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“I believe so deeply in the primacy of language, in lifting your prose to the highest level you're capable of and making your words symphonic.”

Believe Language I Believe Levels Highest Capable Prose Lifting Primacy

Author:Dennis Lehane

“What's right with America and what's right with Islam have a lot in common. At their highest levels, both worldviews reflect an enlightened recognition that all of humankind shares a common Creator - that we are, indeed, brothers and sisters.”

America Levels Common Share Brother Highest Islam Creator Recognition Enlightened Humankind Brothers And Sisters Worldview

Author:Feisal Abdul Rauf

“I heard that in the United States the level of baseball was the highest in the world. So it was only natural that I would want to go there, as a baseball player.”

World Want States Sports Natural Levels United United States Player Heard Highest Baseball Baseball Player

Author:Ichiro Suzuki

“The rate of change and innovation occurring across the entire spectrum of society demands that a company like XL utilize the highest level of analytics and information to solve problems for our clients.”

Problem Levels Company Information Demand Highest Innovation Rate Solve Clients Spectrum Analytics Rate Of Change

Author:Mike McGavick

“Only under conditions of revolutionary crises do you have the highest level of self-organization; this is the Soviet type of organization, which is to say, workers' councils, people's councils, call them what you want, popular committees.”

People Want Self Levels Conditions Type Highest Organization Crisis Workers What You Want Revolutionary Soviet Committees Council

Book:Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays

Source: Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays

“But as an amateur, the highest level you can box at is the Olympics. I did that at 18 and felt it was time to move on to other challenges as a professional.”

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Author:Billy Joe Saunders

“When you value your integrity at the highest level, living alignment with your word and following through with your commitments no matter what, there are no limits to what you can create for your life. However, when you make excuses, justify doing what easiest, and choose the path of least resistance, you will live a life of mediocrity, frustration and regret. Live with integrity as if your life depended on it, because it does.”

“To love your family, love your work, live your purpose and be unconditionally grateful for every moment of your life... is to succeed at the highest level (in my opinion).”

Moments Life Is Purpose Levels Opinion Love You Gratitude Succeed Highest Grateful Our Family Family Love Love Your Family Love Your Work

Author:Hal Elrod

“In the real world of competition, the players want to compete and they want to compete at the very highest level.”

World Want Real Levels Player Highest Competition Real World

Author:Vince McMahon

“I was never happy that my injuries cut my career short and ultimately forced my decision to step away from tennis. I have enjoyed my time away from the court, a period that has allowed me to experience a different side of life. However, I miss the game and the challenge of competing at the highest level of tennis, and I want to gauge whether I can stay healthy and compete against today's top players.”

“A prayer, it seems to me, implies a promise as well as a request; at the highest level, prayer not only is a supplication for strength and guidance, but also becomes an affirmation of life and thus a reverent praise of God.”

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Author:Walt Disney

“Experience is the highest level of knowing.”

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Author:Jon Fitch

“The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.”

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Author:Billie Joe Armstrong

“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.”

Play Levels Existence Highest Ironic

Author:Conrad Hyers

“The highest levels of the U.S. military, the Defense Department, and the White House must be held accountable for putting our troops at greater risk and diminishing Americas moral authority across the globe.”

House White Levels Moral Greater Risk Military Authority Highest Defense Department White House Troops Globes Our Troops Moral Authority

Author:Lawrence Korb

“Since I achieved something, running has exploded in my country. For me sometimes it is difficult even to know who the athletes are who are competing at the highest level. There are thousands.”

Knows Country Sometimes Running Difficult Levels Highest Athlete Competing

Author:Haile Gebrselassie

“The idea that the object of constitutions is not to confirm the predominance of any interest, but to prevent it; to preserve with equal care the independence of labour and the security of property; to make the rich safe against envy, and the poor against oppression, marks the highest level attained by the statesmanship of Greece.”

Source: The History of Freedom (and other Essays)

“I wanted to compete at the highest level again - and that's the NBA.”

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Author:Larry Bird

“When I was a boy in the 1930s, the carbon dioxide level was still below 300 parts per million. This year, it reached 382, the highest figure for hundreds of thousands of years.”

Years Stills Levels Boys Millions Figures Highest Global Warming Carbon 1930s Carbon Dioxide

Author:David Attenborough

“America washes its dirty linen in public. When scandals such as this one hit, they do sully America's image in the world. But what usually also gets broadcast around the world is the vivid reality that the United States forces accountability and punishes wrongdoing, even at the highest levels.”

World States Reality America Force Levels United United States Highest Around The World Dirty Accountability Scandal Vivid Wrongdoing Linen

Author:Fareed Zakaria

“Not all practitioners can jump to that highest level. They have to climb, step by step from the physical sphere to reach the spiritual sphere. If it is treated as exercise it is not the fault of yoga but of the practitioners.”

