes and constitutional protections such as the separation of powers, the Bill of Rights, election of senators by state legislators, the electoral college, no income taxation, most governmental functions performed at the state and local levels, and myriad other constitutional limitations on the powers of the central government.”

“Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and not be grumpy you can do anything. It can be quite scary, you can't function your brain, forget your vocabulary.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Stills I Can Feelings Pain Mother Can Do Sleep Forget Levels Brain Empowerment Function Incredibles Scary Vocabulary Being A Mother Grumpy

Author:Anna Friel

“CD4 being the level of the lymphocyte that indicates the level of your immune function.”

Levels Function Immune

Author:Judy Woodruff

“Enlightened teachers are not logical. They don't function from levels that are understandable to the human mind. They're not religious. Religions form around them, usually after they've died.”

Mind Humans Form Religious Levels Teacher Function Died Enlightened Logical Human Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The function of a blog is on some level to start a conversation that you're not involved in any more because you've already had your say. That thing of coming right off the news - did you see what I saw this morning, can you believe it? - has a kind of fun appeal.”

Believe Kind Fun Levels Morning Saws Involved Conversation News Function Appeals Blogs

Author:Nora Ephron

“In conscious life, we achieve some sense of ourselves as reasonably unified, coherent selves, and without this action would be impossible. But all this is merely at the 'imaginary' level of the ego, which is no more than the tip of the iceberg of the human subject known to psychoanalysis. The ego is function or effect of a subject which is always dispersed, never identical with itself, strung out along the chains of the discourses which constitute it.”

Source: Literary Theory: An Introduction

“A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels.”

Ideas Use Feelings Artist Simple Levels Direct Function Simplicity Familiar Containers Snowball

Book:Midsummer Snowballs

Source: Midsummer Snowballs

“We can choose to function at a lower level of awareness and simply exist, caring for our possessions, eating, drinking, sleeping and managing in the world as pawns of the elements, or we can soar to new and higher levels of awareness allowing ourselves to transcend our environment and literally create a world of our own - a world of real magic.”

World Real Sleep Levels Environment Magic Awareness Higher Elements Eating Function Drinking Possession Caring Allowing Soar Our Environment Higher Level Pawns

Author:Wayne Dyer

“Art's effect is due to the tension resulting from the clash of the collocation of elements of two (or more) systems of interpretation. This conflict has the function of breaking down automatism of perception and occurs simultaneously on the many levels of a work of art ... All levels may carry meaning.”

May Art Two Poetry Levels Effects Conflict Elements Perception Function Dues Tension Interpretation Works Of Art Breaking Down Clash

Author:Yuri Lotman

“Aspiring to these wide generalizations, the analysis of quadratic functions soars to a pitch from whence it may look proudly down on the feeble and vain attempts of geometry proper to rise to its level or to emulate it in its flights.”

Looks May Levels Function Wide Flight Vain Analysis Soar Geometry Emulate Generalization Quadratics

Book:The Collected Mathematical Papers of James Joseph Sylvester

Source: The Collected Mathematical Papers of James Joseph Sylvester

“One has a more practical survival level, that's the mind function. The heart function obviously has an internal level that has to do with the quality of developing perceptions, feelings, the self. And the spirit level has to do with the pondering part of our lives.”

Mind Heart Self Feelings Spirit Levels Quality Our Lives Perception Survival Function Practicals Developing Internals Pondering

Author:Caroline Myss

“I like to look good, but I like my body to function well more than anything. For me, it's as spiritual and intellectual as it is physical. And emotional. I'm a better husband, I'm a better father, if my body is physically functioning at the highest possible levels.”

Ifs Wells Looks Body Spiritual Father Levels Emotional Husband Highest Intellectual Function

Author:Willi Smith

“I'm quite encouraged by the finding that voters do value checks and balances and accountability. I think it's very heartening. And it has been interpreted to mean that Singaporeans do find that at the system level the institutions have to function with some sort of balance regardless of whether the policies are good or bad in that sense.”

