Real change never occurs from the top on down, [but] always from the bottom on up. — Bernie Sanders
All change starts with a distant rumble at the grassroots level. — Tom Coburn
But that’s just a ridiculous way to think. You have to build up the reasoning from the ground up — from the first principles. — Tim Urban
Standards should not be forced down from above but rather set by the production workers themselves. — Taiichi Ohno
We who live in free market societies believe that growth and prosperity, and ultimately human fulfillment are created from the bottom up, not the government down. — Ronald Reagan
Democracy doesn't begin at the top; it begins at the bottom, when flesh-and-blood human beings fight to rekindle what Arlo Guthrie calls 'The Patriot's Dream. — Bill Moyers
We used to think that everything started in the lab. Now we realize that everything spins off the consumer. — Phil Knight
If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up. — Adrienne Rich
You‘ve got to start with the customer experience and work back toward the technology - not the other way around. — Steve Jobs
A leadership will be successful if it is able to serve the bottom. — Joko Widodo
I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people. — Grandma Moses
The masses are in reality their own leaders, dialectically creating their own development process. — Rosa Luxemburg
The "trickle-down" theory: the principle that the poor, who must subsist on table scraps dropped by the rich, can best be served by giving the rich bigger meals. — William Blum
Get the big idea and all else follows. — B. J. Palmer
Short Bottom Up Quotes
If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest. — Publilius Syrus
Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise — Michael Jordan
From small beginnings come great things. — Proverbs
The world's big things only can be done by paying attention to their humble beginnings. — Lao Tzu
All big things come from small beginnings. — James Clear
You have to start from where you are today and from what can be done. — Simone de Beauvoir
We did not begin the creative process by talking about the bottom line. — Bernard Arnault
Determine what your customers need, and work backwards. — Jeff Bezos
Manage the top line: your strategy, your people, and your products, and the bottom line will follow. — Steve Jobs
Bottom Up Image Quotes
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
Starting From The Bottom Up Quotes
What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up. — Alanis Morissette
The more you write tunes, the better they will become. The more you do gigs, the better you will become. It’s just kind of like the facts of life; the practice makes perfect thing. Keep your fingers crossed, start from the bottom and work your way up. — Ed Sheeran
The whole point of view of the anarchist is that everything must start from the bottom up, from man. It seems to me so human a philosophy. — Dorothy Day
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top.
When someone asks about a career in fashion, I say start at the bottom. If you want to start a business, you have to know it from the ground up. — Tamara Mellon
The electoral system is not where change starts - it usually starts in communities and from the bottom up - but it is where change can be stopped. — Gloria Steinem
Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
I always look in the Sunday paper to see where Everton are in the league - starting, of course, from the bottom up. — Bill Shankly
Bottom Up Quotes
It is at the bottom where we find grace; for like water, grace seeks the lowest place and there it pools up. — Richard Rohr
She would smile and show no surprise, convinced as she was, the same as I, that casual meetings are apt to be just the opposite, and that people who make dates are the same kind who need lines on their writing paper, or who always squeeze up from the bottom on a tube of toothpaste. — Julio Cortazar
Find the seed at the bottom of your heart and bring forth a flower.
