Top Down Quotes

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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.

You can only succeed when people are communicating, not just from the top down, but in complete interchange. Communication comes from fighting off my ego and listening.

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.

Change from the top down happens at the will and whim of those below.

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.

Leadership must be established from the top down.

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.

You cannot teach beginners top-down programming, because they don't know which end is up.

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

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

We worry top-down, but we invest bottom-up

Top-down approaches do not work. The bottleneck is at the top of the bottle.

Speaking generally, people who are drawn to journalism are interested in what happens from the ground up less than they are from the top down.

Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent.

Got my tank top top down, it probably ain't summer but I ride like that cause I'm hotter than the others.

If there is to be an ecologically sound society, it will have to come the grass roots up, not from the top down.

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I don't think top-down works in America.

This is absolutely correct and forms part of the larger concept that top-down causation is a key factor not just in the way the brain works but in broader contexts in biology and even physics.

Goodness cannot be imposed externally, from the top down; it must grow internally, from the bottom up.

Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.

Optimization hinders evolution. Everything should be built top-down, except the first time. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

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.

Democrats believe we must create jobs, not protect the special interests; build the economy from the middle out, not the top down.

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

I don't do a lot of top-down teaching.

We must renew the economy from the bottom up, not top down.

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.

[P]rogressivism is a top-down, continent-wide tissue of taxes, mandates, and other coercions.

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.

I don't expect to get 100 percent of what I want, but what we can't do is go back to the kind of top-down economics that doesn't work.

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

So we don't need more top-down economics. We've tried that theory. We've seen what happens. We can't afford to go back to it.

We can't afford more top-down economics. What we need are policies that will grow and strengthen the middle class.

In the larger companies, you have this tendency to get top-down direction.

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.