Quotes of: Fundamental-principles Keyword

[Walmart]s largest innovation consists in getting rid of the central Fordist principle of paying the workers enough so that they can afford to buy what they manufacture. Instead, WalMart has pioneered the inverse principle: paying the workers so litt...

Steven Shaviro

Carson Wells: Call me when you've had enough. I can even let you keep a little of the money. Llewelyn Moss: If I was cuttin' deals, why wouldn't I go deal with this guy Chigurh? Carson Wells: No no. No. You don't understand. You can't make a deal wit...

No Country for Old Men

Beware of a client who's suing on principle and paying by the hour. He rarely gets his money's worth.

Diary of a Small Fish

Principles are only tools in the hands of God; they will soon be thrown away when they are no longer useful.

Ethics

We too often forget that not only is there 'a soul of goodness in things evil,' but very generally also, a soul of truth in things erroneous.

First Principles

If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness.

Gunter Grass

Another principle is, the deepest affections of our hearts gather around some human form in which are incarnated the living thoughts and ideas of the passing age.

Matthew Simpson

Jesus Christ was a patriot! His country was the world. His laws were the eternal principles of liberty, and his followers, in every age, have been the chosen champions of freedom!

Orson F. Whitney

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

John Quincy Adams

Architecture is the beginning of something because it's - if you're not involved in first principles, if you're not involved in the absolute, the beginning of that generative process, it's cake decoration.

Thom Mayne

And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art.

Albrecht Durer

Art is based on very clear, mathematical principles like proportion and harmony. At the same time, physicists need to be inventive, to have ideas, to have some fantasy.

Fabiola Gianotti

I admire Ai Weiwei for his art and his activism. His art is beautiful in form, and in function embodies the principles of populism and social consciousness I aspire to in my own practice.

Shepard Fairey

This defines entrepreneur and entrepreneurship - the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Practice and Principles

The only principle of Success in Life :"You must be present to win.

KISS Life "Life is what you make it"

Poverty has a way of taking the edge off principles. Hunger can blunt them altogether.

The Midnight Witch

To have dragons one must have change; that is the first principle of dragon lore.

The Night Country

Peace in the world must be chosen as the supreme principle of humanity.

Love Poems: Love Conquers All

Republics exist as long as the people "adhere to principles and virtue.

The Life of Andrew Jackson

In my opinion, the sun was made to light worthier toil than this.

Life Without Principle

Manners come down to a single principle, talk of nothing that might actually prove interesting.

A Lady's Lesson in Scandal