Fundamentals Quotes - Page 5

• Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test…consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.

  Milan Kundera

  Attitude, Compassion, Animal

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• Instead of generating either unnecessary alarm or a false sense of security regarding these fundamental issues, the best course is to empower people with the truth.

  Dick Thornburgh

  Truth, Issues, People

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• Mr. Speaker, we have reached a point in history where some have forgotten that it is the family, not the government, that is the fundamental building block of our society.

  Jim Ryun

  Block, Government, Umpires

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• Technology is similarly just a catalyst at times for fundamental forces already present.

  Scott D. Cook

  Technology, Catalyst, Force

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• The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Metaphor, Chains, Extensions

  "Liberty" by Isaiah Berlin, edited by Henry Hardy, (Introduction), 2002.

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• Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science.

  Gary Zukav

  Acceptance, Science, Faith Religion

  Gary Zukav (1979). “The dancing Wu Li masters: an overview of the new physics”, Bantam

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• There's a fundamental distinction between strategy and operational effectiveness.

  Michael Porter

  Effectiveness, Strategy, Distinction

  "What is strategy?" by Michael Porter, Harvard Business Review, November 1996.

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• I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Mistake, Thinking, Umpires

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• Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Motivational, Basketball, Games

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• To regard the fundamental as the essence, to regard things as coarse, to regard accumulation as deficiency, and to dwell quietly alone with the spiritual and the intelligent - herein lie the techniques of Tao of the ancients.

  Zhuangzi

  Spiritual, Lying, Intelligent

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• The first and most fundamental issue of sin is pride.

  Harold J. Warner

  Pride, Issues, Firsts

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• That is basically me, and although I have done many things in my life - conducting, playing piano, and so on - what is fundamental is my being a composer.

  Morton Gould

  Piano, Done, Conducting

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• Fundamentally, our Lord's message was Himself. He did not come merely to preach a Gospel; He himself is that Gospel. He did not come merely to give bread; He said, "I am the bread." He did not come merely to shed light; He said, "I am the light." He did not come merely to show the door; He said, "I am the door." He did not come merely to name a shepherd; He said, "I am the shepherd." He did not come merely to point the way; He said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life."

  J. Sidlow Baxter

  Life, God, Faith

  "Baxter's Explore the Book". Book by J. Sidlow Baxter, p. 308, 1986.

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• A knowledge of and the ability to properly and quickly execute the fundamentals. Be prepared and cover every little detail.

  John Wooden

  Details, Littles, Ability

  John Wooden (2010). “Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success (Large Print 16pt)”, p.63, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Health care is not a privilege. It's a right. It's a right as fundamental as civil rights. It's a right as fundamental as giving every child a chance to get a public education.

  Rod Blagojevich

  Children, Rights, Giving

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• Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them.

  Allen Tate

  Doe, Serious, Conflict

  Allen Tate (1999). “Essays of Four Decades”, Isi Books

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• My feeling is that poetry will wither on the vine if you don't regularly come back to the simplest fundamentals of the poem: rhythm, rhyme, simple subjects - love, death, war.

  James Fenton

  War, Simple, Feelings

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• So that's when I saw the DNA model for the first time, in the Cavendish, and that's when I saw that this was it. And in a flash you just knew that this was very fundamental.

  Sydney Brenner

  Dna, Saws, Firsts

  Sydney Brenner (2001). “A life in science”

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• God is therefore unknowable. This is the fundamental premise of the Bible.

  Leo Strauss

  God Is There, Premises

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• The difference - the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive.

  James Lipton

  Differences, Acting, Film

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• There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.

  Stanislav Grof

  Spiritual, Practice, Differences

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• During this earlier period of his activity Voltaire seems to have been trying - half unconsciously, perhaps - to discover and to express the fundamental quality of his genius.

  Lytton Strachey

  Trying, Quality, Genius

  Lytton Strachey (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)”, p.81, Delphi Classics

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• I think the fundamental part of my technique is my vibrato.

  Robin Trower

  Thinking, Technique

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• The 'interactive fiction' format hasn't changed in any fundamental way since the early 1970s, in the same way that the format of the novel hasn't since 1700.

  Graham Nelson

  Fiction, Way, Changed

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• Return to the fundamentals of politics - sell our story door to door.

  Richard J. Daley

  Doors, Political, Stories

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