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“Your level of achievement will rise to meet the level of your purpose.”

“Over time, years of meditation gave me glimpses of the interconnectedness and interdependence of all life. I experienced that on one level we are alone, separate, apart from everyone and everything; on another level, we are the Self in different disguises, different names and forms, a part of everyone and everything. This experience of interconnectedness is part of spiritual traditions and the perennial wisdom in virtually all religions and cultures.”

Years Different Self Spiritual Form Culture Names Levels Meditation Tradition Disguise Glimpse Interdependence Interconnectedness Different Names

Book:Love & Survival: The Scientific Basis for the Healing Power of Intimacy

Source: Love & Survival: The Scientific Basis for the Healing Power of Intimacy

“In the midst of creating, a person is raised to another level of consciousness.”

Persons Levels Consciousness Creating Raised Midst

Author:Charlie Haden

“"Every leader makes mistakes, every leader stumbles and falls. The question with a senior level leader is, does she learn from her mistakes, regroup, and then get going again with renewed speed, conviction and confidence?"”

Doe Fall Levels Mistake Leader Conviction Speed Making Mistakes Senior

Author:Jack Welch

“If we want to be heard we must speak in a language the listener can understand and on a level at which the listener is capable of operating.”

Ifs Want Speak Language Levels Heard Capable Listeners

Book:The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth

Source: The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth

“There are actually people who go out and re-fight these battles. You know what I say? Use real ammunition! You just might raise the intelligence level of the American gene pool!”

People Knows Real Use Might Fighting Levels Battle Raises Pool Genes Ammunition

Author:George Carlin

“By helping to raise man above the level of bestial vegetation, faith contributes in reality to the securing and safeguarding of his existence. Take away from present-day mankind its education-based, religious-dogmatic principles- or, practically speaking, ethical-moral principles- by abolishing this religious education, but without replacing it by an equivalent, and the result will be a grave shock to the foundations of their existence.”

Source: Mein Kampf

“And then I went round the corner and there's a Van Gogh portrait, and you just think, well, this is another level. A higher level, actually. I love the Sargent, but it's not the level of Van Gogh.”

Thinking Wells Levels Higher Rounds Corners Portraits Vans Higher Level

Author:David Hockney

“There is a deeper truth expressed in the unity of the United States. Implicate in the union of our country is the union of all people. All people are essentially one. The world is interconnected not only on the material level of economics, trade, communication, and transportation, but innerconnected through human consciousness, through the human heart, through the heart of the world, through the simply expressed impulse and yearning to be and to breathe free.”

“Sometimes people are layered like that. There's something totally different underneath than what's on the surface. But sometimes, there's a third, even deeper level, and that one is the same as the top surface one. Like with pie.”

People Different Sometimes Levels Thirds Deeper Surface Pie

Author:Joss Whedon

“We can not understand each other, if every time we venture out we stick the feather of cocksureness in our caps. No, we can never wholly understand each other, and rise to the level of mutual esteem at least, if we do not invest in that fellow feeling that triumphs over class and creed and race and color.”

Ifs Feelings Levels Race Class Color Fellows Sticks Esteem Triumph Mutual Creeds Venture Can Not Feathers Caps Fellow Feeling Race And Color

Author:Ameen Rihani

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

Problem Levels Solve Extras Introducing

Author:Butler Lampson

“Too many managers and executives try to reduce programming to a low-level assembly-line activity. That's inefficient, wasteful, costly in the long run, and inhumane to programmers.”

Trying Long Running Lines Levels Activity Lows Managers Programming Executives Long Runs Assembly Programmers Low Level Inhumane Assembly Line

Author:Bjarne Stroustrup

“If you let a child know that you think he is lazy, sloppy, untruthful, unpleasant, and thoughtless, he'll probably prove you are right. Obviously, it is much better to make him stretch to reach a positive image than stoop to match one at ground level.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Children Levels Prove Lazy Stoops Sloppy Positive Image

Book:Building Confidence in Your Child

Source: Building Confidence in Your Child

“There are eight levels of charity.... The highest is when you strengthen a man's hand until he need no longer be dependent upon others.”

Men Needs Hands Levels Highest Charity Eight Dependent

Author:Maimonides

“If your aims as a donor are modest, you can accomplish an awful lot. When your aims become elevated beyond a reasonable level, you not only don't accomplish much, but you can cause a great deal of damage.”

Ifs Causes Levels Deals Aim Accomplish Awful Damage Reasonable Modest Donors

Author:Irving Kristol

“This...Godless society operates in an extremely efficient manner at least in its higher levels of leadership...It follows a perfectly mapped out strategy. It holds almost complete sway in international organizations, in financial circles, in the field of mass communications; press, cinema, radio and television.”

Levels Fields Television Communication Higher Mass Organization Strategy Presses Financial International Radio Circles Cinema Efficient Higher Level Mass Communication

Author:Pedro Arrupe

“I think that as human beings we are all different. On a third dimensional level we're all different but there are two things we share in common... one is birth, and we know about that because we've been through it, we understand it, and the other is death.”

