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“Presidents should do whatever possible and practical to encourage an environment of cooperation and bipartisanship. And they should maintain a certain level of decorum, diplomacy and decency. But, at the end of the day, presidents get elected to enact change.”

Should Ends Certain President Levels Environment Practicals The End Of The Day Cooperation Diplomacy Decency Decorum Bipartisanship

Author:Mark McKinnon

“What happens to the Microsofts, Oracles and IBMs of the world is that when they get big enough, they don't think they need to bring that same level of focus and energy to the end-user experience.”

Thinking World Needs Ends Enough Bigs Happens Energy Levels Focus Users Microsoft Oracles Ibm User Experience

Author:Aaron Levie

“If you are an incredibly reactive person and you are working on your lowest level, and if you continuously give into your dark side and are angry, and screaming, and breaking things, and you do that for hours and hours on end, you are going to be incredibly exhausted. That's just the way life is.”

Ifs Way Giving Persons Ends Life Is Sides Hours Dark Levels Angry Exhausted Lowest Dark Side Breaking Things

Author:Jeremy Piven

“Reincarnation doesn't simply mean that at the end of this life you will move on to another life in another body, it means that the spirit of life is continually renewing itself and moving to a higher level.”

Mean Ends Body Moving Life Is Spirit Levels Higher This Life Reincarnation Higher Level Another Life Spirit Of Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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.

“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

“The Freemen have 987 levels of membership, the first three of which are achieved merely by filling out an application. The 8th level is granted upon full acceptance into the local lodge, the 13th following Initiation, the 21st at the end of the Initiate's second week, and the 89th the first time he brings snacks.”

Firsts Ends Three Levels Week Acceptance First Time Following Locals Granted Application Filling Membership Initiate Snacks Initiation Freeman Lodges

Author:Adam Rex

“We have reached the end of problem solving as a mode of inquiry capable of inspiring, mobilizing, and sustaining human system change. The future of Organization Development belongs to methods that affirm, compel, and accelerate anticipatory learning involving larger and larger levels of collectivity.”

Humans Ends Problem Levels Development Capable Organization Method Problem Solving Inquiry Involving Sustaining Accelerate Collectivity Systems Change

Author:David Cooperrider

“I think that at the end of the day I'm drawn to a certain level of ambiguous storytelling that requires hard thought and work in the same way that the New York Times crossword puzzle does: Sometimes you just want to put it down or throw it out the window, but there's a real rewarding sense if you feel like you've cracked it.”

Ifs Thinking Way Want Feels Doe Real Ends Sometimes Hard Certain Levels New York Like You Window Storytelling The End Of The Day Puzzles New York Times Cracked Ambiguous Crosswords

Author:Damon Lindelof

“In organized groups such as the army or the Church there is either no mention of love whatsoever between the members, or it is expressed only in a sublimated and indirect way, through the mediation of some religious imagine in the love of whom the members unite and whose all-embracing love they are supposed to imitate in their attitude towards each other. It is one of the basic tenets of fascist leadership to keep primary libidinal energy on an unconscious level so as to divert its manifestations in a way suitable to political ends.”

Way Ends Political Energy Church Religious Levels Attitude Imagine Groups Members Army Primaries Manifestation Organized Unconscious Fascists Suitable Indirect Mediation Embracing Love

Author:Theodor Adorno

“[Concerning the Water Ouzel, now called American Dipper:] In a general way his music is that of the streams refined and spiritualized. The deep booming notes of the falls are in it, the trills of rapids, the gurgling of margin eddies, the low whispering of level reaches, and the sweet tinkle of separate drops oozing from the ends of mosses and falling into tranquil pools.”

Way Ends Fall Water Levels Sweet Music Is Lows Notes Streams Pool Rapids Margins Refined Whispering Tranquil Moss Trill

Author:John Muir

“It is one of the basic tenets of fascist leadership to keep primary libidinal energy on an unconscious level so as to divert its manifestations in a way suitable to political ends.”

Way Ends Political Energy Levels Primaries Manifestation Unconscious Fascists Suitable

Book:The Culture Industry: Selected Essays on Mass Culture

Source: The Culture Industry: Selected Essays on Mass Culture

“I've never been the critic of reality TV that others have, especially many of my colleagues who wonder if it's just the end of America. It's a free market and you just put it on. The fact that science has not been on neck-and-neck with it means that people believe science could not compete on that level.”

