Principles Quotes - Page 12

• I personally developed the Academy training program. All our training is based on solid educational principles. We present the material in four training formats: lecture, demonstration, drill, and implementation.

  Jim Evans

  Educational, Training, Four

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• Many states rely on sales tax as their principle source of revenue and do not have a State income tax.

  Bill Jenkins

  Income, States, Source

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• The ingenerating of a principle of grace in the soul seems in Scripture to be compared to the conceiving of Christ in the womb... And the conception of Christ in the womb of the blessed virgin by the power of the Holy Ghost, seems to be a designed resemblance of the conception of Christ in the soul of a believer by the power of the same Holy Ghost.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Blessed, Grace, Soul

  Jonathan Edwards, David Brainerd (1808). “The Works of President Edwards;: A treatise conserning religious affections. Christian cautions. A warning to professors. The final judgment. Sinners in Zion tenderly warned. The end of the wicked contemplated by the righteous”, p.69

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• War will never yield but to the principles of universal justice and love, and these have no sure root but in the religion of Jesus Christ.

  William Ellery Channing

  Jesus, War, Roots

  William Ellery Channing (1839). “Lecture on War”, p.17

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• Immediately upon the fall, the mind of man shrank from its primitive greatness and expandedness, to an exceeding smallness and contractedness... Before, his soul was under the government of the noble principles of divine love, whereby it was enlarged to the comprehensiveness of all his fellow creatures and their welfare... [But] sin, like some powerful astringent, contracted his soul to the very small dimensions of selfishness, and God was forsaken, and man retired within himself, and became totally governed by narrow and selfish principles and feelings.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Powerful, Selfish, Fall

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• Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Customs, Magistrates

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• Without the knowledge of the true number of the people, as a principle, the whole scope and use of keeping bills of birth and burials is impaired; wherefore by laborious conjectures and calculations to deduce the number of people from the births and burials, may be ingenious, but very preposterous.

  William Petty

  Numbers, People, Bills

  Sir William Petty (1986). “The Economic Writings of Sir William Petty: Together with the Observations Upon the Bills of Mortality More Probably by John Graunt”, Augustus m Kelley Pubs

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• The treatment of the indeterminacy principle as absolute and final can then be criticized as constituting an arbitrary restriction on scientific theories, since it does not follow from the quantum theory as such, but rather from the assumption of the unlimited validity of certain of its features, an assumption that can in no way ever be subjected to experimental proof.

  David Bohm

  Science, Doe, Finals

  David Bohm (2004). “Causality and Chance in Modern Physics”, p.47, Routledge

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• Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold; stir more than they can quiet; fly to the end, without consideration of the means and degrees; pursue some few principles, which they have chanced upon absurdly; care not to innovate, which draws unknown inconveniences; use extreme remedies at first; and, that which doubleth all errors, will not acknowledge or retract them; like an unready horse, that will neither stop nor turn.

  Francis Bacon

  Horse, Mean, Men

  Francis Bacon, David Mallet (1740). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ...: With Several Additional Pieces, Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which is Prefixed, a New Life of the Author”, p.361

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• Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter waters, when they themselves have poison'd the fountain.

  John Locke

  Children, Water, Parent

  John Locke, George Berkeley (2010). “Locke, Berkely & Hume”, p.29, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Each one of us has the ability to play the game of life with balance, harmony and joy, but we need to know the rules and the principles.

  Robert Anthony

  Games, Play, Joy

  Robert Anthony (2004). “Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want”, p.1, Morgan James Publishing

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• The principle which prompts to save is the desire of bettering our conditiona desire which?comes with us from the womb and never leaves us till we go into the grave.

  Adam Smith

  Desire, Graves, Womb

  1776 An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, bk.2, ch.3.

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• Consider that as a principle of love is the main principle in the heart of a real Christian, so the labor of love, is the main business of the Christian life.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Christian, Real, Heart

  Jonathan Edwards (2000). “Christian Love and It's Fruit”, p.12, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• Even in this secular country, the threat posed by religious fundamentalists is never very far away. Every major religious text exhorts the same principles - that of unyielding obedience to a supernatural being, and renunciation of the intellect and personal aspirations.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Country, Religious, Supernatural Beings

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• Where did this commandment come from in relation to polygamy? It also came from God... When I see any of our people, men or women, opposing a principle of this kind... I consider them apostates.

  John Taylor

  Men, People, Kind

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• THE MAN. Can't they realize that mankind was founded on two basic principles? Religion and Death? The one motivates the other. Both motivate the man!

  Candice Bergen

  Women, Two, Religion

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• Our children, our grandchildren, our students, our young athletes. We need to be pouring leadership principles into them constantly, and teaching, and instructing them how to become good leaders in the future.

  Pat Williams

  Children, Teaching, Athlete

  Source: nerdreactor.com

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• I have been very consistent over the course of my entire life. I have always fought for the same values and principles.

  Hillary Clinton

  Consistent, Courses, Has Beens

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I say "on principle" [regarding 'lesbian writer'] because whenever you get one of your minority labels applied, like "Irish Writer," "Canadian Writer," "Woman Writer," "Lesbian Writer" - any of those categories - you always slightly wince because you're afraid that people will think that means you're only going to write about Canada or Ireland, you know.

  Emma Donoghue

  Writing, Mean, Thinking

  "‘Room’ Author/Screenwriter Emma Donoghue on Her “Deeply Feminist” Film and Industry Sexism". Interview with Laura Berger, blogs.indiewire.com. October 16, 2015.

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• I think that when you're taking pictures with my principles, you can try anything. Dare to do a lot of things - dare with sexuality, dare to break taboos as long as it remains photogenic. As long as I find an elegance and beauty in it, I am not afraid to tackle anything.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Thinking, Long, Trying

  Interview with Karl Lagerfeld, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 18, 2011.

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• There has been a seismic shift in the business world. The great classical business principles still hold true but they need to be fused with cutting edge internet technology.

  Harvey Mackay

  Cutting, Technology, Needs

  "Harvey Mackay Book Interview : THE MACKAY MBA OF SELLING IN THE REAL WORLD". Interview with David Dalka, www.daviddalka.com. November 29, 2011.

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• Religions have found that if you behave in a certain way, if you sort of perform certain rituals that expand your mind and make you realize that will make you realize and help you to seguey into transcendence and perform certain acts, adopt a certain lifestyle, you develop new capacities of mind and heart, just like the dancer, or the athlete that make you into a whole human being and principle after one of these disciplines right across the board in all of the faiths is compassion, the ability to feel with the other person.

  Karen Armstrong

  Athlete, Heart, Compassion

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

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• 3 requirements for a good designer: 1. genuine knowledge and love of great design. 2. sound knowledge of principles and techniques of communication. 3. heart (passion).

  Lester Beall

  Communication, Heart, Knowledge

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• Moral stupidity comes in two different forms: relativism and legalism. Relativism sees no principles, only people; legalism sees no people, only principles.

  Peter Kreeft

  Two, People, Stupidity

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• I accept no principles of physics which are not also accepted in mathematics.

  Rene Descartes

  Physics, Accepted, Mathematics

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