I like to play in the deep register. I was never a high-note specialist. My range goes from the bottom of the horn up to around C or D. High D is about it for me ... about two-and-a-half octaves, I think. But in these two-and-a-half octaves, I can say everything I have to say. — Chet Baker
Character isn't who you are when life goes your way. Character is who you really are when the bottom falls out. — LeCrae
I give myself this advice: Do not fear truth, let it be ever so contrary to inclination and feeling. Never give up the search after it; and let me take courage, and try from the bottom of my heart to do that which I believe truth dictates, if it lead me to be a Quaker or not — Elizabeth Fry
When you hit rock bottom, you have nowhere to go but up. — Pattie Mallette
Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even. — Muhammad Ali
Nature works with five polymers. Only five polymers. In the natural world, life builds from the bottom up, and it builds in resilience and multiple uses. — Janine Benyus
Pick up a sunflower and count the florets running into its centre, or count the spiral scales of a pine cone or a pineapple, running from its bottom up its sides to the top, and you will find an extraordinary truth: recurring numbers, ratios and proportions. — Charles Jencks
Bottom Of The List Quotes
When there's just so many games out there to play, Nintendo games just went to the bottom of that list. — PewDiePie
It is unacceptable that disabled veterans in Illinois rank at the bottom of the list when it comes to disability pay. We owe our disabled veterans more than speeches, parades and monuments. — Dick Durbin
Just as important as having a list of priorities is every once in a while starting from the bottom. — Robert Breault
My skull, my eyes, my nose three times, my jaw, my shoulder, my chest, two fingers, a knee, everything from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet. Listing what body parts he has broken — Jackie Chan
Look where we stand in the world on education. We're at the bottom of the list. So it's obviously not working. — Donald Trump
I say we scrap the current system and replace it with a system wherein you add your name to the bottom of a list, and then you send some money to the person at the top of the list, and then you... Oh, wait, that is our current system. — Dave Barry
Success is never getting to the bottom of your to-do list. — Marissa Mayer
Top Down Quotes
There is a great deal of talk about loyalty from the bottom to the top. Loyalty from the top down is even more necessary and much less prevalent. One of the most frequently noted characteristics of great men who have remained great is loyalty to their subordinates. — George S. Patton
If ethics are poor at the top, that behavior is copied down through the organization. — Robert Noyce
When you reach the top, you should remember to send the elevator back down for the others. — Edith Piaf
Life is a slope. As long as you're going up you're always looking towards the top and you feel happy, but when you reach it, suddenly you can see the road going downhill and death at the end of it all. It's slow going up and quick going down. — Guy de Maupassant
It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top. — Arnold Bennett
I got stuck up a tree when I was about seven, and my dad had to come and get the ladder to get me down. I loved to climb all the way up to the top. I must have been a koala in my past life. — Miranda Kerr
Communication can't always follow the top-down model. With the fluidity of information in business today, leaders need to be masterful listeners; they need to be able to receive as well as send. — Joseph Badaracco
When I'm lost in the rain, In your eyes I know I'll find the light to light my way And when I'm scared, losing ground When my world is going crazy You can turn it all around and when I'm down you're there Pushing me to the top You're always there, giving me all you've got — Christina Aguilera
I wanna hang a map of the world in my house. Then I'm gonna put pins into all the locations that I've traveled to. But first, I'm gonna have to travel to the top two corners of the map so it won't fall down. — Mitch Hedberg
Neoconservatism had the philosophy that you go in with a supply-led approach to impose democratic values from the top down. Whereas Islamists and far-right organizations, for decades, have been building demand for their ideology on the grassroots. — Maajid Nawaz
Four Lessons on Life 1. Never take down a fence until you know why it was put up. 2. If you get too far ahead of the army, your soldiers may mistake you for the enemy. 3. Don't complain about the bottom rungs of the ladder; they helped to get you higher. 4. If you want to enjoy the rainbow, be prepared to endure the storm. — Warren W. Wiersbe
The money was all appropriated for the top in the hopes that it would trickle down to the needy. Mr. Hoover didn’t know that money trickled up. Give it to the people at the bottom and the people at the top will have it before night, anyhow. But it will at least have passed through the poor fellow’s hands. — Will Rogers
People who start at the top never understand what they missed at the bottom. The guy who started by sorting the mail, or cleaning the restaurant late at night, or fixing the equipment at the gym, that’s the guy who knows how things get done. After he’s eventually worked his way up through the ranks, he knows how everything works, why it works, what to do when it stops working. That’s the guy who will have longevity and value and impact, because he knows what it took to get to the top. You can’t claim you ran a marathon if you started at the seventeenth mile. — Tim Grover
At every turn when there has been an imbalance of power, the truth questioned, or our beliefs and values distorted, the change required to restore our nation has always come from the bottom up from our people. — Howard Dean