Thinking Knows Humans Two Different Human Beings Levels Common Share Birth Thirds Two Things

Author:James Van Praagh

“Just because you've reached a certain level of success, that doesn't mean you've become corrupted by the system.”

Mean Certain Levels

Author:Shepard Fairey

“I think the Internet has definitely made it easier for people to have stuff seen, but it's also encouraged a level of ADD, where you see so much that if it doesn't make an impact on you immediately, you don't look at it.”

People Ifs Thinking Looks Made Stuff Levels Internet Easier Impact Add Made It

Author:Shepard Fairey

“When it comes to the street-art world, there are a lot of people who realize if they go out and put up a few pieces of street art and photograph them really well, even if their locations weren't actually that high-profile or dangerous, with the level of exposure they get from the Internet, with a large audience, they can maintain that rebel cache by having it be theoretically documented street art.”

People Ifs World Wells Art Realizing Levels Audience Pieces Streets Dangerous Internet Photograph Rebel Location Exposure Profile Art World High Profile Street Art Cache

Author:Shepard Fairey

“The Internet hasn't had a chance to really get to where people look at it with the proper level of scrutiny. There's so much bullshit on the Internet. It doesn't get filtered out because it's such a new medium.”

People Looks Chance Levels Internet Mediums Bullshit Scrutiny

Author:Shepard Fairey

“The best parts about writing a show are [its] first, second and 10th anniversaries. Everything else is relative levels of hell.”

Writing Firsts Shows Levels Hell Relative

Author:Alan Menken

“The story is everything, so it always begins with a story. Research is a kind of scaffolding built underneath the story as I go along. My enjoyment level varies, but in general, I'm writing about topics I find interesting, so I can't gripe too much.”

Writing Kind I Can Stories Interesting Levels Too Much Research Built Enjoyment Topics Vary Scaffolding

Author:Neal Stephenson

“I'm just a friendly bystander who they occasionally ask questions of. That's my level of involvement.”

Asks Levels Friendly Involvement Bystanders

Author:Alice Sebold

“The amount of response I get, in both a negative and a positive context, is completely related to the amount of books I sell, I think. It seems to have nothing to do with what I'm writing, but what degree of success I'm perceived to have. It's really weird, especially since I spent so much of my life covering people who are famous. It's interesting to actually have it happen to me on some level.”

People Thinking Writing Book Seems Happens Interesting Levels Amount Degrees Negative Sells Response Related Covering Really Weird

Author:Chuck Klosterman

“I'm looking for films that can resonate and hopefully have some level of critical importance but also have commercial viability and can put butts in seats. At the end of the day, that is the name of the game. And if you can find that perfect balance, then that's the sweet spot.”

Ifs Ends Film Games Names Perfect Levels Sweet Balance Importance Critical Spots Hopefully Seats The End Of The Day Perfect Balance

Author:Will Packer

“You don't have to care about children to care about children. One of the things that I talk a lot about is the fact of the importance of third-grade reading level. By the end of third grade, if the child is not at reading level, it'll drop off. They never catch up.”

Ifs Children Ends Facts Care Reading Levels Thirds Importance Grades Third Grade

Author:Kamala Harris

“You don't expect everyone out there watching to believe that this cartoon is real, that this drawing has really come to life. But on some level, you do. You try to cast a spell. You want the world to feel real. It's a nerdy pursuit.”

World Want Feels Trying Believe Real Levels Casts Drawing Pursuit Spells Cartoon Nerdy

Author:Loren Bouchard

“We stiffened the penalties for fraud, we extended nationwide efforts to make sure that payments are accurate and they closed a loophole in which people were gaming the system. We didn't change eligibility requirements or reduce the level of benefits.”

People Levels Effort Benefits Fraud Accurate Penalties Requirements Payment Gaming Loopholes Eligibility

Author:Kevin Drum

“We've already seen shifts happening in some of the big companies - Google, Apple - that now understand how vulnerable their customer data is, and that if it's vulnerable, then their business is, too, and so you see a beefing up of encryption technologies. At the same time, no programs have been dismantled at the governmental level, despite international pressure.”

Ifs Has Beens Bigs Levels Company Technology Happenings Program Pressure International Customers Despite Vulnerable Data Apples Google Big Companies Encryption

Author:Laura Poitras

“I was in correspondence with an anonymous source for about five months and in the process of developing a dialogue you build ideas, of course, about who that person might be. My idea was that he was in his late forties, early fifties. I figured he must be Internet generation because he was super tech-savvy, but I thought that, given the level of access and information he was able to discuss, he had to be older.”

Persons Ideas Might Able Courses Given Process Levels Five Generations Information Source Months Internet Late Access Dialogue Developing Forty Correspondence Savvy

Author:Laura Poitras

“I'm no stranger to a bit of sexist backlash, but I was surprised by the level of vicious and misogynist hate I received.”