People Ifs Believe Mean Ends Facts Reality America Levels Wonder Tvs Critics Necks Colleagues Free Market Reality Tv

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Get an agent. Seriously, submitting stuff unagented means it will end up on the slush pile. An agent is the first quality filter, and a good agent is worth his or her weight in gold, as they'll often know the editors on a personal level and will be able to talk to them directly about the project.”

Knows Writing Firsts Mean Ends Able Stuff Levels Quality Projects Gold Weight Agents Editors Filters Slush

Author:Tim Lebbon

“The people want government that works for them at every level. They want good government that begins at their doorstep in the barangay, and does not end before the closed door of a bureaucrat in Metro Manila.”

People Want Doe Ends Government Levels Doors Bureaucrats Closed Doors Doorstep Manila Metro

Author:Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

“Feminism is a struggle to end sexist oppression. Therefore, it is necessarily a struggle to eradicate the ideology of domination that permeates Western culture on various levels.”

Ends Culture Levels Struggle Feminism Western Various Oppression Ideology Domination Sexist Western Culture

Book:Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center

Source: Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center

“Somehow, some way, every person in the arts has to find an accommodation with disappointment and embarrassment. They are the pollen in the air we breathe. If you must go into the arts, go into them for yourself alone. On some basic level you must enjoy the act of doing it ... Otherwise, you are going to end up frustrated and unhappy. Recognition in the arts is luck and gravy.”

Ifs Way Persons Art Ends Enjoy Levels Air Art Is Luck Disappointment Breathe Unhappy Recognition Frustrated Embarrassment Accommodations Gravy Pollen

Author:Joan Rivers

“The perennial architectural debate has always been, and will continue to be, about art versus use, visions versus pragmatism, aesthetics versus social responsibility. In the end, these unavoidable conflicts provide architecture's essential and productive tensions; the tragedy is that so little of it rises above the level imposed by compromise, and that this is the only work most of us see and know.”

Source: On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change

“The infinite vibratory levels, the dimensions of interconnectedness are without end. There is nothing independent. All beings and things are residents in your awareness.”

Ends Levels Awareness Infinite Independent Dimensions Psychedelic Residents Interconnectedness

Book:Art Psalms

Source: Art Psalms

“Honestly, on so many levels, I feel like motherhood has prepared me even better for directing than film school because all it is is troubleshooting and dealing with different personalities and emotions and trying to make everybody happy and at the end of the day reaching your own personal goals and agendas.”

“If you're going to change the food system, there is a lot that you, the consumer, can do on your own; but in the end, it will be very important to make changes at the national level.”

Ifs Important Ends Can Do Levels Consumers Making Changes

Author:Michael Pollan

“Unhealthy families discourage individual expression. Everyone must conform to the thoughts and actions of the toxic parents. They promote fusion, a blurring of personal boundaries, a welding together of family members. On an unconscious level, it is hard for family members to know where one ends and another begins. In their efforts to be close, they often suffocate one another's individuality.”

“The simplest Surrealist act consists of dashing down the street, pistol in hand, and firing blindly, as fast as you can pull the trigger, into the crowd. Anyone who, at least once in his life, has not dreamed of thus putting an end to the petty system of debasement and cretinization in effect has a well-defined place in that crowd with his belly at barrel-level.”

Wells Ends Hands Levels Streets Effects Crowds Defined Belly Simplest Petty Triggers Barrels Firing Pistols Surrealist Dashing

Author:Andre Breton

“In the end, people don't view their life as merely the average of all its moments-which, after all, is mostly nothing much plus some sleep. For human beings, life is meaningful because it is a story. A story has a sense of a whole, and its arc is determined by the significant moments, the ones where something happens. Measurements of people's minute-by-minute levels of pleasure and pain miss this fundamental aspect of human existence. A seemingly happy life maybe empty. A seemingly difficult life may be devoted to a great cause. We have purposes larger than ourselves.”

Source: Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End

“I think the level of criticism you're under is never healthy. I think that's why lots of people in Hollywood end up in rehab. There are the ups and downs. I was never a fan of the attention.”

People Thinking Ends Levels Attention Fans Healthy Criticism Hollywood Ups & Downs Rehab

Author:Lauren Conrad

“Testosterone is a sex hormone, and I think it is the most social of hormones. The major social effect of testosterone is to orient us toward issues of sex and power. By the end of puberty testosterone levels in males are 8 to 10 times higher than in females, but decrease with age.”

Thinking Ends Age Social Sex Levels Issues Effects Higher Majors Female Males Decrease Hormones Puberty Testosterone

Author:James McBride

“When I work, a lot of times I have to lose weight, and I do that, but in my regular life I was not eating right, and I was not getting enough exercise. But by the nature of my diet and that lifestyle - boom! The end result was high blood sugars that reach the levels where it becomes Type 2 diabetes. I share that with a gajillion other people.”

