| "When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years. But above this level, far above, separated by an abyss, is the level where the highest things are achieved. These things are essentially anonymous." »Simone Weil |
| "It is easy to bring others down to your level, Instead of bringing yourself up to their level, But it is never ever right." »Unknown |
| "Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is for a partner it doesn't turn to those who believe that they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever searching and striving to become the best they possibly can. If we seek the average level, we cannot hope to achieve a higher level of success. Our only hope is to avoid being a failure." »Lou Vickery |
| "Everyone rises to their level of incompetence." »Laurence J. Peter |
| "Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level." »Quentin Crisp |
| "In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence." »Laurence J. Peter |
| "When the water reaches the upper level, follow the rats." »Claude Swanson |
| "Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure." »Ross MacDonald |
| "Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level." »Max L. Forman |
| "If you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you." »Robert F. Goheen |
| "The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level." »Norman Mailer |
| "As experience widens, one begins to see how much upon a level all human things are." »Joseph Farrell |
| "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." »Albert Einstein |
| "If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you." »Robert F. Goheen |
| "Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level." »Joyce |
| "ife does not require us to make good it asks only that we give our best at each level of experience." »Harold Ruopp |
| "Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level." »A. Alvarez |
| "The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them." »Albert Einstein |
| "Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself." »Joel Hawes |
| "To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level." »Bertrand Russell |
| "A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration." »Kurt Lewin |
| "I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy." »Anthony Robbins |
| "The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy." »Steven Weinberg |
| "We live at the level of our language. Whatever we can articulate we can imagine or explore. All you have to do to educate a child is leave him alone and teach him to read. The rest is brainwashing." »Ellen Gilcrist |
| "Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain." »Henry David Thoreau |
| "The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality." »Henry Louis Mencken |
| "level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child." »Mary MacCracken |
| "To decide to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life." »Arbie M. Dale |
| "I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level." »Dana Carvey |
| "Whatever meaning 'Annie's Song' had for me on a personal level, there was also a larger context. It could just as easily have been about love for a brother. Or a father. Or a friend. It could just as easily have been a prayer." »John Denver |
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