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“The universe is made up of vibrating, pulsing light. When our attention level drops, we don't see that. Instead we see what appears to be a solid material world.”

World Made Light Universe Levels Attention Awareness Materials Buddhism Material World

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Several factors besides skill are more significant in professional writers than in most amateurs. One is love of the surface level of language: the sound of it; the taste of it on the tongue; what it can be made to do in virtuosic passages that exist only for their own sake, like cadenzas in baroque concerti. Writers in love with their tools are not unlike surgeons obsessed with their scalpels, or Arctic sled racers who sleep among their dogs even when they don't have to.”

Source: The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain

“If you have great people around you, they will take you higher than your dream will. Leaders are never self-made. Those closest to you determine your level of success, so choosing the right companions as partners in pursuit of your vision is an important decision. My advice is to surround yourself with talented people who will challenge you, help you grow and inspire you to maximize your potential.”

“And the user may have a higher comfort level deciding what information to provide rather than worrying about what inferences might be made from what they've gathered.”

May Made Might Levels Worry Information Higher Comfort Users Inference

Author:Edward Felten

“My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education – from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.”

Made Father Levels Magic Painting Training Dancing Theatre Ballroom Ballroom Dancing Commandos

Author:Baz Luhrmann

“Al Gore has made no serious attempt to level the playing field for U.S. agriculture exports, which have fallen 16 percent in the last three years. And Al Gore has opposed every serious proposal to provide American farmers with meaningful tax relief.”

Years Made Lasts Three Levels Fields Serious Taxes Percent Meaningful Fallen Relief Als Farmers Three Years Agriculture Proposal Gore Playing Fields

Author:Dan Quayle

“Andre Tippett was an impact player who consistently played at a level that set him apart. Accounting for him limited what an offense could do. He made quarterbacks nervous.and rightly so.”

Made Levels Player Impact Nervous Consistently Offense Accounting Quarterback

Author:Raymond Berry

“Of late, attempts have been made in the USA - at a high level and in a rather cynical form - to play the "Chinese card" against the USSR. This is a shortsighted and dangerous policy.”

Has Beens Made Play Form Levels Dangerous Policy Late Cards Chinese Usa Cynical High Level Ussr

Author:Leonid Brezhnev

“To play chess on a truly high level requires a constant stream of exact, informed decisions, made in real time and under pressure from your opponent. What's more, it requires a synthesis of some very different virtues, all of which are necessary to good decisions: calculatioñ, creativity and a desire for results. If you ask a Grandmaster, an artist and a computer scientist what makes a good chess player, you'll get a glimpse of these different strengths in action.”

Source: How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom

“I was never on a mission to be an NFL quarterback. I wanted to be a good high school player, and I worked hard at that. That made me good enough to play in college and then I wanted to be a good college quarterback. During college I played well enough to make it into the NFL. I never took it for granted and really wanted to play hard at each level and I have always had a lot of fun doing what I wanted to do.”

Wells Made Hard Enough Play Wanted School Fun Levels Player College High School Missions Granted Nfl Good Enough Quarterback Play Hard Good College Good High School

Author:Peyton Manning

“My dad was always my manager as far as I was concerned, even when I had another manager. At times he let me go with someone else who he thought could take me to another level when he couldn't, and he was right. But they were in it for another reason. He was in it because he wanted to see me succeed no matter what, and he made decisions based on being a dad as opposed to a manager.”

Made Matter Reason Wanted Decision Levels Dad Succeed Concerned Let Me No Matter What My Dad Managers Take Me Let Me Go Being A Dad

Author:Tanya Tucker

“[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

“I suppose I knew on an intellectual level that graves weren't especially made for getting out of. I mean, you start with a hermetically sealed casket and then you dump six feet of dirt on top of it. Over time the earth gets compacted, which can't make it easy to dig through. So even if you're a very angry and determined zombie, you've kind of got your work cut out for you just escaping from the grave.”

