Fundamentals Quotes - Page 32

• I had always functioned with dignity, wanting to appear intelligent, macho, never vulnerable or insecure. But now I realize that... a part of these comic characters is a fundamental part of me too.

  Leslie Nielsen

  Character, Insecure, Intelligent

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• For over 30 years the Endangered Species Act has suffered from many fundamental flaws, the most notable being a blatant disregard for property rights,.

  Chris Cannon

  Rights, Years, Notable

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• It is so hard and long before a student comes to a realization that these [first] few large simple spots in right relations are the most important things in the study of painting. They are the fundamentals of all painting.

  Charles Webster Hawthorne

  Simple, Long, Important

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• The public is the tribunal before which all art is judged - not the critics or the academies. The public is the artist's only patron, and has certain fundamental rights. It will submit to education, and will respond to suggestion, but it will not be bullied.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Art, Rights, Suggestions

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• Jesus Christ rose from the grave.' With this proclamation, the Christian church began. This may be the fundamental element of Christian faith; certainly it is the most radical.

  Elaine Pagels

  Christian, Jesus, Rose

  Elaine Pagels (2004). “The Gnostic Gospels”, p.37, Random House

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• The Constitution is the fundamental rule for people to live in society. If the rule no longer suits the lives of the general public due to changing times, it should be changed. That goes for regular laws as well as the Constitution.

  Ichiro Ozawa

  Law, People, Suits

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• The underlying principles or fundamentals should be so hidden away by the beauty they are eventually to support, that it would require much digging to disclose them.

  John F. Carlson

  Support, Principles, Digging

  John F. Carlson (2013). “Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• Art is a thing so much of the imagination, of the soul, that it is difficult to descend to the fundamentals of technique and yet make it plain to the student that these are but the 'means' and not an end in themselves.

  John F. Carlson

  Art, Mean, Imagination

  John F. Carlson (2013). “Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• Our fundamental sin is that we place ourselves in the position of God and divide the world between what we judge to be good and what we judge to be evil. And this judgment is the primary thing that keeps us from doing the central thing God created us to do, namely, love like He loves.

  Gregory A. Boyd

  Love, Evil, Judging

  Gregory A. Boyd (2004). “Repenting of Religion: Turning from Judgment to the Love of God”, p.17, Baker Books

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• That torture is wrong can never be the conclusion to any line of reasoning because it has to be a fundamental premise. Witnessing to the humanity of the other is the place where all moral reasoning must begin.

  Giles Fraser

  Humanity, Lines, Moral

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• Conservation and rural-life policies are really two sides of the same policy; and down at the bottom this policy rests upon the fundamental law that neither man nor nation can prosper unless, in dealing with the present, thought is steadily given for the future.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Law, Two Sides

  Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

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• Even in the vast and mysterious reaches of the sea we are brought back to the fundamental truth that nothing lives to itself.

  Rachel Carson

  Science, Sea, Environmental

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• The conservation of our natural resources and their proper use constitute the fundamental problem which underlies almost every other problem of our national life.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Use, Politics, Problem

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.30, Taylor Trade Publications

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• They are the carrion birds of humanity...[speaking of the Jews] are a state within a state. They are certainly not real citizens...The evils of Jews do not stem from individuals but from the fundamental nature of these people.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Real, People, Evil

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• If we are to avoid that catastrophe [a nuclear World War III], a system of world order — preferably a system of world government — is mandatory. The proud nations someday will see the light and, for the common good and their own survival, yield up their precious sovereignty, just as America's thirteen colonies did two centuries ago. When we finally come to our senses and establish a world executive and parliament of nations, thanks to the Nuremburg precedent we will already have in place the fundamentals for the third branch of government, the judiciary.

  Walter Cronkite

  War, Light, Government

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• I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance. Some one has said that most of us don't think, we just occasionally rearrange our prejudices. And I suspect that even today, with all the progress we have made in liberal thought, the quality of true tolerance is as rare as the quality of mercy. That men of all creeds have fundamental common objectives is a fact one must learn by the process of education. How to work jointly toward these objectives must be learned by experience.

  Frank Knox

  Education, Art, Believe

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• It's like when IBM drove a lot of innovation out of the computer industry before the microprocessor came along. Eventually, Microsoft will crumble because of complacency, and maybe some new things will grow. But until that happens, until there's some fundamental technology shift, it's just over.

  Steve Jobs

  Technology, Innovation, Microsoft

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.47, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Conservation of our resources is the fundamental question before this nation, and that our first and greatest task is to set our house in order and begin to live within our means.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Mean, Order, House

  Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “Presidential addresses and state papers”

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• We don't have a good language to talk about this kind of thing. In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer... But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation.

  Steve Jobs

  Mean, Men, Vocabulary

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• I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of consciousness.

  Max Planck

  Matter, Derivatives, Consciousness

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• It is a fundamental rule of human life, that if the approach is good, the response is good.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Human Life, Approach, Response

  Jawaharlal Nehru, Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund (1984). “Selected works of Jawaharlal Nehru, second series”, Oxford Univ Pr

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• Temporary deviations from fundamental principles are always more or less dangerous. When the first pretext fails, those who become interested in prolonging the evil will rarely be at a loss for other pretexts.

  James Madison

  Loss, Evil, Liberty

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• Rather than a universe of static certainty, at the most fundamental level of matter, the world and its relationships were uncertain and unpredictable, a state of pure potential of infinite possibility.

  Lynne McTaggart

  Inspirational, Levels, Matter

  Lynne McTaggart (2012). “The Field Updated Ed: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• One of the fundamental demonstrations of our natural instinct to Bond with each other is a will to give. Rather than domination, our most basic urge is to reach out to another human being, even at a cost to ourselves. Giving to others-the urge to empathize, to be compassionate, and to help others altruistically-is not the exception to the rule, but our natural state of being. Our impulse to connect with each other has developed an automatic desire to do for others, even at personal cost. Altruism comes naturally to us. It is selfishness that is culturally conditioned and a sign of pathology.

  Lynne McTaggart

  Inspirational, Helping Others, Exception To The Rule

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• It [music] has an awakening function. Life is a rhythm. Art is an organization of rhythms. Music is a fundamental art that touches our will system. In Schopenhauer's The World as Will and Idea he speaks of music as the sound that awakens the will. The rhythm of the music awakens certain life rhythms, ways of living and experiencing life. So it's an awakener of life.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Art, Organization

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