Levels Quotes
3889 quotes by 2860 authors
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...she was a level-headed woman who saw the glass as neither half empty nor half full, but rather a glass with something in it and…
— Joanne Fluke
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Some persons can give themselves away to an ambitious pursuit and have that be all the giving-themselves-away-to-something they need to do. Though sometimes this changes…
— David Foster Wallace
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Find a printer paper and imagine a full-grown bird shaped something like a football with legs standing on it. Imagine 33,000 of these rectangles in…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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In matters of the heart as well, a certain level of negativity and suspicion is universally recommended. You may try to project a thoroughly positive…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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Isn't it sad that you can tell people that the ozone layer is being depleted, the forests are being cut down, the deserts are advancing…
— Isaac Asimov
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What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their…
— Alain de Botton
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Our problem is to become acquainted with our own selves, letting our personalities loose upon the world for the sheer adventure of their full development…
— Norman Vincent Peale
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All young people worry about things, it's a natural and inevitable part of growing up, and at the age of sixteen my greatest anxiety in…
— David Nicholls
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To summarize, using money to motivate people can be a double-edged sword. For tasks that require cognitive ability, low to moderate performance-based incentives can help.…
— Dan Ariely
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Ask a kid who's struggling in math if he likes being in a mixed-level class, and he'll tell you he feels like a moron. Ask…
— Jodi Picoult
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D'you ever wonder what it would be like if our positions were reversed?' I ask. At Jack's puzzled look I continue. 'If we whites were…
— Malorie Blackman
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For me, running is both exercise and a metaphor. Running day after day, piling up the races, bit by bit I raise the bar, and…
— Haruki Murakami
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I don’t think I am like other people. I mean on some deep fundamental level. It’s not just being half a twin and reading a…
— Jo Walton
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Socrates told us, "the unexamined life is not worth living." I think he's calling for curiosity, more than knowledge. In every human society at all…
— Roger Ebert
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Boyfriend huh? I didn't realize we had taken things to that level." "Oh, I'm sorry--this is my first undercover operation," Jordan said. "I'm a little…
— Julie James
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When I was a small boy, old people used to squat down to my eye level and ask me what I wanted to be when…
— Adam Young
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We should always choose our books as God chooses our friends, just a bit beyond us, so that we have to do our level best…
— Oswald Chambers
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Never use the word “cheapâ€. Today everybody can look chic in inexpensive clothes (the rich buy them too). There is good clothing design on every…
— Karl Lagerfeld
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Two a.m.' He swallowed, then said, "You know. The person you can call at two a.m. and, no matter what, you can count on them.…
— Sarah Dessen
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Thunderously, inarguably, the Sermon on the Mount proves that before God we all stand on level ground: murderers and temper-throwers, adulterers and lusters, thieves and…
— Philip Yancey
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