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“Nothing ever guarantees you anything-that's my rule. My other rule is never believe anything that anyone tells you, and then you'll never be fooled. It's not as cynical as it sounds; it's just that people always say something for a reason-maybe a nice reason, maybe a devious reason-so on that level, you can't take things at face value.”

Author:M. H. Abrams

“Competition can be viewed in two ways. It can be viewed in a negative light and be seen as destructive, but one can also have the view that it is competition that drives people and institutions to higher and higher levels of excellence and, therefore, to more and more opportunity.”

People Way Two Light Opportunity Levels Views Higher Negative Institutions Competition Excellence Destructive Two Ways Higher Level

Author:Lee R. Raymond

“The IEA member countries will exercise flexibility in re-establishing their emergency stock levels through 2006, noting the need to take into account seasonal demand and the possibility of higher than expected refinery maintenance.”

Needs Country Levels Possibility Higher Exercise Demand Members Accounts Expected Flexibility Emergencies Maintenance Refinery

Author:Claude Mandil

“We continue to see undeniable evidence that abuse and torture has been widespread and systematic, yet high-level government officials have not been held accountable for creating the policies that led to these atrocities.”

Has Beens Government Levels Policy Creating Evidence Abuse Torture Officials Systematic Atrocities High Level Government Officials

Author:Anthony Romero

“Resilience is the maintenance of high levels of positive affect and well-being in the face of adversity. It is not that resilient individuals never experience negative affect, but rather that the negative affect does not persist.”

Wells Doe Faces Individual Levels Survival Negative Adversity Resilience Well Being Persist Maintenance Resilient High Level Facing Adversity

Author:Richard Davidson

“As our closest relatives, they (chimpanzees) tell us special things about what it means to be a primate and, ultimately, what it means to be a human at the DNA level.”

Humans Mean Levels Special Closest Dna Chimpanzees Primates Special Things

Author:Francis Collins

“Microsoft has built loyalty at the end-user level, including upper management, .. That works for a while in the early stages of a product, but after a couple of years the blush fades from the rose. It's reality versus marketing.”

Years Ends Reality Levels Stage Products Couple Built Management Rose Including Marketing Loyalty Users Fades Versus Microsoft

Author:Murphy J. Foster, Jr.

“While the Internet is censored in China, the censorship is allowing a level of speech to take place that's unprecedented.”

Levels Internet Speech China Allowing Censorship Unprecedented Censored

Author:Ethan Zuckerman

“When compassion for the common man was born on Christmas Day, with it was born new hope among the multitudes. They feel a great, ever-rising determination to lift themselves and their children our of hunger and disease and misery, up to a higher level. Jesus started a fire upon the earth, and it is burning hot today, the fire of a new hope in the hearts of the hungry multitudes.”

Source: The world is learning compassion

“Obviously, the technology community in Massachusetts competes in a global economy, and our efforts to create a more competitive environment recognizes that competitiveness at a local level. We'd expect employers in other states to use this site as they consider where in Massachusetts to locate or expand their presence.”

States Use Community Levels Effort Technology Economy Environment Competition Locals Site Employers Global Economy Massachusetts Competitiveness

Author:Christopher Anderson

“As far as co-operation with The Hague is concerned it's impossible (to arrest Milosevic) by March 31 without an agreement on the federal level despite the consequences such a move could have.”

Moving Levels Impossible Consequence Concerned Despite Operations Agreement March Impossibility

Author:Zoran ?in?ic

“The essence of wealth is the capacity to control the forces of nature, and the extent of wealth depends upon the level of technology and the ability to create new knowledge.”

Force Wealth Ability Levels Technology Depends Capacity Essence Forces Of Nature New Knowledge

Book:The Ultimate Resource 2

Source: The Ultimate Resource 2

“There's a rising level of frustration with the disconnect between where the vast majority of conservatives are in this country and how Congress is behaving. There's going to be a wake-up call sooner or later.”

Country Levels Wake Up Majority Congress Rising Frustration Sooner Or Later Wake Up Call

Author:Pat Toomey

“For many years quantum physics had been giving indications that there are levels of reality other than the material level.”

Giving Years Reality Levels Materials Physics Quantum Indication Quantum Physics Giving In

Author:Amit Goswami

“The higher ones level of helpfulness to others, the greater wellbeing one will experience.”

Levels Greater Higher Wellbeing Helpfulness

Author:Les Parrott

“The brilliance of art as a collectible is that it has a way of reaching out on an emotional level. It touches on mystery, even spirituality.”