Thinking Mean Has Beens Values Levels Policy Balance Findings Function Institutions Checks Accountability Voters

Author:Sylvia Lim

“Being yourself; not acting. You therefore can function near your own level of competence. Satisfy you own expectations rather than those of others.”

Levels Acting Expectations Function Being Yourself Competence

Author:John Wooden

“You know, there's a growing level of disenchantment with governing institutions in Brazil. And in a sense, it's a healthy development because you have investigators and prosecutors going to work and finding out these things and revealing them to the public. But as a result, you have a lot of growing distrust in the way that government functions in Brazil.”

Knows Way Government Levels Results Growing Development Healthy Findings Function Institutions Distrust Going To Work Revealing Governing Brazil Prosecutor Investigators Disenchantment

Author:Simon Romero

“A self that is very robust, that has many, many levels of organization, from simple to complex, and that functions as a sort of witness to what is going on in our organisms.”

Self Simple Levels Organization Function Complexes Witness Organisms Robust

Author:Antonio Damasio

“When we function from a fearful, low-level energetic state, our thoughts and energy can literally pollute the world.”

World States Energy Levels Lows Function Fearful Our Thoughts Energetic Low Level

Book:Miracles Now: 108 Life-Changing Tools for Less Stress, More Flow, and Finding Your True Purpose

Source: Miracles Now: 108 Life-Changing Tools for Less Stress, More Flow, and Finding Your True Purpose

“It is true that it feels very differently to enjoy a good meal, taking part in an interesting conversation, or to think of how successful your children are. Suppose we do all these things at a particular time. How happy are we at the time? We do not need to calculate the value of each such feelings on any singular scale to answer this question. We need not see our happiness at the time as a mathematical function of these items. It is rather that all these experiences, together with many other factors, causally puts us at the time at a certain level of happiness, i.e. in a certain mood.”

“Artwork operates on two different levels: On one level there's artwork as a mode of expressivity, and then there's the other side, where the image is a construction that is meant to engage in a discursive field in order to preform a particular function.”

Two Different Order Sides Levels Fields Particular Function Construction Artwork Different Levels

Author:Kerry James Marshall

“The very function of creativity, of the elaboration of the human condition only enlarges the human spirit and, I mean, as a writer I don't want to read political literature all the time. It would be terribly boring and, you know, abrasive, but just reading the insights, you know, partaking of the insights of a writer into phenomena, into society, into human relationships, both on a micro level and on a macro level, is already a function.”

“What is also true is that partly because my docket was really full here, so I couldn't be both chief organizer of the Democratic Party and function as Commander-in-Chief and President of the United States. We did not begin what I think needs to happen over the long haul, and that is rebuild the Democratic Party at the ground level.”

Thinking Needs Long States Happens President Levels United Party United States Function Democratic Chiefs Democratic Party Commanders Commander In Chief Haul Organizer Long Haul

Author:Barack Obama

“I had a lot of fantasies about being an architect when I was young, and I think I still do. On a visceral level, I'm very intellectually and emotionally attracted to acknowledging how space functions in our lives, both in terms of pleasure and in terms of control, and in terms of all those factors that form a life. I'm also very anxious and maybe repulsed by how superficial that whole dialogue can become.”

Thinking Stills Whole Form Young Term Space Pleasure Levels Fantasy Our Lives Function Dialogue Factors Anxious Architect Superficial Visceral

Author:Tom Burr

“The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.”

Suffering Politics Levels Higher Function Raises Socialism Eugenics Higher Level

Author:Norman Mailer

“Funny thing, your brain, how it always functions on one level or another. How, even stuck in some sort of subconcious limbo, it works your lungs, your muscle twitches, your heart, in fact, in symphony with your heart, allowing it to feel love. Pain. Jealousy. Guilt. I wonder if it’s the same for people, lost in comas. Is there really such a thing”

People Ifs Feels Heart Facts Pain Lost Levels Brain Wonder Function Guilt Stuck Muscles Allowing Lungs Symphony Funny Things Coma Limbo Love Pain

Book:Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy

Source: Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy

“Intelligence is a measure of how well you function within your level of awareness.”

