| "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 |
| "Let me have men about me that are fat, Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look He thinks too much such men are dangerous." »William Shakespeare |
| "The big, huge meteor headed toward the Earth. Could nothing stop it Maybe Bob could. He was suddenly on top of the meteor---through some kind of space warp or something. 'Go, Bob, go' yelled one of the generals. 'Give me that' said the big-guy general as he took the microphone away. 'Listen, Bob,' he said. 'You've got to steer that meteor away from Earth.' 'Yes, but how' thought Bob. Then he got an idea. Right next to him there was a steering wheel sticking out of the meteor." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level." »Quentin Crisp |
| "Everyone rises to their level of incompetence." »Laurence J. Peter |
| "In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence." »Laurence J. Peter |
| "The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level." »Norman Mailer |
| "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 |
| "If you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you." »Robert F. Goheen |
| "Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level." »Max L. Forman |
| "As experience widens, one begins to see how much upon a level all human things are." »Joseph Farrell |
| "Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level." »Joyce |
| "If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you." »Robert F. Goheen |
| "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." »Albert Einstein |
| "Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level." »A. Alvarez |
| "ife does not require us to make good it asks only that we give our best at each level of experience." »Harold Ruopp |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
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