Leveling Quotations

Standardization of our educational systems is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up.

I can see my work as a job. I do it for money. I likely already look forward to the weekend on Thursdays. And I probably will need a hobby as a leveling mechanism. In a career, I'm definitely more engaged. But at the same time, there will be periods when I think, 'Is all that really hard work really worth my while?'

We know it is impossible to go on finding, moving and wasting oil, leveling forests, paving land, dumping poisons, and multiplying our numbers. A new way of life, a new set of thoughts must be found.

What we're doing here is leveling the playing field. Everyone's going to have to turn down the music.

I would hate for people to feel complacent -- like we're somehow winning this battle -- because you have a problem leveling off at a terrible point.

Get to know your team members as people. When you take the time and make the effort to reveal your humanity, and to get to know others as more than a worker, you build trust. When you do that, it also has a wonderful leveling effect.

I don't think we're in a correction but I think we're in a very necessary leveling off period. A correction is probably over 10 percent down from the current levels and I don't think there's any reason for us to see that, but I do think given that the fact that the markets went up 7 or 8 percent in less than two months of the new year that we have to have perhaps have a couple of months time when the market doesn't go anywhere.

I always seem to find myself fighting the law of equilibrium - the great leveling force that brings things to the mean and takes the 'cartoonishness' out of life. Perhaps I am doing a very unnatural thing... If Einstein were still alive I would ask him about it.

Orders will be only 30 to 40 percent of last year's (level), and we see them leveling out next year but are cautiously optimistic that they will come back in 2001,

Susan Schwab is an excellent choice. She will be a strong and effective voice for leveling the international playing field.

I think this is clearly something where technology is leveling the playing field between the bigger companies and smaller companies. This industry has really transformed itself in 18 months in terms of the technology base that it is running on.

That way, we solve the problem of leveling the playing field. It would cover the urban area surrounding Springfield, and then in the outlying areas, out in the middle of the county, it could still be legal to smoke in public places.

I would not expect any precipitous decline in housing. I would expect it to just be leveling off, and you would see new source of growth from business fixed investment.

We don't see that any more. We see more of a leveling at lower price levels.

We don't have a vendetta, and we don't want to destroy the private schools. We just feel there needs to be a leveling of the playing field.

We're leveling the assistance that's being put out there.

Today's announcement demonstrates this administration's commitment to leveling the playing field for U.S. industries by enforcing our trade agreements,

Today's announcement demonstrates the administration's commitment to leveling the playing field for U.S. industries by enforcing our trade agreements,

We definitely see a leveling off in sales growth this year. However, there are a number of positive factors -- such as improvements in disposable income, increased corporate spending and relatively low unemployment -- that will help maintain sales.

There continues to be a slight widening of these riots. In those areas where there is a strong police presence, things are leveling off.

We are seeing the convergence of improved economic conditions, the leveling off of sales incentives and the huge amount of new vehicle launches scheduled over the next few years all playing a factor.

Assuming a leveling off of production?as the production process gets to be more routine and less frenetic, so parts come in on time, clearly that's going to free up a whole lot of manpower.

At this point, a leveling out or a modest softening of housing activity seems more likely than a sharp contraction, although significant uncertainty attends the outlook for home prices and construction.

Entrepreneurs are not as optimistic as they were earlier in the year, which is an indication our economy may be leveling off to some extent, ... Certainly, small-business owners are experiencing more cost pressures than they were in the spring, and it is no secret small businesses are coping with rising gas prices.

Things are getting better, but they're not getting better as fast as they used to be. It's not leveling off, but it's not increasing as rapidly as we like.

Some sellers want to get in on a bonanza that no longer exists. It's clearly a case of leveling off.

demonstrates the administration's commitment to leveling the playing field for U.S. industries by enforcing our trade agreements.

This is an important first step in leveling the playing field, and establishes an environment for continued communication.

They think incentives will be leveling off. With all the new models being launched in next 12 to 18 months, they will not need incentives to spur sales.

It's leveling the playing field so independents can make better quality films and compete with the major motion picture studios,

It's leveling off, as far as I'm concerned.

It looks like it's leveling off. We'll need more data over the next few years to know for sure, but hopefully we'll see this continue, which would be terrific.

It's pretty clear that our market has passed its peak -- which was reached in the third quarter of 2005 -- and we've seen declining unit sales. Prices, however, are still increasing and we expect the prices to continue increasing throughout this year before leveling off.

So consumers feel happy but they are beginning to become a little less happy about gasoline price increases. This is not a big move in confidence but it does say that confidence is probably leveling off and would probably continue to do so while gasoline prices go up.

You could say that the ozone situation is stabilizing at a low level. We are approaching the maximum of ozone depletion, it is kind of leveling off, but it is still too early to say that the situation is improving.

The trouble is the leveling off will occur at higher price points.

The electrical and electronic features tend to be problematic, so they could be causing a leveling off of reliability even though the rest of the car is getting more reliable.

The frenzied part of this real estate cycle is behind us and what we're seeing so far is a normalizing of the market. Mid-market and entry-level homes are selling well, the move-up and prestige markets are leveling off.

The challenge there is that we're looking for larger users, and there's been some leveling off of activity the number of clients looking to build large facilities. And rising fuel costs may have had an impact on that.