People Ends Enough Loses Levels Results Blood Share Type Exercise Eating Weight Lifestyle Diets Sugar Diabetes Lose Weight End Results Blood Sugar Type 2 Diabetes Eating Right

Author:Tom Hanks

“Swimming is great because there are levels of goals. First, when I was four, it was making it to the other end and overcoming the fear of standing up in front of everybody at a swim meet because I was such a shy kid.”

Firsts Ends Kids Goal Levels Four Fronts Standing Overcoming Shy Swim Swimming

Author:Summer Sanders

“Every time we have come to the end of a conflict, somehow we have persuaded ourselves that the nature of mankind and the nature of the world have changed on an enduring basis and so we have dismantle our military and intelligence capabilities. My hope is that as we wind down in Iraq and whatever the level of our commitment in Afghanistan, that we not forget the basic nature of humankind has not changed.”

World Ends Forget Levels Mankind Military Changed Wind Conflict Commitment Bases Endure Iraq Afghanistan Capability Humankind Nature Of Man

Author:Robert M. Gates

“One of the greatest things that ever taught me a super lesson was when I seen a baby come out of my woman's womb. Seeing this war that could end with both lives being lost, or both lives being made, gave me an enlightenment of life itself. It sparked my whole mind to a whole other level of living. And if I never would have seen it, I never would have understood life. I never would have appreciated life.”

Ifs Mind Made War Ends Whole Lost Levels Seeing Taught Baby Lessons Enlightenment Understood Appreciated Womb

Author:RZA

“I became successful and within five years conquered the world and had the most amazing run. I had so much momentum and adrenaline going, but then it ends and you have to find what level you're going to be on, how enthusiastic you're going to be.”

World Years Ends Running Levels Successful Five Five Years Enthusiastic Momentum Adrenaline Most Amazing

Author:Elton John

“On a deep almost preconscious level we know, not with our minds but deep in our hearts the truth of the words, love never ends.”

Knows Mind Heart Ends Levels Words Love

Author:Genevieve

“A major boom in real stock prices in the US after Black Tuesday brought them halfway back to 1929 levels by 1930. This was followed by a second crash, another boom from 1932 to 1937, and a third crash. Speculative bubbles do not end like a short story, novel, or play. There is no final denouement that brings all the strands of a narrative into an impressive final conclusion. In the real world, we never know when the story is over.”

“Once you lose attachment to how you want things to be because you realize you don't control anything, there's a curiously liberating aspect of that. I've always been a control freak, I've always felt that if I try hard enough, everyone I love will be kept safe and everything will be okay. Being shown, in such brutal terms, that that's simply not the way it works, in someways, it messed me up. I've been through hell, but on another level, if you pile up so much tragedy, it either destroys you, or you just start laughing about it. Because at the end of the day, no one gets out alive.”

Ifs Way Want Trying Ends Hard Enough Felt Term Realizing Loses Levels Laughing Hell Alive Safe Aspect Okay Tragedy The End Of The Day Attachment Freak Brutal Liberating Control Freak

Author:Daniele Bolelli

“Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all. It sets the slave at liberty, carries the banished man home, and places all mortals on the same level, insomuch that life itself were a punishment without it.”

Men Ends Home Death Wish Levels Liberty Slave Punishment Mortals Relief Carrie

Author:Seneca the Younger

“[D]rawing up 'secret war plans' for a possible attack on Iraq wasn't irrational. The low-level war against Saddam was 12 years old, with no end in sight. American and British pilots were getting shot at, sanctions weren't working, and Bush was getting warnings that Saddam had all those terrible weapons and would use them against America. Bush would have been a fool not to draw up plans. Gee, wait till the critics find out that FDR, without ever informing the media, was plotting to fight Japan and Germany before Pearl Harbor.”

“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.”

“Almost everything we'll ever do in life that is really powerful, that really produces a result in our lives, that quantum-leaps us to a new level . . . requires us to do something uncomfortable. It takes risks to achieve. It's often scary. It requires something you didn't know before or a skill you didn't have before. But in the end, it's worth it. As former Congressman Ed Forman says, 'Winners are those people who make a habit of doing things losers are uncomfortable doing.' Make today your day to start that uncomfortable new habit.”

“Instead of giving the effort the level of attention needed, the Air Force has wasted a year doing very little to end our reliance on Russian rocket engines, if the Air Force is unwilling to do what is necessary to meet the 2019 deadline, they are going to have to figure out how to meet our space launch needs without the RD-180 (Russian engine).”

