Levels Quotations | Page 4

Menuhin was playing Bach on a fantastic spiritual level when he was a teenager.

My dear husband, Richard, has been the driving force behind my success and rise to whatever level I am now. My story and legacy is incomplete without his mention.

Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism.

I don't think you can really, truly be the partner you want to be until you know on an absolute level that you are a complete person on your own.

It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom.

Rock musicians, and a vast array of popular-music musicians, due to their wealth, acquired through the mass of their notoriety, are able to be listened to and heard and thus are able to effect change on an international level.

I think reality TV for dancers has changed for the better. There are more opportunities and the platforms that we are being given are better. We have more job security and TV is allowing different levels of dance to come through to the forefront. People can now take their abilities and turn them into brands and make these top dollars.

God blesses us all with different views and perspectives and levels of influence and power.

Rather than let their product compete fully and fairly in the marketplace, FalconStor resorted to bribery and graft to win important contracts in a scheme that reached the highest levels of the company.

I don't know anyone at the highest levels who approved Abu Ghraib. If President Barack Obama for a moment thought that somebody at a high level had approved it, he would go after them.

The CrossFit program is broad, general and inclusive, and most of all, the movements can be scaled down to any level of athlete. Just watch what I do with it on 'The Biggest Loser.'

It is not the time spent with the child at their activity that is going to produce the highest level athlete. It is in supporting the child in an organized activity so the child can find what they truly like to do and let them go.

The insurance of working with a big, already successful franchise just gives you the chance to do other things on a more personal level.

I was trained by Method acting teachers and we were taught that aside from whatever gift you may or may not have or the level of that gift, that you were obliged to know how to build a table. It's a craft. It's like being a ballerina or a violinist.

America needs education reform on all levels to expand quality schools, build on past successes, and lower college debt.

Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

You live for those really great scenes where you almost feel that the film has gone beyond what was printed on the script pages and been raised to another level.

God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another.

It took me 35 years of being involved at a decent level of football to become manager at a great club like Celtic.

On some level any appearance on Television can be seen as a product endorsement.

When your goal is to put on muscle mass you must increase your calorie intake as you increase the activity level being given to the muscle

If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning.

The Church exists to connect people at the level of their hunger for a new world.

The level of potential physical productivity of a society depends on both the development of the intellect of its members, and a minimal standard of both demographic characteristics and of consumption.

It seems like the studios are either making giant blockbusters, or really super-small indies. And the mid-level films I grew up on, like 'Back to the Future' and all those John Hughes movies, the studios aren't doing. It's hard to get them on their feet.

I wish, to be honest with you, for African American films that we could get a few more theaters. They only open them in 1500 to 2000 for an opening weekend, and how do you expect us to compete. How can we go to certain box office levels if they don't give us more theaters?

Increased awareness and education could be a great help toward improving spending and saving habits and increasing participation and contribution levels to retirement plans.

A building is no good if someone's got to explain to you why it's good. You can't say you don't know enough about architecture - that's ridiculous. It's got to work on many levels.

My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.

You don't really get to pick and chose what you would like to be doing. But I've been very fortunate, and I think water seeks its own level. You do gravitate towards things that you would get off on.

You can have relatively high levels of class consciousness with a lower level of class militancy than one would have expected.

I mean, the Taliban, my view is that they have been weakened. We have not seen them able to conduct any kind of organized attack to regain any territory that they've lost. We've seen levels of violence going down.

A film is sort of binary - it either works or it doesn't work. It has nothing to do with how good a job you do. If you bring it up to an adequate level where the audience goes with the movie, then it works, that is all.

As African economies boom and businesses are created, one of the big questions this growth raises is that of third-level education: how can Africa develop a knowledge infrastructure to rival that of the west, a sort of Harvard University in Africa?

It's one thing to say, 'I don't like what you said to me and I find it rude and offensive,' but the moment you threaten violence in return, you've taken it to another level, where you lose whatever credibility you had.

In order for a society to survive, it must generate a sufficient level of physical production both to meet its current needs, and to produce a surplus for upgrading its productive powers.

I like the level of fame that I have. You get nice tables in restaurants sometimes, but fame isn't something that I find comfortable.

I was heartened to hear the President say that as we make progress on the ground, and Iraqi forces increasingly take the lead, we should be able to further decrease our troop levels.

I'm a much nicer person since my wife died. I found out what pain is, so on that level I'm much nicer.

No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code.

I live a very nice life. I have a wonderful time. But it's not lived drawing on a full level. I'm relaxed, cool, and enjoying it.

At an everyday level I would reckon myself more than fortunate.

I've always been more comfortable making my decisions from the subconscious level, or more emotionally, because I find it is more truthful to me; Intellectually, I don't think like that because I get uncomfortable.

By dedicating so much concentration to the issue of security, bilateral matters pass to a secondary level.

The death tax causes one-third of all family-owned small businesses to liquidate after the death of the owner. It is also an unfair tax because the assets have already been taxed once at their income level.

I always had this energy level that made me want to come to New York.

I wish I knew that when I go in for an audition and I don't get the part, it actually doesn't have to do with me on a personal level.

No one tells you that your life is effectively over when you have a child: that you're never going to draw another complacent breath again... or that whatever level of hypochondria and rage you'd learned to repress and live with is going to seem like the good old days.

