Basics Quotes

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Jim Rohn

Life, Motivational, Success

FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Dec 27, 2016

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In times of life crisis, whether wild fires or smoldering stress, the first thing I do is go back to basics... am I eating right, am I getting enough sleep, am I getting some physical and mental exercise everyday.

Edward Albert

Stress, Sleep, Exercise

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Most of us forget the basics and wonder why the specifics don't work.

Garrison Wynn

Wonder, Forget, Specifics

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Champions are brilliant at the basics.

John Wooden

Champion, Brilliant

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Everything in life goes back to the basics.

Kron Gracie

Art, Martial Arts

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Stick to the basics, hold on to your family and friends - they will never go out of fashion.

Niki Taylor

Family, Fashion, Sticks

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There is no shortage of opportunity. There is only a shortage of those who will apply themselves to the basics that success requires.

Jim Rohn

Opportunity, Shortage

FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Sep 06, 2012

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The only way you can stay on top is to remember to touch bottom and get back to basics.

Shane Black

Way, Remember, Bottom

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One of the things young people always ask me about is what is the secret to success. The secret is there is no secret. It's the basics. Blocking and tackling.

Chris Gardner

Success, Business, Block

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Work and love; these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.

Theodor Reik

Good Love, Romantic Love, And Love

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To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.

Alan Greenspan

Success, Education, Business

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I started from zero and went back to the basics in gymnastics.

Shawn Johnson

Zero, Gymnastics

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I strongly suggest that we play down basics like who influenced whom, and instead study the way the influence is transformed, in other words: how the artist made it his own.

Lukas Foss

Artist, Play, Way

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In many ways, our campaign this year will be the same as last time: We're still going to focus on fixing up basics and cleaning up ethics at City Hall.

Laura Miller

Years, Cities, Focus

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Move quickly. Sound, calm mind. Be light in body. Have a clever mind. Master the basics.

Gogen Yamaguchi

Art, Clever, Moving

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Second, we have to make the most of the strengths we have, the amenities that many of our competitors cannot replicate. But again, those advantages won't mean much if we don't do a great job with the basics of our business.

Gerard Arpey

Jobs, Mean, Great Job

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If you spend too much time learning the 'tricks' of the trade, you may not learn the trade. There are no shortcuts. If you're working on finding a short cut, the easy way, you're not working hard enough on the fundamentals. You may get away with it for a spell, but there is no substitute for the basics. And the first basic is good, old fashioned hard work.

John Wooden

Hard Work, Cutting, Fundamentals

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As adults we try to relax from the never-ending quest for reason and order by drinking a little whiskey or smoking whatever works for us, but the wisdom isn't in the whiskey or the smoke. The wisdom is in the moments when the madness slips away and we remember the basics.

Willie Nelson

Drinking, Order, Smoking

Willie Nelson, Turk Pipkin (2006). “The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart”, p.29, Penguin

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Far more gardens fail because the gardener is absent or not paying attention than because he or she lacks erudition. Yes, you need to know your ABCs [the basics], but the more you garden, the more you'll learn what works and what doesn't.

Barbara Damrosch

Garden, Needs, Attention

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Indeed we have great reason to rejoice. If life and its rushed pace and many stresses have made it difficult for you to feel like rejoicing, then perhaps now is a good time to refocus on what matters most. Strength comes not from frantic activity but from being settled on a firm foundation of truth and light. It comes from placing our attention and efforts on the basics of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. It comes from paying attention to the divine things that matter most.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Jesus, Stress, What Matters

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It is time to return to those core values, time to get back to basics: to self-discipline and respect for the law, to consideration for others, to accepting responsibility for yourself and your family, and not shuffling it off on other people and the state.

John Major

Responsibility, Self, Law

"Major gives seal of approval to Tories' right-wing agenda". The Sunday Times, October 9, 1993.

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It sounded stupid, but of course everything does when you're just getting the bare bones facts, only the basics.

Sarah Dessen

Stupid, Doe, Facts

Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.126, Penguin

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We learn most readily, most naturally, most effectively, when we start with the big picture - precisely when the basics don't come first.

Alfie Kohn

Firsts, Bigs, Big Picture

Alfie Kohn (2000). “The Schools Our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and "Tougher Standards"”, p.62, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Whenever I get to a low point, I go back to the basics. I ask myself, "Why am I doing this?" It comes down to passion.

Lyn St. James

Passion, Enthusiasm, Lows

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To see things in black and white is to see the basics, and I would recommend to any designer of gardens that he go out and look at his work by the light of the moon.

Eleanor Perenyi

Work, Black And White, Moon

Eleanor Perenyi (2010). “Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden”, p.142, Modern Library

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