Levels Quotes - Page 26

• People tell me I'm a perfectionist. They tell me I'm too extreme and that I work too hard. I tell them, that is all I know how to do. I was taught to give my best effort in everything I do and demand perfection and raise the standard of excellence to a whole new level.

  Robert Cheeke

  Motivational, Bodybuilding, Best Effort

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• With respect to drugs, you know, there are a lot of organizations, including an enormous budget and an army at the federal government level that tries to deal with the drug problem.

  Burke Marshall

  Army, Government, Organization

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• Celibacy and suicide are a similar levels of understanding, suicide and a martyr's death not so by any means, perhaps marriage and a martyr's death.

  Franz Kafka

  Suicide, Mean, Understanding

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• The intelligence community's 2002 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) stated, in a formal presentation to President Bush and to Congress, its view that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction - a belief in which the NIE said it held a 90% level of confidence. That is about as certain as the intelligence community gets on any subject.

  Laurence Silberman

  Mass Destruction, Views, Community

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• The press heralded this as a major accomplishment. The rush from the press as soon as it was announced suggested a high level of coordination. Like lemmings in a staged dive off a cliff, 'historic' became the media's rallying cry. There is nothing historic about the deal. In fact, news reports from November 2012 noted that China expected, in 2012, that its carbon emissions would begin to decline after 2030 because of factory upgrades, efficiencies, etc.

  Erick Erickson

  Media, Rallying Cry, Carbon Emissions

  Erick Erickson (2016). “The Wrong Type of Values”, p.60, Creators Publishing

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• Tuesday's victory was big. But it did nothing more than level the playing field and give you a shot. Take it.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Tuesday, Giving, Victory

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• A Germany team should not be afraid going into a tournament. History shows that we can raise the level of our game when it matters.

  Oliver Kahn

  Team, Games, Germany

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• Being disabled gave me an immense advantage. People are kinder to you. It puts you on a different level than if you go into a situation whole and secure.

  Dorothea Lange

  People, Perspective, Different

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• We are dealing with a yet unrecognized level of consciousness, independent of man but closely linked to the earth.... I do not believe anymore that UFOs are simply the spacecraft of some race of extraterrestrial visitors. This notion is too simplistic to explain their appearance, the frequency of their manifestations through recorded history, and the structure of the information exchanged with them during contact.

  Jacques Vallee

  Believe, Independent, Men

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• Different levels of photography require different levels of understanding and skill. A "press the button, let George do the rest" photographer needs little or no technical knowledge of photography. A zone system photographer takes more responsibility. He visualizes before he presses the button, and afterwards calibrates for predictable print values.

  Minor White

  Photography, Responsibility, Skills

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• You are present in your life on earth at this moment for the purposes of living, loving, learning, and growing. Be assured that life can reliably provide a wide variety of adventures, experiences, and situations that may require you to draw from the depths of your being. Your level of self-awareness and manner of expression can determine the quality of living you experience. Why? Because you get back what you give out.

  John Templeton

  Life, Adventure, Self

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• Life is made up not necessarily of great sacrifices or high-level duties but of little things. The smiles, the kindnesses, the commitments and obligations and responsibilities that are given habitually and lovingly are the blessings that win and preserve the heart and bring comfort to one's self as we as to others. This is the ministry of service performed by every useful life.

  John Templeton

  Life, Kindness, Heart

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• The true Mason's level of discernment increases with every use of the working tools, because the true Mason is ever working on him/her self.

  William Howard Taft

  Self, Use, Tools

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• Thyroid Panel (blood test)-Abnormal thyroid hormone levels are a common cause of anxiety, depression, forgetfulness, confusion, and lethargy. Having low thyroid levels decreases overall brain activity, which can impair your thinking, judgment, and self-control and make it very hard for you to feel good. Low thyroid functioning can make it nearly impossible to manage weight effectively. To know your thyroid levels, you need to know these figures: thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) Free T3 Free T4 Thyroid antibodies (thyroid peroxidase and thyroglobulin antibodies)

  Daniel Amen

  Thinking, Self, Blood

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• Solar bursts typically last from half a minute to a couple of minutes and often sound like a rapid hissing noise followed by a gradual decrease back to the original audio level.

  Honor Harger

  Couple, Half, Audio

  "Tuning In to the Universe" by Honor Harger, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 21, 2013.

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• 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.

  Howard Coble

  President, Progress, Able

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• The anterior cingulate fires up as the end result of a series of events. First, estrogen levels fall. Meanwhile, serotonin, the feel-good neurotransmitter, also decreases. The deficiency in serotonin causes the anterior cingulate gyrus to fire up. To make things worse, just about this time the PFC tends to quiet down, which is why women may have a hard time focusing and controlling impulses. So we see emotional difficulties, intensified feelings of sadness, and disturbed sleep.

  Daniel Amen

  Fall, Sadness, Sleep

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• The less control people had over their work, the higher their blood pressure during work hours. Moreover, blood pressure at home was unrelated to the level of job control, indicating that the spike during work hours was specifically caused by lack of choice on the job. People with little control over their work also experienced more back pain, missed more days of work due to illness in general, and had higher rates of mental illness-the human equivalent of stereotypies, resulting in the decreased quality of life common to animals reared in captivity.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Jobs, Pain, Home

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• Meditation is a deliberate attempt to pierce into the higher states of consciousness and finally go beyond it. The art of meditation is the art of shifting the focus of attention to ever subtler levels, without losing one's grip on the levels left behind. (...) Save all your energies and time for breaking the wall your mind had built around you. Believe me, you will not regret.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Art, Wall, Regret

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• Watch your thoughts as you watch the street traffic. People come and go; you register without response. It may not be easy in the beginning, but with some practice you will find that your mind can function on many levels at the same time and you can be aware of them all.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Inspiration, Practice, People

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• What good is all this free-thinking, modernity, and turncoat flexibility if at some gut level you are still a Christian, a Catholic, and even a priest!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Christian, Atheist, Thinking

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Aaron Ridley, Judith Norman (2005). “Nietzsche: The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols: And Other Writings”, p.192, Cambridge University Press

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• The spring of 1930 marks the end of a period of grave concern...American business is steadily coming back to a normal level of prosperity.

  Julian Barnes

  Depression, Spring, Normal

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• Home sales are coming down from the mountain peak, but they will level out at a high plateau - a plateau that is higher than previous peaks in the housing cycle.

  David Lereah

  Home, Mountain Peaks, Great Depression

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• ...the book is a manifesto to make the Web atone for the sins of computers and regain a level of simplicity that can put humanity at peace with its tools once again.

  Jakob Nielsen

  Book, Simplicity, Humanity

  Jakob Nielsen (2000). “Designing Web Usability”, New Riders Pub

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• I am going for a level of perfection that is only mine... Most of the pleasure is in getting the last little piece perfect.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Perfect, Pieces

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