Quotes of: Fundamental-principles Keyword

Harry: You've got to stick to your principles.

In Bruges

Damn your principles! Stick to your party.

Benjamin Disraeli

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

Mark Twain

Power lacks moral or principles. It only has interests.

Love

Work is important to me. I want to do things for principle, not just for the sake of doing them.

Tracey Ullman

If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you probably would design something like a classroom. If you wanted to create a business environment that was directly opposed to what the...

Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School

Since ideology, particularly in it's shallower versions, is peculiarly destructive of the capacity to apprehend and appreciate irony, I suggest that the recovery of the ironic might be our fifth principle for the restoration of reading. ... But with ...

How to Read and Why

Saddam's politics was the politics of the thug, of violence from the outset of his reign. Realism suggests that some people are not going to be tractable in response to purely peaceable overtures. Indeed, it certainly appears that some individuals, i...

A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq

We reviewed the ways we had to bring customers: Method A, flying aerobatics at the edge of town. Method B, the parachute jump. Then we began experimenting with Method C. There is a principle that says if you lay out a lonely solitaire game in the cen...

Nothing by Chance

Many scientists have tried to make determinism and complementarity the basis of conclusions that seem to me weak and dangerous; for instance, they have used 's uncertainty principle to bolster up human free will, though his principle, which applies e...

Nouvelles perspectives en microphysique

We realize we can't go around saying and doing what we're actually thinking and feeling. If we all did that, life would be a lunatic asylum. Indeed, that's how you know you're talking to a lunatic. Lunatics are those poor souls who have lost their in...

Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting

There is another Brain Principle to go with ‘First Things First’: that of ‘Last Things Too’. This states that, all other things being equal, you will recall more easily the ‘last’ things. Check your own memory banks and see if this princi...

The Power Of Social Intelligence

Saying that 'I am a grateful alcoholic' will then reflect the truth about who we have become in our person, having understood deeply and intimately that God in his grace can turn any evil, any pain we have suffered or inflicted, to good purpose. – ...

Practice These Principles: Living the Spiritual Disciplines and Virtues in 12-Step Recovery to Achieve Spiritual Growth, Character Development, and Emotional Sobriety

A true genius is my brother, for his ability to measure and adapt his imagination to knowledge is unbounded. He can turn laziness into tactics. He can drop tactics for strategy without anyone or anything realizing it. He can comprehend grand principl...

Lionel Suggs

I have missed more than nine thousand shots in my career. I have lost almost three hundred games. On twenty-six occasions, I have been entrusted to take the game-winning shot . . . and missed. And I have failed over and over and over again in my life...

Win: The Key Principles to Take Your Business from Ordinary to Extraordinary

The principle of art is to pause, not bypass. The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke. This requires a moment of pause--a contract with yourself through the object you look at or the page you read. In that moment of pause, I think ...

Jerzy Kosinski

If you throw even a cursory glance into the past, at the life which lies behind you, not even recalling its most vivid moments, you are struck every time by the singularity of the events in which you took part, the unique individuality of the charact...

Andrei Tarkovsky

Traveling-to-a-place energy and living-in-a-place energy are two fundamentally different energies

Eat, Pray, Love

It would be wrong to refuse to face the fact that everything is fundamentally sick and sad.

Gargoyles

I think I'd be more relaxed as an older mum, although fundamentally life with a baby is pretty much the same whatever age you are. It's nappies, crying, feeding.

Rachel Hunter

...the fundamental things in a man are not the things he explains, but rather the things he forgets to explain.

The Superstition of Divorce