We can't afford more top-down economics. What we need are policies that will grow and strengthen the middle class. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If there is to be an ecologically sound society, it will have to come the grass roots up, not from the top… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
Goodness cannot be imposed externally, from the top down; it must grow internally, from the bottom up. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
In the Ferrari or Jaguar, switchin' four lanes Wit' the top down screaming out money ain't a thang — Jermaine Dupri Copy Share Image
Top-down approaches do not work. The bottleneck is at the top of the bottle. — Iqbal Quadir Copy Share Image
The hydrogen economy will make possible a vast redistribution of power, with far-reaching consequences for society. Today's centralized, top-down flow of energy,… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
The bottom line: All of your investing decisions should be grounded in your own investment policy statement. By taking a "top-down" look… — Lewis Schiff Copy Share Image
The first lesson, for all Canadians, is that the closed door, top down approaches to constitution making do not provide the public… — Preston Manning Copy Share Image
[Ella Baker]'s second defining characteristic was her dislike of top-down leadership... 'She felt leaders were not appointed but the rose up. Someone… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
The term "national idea" is an unclear one. One might think of it as a widely shared understanding among a people as… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
It is permissible even for a dying hero to think before he dies how men will speak of him hereafter. His fame… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The best thing that I can offer to people is just to be honest, and that's a rare quality. In doing so,… — Joe Hahn Copy Share Image
I am a taxonomist, I work in the descriptive, narrative sciences of natural history. Unfortunately there is this status ordering from physics,… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
They'll [China] probably be a fully developed nation. The road there just is not going to be that easy. You're going from… — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
The inherent non-linearity of the digital allows for more input from others, including the subject and reader as collaborators. The top-down, bedtime-style… — Fred Ritchin Copy Share Image
The traditional paradigm of parenting has been very hierarchical, the parent knows best and very top down. Conscious parenting topples [this paradigm]… — Shefali Tsabary Copy Share Image
I think the thing you're seeing now with the music industry is that the people who have tight-knit communities are now able… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
To one degree or another, everybody is connected to the Mystery, and everybody secretly yearns to expand the connection. That requires expanding… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Imagine a country where the majority of the population reaps the majority of the benefits for their hard work, creative ingenuity, and… — Nomi Prins Copy Share Image
If we look at the last decades, we see that the US rightist-fundamentalist alliance demonized partnership-oriented families and painted women's rights as… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
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