“If we have a hope of really understanding our place in nature and of carving out a place for ourselves that is sustainable, it's primarily because of the new level of communication. It used to be, 'What you don't have in your mind, you have on your shelf.' But now we have the Web.” IfsMindUsedUnderstandingNatureLevelsCommunicationUsed To BeSustainabilityShelvesCarving Author:Sylvia Earle
“I claim that many patterns of Nature are so irregular and fragmented, that, compared with Euclid - a term used in this work to denote all of standard geometry - Nature exhibits not simply a higher degree but an altogether different level of complexity ... The existence of these patterns challenges us to study these forms that Euclid leaves aside as being "formless," to investigate the morphology of the "amorphous."” DifferentFormScienceUsedTermChallengesLevelsExistenceStudyHigherDegreesStandardsClaimsPatternsComplexityGeometryExhibitsDifferent LevelsFragmentedEuclidMorphology Author:Benoit Mandelbrot
“I think there's been this long cycle of the big companies making a lot of money by underestimating people's intelligence and people are used to it now. So, they're so used to having their intelligence underestimated that, for most of them, it really isn't worth the bother of paying a little more attention to something that might hit them on a deeper level. But you can't really read people's minds.” PeopleThinkingMindLittlesLongBigsMightUsedLevelsAttentionCompanyDeeperBotherCyclesLots Of MoneyUnderestimateUnderestimatedBig Companies Author:J. Robbins
“Public spending on infrastructure has fallen to its lowest level since 1947. And the U.S., which used to have the finest infrastructure in the world, is now ranked 16th according to the World Economic Forum, behind Iceland, Spain, Portugal and the United Arab Emirates.” WorldUsedLevelsUnitedBehindsEconomicSpendingFallenFinestLowestSpainInfrastructureForumsPortugalIcelandEmirates Author:Ray LaHood
“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.'” IfsGivingMotivationalTodayUsedLevelsPracticePlayerTomorrowPercentDetermineGive 100 Percent Author:John Wooden
“I reached this level by sheer dint of hard work, toiling away at scores of tricks and experiments. I used to play with the ball from dawn till dusk and just kept practising. If I wasn't playing matches, it was trying out one on one or two against two with a tennis ball. Then I used to try aiming at certain targets. That's the only way to learn. And if I missed the target, I kept trying until I scored” IfsWayTryingTwoHardPlayUsedCertainLevelsHard WorkBallsTricksExperimentsDawnTennisScoreTargetSheerDuskOne On OneToilingTennis Balls Author:Zinedine Zidane
“Ego is one of the biggest weapons that is used to take us down. It's self-destructive. It's a problem on all levels - even regular people can have big ego problems.” PeopleSelfProblemBigsUsedLevelsEgoWeaponsDestructiveSelf DestructiveBig EgoEgo Problem Author:Yehuda Berg
“People want to buy cheap and sell dear; this by itself makes them countertrend. But the notion of cheapness or dearness must be anchored to something. People tend to view the prices they’re used to as normal and prices removed from these levels as aberrant. This perpective leads people to trade counter to an emerging trend on the assumption that prices will eventually return to “normal”. Therein lies the path to disaster.” PeopleWantUsedLyingLevelsViewsPathReturnNormalTradeSellsNotionDearDisasterAssumptionTrendsEmergingCheapness Author:William Eckhardt
“The Bible talks about how God uses difficult situations to develop our character and get us stronger. The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends. But out of that darkness, out of that disappointment in my life, that's what God used to push me into another level of victory or another level of ministry that I never knew I had.” CharacterUseUsedFatherDifficultLevelsSituationDarknessVictoryStrongerDisappointmentMinistryDaddyDifficult Situations Author:Joel Osteen
“Almost no one under 60 remembers what fundraising was like before Watergate. Until the 1970s, campaign money was collected by "bagmen," familiar characters from the world of organized crime. As fans of Boardwalk Empire know, a bagman is a political fixer who walked around with stacks of $100 and $1,000 bills. At lower levels, he used brown paper bags. In presidential campaigns, the cash was more likely to be in briefcases. Classier that way.” KnowsWorldWayCharacterRememberPoliticalUsedLevelsFansCrimePaperBillsCampaignsFamiliarPresidentialOrganizedBrownEmpiresBagsCashFundraisingWatergateOrganized CrimePresidential CampaignPaper BagsBriefcasesBoardwalksFixersBoardwalk Empire Author:Jonathan Alter
“Celebration is big for me. From my younger days, when I used to win mementos while playing basketball, I have always believed in sharing my success. It has to be there. It lifts the energy levels of the entire side if you are positive and vocal when a wicket falls.” IfsBelieveImportantBigsSuccessUsedFallWinningEnergyI BelieveSidesLevelsSharePositivePositive ThinkingBasketballPositivityCelebrateLiftsPositive AttitudeCelebrationVocalAlways BelievePositive EnergyThink PositivePower Of Positive ThinkingPositive InspirationalPlaying BasketballMementoEnergy LevelsYounger Days Author:Suresh Raina