Way Art Spirituality Levels Mystery Emotional Reaching Reach Out Brilliance Collectors Collectibles

Author:Robert Genn

“The pursuit of art is a delicate balance between influence and self-assertiveness. As self-realized artists, we all have different levels of tolerance for this mystery. Influence is like Scotch; it's good to know your personal limit.”

Knows Art Different Self Artist Levels Mystery Influence Balance Limits Art Is Tolerance Pursuit Delicate Different Levels Scotch Assertiveness Personal Limits

Author:Robert Genn

“Art is a course in personal development that has no reliable diploma and no known end. The pursuit of art instructs in beauty as well as ugliness, fantasy as well as common sense. Art levels souls and baffles brains. Art softens pain because it is pain. Art gives joy because it is joy.”

Giving Wells Art Soul Ends Pain Joy Courses Levels Common Brain Known Fantasy Development Art Is Profession Personal Development Pursuit Common Sense Ugliness Diploma

Author:Robert Genn

“There are opposing forces in all living things. My work reflects this and stirs up a contrast of emotions in the viewer... perception versus annoyance. To the viewer who has reached that level of awareness, my work is no longer abstract, but very real.”

Real Force Levels Emotion Awareness Perception Abstract Contrast Viewers Versus Living Things Opposing Annoyance

Author:Eugene J. Martin

“Born of necessity, the little fellow literally freed us of immediate worry. He provided the means for expanding our organization to its present dimensions and for extending the medium of cartoon animation toward new entertainment levels. He spelled production liberation for us.”

Mean Littles Born Levels Worry Organization Fellows Productions Entertainment Mediums Liberation Dimensions Mice Cartoon Expanding Animation Extending Disney Animation

Author:Walt Disney

“By exposing yourself to risk, you're exposing yourself to heavy-duty learning, which gets you on all levels. It becomes a very emotional experience as well as an intellectual experience. Each time you make a mistake, you're learning from the school of hard knocks, which is the best education available.”

Wells Hard School Levels Mistake Risk Emotional Duty Intellectual Available Heavy Exposing Best Education Exposing Yourself School Of Hard Knocks

Author:Gifford Pinchot

“I was attracted to climbing mountains because of the physical dangers, but also the challenges, like 'mental fortitude, physical fortitude, judgement.' It's the intensity of the experience, at a sustained level. The experience is incredibly intense because it is so dangerous.”

Sports Challenges Levels Dangerous Danger Mountain Intense Judgement Climbing Intensity Inspirational Sports Fortitude Climbing Mountain

Author:Lincoln Hall

“It is by no means necessary that a great nation should always stand at the heroic level. But no nation has the root of greatness in it unless in time of need it can rise to the heroic mood.”

Needs Should Mean Nations Levels Greatness Roots Mood Heroic Great Nations Time Of Need

Book:Fear God and Take Your Own Part

Source: Fear God and Take Your Own Part

“It gave a tremendous level of self-confidence, that through exploration and learning one could understand seemingly very complex things in one's environment.”

Self Levels Environment Complexes Self Confidence Exploration

Author:Steve Jobs

“There is only one person with whom to compete and that is yourself. Keep aiming to surpass your own best performance and ever strive to reach higher levels.”

Persons Levels Higher Achievement Performances Strive Higher Level Best Performance

Book:Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living

Source: Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living

“The greatest historian should also be a great moralist. It is no proof of impartiality to treat wickedness and goodness on the same level.”

Should Levels History Goodness Treats Proof Historian Wickedness Moralist Impartiality

Book:History as Literature and Other Essays

Source: History as Literature and Other Essays

“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.”

Wells Seems Prayer Levels Promise Highest Praise Guidance Affirmation Request Supplication

Author:Walt Disney

“Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr.”

Ifs Knows Form Levels Taxes Taxation Martyr Income Tax Crooks Tax Day Taxes Funny

Author:Will Rogers

“At a simple level, good is that which helps people-evil is that which hurts people. At a higher level, good is that which is in harmony with divine purpose-evil is that which is out of harmony with divine purpose.”

People Helping Purpose Evil Hurt Simple Levels Divine Higher Goodness Harmony Higher Level Divine Purpose

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“If you don't like affirmative action, what is your plan to guarantee a level playing field of opportunity?”

Ifs Action Opportunity Levels Plans Fields Guarantees Affirmative Action Affirmative Playing Fields Level Playing Field

Author:Maynard Jackson

“I wake up fairly early every day, by 8, for sure. Sunday is a lighter writing day than the weekdays, but I still wake up and write for about an hour, beginning right around 8. I definitely have coffee first, and then I start writing. I do think it's kind of hard to get the right level of concentration without coffee.”

