Higher Quotes - Page 2

• If we made an income pyramid out of a child's blocks, with each layer portraying $1,000 of income, the peak would be far higher than the Eiffel Tower, but almost all of us would be within a yard of the ground.

  Paul Samuelson

  Children, Block, Pyramids

  Paul Anthony Samuelson (1961). “Economics: An Introductory Analysis”

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• The guy who wins the Oscar for Best Actor has a much higher bar to clear than the woman who wins best actress.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Winning, Guy, Bars

  "Exclusive: Aaron Sorkin Thinks Male Film Roles Have Bigger ‘Degree of Difficulty’ Than Female Ones" by William Boot, www.thedailybeast.com. December 15, 2014.

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• God's Road is all uphill, but do not tire; Rejoice that we may still keep climbing higher.

  Arthur Guiterman

  Climbing, May, Tire

  Arthur Guiterman (1924). “A Poet's Proverbs: Being Mirthful, Sober, and Fanciful Epigrams on the Universe, with Certain Old Irish Proverbs, All in Rhymed Complets”, New York, E.P. Dutton [1924]

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• If, on the other hand, conservationists are willing to insist on having the best food, produced in the best way, as close to their homes as possible, and if they are willing to learn to judge the quality of food and food production, then they are going to give economic support to an entirely different kind of land use in an entirely different landscape. This landscape will have a higher ratio of caretakers to acres, of care to use. It will be at once more domestic and more wild than the industrial landscape.

  Wendell Berry

  Home, Land Use, Hands

  Wendell Berry (2010). “Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food (Large Print 16pt)”, p.88, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It is my personal conviction that almost any one of the newborn states of the world would far rather embrace Communism or any other form of dictatorship than acknowledge the political domination of another government, even though that brought to each citizen a far higher standard of living.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Government, Political, Citizens

  "Eisenhower and the Suez Crisis of 1956" by Cole C. Kingseed, (p. 27), 1995.

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• It really did take Billy Lucas's suicide to wake me up to, kind of, the damage of the success of the LGBT civil-rights movement - higher-profile LGBT people - has done to LGBT youth who are trapped out there in those shitholes. But I don't think we need Pride. I am still opposed, on philosophical grounds, to the flap of the rainbow windsock and the damage that does to us intellectually.

  Dan Savage

  Suicide, Philosophical, Pride

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm an agnosto-theist. I cross myself on airplanes. I pray when I'm sick. When you're sick I'll keep you in my thoughts; when I'm sick, I'm entreating a higher power.

  Dan Savage

  Airplane, Sick, Praying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I believe in a higher power. I've seen and been around people who are very extreme with their faith and pointing fingers and going, "You shouldn't do that because it's a sin against God." It's like, you know what? We're people. We're human beings. We're fallible. We have faults.

  Malcolm D. Lee

  Believe, People, Faults

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• As Christians, we're asked to give. In my sport, if someone needs equipment or help with something, regardless of who they are as a competitor, I'm called to help them for a higher purpose. So it definitely affects everything I do. It's not easy. It's very hard to love everyone.

  Elana Meyers

  Sports, Christian, Giving

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• It's a huge testament to those around me - my friends, my family and everyone who supported me. Without their help, I couldn't have made it here. It's been an amazing journey. But we are here for a higher purpose There's a reason that God has for each of us in the sport. It's all about serving His purpose.

  Elana Meyers

  Sports, Journey, Purpose

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• If you're self-compassionate, you'll tend to have higher self-esteem than if you're endlessly self-critical. And like high self-esteem - self-compassion is associated with significantly less anxiety and depression, as well as more happiness, optimism, and positive emotions.

  David D. Burns

  Self Esteem, Compassion, Optimism

  Source: time.com

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• Competitiveness is defined as the ability of companies to compete while maintaining or improving the average standard of living. If you are cutting wages to become more competitive, that's not really more competitive. It's raising the skill and the efficiency of those workers so that they can support and sustain that higher wage.