Ifs Kind Mean Made Earth Easy Levels Cutting Feet Six Intellectual Angry Determined Graves Dirt Zombie Escaping Dump Caskets

Book:Walking Dead

Source: Walking Dead

“More than just a moral issue, hope is a spiritual and even religious choice. Hope is not a feeling; it is a decision. And the decision for hope is based on what you believe at the deepest levels - what your most basic convictions are about the world and what the future holds - all based on your faith. You choose hope, not as a naive wish, but as a choice, with your eyes wide open to the reality of the world - just like the cynics who have not made the decision for hope.”

World Believe Made Feelings Reality Eye Spiritual Choices Wish Religious Decision Levels Moral Issues Conviction Wide You Choose Naive Moral Issues Eyes Wide Open

Author:Jim Wallis

“There are important arguments to be made about the relative merits of an hereditary or an elected head of state: but not at the level of the human frailties of particular monarchs or presidents. No one seriously contends that the American presidency should be abolished because Bill Clinton is a self-confessed adulterer. So why should the abolition of the British monarchy be contemplated because the same is true of Prince Charles?”

Source: History in Our Time

“I read the script and I really liked it. It was high energy, crazy and it goes to any level to get people nuts and I thought Eve was an interesting character. At first I didn't get her, so it made me want to do the role because I wanted to dive in and see what she was about. On top of that I also wanted to work with Jason Statham because he's an amazing actor.”

People Want Firsts Made Character Wanted Actors Energy Interesting Levels Roles Crazy Scripts Nuts Jason Interesting Characters High Energy

Author:Amy Smart

“At the beginning of this year also, I called upon the North Korean side to open dialog between the responsible authorities of the South and the North at any place, at any time, and at any level, in order to prevent a recurrence of war and to cooperate to speed up the peaceful unification of our fatherland. However, no sincere response has yet been made by North Korea.”

Years Made War Order Sides Levels Authority Responsible South Response Speed Peaceful Usa Sincere Korea North Korea Korean Unification Fatherland North Korean Recurrence

Book:Jimmy Carter

Source: Jimmy Carter

“I made a commitment and a promise to Ms. McSpadden, Michael Browns mother, that I will pursue justice with the family at every avenue, be it on the federal level or at the state level.”

Made States Mother Justice Levels Promise Commitment Pursue Avenues Every Avenue

Author:William Lacy Clay, Jr.

“It does not try to reach down to the level of inferior classes; it does not try to win them for this or that sect of its own, with ready-made judgments and watchwords of its own. It seeks to away with classes, to make the best that has been taught and known in the world current everywhere, to make all men live in an atmosphere of sweetness and light, where they may use ideas, as it uses them itself, freely--nourished, and not bound by them.”

Men World Trying May Doe Has Beens Made Ideas Use Light Culture Winning Levels Known Class Taught Ready Judgment Bounds Currents Atmosphere Inferiors Sweetness Sects

Author:Matthew Arnold

“The recurring theme of all religions is a sympathy, empathy, connection, capacity between the human and the divine - that we were made for union with one another. They might express this through different rituals, doctrines, dogmas, or beliefs, but at the higher levels they're talking about the same goal. And the goal is always union with the divine.”

Humans Made Different Might Belief Goal Levels Talking Divine Higher Empathy Capacity Connections Unions Doctrine Theme Ritual Dogma Higher Level Recurring Recurring Themes

Author:Richard Rohr

“Those who have made unhappy marriages walk on stilts, while the happy ones are on a level with the crowd. No one sees 'em!”

Made Walks Levels Marriage Crowds Unhappy Ems Happy Marriage Unhappy Marriage Stilts

Author:Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

“On a more technical level, a story takes a lot of words. And to generate words and phrases and images and so on, that will compel the reader to continue reading - that stand a chance of really grabbing a reader - the writer has to work out of a place of, let's say, familiarity and affection. The matrix of the story has to be made out of stuff the writer really knows about and likes. The writer can't be stretching and (purely) inventing all the time. Well, I can't, anyway.”