Thinking Writing Firsts Kind Stills Hard Hours Levels Wake Up Coffee Concentration Sunday Lighters Weekdays

Author:Karen Thompson Walker

“It is possible to move to an enlightened state of mind from a lower bardo or level of awareness. It can happen, but it is extremely unlikely.”

Mind States Happens Moving Levels Awareness Enlightenment Enlightened State Of Mind Unlikely

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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 teacher is not a person; they're a field of energy. They're a series of levels of attention. While they have a body and appear to be there, they're not.”

Persons Body Energy Levels Attention Teacher Fields Series Enlightened

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Enlightened teachers can do certain miracles, but they are not really miracles. They just know how to use energy on other levels of consciousness. A miracle is in the eye of the beholder, as is all of life.”

Knows Use Eye Certain Energy Can Do Levels Consciousness Know How Teacher Miracle Enlightened Beholder Eye Of The Beholder

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you run into a Buddha, then that energy field, the "rad" level is so high, it's incalculable. Their effect on an individual is for many, many, many, many, many, many lifetimes.”

Ifs Running Individual Energy Levels Teacher Effects Fields Lifetime Enlightened Energy Fields Rad

Author:Frederick Lenz

“As a teacher you just look at someone and you transmit to them what they need to know. Not simply a thought form, but you transmit an awareness level.”

Knows Needs Looks Form Levels Teacher Awareness Enlightened Transmit

Author:Frederick Lenz

“As a woman experiment and observe. Observe yourself as you go through a day. You will be amazed to discover the number and variety of things you do just on the physical level to control, or at least pass without being hassled.”

Women Levels Numbers Enlightenment Experiments Variety Amazed

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Belonging is the innate human desire to be part of something larger than us. Because this yearning is so primal, we often try to acquire it by fitting in and by seeking approval, which are not only hollow substitutes for belonging, but often barriers to it. Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.”

Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

“What you do in practice is going to determine your level of success. I used to tell my players, 'You have to give 100 percent every day. Whatever you don't give, you can't make up for tomorrow. If you give only 75 percent today, you can't give 125 percent tomorrow to make up for it.'”

Ifs Giving Motivational Today Used Levels Practice Player Tomorrow Percent Determine Give 100 Percent

Author:John Wooden

“To be "integrally developed" does not mean that you have to excel in all the known intelligences, or that all of your lines have to be at level 3. But it does mean that you develop a very good sense of what your own psychograph is actually like, so that with a much more Integral self-image you can plan your future development.”

Mean Doe Self Lines Levels Known Plans Development Very Good Intelligence Our Future Your Future Good Sense Future Development

Book:Integral Spirituality: A Startling New Role for Religion in the Modern and Postmodern World

Source: Integral Spirituality: A Startling New Role for Religion in the Modern and Postmodern World

“The principle of fasting is taught in almost all major world religions as a means of developing a higher level of self-mastery and self-control, and also a deeper awareness of how really dependent we are.”

Source: The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness

“Rather than a universe of static certainty, at the most fundamental level of matter, the world and its relationships were uncertain and unpredictable, a state of pure potential of infinite possibility.”

World Inspirational Matter States Universe Levels Possibility Pure Infinite Fundamentals Certainty Uncertain Unpredictable Static Infinite Possibilities

Book:The Field Updated Ed: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe

Source: The Field Updated Ed: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe

“If we only practice compassion on the mind level, we run a great risk of our compassion being just talk. As we know, talk is cheap. To develop true compassion we have to put our money where our mouth is.”

Ifs Knows Mind Running Levels Compassion Practice Risk Mouths Great Risk Talk Is Cheap

Author:Gelek Rimpoche

“Power is the ability to translate, that is, to shift from one level of attention to another.”

Ability Levels Attention Power Translate

Author:Frederick Lenz

“To not follow the dharma, either intentionally or through lack of awareness, creates a very low level of attention. In this low level of attention we make all kinds of mistakes and we are unhappy no matter what good fortune befalls us.”

Kind Matter Levels Attention Mistake Awareness Buddhism Lows No Matter What Fortune Unhappy All Kinds Good Fortune Dharma Low Level

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You can tell a person's level of spiritual devlopment simply by watching how much they give.”

Giving Persons Spiritual Levels Yoga Karma Karma Yoga

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I think enlightenment is something that you decide to do after you have met someone who is enlightened. Something touches your heart, your being at a very deep level.”

Thinking Heart Levels Mets Enlightenment Enlightened Very Deep

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I think that, on some level, everybody lives vicariously through couples who are getting married.”

Thinking Women Levels Couple Married Getting Married Married Women

Author:Amy Dickinson

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