I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
What I am proposing is that we invest from the middle out and the ground up, not the top down. That is… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
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
This one is for the boys with the boomin system Top down AC with the coolin system — Nicki Minaj 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
[P]rogressivism is a top-down, continent-wide tissue of taxes, mandates, and other coercions. — George Will Copy Share Image
I don't expect to get 100 percent of what I want, but what we can't do is go back to the kind… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Optimization hinders evolution. Everything should be built top-down, except the first time. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
You cannot teach beginners top-down programming, because they don't know which end is up. — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
Top-down leaders, by withholding power from those in the ranks, deprive them of the ability to use the expertise and information vested… — Sally Helgesen 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
Communication can't always follow the top-down model. With the fluidity of information in business today, leaders need to be masterful listeners; they… — Joseph Badaracco Copy Share Image
If I'm serious about patients and their GPs being able to have more control of their health care, I can't have a… — Andrew Lansley Copy Share Image
Kindliness seems to exist primarily as an animal instinct, so deeply rooted that mental degeneracy, which works from the top down,does not… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
Unlike solidarity, which is horizontal and takes place between equals, charity is top-down, humiliating those who receive it and never challenging the… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
In politics we face the choice between warmongering, nation-state loving, big-business agents on one hand; and risk-blind, top-down, epistemic arrogant big servants… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
There is a great deal of talk about loyalty from the bottom to the top. Loyalty from the top down is even… — George S. Patton 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 traditional view of purpose says it comes from on high, from God, from the Creator. Darwin's idea of natural selection makes… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Each system will depend on resources available, not from the bottom up or top down. In other words, if you put 500… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Enforced by genetics, sexual reproduction, perspective, and experience, the most manifest characteristic of human beings is their diversity. The freer an economy… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
Schools in which students and teachers relate as partners-where Rosenberg's Nonviolent Communication is part of every interaction are communities of learning, rather… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
The revolution here is from hierarchical to lateral power. That's the power shift. So increasingly a younger generation that's grown up on… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
Work can be undertaken to create an authentic independent political party, a real party, based on popular participation from the ground up,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
"Oppression" or "systems of oppression" operate as a shorthand terms in much writing and speaking so that we do not have to… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
I was elected because I believed in what we call "grassroots politics," politics from the bottom up, not the top down. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Top-down approaches do not work. The bottleneck is at the top of the bottle. — Iqbal Quadir Copy Share Image
Our top-down pyramid style of management is a very old concept borrowed from centuries of war and monarchies. — James Hunter Copy Share Image
So we don't need more top-down economics. We've tried that theory. We've seen what happens. We can't afford to go back to… — Barack Obama 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
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
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
This is absolutely correct and forms part of the larger concept that top-down causation is a key factor not just in the… — George F. R. Ellis Copy Share Image
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