I like the level of fame that I have. You get nice tables in restaurants sometimes, but fame isn't something that I find comfortable.
I write the vocals last, because I wanted to invent the music first and push the music to the level that I had to compete against it.
If I had known there was such a thing as Islamic Calligraphy, I would never have started to paint. I have strived to reach the highest levels of artistic mastery, but I found that Islamic Calligraphy was there ages before I was.
Kids are at my level. I like goofing around with them.
De Niro was a hero of mine. And Sean Penn. But I've realized I can't operate at that level of intensity. That's okay for movies. On TV, when you live with horror day in and day out, you have to protect yourself.
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.
The minimum wage is mostly an entry-level wage for young people.
When you arrive at a certain level it's very easy to say yes: that is the moment to learn to say no.
Science is showing us that there are neurological (brain) factors that contribute to self-control and willpower, along with learning and upbringing. And when these brain systems are functioning improperly or become damaged, normal levels of self-control and willpower are impossible.
Probably, on some subconscious level, I was motivated by not wanting to spoon-feed any similar flavors.
Ricky Gervais changed our lives. And Mitch Hedberg, who we're like, "Oh, that's funny to me on a level I don't think I understand. But I'm clearly pleased by it beyond something that my brain's figured out. " He was amazing.
I'm very involved in the writing on every level.
No organism can afford to be conscious of matters with which it could deal at unconscious levels.
Discrimination at any level sends a harmful message to youth, gay or straight alike, and that discrimination has no place in Scouting.
You have to see it on a broader level. But you also have to activate it properly.
In this world people are at different levels of evolution. The more advanced soul has learned that fulfillment does not come from simply leading a physical life.
Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring - an anti-virtue in a field where we hope to be astonished and startled and at some deep level refreshed.
Once you've recognized your own limits, you've raised yourself to a higher level of being, since you're closer to the real you.
A level of no more than 350 ppm is still feasible, with the help of reforestation and improved agricultural practices, but just barely - time is running out.
Keep computations to the lowest level of the multiplication table.