I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up. — Lady Gaga
I opened-up a yogurt, underneath the lid it said, "Please try again." because they were having a contest that I was unaware of. I thought maybe I opened the yogurt wrong. ...Or maybe Yoplait was trying to inspire me... "Come on Mitchell, don't give up!" An inspirational message from your friends at Yoplait, fruit on the bottom, hope on top. — Mitch Hedberg
My advice is very simple: if you can win a small battle, it gives you confidence in the political process to take on bigger battles, and so it is very much a bottom-up grass-roots way of doing politics. — David Miliband
I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up. — Frank Lloyd Wright
I know, up on top you are seeing great sights, but down here at the bottom we, too, should have rights. — Dr. Seuss
Keep in mind, when you hit rock bottom, there ain't nowhere to go but up, baby. — Ludacris
Afterward, I had the last laugh. I made an air bubble at the bottom of the lake. Our friends kept waiting for us to come up, but hey-when you are the son of Poseidon, you don't have to hurry. And it was pretty much the best underwater kiss of all time. — Rick Riordan
A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take A Midsummer Night's Dream over Hamlet every time. Any fool with steady hands and a working set of lungs can build up a house of cards and then blow it down, but it takes a genius to make people laugh. — Stephen King
Cold sinks in, there to stay. And people, they'll leave you, sure. There's no return to what was and no way back. There's just emptiness all around, and you in it, like singing up from the bottom of a well, like nothing else, until you harm yourself, until you are a mad dog biting yourself for sympathy. Because there is no relenting. — Louise Erdrich
I used to do my own make-up. I used to have this doll that had those big eyelashes on the top and bottom, and I think I copied her when I was doing my eyes, putting false eyelashes on the bottom as well as the top. So I came up with that look myself. — Twiggy
Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath. — Thich Nhat Hanh
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
You should never meet your heroes. Paul Newman... I was so excited about meeting him, but he turned up in shell suit bottoms, slippers, and a jumper. He was just so worn out and old, he wanted to go home. — Allan Carr
Chess is not for the faint-hearted; it absorbs a person entirely. To get to the bottom of this game, he has to give himself up into slavery. Chess is difficult, it demands work, serious reflection and zealous research. — Wilhelm Steinitz
In A Glass of Cider It seemed I was a mite of sediment That waited for the bottom to ferment So I could catch a bubble in ascent. I rode up on one till the bubble burst, And when that left me to sink back reversed I was no worse off than I was at first. I'd catch another bubble if I waited. The thing was to get now and then elated. — Robert Frost
Bottom line: if you show a genuine interest in learning about how others became successful, you can open up a world of opportunities. — Armstrong Williams
You should never meet your heroes. Paul Newman... I was so excited about meeting him, but he turned up in shell suit bottoms, slippers, and a jumper. He was just so worn out and old, he wanted to go home. — Allen Carr
The fun, joy, and humor dry up in a relationship when one of the partners is swimming in gin. To my way of thinking, it is selfishness personified to see life through the bottom of a liquor bottle. — Ginger Rogers
You have to enjoy your job; you should wake up every day and love what you do... I honestly do... From the bottom of my heart to the depths of my soul. I'm truly happy. — Sayings
Why don't you do the world a favour. Pull your bottom lip up over your head and swallow. — Walter Matthau
The still lake without ripples is an image of our minds at ease, so full of unlimited friendliness for all the junk at the bottom of the lake that we don't feel the need to churn up the waters just to avoid looking at what's there. — Pema Chodron
Innovation is a bottoms-up, decentralized, and unpredictable thing, but that doesn’t mean it cannot be managed. — Eric Ries
Perhaps [transgression] is like a flash of lightning in the night which, from the beginning of time, gives a dense and black intensity to the night it denies, which lights up the night from the inside, from top to bottom, yet owes to the dark the stark clarity of its manifestation, its harrowing and poised singularity. — Michel Foucault
Like I tell everyone, I say the bottom line to my life is that I've gone through torments in my life, but it made me stronger. I haven't lost my mind, I haven't become a dope fiend, I'm not a drug pusher, I'm not a stick-up man. — John Carlos
The peoples' revolution... will arrange its revolutionary organisation from the bottom up and from the periphery to the centre, in keeping with the principle of liberty. — Mikhail Bakunin
Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and its accessible to all of us, but we have to give ourselves the opportunity to identify, to plunge ourselves in a story where we see the world from the bottom up or through anothers eyes or heart. — Sue Monk Kidd
In fiction, when you paint yourself into a corner, you can write a pair of suction cups onto the bottoms of your shoes and walk up the wall and out the skylight and see the sun breaking through the clouds. In nonfiction, you don't have that luxury. — Tom Robbins
If the same family were always on the bottom, then you'd have big resentments. But if DuPonts go down and Pampered Chef up, [that's good]. That much churn makes people think the system is fairer. Buffett: We don't like churn now, but we liked it more 30-40 years ago. — Charlie Munger
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