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I am a very bottom-up thinker. -- Ken Thompson
Managing bottom-up change is its own art. -- Kevin Kelly
Wealth today has been created by a world view dominated by fast-moving networks, open information, bottom-up entrepreneurialism. -- Jacqueline Novogratz
A lot of technologies in the world were unusual in the beginning, and became standard. That's the beauty of bottom-up entrepreneurship and innovations. -- Iqbal Quadir
The bottom-up, loosely-coupled, bilateral and multi-stakeholder practices that have created the network of networks we call the Internet allow for a broad range of business models. -- Vint Cerf
There are many challenges in the global education ecosystem: from top-down systemic issues in how educational services are organized and delivered, to bottom-up issues of curriculum effectiveness, accountability, and human resource allocation. -- Adam Braun
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
But in a turbulent environment the change is so widespread that it just routes around any kind of central authority. So it is best to manage the bottom-up change rather than try to institute it from the top down. -- Kevin Kelly
Start from the bottom up. -- Peter Buffett
We worry top-down, but we invest bottom-up -- Seth Klarman
Until we look from the bottom up we have nothing. -- Sue Monk Kidd
Living democracy grows like a tree, from the bottom up. -- Vandana Shiva
When you hit bottom, the only place left to go is up. -- Tim Walters
When you hit rock bottom, you have nowhere to go but up. -- Pattie Mallette
We must renew the economy from the bottom up, not top down. -- Jesse Jackson
You're at the bottom of the mountain. May you climb up without suffering. -- Elie Wiesel
To be beat is to be at the bottom of your personality, looking up. -- John Holmes
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls. -- Honore de Balzac
Hit the bottom and get back up; or hit the bottle and stay down. -- Anthony Liccione
Best to start at the bottom & gradually climb up. It's much more fun, too. -- Gordon Ramsay
If you hit bottom, there's a whole lot of people here to help you up -- Suzanne Collins
Your organization is becoming hyperlinked. Whether you like it or not. It's bottom-up; it's impossible. -- David Weinberger
I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
Energy in a nation is like sap in a tree; it rises from bottom up. -- Woodrow Wilson
Real change never occurs from the top on down, [but] always from the bottom on up. -- Bernie Sanders
Keep in mind, when you hit rock bottom, there ain't nowhere to go but up, baby. -- Ludacris
Maybe we need a very small nuke thrown off on Foggy Bottom to shake things up -- Pat Robertson
You slam the bottom and either walk away or suck it up and get through it. -- Gabrielle Reece
I feel like Hollywood would rather end the emerging, bottom-up creative culture than let it happen. -- Douglas Rushkoff
Goodness cannot be imposed externally, from the top down; it must grow internally, from the bottom up. -- Philip Yancey
Intelligence will become more and more collective; innovation and order will become more and more bottom up. -- Matt Ridley
Success is not getting to the top - but how you bounce up from the bottom that counts. -- George S. Patton
Why don't you do the world a favour. Pull your bottom lip up over your head and swallow. -- Walter Matthau
The Australian temper is at bottom grim. It is as though the sun has dried up his nature. -- Neville Cardus
I feel like a stone you have picked up and thrown to the hard rock bottom of your heart. -- Randy Travis
Every time I think I've touched bottom as far as boredom is concerned, new vistas of ennui open up. -- Margaret Halsey
The bottom line is very simple. You negotiate on this, they will up the ante for the debt ceiling. -- Charles Schumer
What else can the young be? When you are on the bottom, you must organize from the bottom up -- Ursula K. Le Guin
In the spiritual life, you must take one step forward each day in a vertical line, from the bottom up. -- Pio of Pietrelcina
No matter how you have searched, there will always be one teaspoon left at the bottom of the washing-up water. -- Irene Thomas
Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world. -- Bruce Barton
I was elected because I believed in what we call "grassroots politics," politics from the bottom up, not the top down. -- Barack Obama
I know, up on top you are seeing great sights, but down here at the bottom we, too, should have rights. -- Dr. Seuss
If you're going to win games, you're going to have to come up with the big hits. That's the bottom line. -- Derek Jeter
It is at the bottom where we find grace; for like water, grace seeks the lowest place and there it pools up. -- Richard Rohr
If you got beauty, beauty, just raise em up. Cause every inch of you is perfect from the bottom to the top. -- Meghan Trainor
Change happens from the bottom up - all of us as individuals deciding that we will and we do have an impact. -- Hill Harper
democracy ... begins from the ground up. Anything living grows from the bottom up. Everything dangerous, like bombs, gets dropped from the sky down. -- Vandana Shiva
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
It is a long revisionist road up from the bottom for George W. Bush. He is ranked toward the bottom rung of presidents. -- Douglas Brinkley
Sailing is just the bottom line, like adding up the score in bridge. My real interest is in the tremendous game of life. -- Dennis Conner
It's good to look at life from the bottom up so you can see that things have risen above what they once were. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
I always look in the Sunday paper to see where Everton are in the league - starting, of course, from the bottom up. -- Bill Shankly
Our true destiny...is a world built from the bottom up by competent citizens living in solid communities, engaged in and by their places. -- David W. Orr
We are deep at the bottom of this river of time, caught up in the current of the moment where all the rivers rendezvous. -- Lynn Culbreath Noel
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
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
Film-making is a business and at the bottom line people who don't make fiscally responsible decisions end up going into another line of work. -- Gale Anne Hurd
Filmmaking is a business and at the bottom line people who don't make fiscally responsible decisions end up going into another line of work. -- Gale Anne Hurd