Ifs Spiritual Levels Steps Exercise Highest Yoga Faults Treated Climbs Spheres

Author:B.K.S. Iyengar

“...evolution is the gradual development and stratification of progressive series of wholes, stretching from the inorganic beginnings to the highest level of spiritual creation.”

Spiritual Growth Levels Creation Development Evolution Highest Series Progressive Stretching

Author:Jan Smuts

“[T]he Swiss people are the best practitioners of the ideals of non-aggression. The Swiss national government posts are parttime positions. Most decisions are made at the canton (state) level. Swiss per capita income is the highest in the world, showing that non-aggression pays. How did the Swiss come to adopt a relatively non-aggressive constitution in an aggressive world? In the mid-1800s, they imitated our constitution and stuck with it!”

People World Made States Government Decision Levels Pay Position Highest Ideals Constitution Stuck Income Posts Aggressive Aggression Swiss

Author:Mary Ruwart

“At the highest level the first two yards are in your head.”

Firsts Two Levels Football Highest Managers Soccer Yards Chairman

Author:Bob Paisley

“You don't have to be Dave Halberstam to see that the American role in both conflicts [the Iraq war and the Vietnam conflict] is characterized by arrogance, ignorance and self-delusion at the highest levels of government.”

War Self Government Levels Roles Ignorance Conflict Highest Iraq Arrogance Delusion Vietnam Iraq War Dave Self Delusion

Author:Jonathan Yardley

“I believe that God is the source of all the universal, timeless principles. And to Him, I give all the credit and the glory. However, to a person who is not religious, I believe they can live to the highest level of their conscience and develop spiritual intelligence that surpasses most people, including many religious people, who profess but do not practice.”

People Giving Believe Persons Spiritual I Believe Religious Levels Principles Practice Source Highest Glory Conscience Universal Including Credit Timeless Spiritual Intelligence

Author:Stephen Covey

“Your goal in life should be to enjoy the highest levels of health and energy possible. This requires that you eat the right foods and fewer of them. It requires you to get regular exercise and move every joint of your body daily. To enjoy superb physical health, you must get lots of rest and recreation. Above all, you maintain a positive mental attitude, looking for the good in every situation, and remain determined to be a completely positive person.”

“A man unattached and without wife, if he have any genius at all, may raise himself above his original position, may mingle with the world of fashion, and hold himself on a level with the highest; this is less easy for him who is engaged; it seems as if marriage put the whole world in their proper rank.”

Ifs Men World May Whole Seems Easy Levels Wife Fashion Position Genius Highest Originals Raises Whole World Engaged Bachelors

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“I will work on myself, since the work on myself is going to be the highest thing I can do for it all, since I understand that as man up-levels his own consciousness, he sees more creative solutions to the problems that he's confronting.”

Men I Can Problem Can Do Work Levels Consciousness Creativity Creative Highest Solutions Confronting Creative Solutions

Author:Ram Dass

“The tragedian will always be a limited tragedian if he has not learned how to laugh. The comedian who cannot weep will never touch the highest levels of mirth.”

Ifs Levels Laughing Highest Theater Comedian Mirth

Book:The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections

Source: The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections

“A lot of the things that involve power on the highest levels sometimes involve the darker side of human psychology. People can be very passive aggressive or they can be aggressive and they can conceal their intentions. There's this world that exists that nobody writes about or describes it's like a dirty little secret or taboo.”

People World Writing Humans Littles Sometimes Sides Levels Secret Psychology This World Highest Intention Dirty Aggressive Passive Taboo Passive Aggressive Darker Side

Author:Robert Greene

“I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level.”

Thinking Levels Creativity Demand Highest Jazz Nostalgia Disdain Unforgiving

Author:Pat Metheny

“I wanted to be a soccer player; I wanted to do it at the highest level.”

Wanted Levels Player Highest Soccer Soccer Player

Author:Tim Howard

“The Universe favors the brave. When you resolve to lift your life to its highest level, the strength of your soul will guide you to a magical place with magnificent treasures.”

Soul Universe Levels Highest Brave Guides Favors Treasure Your Soul Lifts Resolve Magnificent Magical Places

Author:Robin Sharma

“At the highest level in the NFL, the pass game is as complex as you can imagine.”

Games Levels Imagine Highest Complexes Nfl

Author:Pete Carroll

“Without strength and courage it's really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you're alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself.”

Two Hard Night Sports Levels Minutes Figures Prove Highest Seven International Ice Skating Figure Skating Proving Yourself

Author:Scott Hamilton

“Deeply funny musings and adventures elevate Paul Rudnick to the highest level of American comedy writing.”

Writing Levels Comedy Adventure Highest Musings Comedy Writing

Author:Steve Martin

“I got to experience soccer at the highest level at a young age; I decided I wanted to be part of that for as long as possible.”