Knows Wells Made I Can Stories Reading Stuff Chance Levels Reader Affection Work Out Likes Phrases Familiarity Stretching Inventing Grabbing

Author:George Saunders

“On Earth Day I made a commitment to reduce our emissions of greenhouse gases to 1990 levels by the year 2000. And I asked for a blueprint on how to achieve this goal. In concert with all other nations, we simply must halt global warming. It is a threat to our health, to our ecology, and to our economy. I know that the precise magnitude and patterns of climate change cannot be fully predicted. But global warming clearly is a growing, long-term threat with profound consequences. And make no mistake about it, it will take decades to reverse.”

“Myth was regarded as primary; it was concerned with what was thought to be timeless and constant in our existence. Myth looked back to the origins of life, to the foundations of culture, and to the deepest levels of the human mind. Myth was not concerned with practical matters, but with meaning. Unless we find some significance in our lives, we mortal men and women fall very easily into despair. The mythos of a society provided people with a context that made sense of their day-to-day lives; it directed their attention to the eternal and the universal.”

Source: The Battle for God: A History of Fundamentalism

“Our sport is not made for anybody to be able to play it, especially at the NFL level, so there's obviously some risk that we all take knowingly.”

Made Play Able Sports Levels Risk Nfl

Author:Troy Polamalu

“I hate superheroes. I always hated superheroes. From the time I was a little kid, I could believe in a 50-foot gorilla trashing New York City before I could believe a guy would put on long tights and bat ears and go and fight crime. Like, the fantasy never made sense to me, on a basic level.”

Believe Littles Long Made Kids Guy Hate Fighting Levels Cities Fantasy Feet Crime New York Ears I Hate Hated New York City Bats Superhero Little Kid Gorillas Tights

Author:Stephen R. Bissette

“So, too, if, to our surprise, we should meet one of these morons whose remarks are so conspicuous a part of the folklore of the world of the radio--remarks made without using either the tongue or the brain, spouted much like the spoutings of small whales--we should recognize him as below the level of nature but not as below the level of the imagination.”

Ifs World Should Made Imagination Levels Brain Surprise Radio Tongue Remarks Whales Moron Folklore

Book:The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination

Source: The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination

“Architecture might be more sportive and varied if every man built his own house, but it would not be the art and science that we have made it; and while every woman prepares food for her own family, cooking can never rise beyond the level of the amateur's work.”

Ifs Men Art Made Might House Levels Built Cooking Architecture Every Man Made It Art And Science Cookery Sportive

Book:Women and Economics - A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution: From the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and a respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, well-known for her stories The Yellow Wallpaper and Herland

Source: Women and Economics - A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution: From the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and a respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, well-known for her stories The Yellow Wallpaper and Herland

“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 began to research the concept of dimensionality from the point of view of quality, and not just quantity, as a mathematician might do. Taking my clues from the theosophical use made of the Vedantic levels of reality, I identified the western notion of Energy (as someting which is effecatious by means of motion), with the idea of Time. The more comprehensive dimension 'eternity' I defined as a form of energy which is efficacious without motion. In this manner I began to establish the qualities of dimensions and open out the seemingly monolithic concept of energy.”

Mean Made Ideas Use Reality Might Form Energy Levels Views Quality Research Concepts Eternity Western Notion Point Of View Defined Dimensions Quantity Mathematician Clue Comprehensive

Author:Paul Laffoley

“The use of the high level language made each programmer a factor of 5 to 10 more productive in a coding sense and more concerned with the semantics than the syntax of modules.”

Made Use Language Levels Concerned Factors Productive Programmers High Level Syntax Semantics

Author:Fernando J. Corbato

“It's a big deal about whether or not gays can march in the St. Patrick's Day Parade and I have to say that on some level I kind of see their point. Because when you think about it, it is a real macho heterosexual event. Bunch of guys in short skirts on a cart made of rose pedals sharing a bag pipe. That's not for sissies.”

