Levin delights in the forgetfulness that movement brings, where the pleasure of doing is marvellously foreign to the striving of the will.
Quotes about levin (14 Quotes)
Between Countess Nordston and Levin there had been established those relations, not infrequent in society, in which two persons, while ostensibly remaining on friendly terms, are contemptuous of each other to such a degree that they cannot even treat each other seriously and cannot even insult each one another.
Levin scowled. The humiliation of his rejection stung him to the heart, as though it were a fresh wound he had only just received. But he was at home, and at home the very walls are a support.
These loaves, pigeons, and two little boys seemed unearthly. It all happened at the same time: a little boy ran over to a pigeon, glancing over at Levin with a smile; the pigeon flapped its wings and fluttered, gleaming in the sunshine among the snowdust quivering in the air, while the smell of freshly baked bread was wafted out of a little window as the loaves were put out. All this together was so extraordinarily wonderful that Levin burst out laughing and crying for joy.
When Levin thought what he was and what he was living for, he could find no answer to the questions and was reduced to despair; but when he left off questioning himself about it, it seemed as though he knew both what he was and what he was living for, acting and living resolutely and without hesitation.
President Levin leads through building consensus for key issues and initiatives. With respect to President Summers, it is well known that he was charged with moving Harvard in a different direction, to 'renew it' as he himself has stated. With this charge from his Corporation, he felt the best way to proceed was to roll up his sleeves and get to work. Unfortunately, not everyone appreciated this nor wanted the changes he was advocating.
(Prosecutor Joel) Levin said whether he was getting any money or not was just the icing on the cake. I say that it is the cake.
Levin, though not aware of the matrix steps which need to be accomplished as the group of local, state, and federal transportation departments begin to undertake the actual planning phase of the work, expressed the importance of keeping him informed of the timelines and milestones set forth. We will do what we can to facilitate this process, ... Frankly this thing has to work. We had to say no to so many other people in order to get the funding for this approved.
The growing unrest across the country is being reflected here. Senator Warner did not want to put Republicans in a difficult situation of just voting against Levin, so he gave the Republicans something to vote for.
The administration dug its heels in it wasn't going to change. President Levin was really marvelous to be able to change his mind like that in public. I am sure there were other administrators who didn't want him to do it.
You have a personality in Case that is much more of visionary and a much more tight-fisted state of mind than Jerry Levin, ... Then you have a Jerry Levin who has come up through Time Inc., where they are about a rigid as you can get, and doesn't fool anybody. He is a button-down, narrow kind of guy who is not able to move rapidly. Unless Case can make him sort of understand the need for speed, the need to act on opportunities that he does not yet understand, he is going to be marginalized.
Many of the Central Asians know Russian, and Ted Levin speaks it fluently. I speak Chinese, but Mongolian is completely different, so we had to have translators.
I am 100 percent committed to the strategic vision that drove Steve Case and Jerry Levin to fashion the merger of AOL Time Warner in the first instance.
The deal was struck between the two CEOs and in both cases it was sort of a marriage of necessity. But there is no conviction in my soul that Levin understands the Internet age, and unless Case is given the collaboration from Levin to lead into the future, it could drag down the opportunities into the future.