Before I finished another level of Scientology auditing, I had a very hard time with being wrong and I always had to have my own way - and not in a good sense. After auditing, I was able to have my thoughts, communicate them and not have to be right all the time.

When you start out as a filmmaker, you do parodies, because you can't really compete on a studio level.

Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding.

The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is worth on an existential, alchemical level.

I played professional level sports. When you're playing for money, it's a whole other level.

Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.

I'm very involved in the writing on every level.

Strictly speaking, every citizen above a certain level of income is guilty of some offense.

It seems I have a hard time being attracted to someone unless I respect what they do on some level. Otherwise, I would feel disdain for them. Which is not always pleasant in a relationship. Sometimes it's fun though.

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.

I haven't got a waist. I've just got a sort of place, a bit like an unmarked level crossing.

If you look at the 19 hijackers who came to the United States in Sept. 11 to commit those acts, if you'd looked at them before they got onto a plane, you could probably say the same thing. There were various levels of expertise, various levels of competence.

Market forces and capitalism by themselves aren't sufficient to ensure the common good and to limit the concentration of wealth at levels that are compatible with democratic ideals.

If we can play like that every week well get some level of consistency.

With girls, friendships are hard because you have to learn to get to a maturity level to love them but not want to be them.

Music is supposed to create an associate level, wherein I and you and you and I can associate without any misunderstanding.

Obviously one of the things that poets from Northern Ireland and beyond - had to try to make sense of was what was happening on a day-to-day political level

When you've married someone who's been at war, there is nothing you can do that compares to that level of selflessness and bravery.

There is no such thing as perfect security, only varying levels of insecurity.

I believe that given the audience attention level, we could do an even more compelling 90 minutes.

Opacity on extreme levels is not addressed anywhere, including Dodd-Frank.

Climate change, in some regions, has aggravated conflict over scarce land, and could well trigger large-scale migration in the decades ahead. And rising sea levels put at risk the very survival of all small island states. These and other implications for peace and security have implications for the United Nations itself.

I know that a prime minister of Canada needs to be deeply respectful of the other levels of government - whether it be municipal, provincial, or even nation-to-nation relationships with aboriginal governments.

Nineteen-eighty-two is a vintage of legendary proportions for all levels of the Bordeaux hierarchy. In short, it is a vintage which has produced the most perfect wines in the post-World War II era.

The level of shyness has gone up dramatically in the last decade. I think shyness is an index of social pathology rather than a pathology of the individual.

Although they can do it all the time, you know, they're far better than me, on a musically, on a theoretical music level. You know, they're out of my league.

I believe we should appeal to people at the higher levels.

I like to think I can keep a pretty level head.

On the other hand, at some level the mass of unresolved issues in Northern Ireland does influence the fact that there are so many good writers in the place

Being a monarchist, and fawning over those 'above' you, you must naturally despise those 'below' or on the same socioeconomic level as yourself, because that is how hierarchy worship works.

I don't want my faith level to go up or down. And so I don't fear.

At the international level, one has to keep working hard and develop new skills. International cricket is all about improving yourself.

I think Barack Obama has brought a new level of ethical standards to Washington. Has he changed some basic hard-knuckle politics? No. You need hard-knuckle politics to succeed.

He who goes step by step always finds himself level with a step.

I've not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure. The manipulation that all politicians use on one level or another is so transparent.

No scoring system is perfect, but a system that provides for flexibility in scores, if applied by the same taster without prejudice, can quantify different levels of wine quality and provide the reader with one professional's judgment.

I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.

By every measure, John Kennedy's sex life was compulsive and reckless. At one level, it had clear public consequences. Knowledge of Kennedy's behavior gave FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover absolute job security, as well as the potential power to derail Kennedy's re-election had he survived assassination.

Skyrocketing insurance premiums are debilitating our Nation's health care delivery system and liability insurers are either leaving the market or raising rates to excessive levels.

I was obsessed with the Olympics. It's so exciting to see that level of excellence and endurance.

In corporate levels, it's all about tailoring your shirt and which tennis club you belong to and which watch you are wearing and what did you shoot last week?

Mom is the most unconditionally loving person I will ever know, and she has always supported me on every level.

I wanted to be a soccer player; I wanted to do it at the highest level.

It's an awesome responsibility, not only to maintain the level of success the NFL has, but to build on that.

I'm a huge fan of home recording. I think it levels the playing field. You don't need $100,000 to record a studio CD.

Hierarchical formulations died because their wedding cake levels posited a multiply fractured cosmos that does not match the Space Age revelation of a unified universe in which the earth is clearly in, rather than separated from, the heavens. Hierarchical representations do not reflect what either the world or we are like.

In terms of having high hopes that the level of consciousness will get higher and higher, yeah.

Aggression is not a breed thing. It's a state of mind, and it comes from how the human is with the dog. There are four levels of energy, regardless of the breed: low, medium, high, very high. The idea is to get a dog in your same level or lower than you.

I am about as pro-Google a person as you're going to find in the media. I've had friends at all levels of the company since its founding, and still do now.

I study more of truth and enlightening. I had to go the next level to talk about life.

There are thousands and thousands of free programs available for people of any income level.

I don't have examples in my life of people who are all good or bad; I have deeply loved many people who are both, and I relate to those kinds of people on a far greater level.