Quotes with system-level

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  • Budd Schulberg You either go along with the system - conform to what is expected to be a hit - or you have very tough going.
    Budd Schulberg
    American screenwriter, television producer and novelist (1914 - 2009)
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  • Bode Miller You feel the Olympics and you get chills and nervous and a little scared. You go through the emotional roller coaster at what it's like to compete at the Olympic level and you let that run through your whole body.
    Bode Miller
    American former World Cup alpine ski racer (1977 - )
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  • Joe Paterno You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional.
    Joe Paterno
    American Football coach
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  • Blythe Danner You learn more discipline in the theatre than you do in movies or TV. You're on stage every night and you have to sustain your energy level tor several hours.
    Blythe Danner
    American actress (1943 - )
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  • Graham Swift You may have your suspicions, your fears, you may even believe there is something, somewhere, terribly, drastically wrong, but because someone else is in charge, because there is a part of the system above you which you don't know, you don't question it, you even distrust your own doubts.
    Graham Swift
    English writer (1949 - )
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  • Les Brown You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • Bob Diamond You shouldn't be trying to create a system where no bank fails, but you should be creating one that catches a bank and allows it to fail without impacting the financial markets.
    Bob Diamond
    Anglo-American banker (1951 - )
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  • Les Brown Your level of belief in yourself will inevitably manifest itself in whatever you do.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • Baroness Orczy Your mock saint who stands in a niche is not a woman if she have not suffered, still less a woman if she have not sinned. Fall at the feet of your idol as you wish, but drag her down to your level after that - the only level she should ever reach, that of your heart.
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  • Barbara Ward [The Western Colonial system] shook all the societies in the world loose from their old moorings. But it seems indifferent whether or not they reach safe harbour in the end.
    Barbara Ward
    British economist
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  • Walter Bagehot A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • David Hume Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals.
    David Hume
    Scottish Philosopher, Historian (1711 - 1776)
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  • Erica Jong Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms!
    Erica Jong
    American author (1942 - )
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  • Karl Marx On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its ''great intellects.''
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Andre Breton The approval of the public is to be avoided like the plague. It is absolutely essential to keep the public from entering if one wishes to avoid confusion. I must add that the public must be kept panting in expectation at the gate by a system of challenges and provocations.
    Andre Breton
    French writer (1896 - 1966)
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  • Simone Weil 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,
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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