Basic Principles Quotes

• Basic principles: no matter what, no matter when, no matter who... any man has a chance to sweep any woman off her feet. He just needs the right broom.

  Will Smith

  Men, Feet, Principles

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• Lean forward into your life. Begin each day as if it were on purpose.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Purpose, Each Day, Ifs

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2015). “Lean Forward into Your Life: Listen Hard, Live With Intention, and Play With Abandon”, p.10, Conari Press

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• Life is...the moments that take your breath away.

  Will Smith

  Inspirational, Inspiring Movie, Life Is

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• Never lie, steal, cheat, or drink. But if you must lie, lie in the arms of the one you love. If you must steal, steal away from bad company. If you must cheat, cheat death. And if you must drink, drink in the moments that take your breath away.

  Will Smith

  Inspirational, Lying, Arms

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• Begin each day as if it were on purpose.

  Will Smith

  Motivational, Ghouls, Purpose

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• There are three basic principles behind any well-designed product: truth, humanity, and simplicity.

  Sohrab Vossoughi

  Simplicity, Design, Humanity

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• The character ethic, which I believe to be the foundation of success, teaches that there are basic principles of effective living, and that people can only experience true success and enduring happiness as they learn and integrate these principles into their basic character.

  Stephen Covey

  Believe, Character, People

  Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• There’s only one basic principle of self-defense- you must apply the most effective weapon, as soon as possible, to the most vulnerable target.

  Bruce Lee

  Self, Principles, Defense

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• My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are cheap; you make them because they're right.

  Theodore Hesburgh

  Decision, Principles, Decision Making

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• Our global economy is out of control and performing contrary to basic principles of market economics.

  David Korten

  Principles, Economics, Economy

  "A Better Future with Globalization?". Interview with Alexander M. Dake, www.paraview.com. 2002.

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• My greatest personal mistake is ever to allow a word or moment that “doesn’t count,” i.e., that I do not refer to my own basic principles. Every word, every action, every moment counts. (This is the pattern on which everybody makes mistakes [or] becomes irrational — not relating their one action or one conviction to another.

  Ayn Rand

  Mistake, Principles, Patterns

  Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff (1999). “The Journals of Ayn Rand”, p.295, Penguin

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• The basic principles of the gospel of Jesus Christ are simple, and they are universal. Faith in the Savior is the same in Boston as it is in Accra.

  David A. Bednar

  Jesus, Simple, Boston

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• ... the basic principles of the military services are unchangeable. Courage and candor, obedience and comradeship, love of fatherland and loyalty to the State: these are ever the distinguishing characteristics of the soldier and sailor. Building character through intelligent training and education is always the first and greatest goal.

  Erich Raeder

  Loyalty, Military, Character

  Erich Raeder (1960). “My Life”

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• The basic principle that we must follow in directing the armies of the Republic is this: that they must feed themselves on war at the expense of the enemy territory.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Army, Enemy

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• We must now establish the basic principles, the basic values and beliefs which hold us together as Canadians so that beyond our regional loyalties there is a way of life and a system of values which make us proud of the country that has given us such freedom and such immeasurable joy.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Loyalty, Country, Joy

  Note on the poster of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, 1981.

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• The basic success of the conga came from ...that basic principle of African music and dance: everybody participates. The conga eradicated the distinction between performer and audience, broke down the wall of the proscenium.

  Ned Sublette

  Wall, Principles, African Music

  Ned Sublette (2007). “Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo”, p.409, Chicago Review Press

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• Lucky people generate their own good fortune via four basic principles.
  They are skilled at creating their own chance opportunities, make lucky decisions by listening to their intuition, create self-fulfilling prophesies via positive expectations, and adopt a resilient attitude that transforms bad luck into good.

  Richard Wiseman

  Attitude, Opportunity, Self

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• Unless we realize that the essence of Nazism is also an attempt to solve a universal problem of Western civilization - that of the industrial society - and that the basic principles on which the Nazis base this attempt are also in no way confined to Germany, we do not know what we fight for or what we fight against... The war is being fought for the structure of industrial society - its basic principles, its purposes, and its institutions.

  Peter Drucker

  War, Fighting, Essence

  "The Future of Industrial Man". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1942.

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• My aim is to advocate that we make this mental switch in respect of our attitudes and practices towards a very large group of beings: members of species other than our own - or, as we popularly though misleadingly call them, animals. In other words, I am urging that we extend to other species the basic principle of equality that most of us recognize should be extended to all members of our own species.

  Peter Singer

  Attitude, Animal, Practice

  Helga Kuhse, Udo Schüklenk, Peter Singer (2015). “Bioethics: An Anthology”, p.530, John Wiley & Sons

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• There can be no compromise on basic principles. There can be no compromise on moral issues. There can be no compromise on matters of knowledge, of truth, of rational conviction.

  Ayn Rand

  Truth, Integrity, Knowledge

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.101, Penguin

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• There is nothing in the basic principles of liberalism to make it a stationary creed; there are no hard-and-fast rules fixed once and for all. ... Probably nothing has done so much harm to the liberal cause as the wooden insistence of some liberals on certain rules of thumb, above all the principle of laissez faire.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Principles, Done, Thumbs

  "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 1 : The Abandoned Road, 1940 - 1943.

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• I know well the coequal role of the Congress in our constitutional process. I love the House of Representatives. I revere the traditions of the Senate despite my too-short internship in that great body. As President, within the limits of basic principles, my motto toward the Congress is communication, conciliation, compromise, and cooperation.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Love, Communication, House

  Gerald R. Ford's address to a joint session of Congress, August 12, 1974.

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• There are certainly beliefs in traditional Buddhism that conflict with basic principles of scientific understanding, .. We can't make sense of those beliefs in any kind of scientific framework.

  Richard Davidson

  Buddhism, Understanding, Principles

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• The basic principle I have is that what is most Korean is what is the most international. I don't want to come here and act like I'm an American. I want to showcase the dynamic potential Korea has, and I want to prove that as an artist.

  PSY

  Artist, Korea, Principles

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• BASICS OF DIET AND HEALTH The basic principles of good diets are so simple that I can summarize them in just ten words: eat less, move more, eat lots of fruits and vegetables. For additional clarification, a five-word modifier helps: go easy on junk foods.

  Marion Nestle

  Moving, Simple, Vegetables

  Marion Nestle (2010). “What to Eat”, p.8, Macmillan

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