Bases Quotes - Page 28

• The very basis of creative work is irreverence! The very basis of creative work is bold experimentation. There has never been a creator of lasting importance who has not also been an innovator.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Creative, Irreverence, Importance

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• The fundamental basis of education must always remain that one must act for oneself. That is clear. One must act for him or herself.

  Maria Montessori

  Fundamentals, Clear, Oneself

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• There is a principle which is the basis of things, which all speech aims to say, and all action to evolve, a simple, quiet, undescribed, undescribable presence, dwelling very peacefully in us, our rightful lord: we are not to do, but to let do; not to work, but to be worked upon.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Simple, Dwelling, Principles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.399

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• The whole Hollywood conception of Tibet as this peace-loving country denies the complex humanity of the Tibetan people. Their ideas exist in a high degree of tension with impulses toward corruption, toward violence, toward all sorts of things. The Dalai Lama himself would say that he has to fight these impulses himself on a daily basis.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Country, Fighting, Ideas

  Interview with Sarah Fay, staging.believermag.com. March 2007.

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• Having the great opportunity on a daily basis to sit in front of a blank page is terrifying, and at the same time really exciting. I can't actually get better at my job, because every time you finish something you start with a blank page, with nothing.

  Hans Zimmer

  Jobs, Opportunity, Get Better

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I like making sure that I've got a decent haircut, my beard's a decent length. I trim it once a week and that's all I need to do. Also, shoes polished. Just put yourself together properly. It's about self-respect, but it's also about having a bit of respect for the people you're interacting with on a daily basis.

  Patrick Grant

  Shoes, Self, People

  "Recognize Craftsmanship". Interview with Daniel Barna, www.askmen.com.

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• I write songs on a universal basis. I was born out of the earth of Jamaica which I consider to be a part of Atlantis, the sunk continent, but that's my thing. But I write songs on a universal basis, not like Jamaican songs.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Song, Writing, Jamaica

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• A true friend to me is someone that comes over for dinner, and hangs out with my daughter, someone I party with on a regular basis.

  Gilbert Melendez

  Daughter, True Friend, Party

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• There is ...a huge tacit conspiracy between the U.S. government, its agencies and its multinational corporations, on the one hand, and local business and military cliques in the Third World, on the other, to assume complete control of these countries and "develop" them on a joint venture basis. The military leaders of the Third World were carefully nurtured by the U.S. security establishment to serve as the "enforcers" of this joint venture partnership, and they have been duly supplied with machine guns and the latest data on methods of interrogation of subversives.

  Edward S. Herman

  Country, Military, Gun

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• The basis of almost every argument or conclusion I can make is the axiom that the short story can be anything the author decides it shall be;...In that infinite flexibility, indeed lies the reason why the short story has never been adequately defined.

  H. E. Bates

  Lying, Reason Why, Stories

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• By 'intelligence' we mean every sort of information about the enemy and his country - the basis, in short, of our own plans and operations.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Country, Mean, Enemy

  Carl von Clausewitz (2008). “On War”, p.117, Princeton University Press

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• In short, absolute, so-called mathematical, factors never find a firm basis in military calculations. From the very start, there is an interplay of possibilities, probabilities, good luck and bad, that weaves its way throughout the length and breadth of the tapestry. In the whole range of human activities, war most closely resembles a game of cards.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Military, War, Good Luck

  On War Chapter 1, 21 (p. 86)

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• It has never at any time been possible to fit the resurrection of Jesus into any world view except a world view of which it is the basis.

  Lesslie Newbigin

  Jesus, Views, World

  Lesslie Newbigin (2011). “Honest Religion for Secular Man”, p.53, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• In mathematical science, more than in all others, it happens that truths which are at one period the most abstract, and apparently the most remote from all useful application, become in the next age the bases of profound physical inquiries, and in the succeeding one, perhaps, by proper simplification and reduction to tables, furnish their ready and daily aid to the artist and the sailor.

  Charles Babbage

  Artist, Profound, Age

  Charles Babbage, Peter Mark Roget (1989). “Reflections on the decline of science in England and on some of its causes: with a new appendix of correspondence by Charles Babbage & Peter M. Roget from the Philosophical magazine”

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• I think racism is a terrible thing. I think we should all learn to hate each other on a individual basis.

  Cathy Ladman

  Hate, Thinking, Racism

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• In this game, you have to think about making plays, you can't worry about making mistakes. At times, a guy will get thrown out, but in the bigger scheme, the bases we're going to take will far outweigh that occasional misread. And it depends on what you call a mistake. If the outfielder puts the ball right on the money, he's out by a quarter-step and it's a bang-bang play, that's not a mistake. That's baseball. If you're out by four or five steps, it's ugly, it's a misread, but in the big picture, that aggressiveness is going to help us more than the occasional blunder will hurt.

  Mike Scioscia

  Baseball, Hurt, Mistake

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• When a wise man chooses a sane basis for his arguments, it is no great task to speak well.

  Euripides

  Wise, Men, Tasks

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• Man's fear of sexuality is the basis of all horror from the male perspective.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Men, Perspective, Males

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• However, I think we have to go back to the American bogeyman - we have to understand that this is a country which currently allows American drones to fly over our skies and bomb our people on an almost weekly basis, this is a country that survives on American aid in the billions. Today's headline in the newspapers is about America stepping up arms supplies to Pakistan.

  Fatima Bhutto

  Country, Thinking, Sky

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• I am very conscious on a daily basis of how extraordinarily blessed I am to get to do what I do and work with the people that I work with, so I make a practice of being grateful.

  Matt Nix

  Blessed, Grateful, Practice

  Source: deadline.com

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• It is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it is based.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Civilization, Benefits, Accepting

  Evelyn Waugh, John Carmel Heenan, Alcuin Reid (2011). “A Bitter Trial: Evelyn Waugh and John Carmel Cardinal Heenan on the Liturgical Changes”, p.16, Ignatius Press

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• There is no scriptural basis for segregation. The ground at the foot of the cross is level, and it touches my heart when I see whites standing shoulder to shoulder with blacks at the cross.

  Billy Graham

  Heart, Feet, Levels

  Billy Graham (2013). “Quotes from Billy Graham: A Legacy of Faith”, p.154, B&H Publishing Group

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• There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.

  Henry James

  Usual, Unions, Mutual

  Henry James (2015). “The Complete Novels of Henry James: The Portrait of a Lady + The Wings of the Dove + What Maisie Knew + The American + The Bostonian + The Ambassadors + Washington Square and more (Unabridged): Confidence + Roderick Hudson + The Awkward Age + The Europeans + The Golden Bowl + The Other House + The Outcry + The Princess Casamassima + The Reverberator + The Sacred Fount….”, p.2475, e-artnow

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• I think I did have a reputation for being grumpy. I don't think I'm grumpy. I have opinions. I have an independent vision. I am a purposeful person. But on a daily basis, I think I'm other than grumpy. I think it is a case where I am coming to do business and not there just to be flattered and cajoled and used.

  Harrison Ford

  Independent, Thinking, Vision

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Monetary calculation is not the calculation, and certainly not the measurement, of value. Its basis is the comparison of the more important and the less important. It is an ordering according to rank, an act of grading (Cuhel), and not an act of measuring. It was a mistake to search for a measure of the value of goods. In the last analysis, economic calculation does not rest on the measurement of values, but on their arrangement in an order of rank.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Mistake, Order, Important

  Ludwig Von Mises (1960). “Epistemological Problems of Economics”, p.169, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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