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  • This one is for the boys with the boomin system Top down AC with the coolin system

    Flirty   Boys   Top Down  
    Song: Super Bass
  • What I am proposing is that we invest from the middle out and the ground up, not the top down. That is not going to work.

    Transcript of the Third Presidential Debate, www.nytimes.com. October 20, 2016.
  • The first lesson, for all Canadians, is that the closed door, top down approaches to constitution making do not provide the public input or debate necessary to achieve a constitutional consensus that will be supported by the people.

    Top Down   Doors   People  
    "The New Canada". Book by Preston Manning, 1992.
  • They'll [China] probably be a fully developed nation. The road there just is not going to be that easy. You're going from a macromanaged, top-down economy to a market-managed, micromanaged type of economy, with all the potential corruption issues, SOE [state-owned enterprise] reform, and market reform that come with it.

    Source: www.bloomberg.com
  • Goodness cannot be imposed externally, from the top down; it must grow internally, from the bottom up.

    Philip Yancey (1995). “The Jesus I Never Knew”, p.76, Harper Collins
  • I think the thing you're seeing now with the music industry is that the people who have tight-knit communities are now able to really hold each other up because of the internet tools. And the really top-down pyramid scheme of major labels and typical superstars isn't sustainable anymore because the system has collapsed.

    Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
  • I don't think top-down works in America.

    Source: time.com
  • Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down, one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy.

    "Palin gets tough on Democrats' health care proposals" by Alex Mooney, www.cnn.com. September 9, 2009.
  • There are more effective ways of tackling environmental problems – including global warming, proliferation of plastics, urban sprawl, and the loss of biodiversity – than by treaties, top-down regulations, and other approaches offered by big governments and their dependents.

    "Preston Manning on the state of the conservative movement" by Aaron Wherry, www.macleans.ca. March 9, 2013.
  • The best thing that I can offer to people is just to be honest, and that's a rare quality. In doing so, I think there's always a top down feeling that permeates a working environment. If the boss is cool and he's a certain way that's not bullshitting, then everyone around is going to feel that comfort and try to be that way, as well. That's just who I strive to be, as a person.

    "Director Joe Hahn Talks MALL, Why He Chose This Material as His First Feature, the Casting Process, His Music Video Background, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 16, 2014.
  • Optimization hinders evolution. Everything should be built top-down, except the first time. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

  • Changing things from the top down works when things are stable.

  • Imagine a country where the majority of the population reaps the majority of the benefits for their hard work, creative ingenuity, and collaborative efforts. Imagine a country where corporate losses arent socialized, while gains are captured by an exclusive minority. Imagine a country run as a democracy, from the bottom up, not a plutocracy from the top down. Richard Wolff not only imagines it, but in his compelling, captivating and stunningly reasoned new book, Democracy at Work, he details how we get there from here - and why we absolutely must.

    Running   Country   Book  
  • In the Ferrari or Jaguar, switchin' four lanes Wit' the top down screaming out money ain't a thang

  • Top-down leaders, by withholding power from those in the ranks, deprive them of the ability to use the expertise and information vested in them to respond directly and with speed to customer concerns.

  • I've seen, all too often in my career, people coming in to lead agencies and organizations and trying to impose change from the top down. Never works. You never have enough time.

  • The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

  • I know that government doesn't have the all solutions that real solutions do not come from the top down. Instead, the ways to end poverty come from all of us. We are part of the solution.

  • I am a taxonomist, I work in the descriptive, narrative sciences of natural history. Unfortunately there is this status ordering from physics, the queen of the sciences up on top, down through a bunch of squishy subjects, ending up with sociology and psychology on the bottom. Palaeontologists are not much above that in their conventional ordering.

    Source: www.abc.net.au
  • Each system will depend on resources available, not from the bottom up or top down. In other words, if you put 500 passengers in an airplane that's designed to carry 100, it won't get off the ground. So all decisions are made based upon the physical equipment you're working with, or the environmental resources available. They're not made by Fresco or any other person. They're arrived at by studies and research.

  • I was elected because I believed in what we call "grassroots politics," politics from the bottom up, not the top down.

    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • Nature is pretty good at networks, self-organizing systems. By contrast, social systems are top-down and hierarchical, from which we draw the basic assumption that organization and order can only come from centralism.

    Top Down   Self   Order  
    "Online Extra: Q&A With MIT's Nicholas Negroponte". Interview with Stephen Baker, www.bloomberg.com. June 21, 2004.
  • If I'm serious about patients and their GPs being able to have more control of their health care, I can't have a top-down system that imposes restrictions on the services they need.

    Top Down   Gps   Serious  
  • Leadership must be established from the top down.

  • Our top-down pyramid style of management is a very old concept borrowed from centuries of war and monarchies.

    War   Top Down   Pyramids  
    James C. Hunter (2008). “The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership”, p.56, Crown Business
  • I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.

    L. Ron Hubbard (2007). “Scientology: A New Slant on Life”, p.270, Bridge Publications, Inc.
  • Top-down approaches do not work. The bottleneck is at the top of the bottle.

  • With the never-ending stream of new social technologies, apps and platforms rolling out every day, its easy to get lost in the minutiae of social media. Yet for there to be effective change, especially within large, top-down, hierarchical institutions, a company must have an over-arching understanding of the new role it has to play.

    Technology   Media   Play  
  • Since we're each unique, if we've shared many experiences, then it probably has something to do with power or politics, and if we unify and act together, then we can make a change. Revolutions that last don't happen from the top down. They happen from the bottom up.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • Unlike solidarity, which is horizontal and takes place between equals, charity is top-down, humiliating those who receive it and never challenging the implicit power relations.

    "Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking Glass World". Book by Eduardo Galeano, 2000.
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