  Michael Porter

  Cutting, Average, Skills

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• We don't have a whole lot of people living hand-to-mouth in the Writers Guild, we get paid really well, and a lot of the things we fought for, in my case, I can negotiate. I can negotiate higher DVD rates or anything I want, it's not going to be a minimum basic agreement. But I do think it was important to stand up to them. I do think that we got things in the deal that we wouldn't have gotten had we not stood up to them.

  Edward Allen Bernero

  Thinking, Dvds, Agreement

  Source: deadline.com

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• I think serious research tends to be associated with higher academic quality, more prestige, more resources, and even, heaven help us, better teaching, to a greater extent than you might think. Folks who don't have an active intellectual life become, though the long years of just teaching, less intellectually alive and exciting.

  Nicholas Lemann

  Teaching, Thinking, Years

  "Ask the Author Live: Nicholas Lemann on Higher Education". www.newyorker.com. September 20, 2010.

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• In the current environment, attributing low student performance to teacher tenure is one of the great unproven causal links out there. The relationship just hasn't been examined very carefully, but we should all recognize that in higher education the strongest institutions generally have the most robust tenure systems, and in elementary and secondary, the states with the strongest teacher unions (and tenure systems) tend to have the highest student performance.

  Nicholas Lemann

  Teacher, Links, Unions

  "Ask the Author Live: Nicholas Lemann on Higher Education". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. September 20, 2010.

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• Reconciliation will not work if it puts a higher value on symbolic gestures and overblown promises rather than the practical needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in areas like health, housing, education and employment.

  Warren Mundine

  Promise, Needs, Employment

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• I believe in God. I believe in a higher power. And I do believe that God works in mysterious ways.

  Davone Bess

  Believe, Way, Mysterious

  "Miami Dolphins receiver Davone Bess on his recent trip to Costa Rica, God’s purpose for his life and The Bess Route Foundation". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. June 2011.

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• I am a Christian. I believe in God. I believe in Christ. Everybody is entitled to their own religion and their own opinion. I'm not saying I'm perfect and that I don't make mistakes. But I do believe in a higher power.

  Davone Bess

  Christian, Mistake, Believe

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• For higher-level execs with greater public visibility, social networks need to become as good at filtering as they are at connecting.

  danah boyd

  Needs, Levels, Visibility

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I believe in a higher spirit.

  Kathy Garver

  Believe, Spirit, I Believe

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• In general foreign invested companies who come to America to start a company, to open a manufacturing business or whatnot, they actually provide much higher wages than American companies.

  Adam McKay

  America, Wages, Company

  Source: collider.com

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• Higher aims are in themselves more valuable, even if unfulfilled, than lower ones quite attained.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Aim, Valuable, Ifs

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.3579, Delphi Classics

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• One of the great errors organizations make is shutting down what is a natural, life-enhancing process-chaos. We are terrified of chaos. As a manager, it signals failure. But if you move out of control and into an appreciation of natural order, you understand that the only way a system changes is when it is far from equilibrium, when it moves from the 'quiet' we treasure and is confronted with the choice to die or reorganize. And you can't reorganize to a higher level unless you risk the perils of the path through chaos.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Appreciation, Moving, Organization

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• Selfishness is the bedrock on which all moral behavior starts and it can be immoral only when it conflicts with a higher moral imperative.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Moral Behavior, Selfishness, Conflict

  "The Pragmatics of Patriotism". Address at the U.S. Naval Academy, April 5, 1973.

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• The New Testament is remarkable for its pure morality; the best of the Hindoo Scripture, for its pure intellectuality. The readeris nowhere raised into and sustained in a higher, purer, or rarer region of thought than in the Bhagvat-Geeta.... It is unquestionably one of the noblest and most sacred scriptures which have come down to us.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Bible, Sacred Scripture, Morality

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.112, Courier Corporation

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