Quotes by Top Down Changing things from the top down works when things are stable. Kevin Kelly top-down stable literature I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. L. Ron Hubbard top-down down-and looks The bottom line: All of your investing decisions should be grounded in your own investment policy statement. By taking a "top-down" look at your finances and writing out a road map, your policy statement will add an important element of discipline to your approach. Lewis Schiff top-down discipline writing Got my tank top top down, it probably ain't summer but I ride like that cause I'm hotter than the others. Lil Wayne top-down tanks summer Emergent properties result from interactions between individual parts, so it follows that a top down analytical approach that begins with the whole and dissects it into its constituent parts is bound to miss precisely those emergent properties Manuel De Landa top-down economics missing It's always hard for me to find a therapist who is a black woman or even a woman of color. It's something that we've always been told is not for us. It's top down. Morgan Parker top-down black color Democrats believe we must create jobs, not protect the special interests; build the economy from the middle out, not the top down. Nancy Pelosi top-down jobs believe In politics we face the choice between warmongering, nation-state loving, big-business agents on one hand; and risk-blind, top-down, epistemic arrogant big servants of large employers on the other. But we have a choice. Nassim Nicholas Taleb top-down choices hands 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. Nicholas Negroponte top-down self order This one is for the boys with the boomin system Nicki Minaj flirty top-down boys I don't do a lot of top-down teaching. Parker J. Palmer top-down teaching Anarchism is grounded in a rather definite social-psychological hypothesis: that forceful, graceful and intelligent behaviour occurs only when there is an uncoerced and direct response to the physical and social environment; that in most human affairs, more harm than good results from compulsion, top-down direction, bureaucratic planning, pre-ordained curricula, jails, conscription, states. Paul Goodman top-down jail intelligent If there is to be an ecologically sound society, it will have to come the grass roots up, not from the top down. Paul Hawken top-down nature inspirational Change from the top down happens at the will and whim of those below. Peter Block top-down whim leadership Goodness cannot be imposed externally, from the top down; it must grow internally, from the bottom up. Philip Yancey top-down grows goodness 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 top-down government loss 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. Preston Manning top-down doors people If we look at the last decades, we see that the US rightist-fundamentalist alliance demonized partnership-oriented families and painted women's rights as a threat to "tradition" - which of course it is to traditions of domination. These people had an integrated political agenda that recognizes that a "traditional" authoritarian, male dominated, punitive family is foundational to an authoritarian, male dominated, punitive politics. We can see this connection in sharp relief in brutal top-down regimes, be they secular like Nazi Germany or religious like ISIS in the Middle East. Riane Eisler top-down religious rights 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. Richard Lewontin top-down psychology queens It is a lesson of the sixties: liberals get in the biggest political trouble - whether instituting open housing, civilian compliant review boards, or sex education programs - when they presume that a reform is an inevitable comcomitant of progress. It is then they are most likely to establish their reforms by top-down bureaucratic means. A blindsiding backlash often ensues. Rick Perlstein top-down mean sex «1234»
