Listening is active. At its most basic level, it's about focus, paying attention.
For a variety of reasons, we are not producing at a given level of economic activity the jobs we used to have.
During the past two decades, inflation has fallen to a low level in major industrial countries.
My comeback was not about winning or losing; it was about the feeling of being able to compete at top level again.
Soccer's not a game that you can restrict players, especially creative players and players who have proven themselves at that level.
There's no such thing as spacetime singularity; there's only singularity of time, at its ultimate extreme level of a moment.
If I had a normal job and had been moving up, I'd be management level now.
I don't like the word rock opera, but I'm trying to write on that level that's reserved for plays still, or novels.
A Large-Scale Revolution can not happen without a higher-awareness to seek Personal Growth on an individual level.
If I could play this game at a decent level, I'd come back and play.
I've never treated anyone in my band like they're not on the same level as me. I'm not that kind of person.
I believe everything creative is somewhat collaborative. If you're a painter and someone stretches your canvas, it was collaborative on some level.
I can say 'reduce your stress level' until I'm blue in the face.
All of comedy at some level is trial-and-error, whether it's a stand-up trying out jokes or a comedy show trying stories.
Never argue with stupid people; they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
Chemical and biological attacks are scary and will kill a lot of people but don't rise to the level of nuclear.
If you economically empower a woman, she represents enormous opportunity that can actually be transformative not only for her family and for her community, but at the aggregate level for the economy.
This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has in common with that of classical antiquity, but with no other.
At the political level, most Jews and most Catholics have accepted the liberal idea of religious freedom.
When we deny the poor and the vulnerable their own human dignity and capacity for freedom and choice, it becomes self-denial. It becomes a denial of both our collective and individual dignity, at all levels of society.
Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another.