I never thought that I'd be considered to have a good body. I was bony up top and kind of dumpy on the bottom. -- Gwyneth Paltrow
Pulling yourself up again is the most important part of your life. Getting out of the bottom that you put everything into - yourself! -- Milton Resnick
In the early Seventies, I had shoulder-length hair, bell-bottom pants, love beads and shirts that laced up at the front. But then I smartened up. -- Tom Ford
We who live in free market societies believe that growth, prosperity and ultimately human fulfillment, are created from the bottom up, not the government down. -- Ronald Reagan
The bottom line is, it's a great script and that's very inspiring and makes you want to overcome whatever technical difficulties you come up against. -- John Crowley
There is not a man in power at our Bethlehem steel works today who did not begin at the bottom and work his way up. -- Charles M. Schwab
What happens to someone who hits rock bottom after breaking up with the love of their life? There was no rehab for a broken heart." -- Lisa De Jong
You must learn to drink the cup of life as it comes ... without stirring it up from the bottom. That's where the bitter dregs are! -- Agnes Sligh Turnbull
When you feel like you've had it up to here, and you're mad enough to scream, but you're sad enough to tear, that's rock bottom. -- Eminem
Bottom line is, if you turn the ball over to a team that isn't as good, you then have brought them up to your level. -- Terry Bradshaw
The climate crisis requires a bottom-up, grassroots demand for solutions because the elites in many parts of the world are under the influence of old industry. -- Al Gore
In any organization men would move up form the bottom to the top. That develops loyalty, ambition and talent, because there is a chance for promotion. -- Alfred P. Sloan
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
Much of our adult morality, in books and out of them, has a stuffiness unworthy of childhood. Our grown-up conclusions often rest on perilously soft bottom. -- E. B. White
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
As soon as you move one step up from the bottom, your effectiveness depends on your ability to reach others through the spoken and written word. -- Peter Drucker
I have once more taken up things that can't be done: water with grasses weaving on the bottom. But I'm always tackling that sort of thing! -- Claude Monet
I trudged around on the muddy river bottom for half an hour, patiently waiting to drown, before giving up and slogging my way back to shore. -- MaryJanice Davidson
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
Wasn't hitting bottom the thing you had to do to knock some sense into yourself? Wasn't hitting bottom the thing that showed you which way was up? -- Rainbow Rowell
Dude, the place is filling up," I say. "It feels like we're living in the bottom half of an hourglass." Like somehow we're running out of time. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Every major criminal case is always built from the bottom up. You get the underlings, you get them to plead and cooperate, and that leads to the higher-ups. -- Michael Isikoff
I never wanted to give up my power. I wanted to be able to make my own decisions, so that's why I became involved in management, bottom line. -- Queen Latifah
If there is going to be change, real change, it will have to work its way from the bottom up, from the people themselves. That's how change happens. -- Howard Zinn
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
He said 'I'm going to chop off the bottom of one of your trouser legs and put it in a library. I thought, "That's a turn-up for the books". -- Tommy Cooper
If our culture is to be transformed, it will happen from the bottom up - from ordinary believers practicing apologetics over the backyard fence or around the barbecue grill. -- Charles Colson
Summit of the well is the bottom of the ground! Man who has climbed up from the very low thinks that he did climb up to the very top! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
I always felt my emancipation into truly being a grown-up was when I had to figure out how to fold up a king-size fitted bottom sheet on my own. -- Emily Procter
If you get a little kitty and he's down on the bottom, and he's laying on his chest, you know tucked up underneath, then that cat is not relaxed. -- Temple Grandin
If you come up with a new product, you can very easily track its contribution to the bottom line. But often the challenge can be both large and subtle. -- John Kao
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
I love sport, I grew up playing sports, that's all I did, and it is so invigorating now that I'm supposedly adult to learn something completely new, from the bottom up. -- Ellen Page
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
Environmental history fit[s] into the framework of New Left history. [It is] history "from the bottom up," except that here the exploited element [is] the biota and the land itself. -- Roderick Nash
Turmoil is everywhere, and the whole world is waiting for solutions to come from the top down. That's not how it works - community change from the bottom up makes a real difference. -- Betty Williams
Real change occurs from the bottom up; it occurs person to person, and it almost always occurs in small groups and locales and then bubbles up and aggregates to larger vectors of change. -- Paul Hawken
The idea of being able to build things bottom up, atom by atom, has made [scientists] all into tinkerers. And all of a sudden scientists are seeking designers, just like designers are seeking scientists. -- Paola Antonelli
The biblical method of change begins in the heart of man with the Gospel. It transforms the mind of man and gradually works its way out. And it builds a nation from the bottom up. -- Kirk Cameron
But this convention is about more than re-nominating President Obama. It's about Americans coming together to build one economy - not from the top down, but from the middle class out and the bottom up. -- Debbie Wasserman Schultz
My assumption was that all indigenous architecture would be more fractal. My reasoning was that all indigenous architecture tends to be organized from the bottom up. As it turns out, though, my reasoning was wrong. -- Ron Eglash

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