“If we [black people] do not show up and support the march towards cinematic equality, the march towards being on a level at - we don't even have to be higher than whites, but to be viewed in the same common thread of this is a professional, these are stories that people are interested in, instead of being fed the same old BS dogma that's been fed and the studios have used.” PeopleIfsStoriesShowsUsedBlackLevelsCommonSupportHigherStudiosMarchFedsBlack PeopleDogmaThreadCinematicCommon Threads Author:Terrence Howard
“My uncle played rugby, and my dad played football, and they used to argue which game was the roughest - and everybody agreed rugby was. It's a great team sport, and to be successful, every person has to play in the same level.” PersonsPlayUsedGamesSportsLevelsSuccessfulTeamFootballDadMy DadArguingBeing SuccessfulUnclesRugbySports TeamGreat Team Author:Clint Eastwood
“For what I can imagine and feel and think and hear, I can hardly do anything on the acoustic bass. It used to be just pure frustration of imagining so much more and being able to get to a certain level of execution.” ThinkingFeelsI CanAbleUsedCertainLevelsImaginePureUsed To BeFrustrationExecutionBassAcoustics Author:Esperanza Spalding
“There's the whole Mad Hatter's dilemma, it was the amount of mercury that they used in the glue to make the hats. Everything was damaging. So, in terms of the Mad Hatter, looking at it from that perspective of this guy who literally is damaged goods, physically damaged, emotionally a little obtuse, and taking that and deciding that he should be - as opposed to just this hyper, nutty guy - he should explore all sides of the personality at an extreme level.” ShouldLittlesWholeUsedGuySidesTermLevelsPerspectivePersonalityAmountMadExtremesHatsGoodsThis GuyDilemmaGlueMercuryHyperNuttyDamaged Goods Author:Johnny Depp
“Just like every kid who comes into show business on some level, I used to put shows on in my basement. I even started with doing tricks and having a ventriloquist dummy.” ShowsKidsUsedLevelsTricksShow BusinessBasementsDummy Author:Don Scardino
“The mantra is a very preliminary exercise for the student to begin to grasp a sense of focus. When they are used by persons who have reached very high levels of attention, they can open up doorways to other worlds.” WorldPersonsUsedLevelsAttentionFocusMeditationStudentsBuddhismExerciseOther WorldsDoorwaysMantrasHigh Level Author:Frederick Lenz
“Cooking is work that is traditionally done by working-class people. The work itself is not glamorous. It's repetitive, and it's a lot closer to factory work than art, whatever level you're doing it at. Certainly chefs are used to living like rock 'n' rollers to some extent, inasmuch as we get a lot of those fringe benefits without having to learn how to play guitar.” PeopleArtDonePlayUsedLevelsClassRocksBenefitsCookingGuitarFactoriesChefWorking ClassFringeGlamorousRepetitive Author:Anthony Bourdain
“People say that I'm a tree hugger, but I do a lot more than hug trees. I like having my drinking water without faecal matter, that's really nice. Or acceptable levels of strychnine. I'm an air breather, I've gotten used to that over the years.” PeopleYearsMatterUsedWaterLevelsNiceAirTreeDrinkingAcceptableHugReally NiceDrinking Water Author:Robin Williams
“To reach the highest level you have to not just have a dream and focus but you also have to make sure you are writing great songs, and if you feel they're what you want to represent you, that is key. But getting out on the road is key. And get your music out there. Maybe something catches, maybe it gets picked up and used on television, you just never know.” IfsKnowsWantFeelsWritingDreamUsedSongLevelsFocusTelevisionKeysHighestWhat You Want Author:Joan Jett
“The last thing I want to do is hurt the club's chances of winning. I'm used to playing the game a certain way and at a certain level. When I can no longer do that, I'll quit.” WayWantI CanLastsUsedCertainGamesWinningHurtChanceLevelsClubsQuitting Author:Chipper Jones
“I started off at the high level, in the slick magazines, but they didn't use my name, they used house names. Anyway, then I went downhill to the pulps, then downhill further to the comics.” UseUsedLiteratureHouseNamesLevelsMagazinesHigh LevelPulpSlick Author:Mickey Spillane
“But as Van casually directed the searchlight of backthought into that maze of the past where the mirror-lined narrow paths not only took different turns, but used different levels (as a mule-drawn cart passes under the arch of a viaduct along which a motor skims by), he found himself tackling, in still vague and idle fashion, the science that was to obsess his mature years - problems of space and time, space versus time, time-twisted space, space as time, time as space - and space breaking away from time, in the final tragic triumph of human cogitation: I am because I die.” YearsHumansStillsDifferentProblemPastUsedDiesTurnsFoundSpaceLevelsPathFashionMirrorsFinalsTriumphTragicMatureIdleVagueVersusTime And SpaceVansTwistedMotorCartsMazesArchesDifferent LevelsMulesTacklingNarrow PathBreaking Away Author:Vladimir Nabokov
“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.” MeanEndsUsedCommunityWhiteLevelsCasesFiveProductsFinalsAustraliaGoodsCentsCheaperOur CommunityInputTariffs Author:Andrew Robb