Wells Levels Awareness Function

Author:Scott Adams

“Thought is no longer theoretical. As soon as it functions it offends or reconciles, attracts or repels, breaks, dissociates, unites or reunites; it cannot help but liberate or enslave. Even before prescribing, suggesting a future, saying what must be done, even before exhorting or merely sounding an alarm, thought, at the level of its existence, in its very dawning, is in itself an action-a perilous act.”

Done Helping Action Levels Existence Break Function Theoretical Alarms Reconcile Suggesting Prescribing

Book:Language, Counter-memory, Practice: Selected Essays and Interviews

Source: Language, Counter-memory, Practice: Selected Essays and Interviews

“The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others.”

Important Individual Levels Education Personality Function Educational Significance Great Education Great Educational Education Is Important

Author:Grayson L. Kirk

“I have been long sensible that while I was endeavoring to render our country the greatest of all services, that of regenerating the public education, and placing our rising generation on the level of our sister states (which they have proudly held heretofore), I was discharging the odious function of a physician pouring medicine down the throat of a patient insensible of needing it.”

Long Has Beens Country States Levels Education Generations Function Medicine Patient Our Country Rising Throat Sensible Physicians Pouring Public Education Insensible

Book:Early History of the University of Virginia: As Contained in the Letters of Thomas Jefferson and Joseph C. Cabell, Hitherto Unpublished; with an Appendix, Consisting of Mr. Jefferson's Bill for a Complete System of Education and Other Illustrative Documents; and an Introduction, Comprising a Brief Historical Sketch of the University, and a Biographical Notice of Joseph C. Cabell

Source: Early History of the University of Virginia: As Contained in the Letters of Thomas Jefferson and Joseph C. Cabell, Hitherto Unpublished; with an Appendix, Consisting of Mr. Jefferson's Bill for a Complete System of Education and Other Illustrative Documents; and an Introduction, Comprising a Brief Historical Sketch of the University, and a Biographical Notice of Joseph C. Cabell

“A president is a high-level official who is elected to carry out a function. He is not a king, not a god. He is not the witch doctor of a tribe who knows everything. He is a civil servant. I think the ideal way of living is to live like the vast majority of people whom we attempt to serve and represent.”

People Thinking Knows Way President Levels Powerful Kings Ideals Doctors Function Majority Humble Servant Officials Witch Tribes Poorest High Level Civil Servants Witch Doctors

Author:Jose Mujica

“To create a world in which life can flourish and prosper we must replace the values and institutions of capitalism with values and institutions that honor life, serve life's needs, and restore money to its proper role as servant. I believe we are in fact being called to take a step to a new level of species consciousness and function.”

“One reason milk consumption may lead to cancer risk is insulin-like growth factor, IGF-1 (not to be confused with bovine growth hormone, rBGH). Milk contains IGF-1 for good reason: milk is designed for babies, and IGF-1 helps us grow. IGF-1 affects growth, as well as other functions, and is normally found in our blood. Higher levels of IGF-1, however, appear to stimulate cancer cells.”

Wells May Reason Helping Found Grows Growth Levels Risk Blood Baby Higher Function Cancer Factors Cells Confused Milk Consumption Hormones Higher Level Insulin Bovine Growth Hormones

Author:Alison Stewart

“We now have irrefutable evidence that [Saddam] has once again set up and reconstituted his program to take uranium, to enrich it to sufficiently high grade, so that it will function as the base material as a nuclear weapon. And there's no doubt about the fact that the level of effort has escalated in recent months.”

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Author:Dick Cheney

“Every function in the child's cultural development appears twice: first, on the social level, and later, on the individual level; first, between people (interpsychological) and then inside the child (intrapsychological). This applies equally to voluntary attention, to logical memory, and to the formation of concepts. All the higher functions originate as actual relationships between individuals.”

People Firsts Children Individual Social Memories Levels Attention Development Higher Concepts Function Logical Formation

Author:Lev S. Vygotsky