High Level Quotes

• To do anything to a high level it has to be total obsession.

  Conor McGregor

  Levels, Obsession

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• High-level actors can be all about their close-ups and the size of their trailers. I'd heard these horror stories of how a really powerful actor can come in and change your script.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Powerful, Horror Stories, Actors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If language naturally evolves to serve the needs of tiny rodents with tiny rodent brains, then what's unique about language isn't the brilliant humans who invented it to communicate high-level abstract thoughts. What's unique about language is that the creatures who develop it are highly vulnerable to being eaten.

  Temple Grandin

  Animal, Unique, Brain

  Temple Grandin, Catherine Johnson (2009). “Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior”, p.313, Simon and Schuster

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• It takes years of building that experience as a filmmaker, as well as physically. You have to have a high level understanding of martial arts.

  Donnie Yen

  Art, Years, Understanding

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• President Obama's proposal to raise the top rate to 39 percent is equal to the rate under President Clinton in the 1990s when Wall Street reached record high levels and the economy produced lots of jobs.

  Juan Williams

  Jobs, Wall, President

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• I like explaining things, and I believe that you can do very high-level explanation on basic cable news provided you are willing to work hard enough to be a good storyteller.

  Rachel Maddow

  Believe, Hard Work, News

  Interview with Grace Dunham, www.yahoo.com. April 21, 2016.

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• I've never been one of those people who has an extremely high level of crisis. I just don't need all that emotional drama.

  Demi Moore

  Drama, Emotional, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's about the process. It's about getting better. 'Let's execute on this play, let's execute on this drive.' You do those things, and over the course of the season you'll get better as a team and you'll get to a point where hopefully you're playing at a high level to win the games that really become at another level.

  Tony Romo

  Team, Winning, Games

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• 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.

  Anthony Romero

  Government, Creating, Abuse

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• One accident or terrorist strike involving high-level waste would endanger lives and cause a catastrophe that would leave millions of dollars in damages and take years to clean up

  Shelley Berkley

  Years, Damage, Causes

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• Notably, it was only possible [ negotiating on the Tarabarov Island], and this is very important, due to the high level of trust Russia and China reached in their relations by that time. If we reach the same level of trust with Japan, we might be able to reach certain compromises.

  Vladimir Putin

  Islands, Russia, Japan

  Source: thesaker.is

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• The disturbing video taken by Keith Lamont Scott`s wife showing the moment her husband was killed by police in Charlotte provides a sobering window into the high level of compliance that people of color feel they need to maintain in their interactions with police.

  Chris Hayes

  Husband, Taken, Color

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Being a celebrity at a very high level is a good thing.

  Donald Trump

  Levels, Good Things

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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• By the time executives get to high levels, they are good at making others feel confident in their judgment, even if there's no strong basis for the judgment.

  Gary A. Klein

  Strong, Levels, Judgment

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• A balance of giving and receiving is essential to keeping your energy, mood and motivation at a consistently high level.

  Doreen Virtue

  Motivation, Giving, Balance

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• Let people alone. Let them find their way. Let them find their level and you may sometimes be delighted and astonished at the extraordinary high level to which they'll rise if they're let alone.

  Robertson Davies

  People, Levels, May

  "Conversations with Robertson Davies". Book by Robertson Davies, "Gzowski on FM", 1989.

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• 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.

  Leonid Brezhnev

  Play, Usa, Cynical

  "Peace, Détente, and Soviet-American Relations: A Collection of Public Statements". Book by Leonid Brezhnev, p. 222, 1979.

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• I think if I wasn't in very high level, I never will be in the team. Cause I was high, in very high level.

  Olga Korbut

  Sports, Team, Thinking

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• I think I have a passion for playing the game. I love to play, and I want to play at a high level. You have to do the right things in order to continue at that level.

  Dan Marino

  Sports, Passion, Thinking

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• I can still play this game at a high level; I've proven that. I want to be home. I want to be close to my family. I want to be close to my foundation and my business interests.

  Alonzo Mourning

  Sports, Home, Play

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• We have the leading companies and the leading sectors in the advanced industrial world, we have an incredibly dynamic society, and we have high levels of entrepreneurship. And we have the best universities in the world. ... We also have impeccable credit. What we don't have is a political system that can take the simple measures to deal with our short-term deficit.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Simple, Political, Credit

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• 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.

  Garry Kasparov

  Real, Creativity, Player

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.11, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Men in high levels of government seldom surf.

  Rita Rudner

  Men, Levels, Politics

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• Every day, there are 770 million Cokes consumed, which means that there are 770 million purchasing decisions made each day regarding the product. To support those decisions, the company must constantly reinvest in its marketing links to its customers. As a result, a high level of creativity must go into everything the company does, from cause-related campaigns - Coca-Cola and its sponsorship of the Olympic Village in Atlanta, for example - to new catch phrases, commercials, marketing slogans, advertising campaigns and promotional tie-ins.

  John Kao

  Creativity, Mean, Atlanta

  Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1,1996.

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• Well I'm not making predictions. But the point I can - what I can say to you to contribute to your thinking is as somebody who has been out knocking on doors, doing the street corners, speaking to constituents right across the country is that the Government - that people understand that the Government's message of jobs and growth is addressing their concerns and they have a level of - a high level of confidence that Malcolm Turnbull and Scott Morrison are the people who can deliver.

  George Brandis

  Country, Jobs, Thinking

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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