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Author:Mia Hamm

“Poetry and music are the best at the highest level of the human mind. Out of poetry, out of their need for poetry, human beings have developed the idea of God. And so when we sing, when we dance, when we speak poetry we are speaking out of God's mouth, each other out of the music from God's heart.”

Needs Mind Humans Heart Ideas Speak Human Beings Levels Highest Mouths Human Mind Speaking Out Poetry And Music

Author:Maya Angelou

“Fighting is all about calmness and relaxation. My appearance was all an illusion. My appearance is of a mad man, but I'm really calm and collected. Even though I'm fighting, I'm calm and relaxed as possible, despite my displays, because once you get excited, you can't fight at the highest level of your ability.”

Men Fighting Ability Levels Highest Illusion Mad Calm Appearance Excited Despite Display Relaxation Relaxed Calmness Mad Men

Author:Mike Tyson

“The theory which I would offer, is simply, that as the land with the attached reefs subsides very gradually from the action of subterranean causes, the coral-building polypi soon raise again their solid masses to the level of the water: but not so with the land; each inch lost is irreclaimably gone; as the whole gradually sinks, the water gains foot by foot on the shore, till the last and highest peak is finally submerged.”

Source: Journal of Researches Into the Geology and Natural History of the Varoius Countries Visited by H.M.S. Beagle, Under the Command of Captain Fitzroy from 1832 to 1836 by Charles Darwin

“Those who are anti-God and anti-Christian in America have infiltrated the highest levels of the educational establishment. They have a philosophical commitment to eliminating any vestige of biblical Christianity from American thought and life. They are well-positioned, well-funded and well-connected. They are a very small minority in America, yet their level of commitment is rarely matched among Christians.”

Wells Christian America Religious Levels Christianity Highest Commitment Philosophical Educational Connected Minorities Establishment Biblical Eliminating Matched Anti Christian Anti God

Book:Enough is Enough: A Call to Christian Involvement

Source: Enough is Enough: A Call to Christian Involvement

“We do have to treat people the way Americans always treat people, with the highest level of compassion and care. But they will have to be returned, because that is the law. If you ignore that, if you don't apply that - as heartbreaking as it may be - you are basically telling another 80,000 people to try to come.”

People Ifs Way Trying May Reality Care Law Politics Leadership Levels Compassion Policy Highest Ethics Treats Human Rights Ideology Be You Foreign Policy Civility Heartbreaking

Author:Marco Rubio

“I play for the intense challenges that the game on the highest levels present. The whole team enjoys playng exciting soccer for the fans and my part in that makes me feel good about myself. The whole concept of teamwork is what keeps us all going. It's my role to create scoring chances, and to come through for my teammates is extremely satisfying.”

Feels Play Whole Games Enjoy Challenges Chance Levels Roles Team Fans Highest Concepts Exciting Intense Feel Good Soccer Teamwork Satisfying Teammate

Author:Mia Hamm

“It may be well to remember that the highest level of moral aspiration recorded in history was reached by a few ancient Jews--Micah, Isaiah, and the rest--who took no count whatever of what might not happen to them after death. It is not obvious to me why the same point should not by and by be reached by the Gentiles.”

Should Wells May Might Happens Remember Levels Moral Morality Highest Ancient Jew Obvious Aspiration Afterlife After Death Gentiles Micah

Book:Aphorisms and reflections

Source: Aphorisms and reflections

“In France, you have 900 years of romantic love going back to the troubadours and minstrels that wrote stories of Lancelot and Guinevere. You have gallantry at the highest level.”

Years Stories Levels Highest France Romantic Love Gallantry Minstrels Lancelot Guinevere Troubadours

Author:Marilyn Yalom

“Learning to say prayers in a foreign language...is not in itself the way to fulfill our highest human potential; there is nothing of transcending value to be gained from substituting one set of cultural conventions for another. People whose practice remains on this superficial level end up with nothing but confusion, not knowing who they are or what they should do.”

“They really do feel under attack, rank-and-file officers and much of American police leadership, that they feel they're under attack from the federal government at the highest levels. So that's something we need to understand also, this sense of perception that becomes a reality.”

Needs Feels Reality Government Leadership Levels Perception Highest Police Officers Federal Government Files

Author:William Bratton

“I didn't quit drinking because I was a bad drunk. I quit because I was a spectacular drunk. It got to be like a video game, where you get to the highest level and it's not even a challenge any more.”

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Author:David Feherty

“There's a confidence and a mental toughness that comes from the very highest level of competition, whatever the sport is. Whether it's boxing or wrestling, or whatever.”

Sports Levels Highest Competition Boxing Wrestling Toughness Mental Toughness

Author:Joe Rogan