Ground Level Quotes

If Spider-Man is your ground level superhero, I wanted to come up with a ground-level villain. I wanted to figure out if I could turn a regular guy into a super-villain.

The height of the pulleys from the ground was twelve yards, and consequently, when the weights had descended through that distance, they had to be wound up again in order to renew the motion of the paddle.

Even growing up the way I did, I was shocked by the level of poverty I saw as a college student. I thought the best way to understand it was to get close to it on the ground level.

I'm tired of high policy talks. I want to focus on nuts and bolts.

I don't think I appear very cool to people who observe me on the ground.

You are on the ground. You see the needs of the situation, and I shall back up whatever you do.

This upper limit, of earth at our feet is visible and touches the air, but below it reaches to infinity

I've never had a particularly good experience in the Hollywood Hills. I love Hollywood, but there's something about the Hills where I'm just like, 'I'm going to just stay at ground level.'

Bloomberg is famously impatient with beltway politics and believes that to get anything done you need to work from the ground up.

I like to stay on the ground, and remember that you get out what you put in.

Passion isn't something that lives way up in the sky, in abstract dreams and hopes. It lives at ground level, in the specific details of what you're actually doing every day.

By those who look close to the ground dirt will be seen. I hope I see things from a greater distance.

I've been on so many movies. Generally, I haven't gotten to be on the ground level. As of two years ago, in 'Dear John,' I got to really be on the ground floor. I wasn't a producer. I felt like I put the work in, and I did have a lot of sway on what got fixed, reshoots, so on and so forth. It felt really good.

When I want to understand a problem, I want to understand it from the ground level.

History is often best told from the ground, out of a car window or in someone's kitchen, not through some huge production mechanism or grand framing device.

Get close to grass and you’ll see a star.

Experience is not the poor relation of expertise. Valuable insights in business often come from the people on the ground.

If there is any way you can get colder than you do when you sleep in a bedding roll on the ground in a tent in southern Tunisia two hours before dawn, I don't know about it.

I thought I could make change by just working at ground level, but to change a community, you have to change policies.

You don't start at the top if you want to find the story. You start in the middle, because it's the people in the middle who do the actual work in the world.

Grass-roots work is not flashy, and rarely celebrated on the national media level, but that is where change begins.

But the other notion is, we also believe that those folks closest on the ground that we're holding accountable for the results can decide, and ought to evaluate which programs get results.

Never stop listening to people at all levels of the company. Be physically out and about so that you always have your finger on the pulse and know, at the ground level, the truth of how people are feeling.

Somebody is coming to bring their global vision to India. If they are coming on their own, they shouldn't tie up. If they are coming because you know the ground level and there are international best practices to be shared, then it is the best way.

If you're only ten feet above, then you're better than when you're on the ground.