Hate Bits Levels Stranger Vicious Sexist Backlash

Author:Anita Sarkeesian

“I find it deeply upsetting when I see justice not being served. How do we as human beings deal with the unknown? The West Memphis Three trial is a joke on so many different levels.”

Humans Different Three Justice Human Beings Levels Deals Jokes West Trials Upset Different Levels Memphis

Author:Atom Egoyan

“Sometimes I feel like there isn't enough Prozac in the world to make Environmental Protection Agency people feel better about their jobs. They're going out there, they're trying to protect Americans and then time and time and time again they get their knees cut off at the policy level.”

People World Feels Trying Sometimes Enough Jobs Levels Cutting Policy Protect Environmental Protection Knees Agency Feel Better Going Out Environmental Protection Prozac

Author:Josh Fox

“I have been informed that he has started false allegations regarding myself and the cause of my illness. It angers me to see that my own father would stoop to such a level.”

Father My Own Levels Stoops

Author:Lindsay Lohan

“My existence went up about 12 levels of intensity.”

Levels Existence Intensity

Author:Wolfman Jack

“A certain degree of physical harmony and comfort is necessary, but above a certain level it becomes a hindrance instead of a help. Therefore the ideal of creating an unlimited number of wants and satisfying them seems to be a delusion and a snare.”

Want Helping Seems Certain Levels Numbers Comfort Degrees Creating Ideals Harmony Delusion Satisfying Unlimited Hindrance Snares

Book:All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections

Source: All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections

“Finally you begin to make your mistakes on the highest level-let's say the upper slopes of slippery Parnassus-and it's at that point you need coaching.”

Needs Levels Mistake Highest Coaching Slippery Slopes

Author:John Barth

“Great teachers and schools expect and nurture quality work and quality performance. Great teachers inspire and demand quality, ever urging their students to higher levels of excellence. They shun mere conformity and expect their students to think and perform to their ever-increasing potential.”

Thinking School Levels Quality Teacher Students Inspire Higher Demand Performances Excellence Mere Conformity Nurture Great Teacher Higher Level Quality Work

Author:Oliver DeMille

“Indeed, we have reached a level of complexity where simplicity itself is suspect. For example, the simple reality is that jobs migrate to less difficult nations. It's the old Rule of Capital: Capital goes where it is treated well.”

Wells Reality Jobs Nations Difficult Simple Levels Example Simplicity Treated Complexity Suspects Migrate

Author:Oliver DeMille

“Whatever happens in Washington, Wall Street, Hollywood or Silicon Vally in the next ten years, it will be irrelevant if our families don't come together at a much higher level. Without a renaissance of family, no new candidate can rise to save us. No new legislation, policy or program will heal our land.”

“In our day, a vast majority of people is dependent either on an employer or the government-or both. One way to rate your level of independence might be to measure how long you can survive, feed your family and live in your home after your employer stops paying you anything.”

People Way Long Home Government Might Levels Independence Majority Rate One Way Our Family Dependent Employers

Author:Oliver DeMille

“Happiness is not the shallow state of feeling pleased and chipper all the time. Happiness is the state of a human being that has achieved cross-level coherence within herself, and between herself and the people, challenges, and institutions around her. Happiness comes from between.”

People Humans States Feelings Challenges Human Beings Levels Crosses Institutions Shallow Coherence

Author:Jonathan Haidt

“Are introverts arrogant? Hardly. I suppose this common misconception has to do with our being more intelligent, more reflective, more independent, more level-headed, more refined, and more sensitive than extroverts.”

Levels Common Intelligent Independent Sensitive Arrogant Introvert Refined Misconception Extroverts Level Headed

Author:Jonathan Rauch

“Writing in a journal each day, with a structured, strategic process allows you to direct your focus to what you did accomplish, what you're grateful for, and what you're committed to doing better tomorrow. Thus, you more deeply enjoy your journey each day, feel good about any forward progress you made, and use a heightened level of clarity to accelerate your results.”

“For me, something dangerous would be playing thebabe in a huge studio film. That would be terrifying because I'dstink... I want to explore human beings on as deep a level as I can.”

Want Humans I Can Would Be Film Human Beings Levels Dangerous Huge Studios

Author:Jennifer Jason Leigh

“Well, the film industry is completely sexist and completely class-biased. It's not something I get on the ground level, it's more from financiers and producers and distributors. It's a way of dealing with you that is essentially patronising: I know better than you.”

Knows Way Wells Film Levels Class Industry Producers Better Than You Biased Sexist Film Industry Distributors Financiers

Author:Lynne Ramsay

“I get most of my news from the Jon Stewart Daily Show.It's the most level commentary you can find.You have to laugh, because it's all so true.It's the closest thing to a counterculture.”

Shows Levels Laughing News Closest Commentary Counterculture Daily Show Counter Culture

Author:John Mayall

“[My novels] introduce levels of intelligence ... moral doubt [and] self-doubt, which may not pertain [to real-world espionage].”

World May Real Self Levels Moral Novel Doubt Real World Introducing Espionage Self-doubt

Author:John le Carre

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