Fundamentals Quotes - Page 22

• Physics is a good framework for thinking. ... Boil things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Motivation, Thinking

  "The mind behind Tesla, SpaceX, SolarCity". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.ted.com. 2013.

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• The net poses a fundamental threat not only to the authority of the government, but to all authority, because it permits people to organize, think, and influence one another without any institutional supervision whatsoever.

  John Seabrook

  Thinking, Government, People

  "My First Flame". Brave New World Dept., www.newyorker.com. June 6, 1994.

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• Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there's no culture of complaint.

  Garry Trudeau

  Pain, Frustration, Goal

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• ...this remedy is the power of the citizens; they have to prevent the establishment of such an autocratic regime that arrogates to itself a higher wisdom than that of the average citizen. This is the fundamental difference between freedom and serfdom.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Freedom, Average, Differences

  Ludwig Von Mises (2006). “Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow”, p.54, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Each man has an equal social right to multiply his power of motion by all the social factors of civilization. Private property in any of these factors is inconsistent with this fundamental right; it must, obviously, prove a source of economic despotism and industrial slavery.

  Daniel De Leon

  Men, Civilization, Tyrants

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• The principal reason, invariably, most "successful" giant companies rather quickly become also-rans, or just amorphous blobs on the competitive landscape, is their failure to re-tool in anything like a fundamental way. In fact, the worse things get, typically, the more they dig in their heels and defend yesterday's turf.

  Tom Peters

  Change, Successful, Yesterday

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• I always admired Walt's optimism. He seemed to know the direction he was going to. When I was at the studio, I remember he kept driving all of us back down to a more fundamental level all the time.

  John Hench

  Artist, Optimism, Levels

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• The fundamental concepts of physical science, it is now understood, are abstractions, framed by our mind, so as to bring order to an apparent chaos of phenomena.

  William Cecil Dampier

  Science, Order, Mind

  William Cecil Dampier Dampier-Whetham M.A., F.R.S. (1931). “A History of Science and its Relations with Philosophy & Religion”

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• Freedom of speech is a fundamental human right.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Freedom Of Speech, Speech, Humans

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• The fundamental question is, 'Will I be a successful president when it comes to foreign policy?' I will be, but until I'm the president, it's going to be hard for me to verify that I think I'll be more effective.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Successful, Thinking

  "2000 - part two" by Jon Ronson, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2000.

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• Our economy, I think, is still -- the fundamentals of our economy are strong.

  John McCain

  Strong, Thinking, Economy

  "McCain: Fundamentals of Economy are 'Strong' but 'Threatened'". Speech at the Rally in Jacksonville, voices.washingtonpost.com. September 15, 2008.

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• A man cannot have character unless he lives within a fundamental system of morals that creates character.

  Harry S. Truman

  Character, Men, Moral

  "Mr. Citizen".

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• Proclaiming the gospel to all mankind is a fundamental part of the mission of the Church.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Church, Missionary, Missions

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• We ask for happiness but what we get is unhappiness. We all put our efforts into trying to be happy but we make a fundamental mistake: happiness is not related to the effort, happiness is related to not asking for it.

  Rajneesh

  Happiness, Mistake, Effort

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• Human intelligence is a limited resource. It cannot solve problems caused by ignoring fundamentals of existence.

  Leon Krier

  Limited Resources, Problem, Existence

  Leon Krier (2009). “The Architecture of Community”, p.136, Island Press

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• Aggressiveness was a fundamental to success in airtoair combat and if you ever caught a fighter pilot in a defensive mood you had him licked before you started shooting.

  David McCampbell

  Shooting, Pilots, Aviation

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• To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter. To abstract in art is to separate certain fundamentals from irrelevant material which surrounds them.

  Ben Shahn

  Art, Essence, Matter

  Ben Shahn (1957). “The Shape of Content”, p.63, Harvard University Press

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• Abstract art is a fundamental distrust of the theory of reality concocted by the eyes.

  Robert Breault

  Art, Eye, Reality

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• Ladies and gentlemen, I stand before you tonight in my …  chiffon evening gown, my face softly made up, my fair hair gently waved, the Iron Lady of the Western world. Me? A Cold War warrior? … Well, yes — if that is how they wish to interpret my defense of values of freedoms fundamental to our way of life.

  Margaret Thatcher

  War, Iron, Hair

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• Let us never forget this fundamental truth: The State has no source of money other than the money people themselves earn.

  Margaret Thatcher

  People, Never Forget, States

  Speech to Conservative Party Conference, www.margaretthatcher.org. October 14, 1983.

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• Gradually, physicists began to realise that nature, at the atomic level, does not appear as a mechanical universe composed of fundamental building blocks, but rather as a network of relations, and that, ultimately, there are no parts at all in this interconnected web. Whatever we call a part is merely a pattern that has some stability and therefore captures our attention.

  Fritjof Capra

  Block, Doe, Attention

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• At this point in our global ecological crisis, the survival of humanity will require a fundamental shift in our attitude toward nature: from finding out how we can dominate and manipulate nature to how we can learn from her. In this brilliant and hopeful book, Jay Harman shows us how far the new field of Biomimicry has already progressed toward this goal. The Shark's Paintbrush makes for fascinating and joyful reading - much needed in these dark times.

  Fritjof Capra

  Attitude, Reading, Book

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• It is my hypothesis that the fundamental source of conflict in this new [post-Cold-War] world will not be primarily ideological or primarily economic. The great divisions among humankind and the dominating source of conflict will be cultural. Nation states will remain the most powerful actors in world affairs, but the principal conflicts of global politics will occur between nations and groups of different civilizations. The clash of civilizations will dominate global politics. The fault lines between civilizations will be the battle lines of the future.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Powerful, War, Civilization

  "The Clash of Civilizations?". Foreign Affairs, www.foreignaffairs.com. Summer 1993.

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• At its best new wave/punk represents a fundamental and age-old Utopian dream: that if you give people the license to be as outrageous as they want in absolutely any fashion they can dream up, they'll be creative about it, and do something good besides.

  Lester Bangs

  Dream, Fashion, People

  New Musical Express (December 1977), as quoted in "Various Artists: No Thanks!: The 70s Punk Rebellion" by Eric Carr, pitchfork.com. February 10, 2004.

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• We would do well to ask ourselves the kind of fundamental questions posed by [Buruma's] erudite and thought-provoking book.

  Jonathan Sumption

  Book, Thought Provoking, Kind

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