Basics Quotes - Page 7

• I can do basics, but I'm not a proper cook. I can do a roast. I can stick a chicken in the oven with vegetables.

  Lesley Nicol

  Vegetables, Sticks, Ovens

  Interview with Margy Rochlin, www.laweekly.com. January 5, 2013.

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• What's the basis when rappers don't know the basics?
  Still not takin' advice from those I wouldn't trade places with.

  Skeme

  Rap, Hip Hop, Advice

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• From the standpoint of food production, storage, handling, and the Lord's counsel, wheat should have high priority. Water, of course, is essential. Other basics could include honey or sugar, legumes, milk products or substitutes, and salt or its equivalent.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Should Have, People, Water

  "The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson".

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• Rock & Roll is feeling, and after you know most of the basics ... chords, rhythm, scales and bends ... getting that feeling is just about the most important aspect of playing guitar

  Eddie Van Halen

  Music, Rocks, Guitar

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• If you want a simple strength and conditioning program, stick to the basics. Run your 400s and 800s, and do lots of power cleans and presses and long heavy sets of squats.

  Mike Webster

  Running, Simple, Long

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• One of the basics of a good system of innovation is diversity. In some ways, the stronger the culture (national, institutional, generational, or other), the less likely it is to harbor innovative thinking. Common and deep-seated beliefs, widespread norms, and behavior and performance standards are enemies of new ideas. Any society that prides itself on being harmonious and homogeneous is very unlikely to catalyze idiosyncratic thinking. Suppression of innovation need not be overt. It can be simply a matter of peoples walking around in tacit agreement and full comfort with the status quo.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Pride, Thinking, Agreement

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• Running makes you an athlete in all areas of life...trained in the basics, prepared for whatever comes, ready to fill each hour and deal with the decisive moment.

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Athlete, Moments

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• In your training, do not be in a hurry, for it takes a minimum of ten years to master the basics and advance to the first rung. Never think of yourself as an all-knowing, perfected master; you must continue to train daily with your friends and students and progress together in the Art of Peace.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Friendship, Art, Thinking

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.158, Shambhala Publications

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• lean water and health care and school and food and tin roofs and cement floor, all of these things should constitute a set of basics that people must have as birthrights.

  Paul Farmer

  Health, School, People

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• The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from, and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult, ethical controversies of the day. First things first. And planting the ideas of virtue, of good traits in the young, comes first. In the moral life, as in life itself, we take one step at a time. Every field has its complexities and controversies. And so does ethics. And every field has its basics. So too with values.

  William Bennett

  Character, Ideas, People

  "The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories". Book edited by William Bennett, reason.com. 1993.

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• If the traditional Rs (reading, writing, and arithmetic) are the basics that we want our children to master academically, then reverence, respect, and responsibility are the three Rs that our children need to master for the sake of their souls and the health of the world.

  Zoe Weil

  Inspiring, Children, Reading

  Zoe Weil (2003). “Above All, Be Kind: Raising a Humane Child in Challenging Times”, p.41, New Society Publishers

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• I've been an actor for 30 years, so I pretty much know how to do the basics of a fight without hurting anybody.

  Julie Benz

  Hurt, Fighting, Years

  Source: collider.com

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• You have to take the basics of feminism and the kind of outline of it and do what you do with it. You have to make things work for your own life.

  Sandra Bernhard

  Feminism, Kind, Outlines

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• They say blood is thicker than water. Only in certain cases, you need water to live. You learn that in the basics.

  Styles P

  Blood, Water, Needs

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• I think that if you have a strong narrative, if the idea of the song can be boiled down to the basics, it won't change that much.

  Suzanne Vega

  Song, Strong, Thinking

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• What I think is the most important thing to learn about any instrument is the basics of music. Learn your ABCs before you write a Hemingway novel.

  Yngwie Malmsteen

  Writing, Thinking, Important

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• All the new songs have been written since the re-issue of Diamond Day. With my first royalties I got a Mac and a little mixer and a keyboard, figured out the basics of a music program, and gradually started to write and record the songs and the arrangements.

  Vashti Bunyan

  Song, Writing, Issues

  Interview with Matthew Murphy, pitchfork.com. October 23, 2005.

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• My brother's my teacher, my mentor, and we both learnt all the acting basics from our father.

  Jeff Bridges

  Teacher, Brother, Father

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• ...the very basics of photography [can] be potent and strange. So why not make pictures about the medium itself and see where they would take me?

  Abelardo Morell

  Photography, Why Not, Strange

  Abelardo Morell (1995). “A camera in a room: photographs”, Smithsonian Inst Pr

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• Part of me loves and respects men so desperately, and part of me thinks they are so embarrassingly incompetent at life and in love. You have to teach them the very basics of emotional literacy. You have to teach them how to be there for you, and part of me feels tender toward them and gentle, and part of me is so afraid of them, afraid of any more violation.

  Anne Lamott

  Love You, Men, Emotional

  Anne Lamott (1994). “Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year”, Fawcett

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• You can't invent Google, Facebook or the iPod unless you've mastered the basics, are willing to put in long hours and can pick yourself up from the floor when life knocks you down the first 10 times.

  Amy Chua

  Life Knocks You Down, Ipods, Long

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• We must have an expansionary vision, one that captures the imagination and diversity of the whole community, one which benefits a nation which has moved beyond the basics of literacy and numeracy and which wants to develop a learning culture.

  Bob Brown

  Positive, Diversity, Imagination

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• Professor Tillman. Most of us here are not scientists, so you may need to be a little less technical.’ This sort of thing is incredibly annoying. People can tell you the supposed characteristics of a Gemini or a Taurus and will spend five days watching a cricket match, but cannot find the interest or the time to learn the basics of what they, as humans, are made up of.

  Graeme Simsion

  Cricket Match, People, May

  Graeme Simsion (2014). “The Rosie Project: A Novel”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• It's being a grown up, which I never figured out how to do, scrubbing the tub, and remembering to eat and shampoo my hair. It's the basics: I can write a whole book, but I cannot handle the basics.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Book, Writing, Hair

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2007). “More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• L.A. burns, and so many other cities smolder, waiting for the hose that will flood gasoline over the coals, and we listen to politicians who fuel our hate and our narrow views and tell us it's simply a matter of getting back to basics while they sit in their beachfront properties and listen to the surf so they won't have to hear the screams of the drowning.

  Dennis Lehane

  Hate, Views, Cities

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