"Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards." — Keith Richards

More Downwards Quotes

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• Military tactics are like unto water; for water in its natural course runs away from high places and hastens downwards...… — Sun Tzu
• One great blemish in the popular mind of America and the prolific parent of an innumerable brood of evils, is… — Charles Dickens
• The river has taught me to listen; you will learn from it, too. The river knows everything; one can learn… — Hermann Hesse
• The meaning of conservatism is not that it impedes movement forward and upward, but that it impedes movement backwards and… — Nikolai Berdyaev
• The Strange Loop phenomenon occurs whenever, by moving upwards (or downwards) through levels of some hierarchial system, we unexpectedly find… — Douglas Hofstadter
• Natural Selection never made it come to pass, as a habit of nature, that an unsupported stone should move downwards… — Chauncey Wright
• Fig tree, how long it's been full meaning for me, the way you almost entirely omit to flower and into… — Rainer Maria Rilke
• Water indeed will flow indifferently to the east or west, but will it flow indifferently up or down? The tendency… — Mencius
• It is true that water will flow indifferently to east and west, but will it flow equally well up and… — Mencius
• I started my career at the top and have been working my way downwards ever since. — Tom Glazer
• If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• The real damper on employee engagement is the soggy, cold blanket of centralized authority. In most companies, power cascades downwards… — Gary Hamel

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