Ifs Needs Giving Years Littles Ends Force Space Levels Effort Attention Air Figures Needed Engines Reliance Rockets Unwilling Deadline Air Force

Author:John McCain

“I think there's so much that's not said about sex in the United States. Even from an educational level. And I do a lot of work on human trafficking and I connect a lot with girls that come up and end up in this trade and partially because of a lack of education about sex in the country.”

Thinking Humans Said Ends Country States Girl Sex Levels United United States Trade Come Up Educational Human Trafficking Trafficking Lack Of Education

Author:Ashton Kutcher

“Some countries need extra stimulus in specific areas. Something has to be done against high youth unemployment in Greece and Spain, for example. But in the end, there is no way around it: The debt levels have to come down.”

Way Needs Ends Country Done Levels Example Youth Areas Debt Extras Unemployment Spain Greece Stimulus

Author:Dalia Grybauskaite

“We must conclude that, being necessary to God by a necessity which is called "hypothetical", (that is, because God so willed it), the Blessed Virgin is all the more necessary for men to attain their final end. Consequently we must not place devotion to her on the same level as devotion to the other saints as if it were merely something optional.”

Ifs Men Ends Christian Levels Holy Blessed Finals Saint Devotion Virgins Optional Hypothetical Holy Mary

Book:True Devotion to Mary: Saint Louis de Montfort

Source: True Devotion to Mary: Saint Louis de Montfort

“My books do have a sort of romantic community at the end - people coming together. But on a more basic level, I always see them as being about power, in the same way that Harry Potter books are pitched to a population of young people who really have no power.”

People Way Book Ends Together Young Community Levels Population Harry Potter Potters Coming Together

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“On all levels, evolution occurs in response to a crisis situation, not infrequently a life-threatening one, when the old structures, inner or outer, are breaking down or are not working anymore. On a personal level, this often means the experience of loss of one kind or another: the death of a loved one, the end of a close relationship, loss of possessions, your home, status, or a breakdown of the external structures of your life that provided a sense of security.”

Kind Mean Ends Home Loss Levels Situation Security Evolution Crisis Structure Response Possession Loved Ones Death Of A Loved One Threatening Breaking Down Breakdown Close Relationship

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“If China don't free up the political side, its economic growth will come to an end - while it is still at a very low level.”

Ifs Stills Ends Political Sides Growth Levels Economic Lows China Economic Growth Low Level

Author:Milton Friedman

“Throughout my career I've struggled to encourage people to read my books on a more metaphorical level. I'm less attached to my settings than, for example, Saul Bellow. The setting of a novel for me is just a part of the technique. I choose it at the end.”

People Book Ends Levels Careers Novel Example Technique Setting Settings Metaphorical

Author:Kazuo Ishiguro

“Like any classic you hope to get rid of all the varnish that's built up over the centuries where people expect it to be in a certain way. It's a mighty play. It's about a very old king who also happens to be a very old father, so you've got the state and the domestic levels in there together. It's a story in extremis. Everyone knows the end, there's only two people left alive.”

People Knows Way Two Ends States Play Stories Happens Together Certain Father Left Levels Alive Century Kings Built Classic

Author:Geoffrey Rush

“If I'm in the business of making artwork that is designed on some level to sell a product, then I have to be very comfortable with the people I'm working with and I'd like to be proud of the end result regardless of its sale-ability.”

People Ifs Ends Ability Levels Results Products Proud Comfortable Sells Be Proud Artwork End Results

Author:John Dyer Baizley

“If you work in the city long enough, it begins to deal with you on a personal level. Streets reveal their moods. Sometimes the signal light loves you. Sometimes they fight you. When you're hunting for a new building, you hope the city is on your side. You have to use a little bit of thinking--you might call it the process of elimination--and you need a little bit of instinct, but not too much of either. If you think too hard, you overshoot your target and end up at the Pier or the Tenderloin. If you relax and let the city help, the destination does all the work for you.”

“We had a level of tariffs of about five per cent. Now a lot of those will go, most of them will go over time, some of them immediately. Now that means that electronic goods and other things, white goods, coming into Australia, will be cheaper for our community. It also means in many cases that the inputs used by our high-end manufacturers to make a final product are also coming in cheaper than they otherwise would - so it makes those manufacturers more competitive.”

Mean Ends Used Community White Levels Cases Five Products Finals Australia Goods Cents Cheaper Our Community Input Tariffs

Author:Andrew Robb

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