Basic Principles Quotes

• Basic principles: no matter what, no matter when, no matter who... any man has a chance to sweep any woman off her feet. He just needs the right broom.

  Will Smith

  Men, Feet, Principles

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• Lean forward into your life. Begin each day as if it were on purpose.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Purpose, Each Day, Ifs

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2015). “Lean Forward into Your Life: Listen Hard, Live With Intention, and Play With Abandon”, p.10, Conari Press

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• Life is...the moments that take your breath away.

  Will Smith

  Inspirational, Inspiring Movie, Life Is

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• Never lie, steal, cheat, or drink. But if you must lie, lie in the arms of the one you love. If you must steal, steal away from bad company. If you must cheat, cheat death. And if you must drink, drink in the moments that take your breath away.

  Will Smith

  Inspirational, Lying, Arms

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• Begin each day as if it were on purpose.

  Will Smith

  Motivational, Ghouls, Purpose

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• There are three basic principles behind any well-designed product: truth, humanity, and simplicity.

  Sohrab Vossoughi

  Simplicity, Design, Humanity

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• The character ethic, which I believe to be the foundation of success, teaches that there are basic principles of effective living, and that people can only experience true success and enduring happiness as they learn and integrate these principles into their basic character.

  Stephen Covey

  Believe, Character, People

  Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• There’s only one basic principle of self-defense- you must apply the most effective weapon, as soon as possible, to the most vulnerable target.

  Bruce Lee

  Self, Principles, Defense

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• My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are cheap; you make them because they're right.

  Theodore Hesburgh

  Decision, Principles, Decision Making

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• Our global economy is out of control and performing contrary to basic principles of market economics.

  David Korten

  Principles, Economics, Economy

  "A Better Future with Globalization?". Interview with Alexander M. Dake, www.paraview.com. 2002.

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• My greatest personal mistake is ever to allow a word or moment that “doesn’t count,” i.e., that I do not refer to my own basic principles. Every word, every action, every moment counts. (This is the pattern on which everybody makes mistakes [or] becomes irrational — not relating their one action or one conviction to another.

  Ayn Rand

  Mistake, Principles, Patterns

  Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff (1999). “The Journals of Ayn Rand”, p.295, Penguin

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• The basic principles of the gospel of Jesus Christ are simple, and they are universal. Faith in the Savior is the same in Boston as it is in Accra.

  David A. Bednar

  Jesus, Simple, Boston

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• You do not need to do many different exercises to get strong - you need to get strong on a very few important exercises, movements that train the whole body as a system, not as a collection of separate body parts. The problem with the programs advocated by all the national exercise organizations is that they fail to recognize this basic principle: the body best adapts as a whole organism to stress applied to the whole organism. The more stress that can be applied to as much of the body at one time as possible, the more effective and productive the adaptation will be.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Strong, Stress, Exercise

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• If you invest the short time it takes to read, understand and apply the basic principles in this book, there is little doubt you will be a much bigger success than you otherwise would have been.  There truly is POWER in words.

  Doug Dohring

  Book, Doubt, Principles

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• Be in harmony with the Tao, with the basic principles of creation. To not be in harmony with that flow, no matter how hard you meditate, you will not be happy and you won't be liberated.

  Frederick Lenz

  Taoism, Principles, Matter

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• Divide and Conquer. As long as some people have commanded the work of others, this has been management's basic principle.

  Peter Rachleff

  Long, People, Principles

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• One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual confrontations, there should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat

  Jimmy Carter

  Forgiveness, Spiritual, Peace

  Jimmy Carter (2011). “Living Faith”, p.141, Three Rivers Press

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• Lucky people generate their own good fortune via four basic principles.
  They are skilled at creating their own chance opportunities, make lucky decisions by listening to their intuition, create self-fulfilling prophesies via positive expectations, and adopt a resilient attitude that transforms bad luck into good.

  Richard Wiseman

  Attitude, Opportunity, Self

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• My aim is to advocate that we make this mental switch in respect of our attitudes and practices towards a very large group of beings: members of species other than our own - or, as we popularly though misleadingly call them, animals. In other words, I am urging that we extend to other species the basic principle of equality that most of us recognize should be extended to all members of our own species.

  Peter Singer

  Attitude, Animal, Practice

  Helga Kuhse, Udo Schüklenk, Peter Singer (2015). “Bioethics: An Anthology”, p.530, John Wiley & Sons

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• Concentration is the key to economic results. No other principle of effectiveness is violated as constantly today as the basic principle of concentration.... Our motto seems to be, "Let's do a little bit of everything."

  Peter Drucker

  Keys, Effectiveness, Priorities

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• We, as citizens or members of people's organisations...can preserve and nourish basic principles needed for long-term efforts aimed at transforming a totalitarian and war-torn society into a democratic one.

  Katarina Kruhonja

  War, Long, People

  Katarina Kruhonja's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 1998.

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• We Indians are Latin America's moral reserve. We act according to a universal law that consists of three basic principles: do not steal, do not lie and do not be idle.

  Evo Morales

  Lying, Latin, Law

  "'Capitalism Has Only Hurt Latin America'". Interview with Jens Glüsing, Hans Hoyng, www.spiegel.de. August 28, 2006.

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• A basic principle of modern state capitalism is that costs and risks are socialized to the extent possible, while profit is privatized.

  Noam Chomsky

  Risk, Principles, Cost

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• It is the basic principle of spiritual life that we learn the deepest things in unknown territory. Often it is when we feel most confused inwardly and are in the midst of our greatest difficulties that something new will open. We awaken most easily to the mystery of life through our weakest side. The areas of our greatest strength, where we are the most competent and clearest, tend to keep us away from the mystery.

  Jack Kornfield

  Spiritual, Confused, Principles

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• A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change. So it's a matter of fitting your current practices to fit the event and the individual. See, what's good for you might not be worth a darn for the next guy.

  Bill Bowerman

  Running, Teacher, Smart

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