Thinking Kind Made Real Bigs Guy Levels Deals Events Gay Rose Bunch Bags March Big Deal Pipe Skirts Parades Carts Macho Pedals Sissy Short Skirts St Patrick St Patrick's Day

Author:Laura Kightlinger

“There were times in my life when I said, "Oh God, I'm making a terrible, terrible mistake here." And on another level it looked as if that's exactly what I had done. All of us can look back across our lives and see what we thought was a disaster was actually a blessing - from a long-term perspective, it was a blessing. With practice, we can shorten the length of time between "what a dumb mistake I've made" and "what a brilliant choice that was.”

Ifs Looks Long Made Said Done Choices Term Levels Mistake Practice Our Lives Perspective Terrible Blessing Brilliant Disaster Dumb Long Term Length

Author:Richard Bach

“The start of the New Year is a perfect time to start a stop doing list and to make this the cornerstone of your New Year resolutions, be it for your company, your family or yourself. It also is a perfect time to clarify your three circles, mirroring at a personal level the three questions... 1) What are you deeply passionate about? 2) What are you are genetically encoded for - what activities do you feel just "made to do"? 3) What makes economic sense - what can you make a living at?”

Feels Years Made Three Perfect Levels Business Company Economic Activity Passionate Lists Circles Our Family Resolution New Year Cornerstones New Years Resolution Mirroring Feels Just

Author:James C. Collins

“I like that there's very little mystery in how the artwork is actually made. It's the labor and the focus and the precision that drives it to the next level.”

Littles Made Next Levels Focus Mystery Labor Made It Precision Artwork Next Level

Author:Jacob Hashimoto

“I've always been fortunate in that I'm quite good at what I do, but there have been many people who have made it to the high level and they weren't necessarily the fastest runner in their class at school. Concentrate on yourself. It's down to planning, preparation and being dedicated.”

People Has Beens Made School Levels Class Planning Made It Preparation Fortunate Dedicated Runners High Level

Author:Jenny Meadows

“The original WAS a fun film. [Paul] Verhoeven made a couple of 'Robocops' that were so great, too. I think the level of excitement is great and Arnie [Schwarzenegger] was particularly charismatic with that chopped up English, and the size of the man with his confidence and sense of humor.”

Thinking Men Made Film Fun Levels He Man Couple Originals Size Excitement Sense Of Humor Charismatic Schwarzenegger Robocop

Author:Colin Farrell

“In the desert prepare the way for the LORD; make straight in the wilderness a highway for our God. Every valley shall be raised up, every mountain and hill made low; the rough ground shall become level, the rugged places a plain. And the glory of the LORD will be revealed, and all mankind together will see it. For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.”

Way Made Together Levels Lord Mankind Mountain Lows Glory Mouths Raised Hills Desert Wilderness Rough Valleys Highways Rugged

Author:Isaiah

“People have a different idea of how movies are made than they really are. On a certain level, everyone throws ideas into the hopper. It's not like the actors are wind-up dolls that you push out onto the floor, play with, then put back in the box. You get people around you who you trust; the writer, the producer, the director and all the actors all contribute.”

People Made Ideas Different Play Certain Actors Levels Wind Directors Boxes Producers Dolls Different Ideas

Author:Richard Gere

“At our base level we are animals. And so, my theory is that women are only considered attractive as long as they look fertile because we, as humans, are made to reproduce and move on. And so we kind of can't ever get away from our animalistic nature, in a way.”

Way Humans Looks Kind Long Made Moving Animal Levels Theory Attractive Get Away Fertile Animalistic

Author:Erin Davie

“When I made Spartacus during the McCarthy Era, we were losing our freedom. It was an awful, awful way. McCarthy saw Communists everywhere, in every level of government and they concentrated on Hollywood and especially on Hollywood writers.”

Way Made Government Levels Saws Losing Hollywood Awful Eras Communist Spartacus

Author:Kirk Douglas

“When reality is perceived in its nature of ultimate perfection, the practitioner has reached a level of wisdom called non-discrimination mind - a wondrous communion in which there is no longer any distinction made between subject and object.”

Mind Made Reality Levels Subjects Objects Perfection Ultimate Discrimination Distinction Communion Wondrous

Book:The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation

Source: The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation

“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

“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.”