Erik Larson Quotes

I was never concretely aware of the extent of anti-Semitism in the United States and in the upper levels of the State Department.

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• A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move toward higher levels.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Thinking
  • Mankind
  • Levels

• Evolution by natural selection is not an idle hypothesis. The genetic variation on which selection acts is well understood in principle all the way down to the molecular level.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Principles
  • Levels
  • Variation

• The day that you stop learning is the day that you start decreasing your rewards and start suffering from frustration and lower levels of satisfaction.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Stop
  • Learning
  • Suffering

• It's hard to be the first. It's almost as if I'm subject to a different level of inspection.

  

  Carol Moseley Braun
  • Different
  • Firsts
  • Levels

• Born of necessity, the little fellow literally freed us of immediate worry. He provided the means for expanding our organization to its present dimensions and for extending the medium of cartoon animation toward new entertainment levels. He spelled production liberation for us.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Present
  • Worry
  • Organization

• I think the show is working. I think the character is growing on many levels. I think one thing that we're all discovering is that every season has impacted another, and the character has grown, and the character is allowed to carry with him what he has suffered the year before.

  

  Kiefer Sutherland
  • Character
  • Growing
  • Show

• I went to what is known as, and was at that time, too, Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina. In fact, because of the lack of public school facilities, I began there. I began boarding school at the high school level; in fact, a year below the high school level.

  

  Ella Baker
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• Your level of success, in every area of your life, will always parallel your level of personal development. If you want Level 10 success in any area of your life, you must first develop yourself to be a Level 10 person in that area.

  

  Hal Elrod
  • Life
  • Success
  • Gratitude

• Establishing and maintaining clarity for yourself and what you want is the starting point for success. Thus, maintaining extraordinary clarity is necessary to achieve extraordinary success. The problem is that most people maintain a mediocre level of clarity, which inevitably leads to a mediocre level of success.

  

  Hal Elrod
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Success

• I learned a long time ago that place matters to me, on many levels, and maybe more than it should, but it is generally counter-productive for me to resist it.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Time
  • Long
  • Matter

• When I'm bearish and I sell a stock, each sale must be at a lower level than the previous sale. When I am buying, the reverse is true. I must buy on a rising scale. I don't buy long stocks on a scale down, I buy on a scale up.

  

  Jesse Livermore
  • Long
  • Business
  • Levels

• I was offered 'I'm A Celebrity...' for a lot of money, but I don't like the level of degradation.

  

  Vinnie Jones
  • Levels
  • Degradation

• I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent

  

  Viola Davis
  • Want
  • Talent
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• Absolute trust is something hard to achieve even in a family, and it is much harder to achieve on an international level.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Achieve
  • Levels
  • Harder

• I'd rather have that dialogue right now than only the other one, which is starting at such a basic level, that we start rearranging stuff on the Titanic, trying to be less bad with ordinary stuff.

  

  William McDonough
  • Trying
  • Levels
  • Dialogue

• Truth is, generally I like film festivals; somewhere at some level there's an exchange of ideas.

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • Ideas
  • Film
  • Levels

• When you go to a studio with something you want to make, or they come to you with something they want to make, more often than not, it's a tent pole. Not something one single person is really passionate about on a creative level.

  

  William Friedkin
  • Persons
  • Creative
  • Passionate

• People feel that the EU is a one-way process, a great machine that sucks up decision-making from national parliaments to the European level until everything is decided at that level.

  

  William Hague
  • People
  • Decision
  • Feels

• When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine - it kinda sucks the life out of music.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Music
  • Listen
  • Machine

• Everything comes with hard work. You never get to stop working. I don't see myself ever getting comfortable enough to not have to worry about working.

  

  Ariel Pink
  • Work
  • Stop
  • Worry

• I fear I shall never be...good for anything in this world, but composing airs, building towers, forming gardens, collecting old Japan, and writing a journey to China or the Moon.

  

  William Thomas Beckford
  • World
  • Journey
  • Moon

• It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuits - like becoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a war, seducing beautiful women, flying through the stratosphere, or landing on the moon. First-rate pursuits - involving, as they must, trying to understand what life is about and trying to convey that understanding - inevitably result in a sense of failure. A Napoleon, a Churchill, or a Roosevelt can feel himself to be successful, but never a Socrates, a Pascal, or a Blake. Understanding is forever unattainable.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Life
  • Women
  • Trying

• There is no a prior reason for supposing that the truth, when it is discovered, will necessarily prove interesting.

  

  Isaiah Berlin
  • Truth
  • Interesting
  • Prove

• I was never concretely aware of the extent of anti-Semitism in the United States and in the upper levels of the State Department.

  

  Erik Larson
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