Basics Quotations

I think a lot of modern day guitarists start off playing like Eddie van Halen, and they don't take the time to learn the basics.

Riding a bicycle is about getting back to basics. It's good for the waistline and it's good for the wallet, is what I'm saying.

Don't worry too much if you don't pass exams, so long as you feel you have understood the subject. It's amazing what you can get by the ability to reason things out by conventional methods, getting down to the basics of what is happening.

It all comes back to the basics. Serve customers the best-tasting food at a good value in a clean, comfortable restaurant, and theyll keep coming back.

Things have changed a lot since the earth was cooling and I was a teenage girl, but the basics of teenage bedrooms have remained the same. Every girl wants a place that they are proud to call their own and where they can express their own individuality.

I remember when I first came to Liverpool, Pepe Reina helped with everything, and he made it easy for me. When I was Atletico Madrid captain, I tried to help everyone. These are the basics in football: you need to create an atmosphere and try to create a group of friends. It's not easy, and it doesn't always happen, but you have to try.

I can do basics, but I'm not a proper cook. I can do a roast. I can stick a chicken in the oven with vegetables.

In terms of pots and pans, I just use the basics - Im not a snob like that.

In hindsight, that time out of football gives you the hunger to want to get back to basics and play football.

A lot of these things will fly in later forms on the space station themselves, or a later form of that research will, once they kind of find out some of the basics from flying it on shuttle.

We need for America to get back to basics and focus on the middle class's quality of life. Healthcare reform is vital to restoring that standard of living.

After assessing what's in your closet, make a list of what you need. Not want, but need. Write down the basics missing from your wardrobe. It could be a classic white shirt, a trenchcoat, or the perfect little black dress. Whatever the blank spots, write them down. This will be your reference for shopping.

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

At the beginning of every role I take, I have to start from basics and build it up. It's like a new construction.

Some of the things I think I learned from that were very educational as far as just paying bills - the basics in dealing with a restaurant like that. It was just life - the education involved in running the organization, even on a small level.

Oh yeah, we all write. That's what's great about when you have basics in piano.

I have to admit that I only read 'War and Peace' when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then.

Obviously, we wanted a better effort and we wanted to play smarter. We need to go back to basics and play a simpler game. Frustration is a big factor and hard to control, but we have to find a way.

Right now, I'm basically back to basics and working my way back up. Just got to be patient. It's going to take time.

My four basics are eating, sleeping, raising children and making money,

We made a decision to go with the basics. Regardless of the level of football -- college, high school, the NFL -- blocking and tackling gets it done. We decided to focus on the basics and parlay that into everything else.

We're confident that the basics have been done but we can't be over-confident, we can't get complacent.

We're going do what we've done well all year, and hopefully good things come our way. We're not going to do anything special. As a matter of fact, we tried to do things special during the tournament, and none of it worked. All we did is move right back to our basics, and our basics got us this far.

Many traders try and enter the game without even the basics of profitable trading techniques. When we found the Quantum Swing Trader course, we knew we had to roll it out to our users immediately.

We were clear last year that we needed to fix the basics of our offer for customers and we have made good steps forward.

Back to Basics was absolute humbug, wasn't it?

Fundamentals are the focus during spring drills. Every spring, we work on blocking and tackling and the little things that end up being the big things - the basics of football.

I don't believe the people of Illinois want a governor that is unclear on the basics of legislation or one who plays loose and fast with the facts.

I felt like I was throwing the ball good all game. ... I felt good the last 21/2 weeks of practice. I went back to basics and kept it simple. That will be my deal from now on.

Having learnt my basics in theatre, I always feel film is a collaborative effort. If you do your part well and help the person in front of you in realising his or her potential, the film invariably comes out good.

We made some mistakes against a very good team that capitalized on them. Now it's just a matter of getting back to basics and believing we can win.

He cannot be required to answer how he's going to decide a case that might come before the court, ... That would undercut the very basics of judicial independence.

He's got strong programs. He's got a lot of the basics and he could come through. The material and artistry are there. He's a player (for an Olympic medal), for sure.

He's been telling me little things about staying low and keeping a nice little base when I'm ready to throw. We're kind of doing the basics right now, and hopefully we can work our way up to where I can be just as fundamentally sound as he was.

He is a good back, but we didn't wrap up. We just didn't make the plays tonight. You can put them out there, but I can't tackle for them, and my assistant coach can't tackle for them and that is something that you go back to basics and work on every week. Hopefully by week 4 we are going to be better.

He hits it so straight. He's talking about basics and he's making basics work phenomenally.

We took a step back, which is disappointing. We are still trying to find out about this team. We have to retrace some ground that we thought we had improved on. We have to go back to the fundamentals and basics again.

My mother's family raised grains and crops. My father's grew sugarcane and mangos. So I knew more about the basics of farming than of acting.

Some of the basics of the technology may be similar, but the way it's been implemented is different. And these differences impact the actual user experience. FLO was designed especially to deliver mobile TV, while DVB-H is a standard based on older broadcast TV technology.

I say to these visitors to North Carolina, you will find the basics of food, water and shelter, but you will also find compassion and caring, ... We are here to help you through this terrible time.

Sure I'd like to get them a win, but we basically started from scratch and have a lot of girls who never even played the game before. So I'm really concentrating on teaching them the basics of the game right now.

Reggie, Michael and J.D. are coming along well. I'm really proud of how the three of them look thus far in the season. The other ones are learning. Most of the other ones, this is their first year, but they've got good basics and good mechanics, so I think we'll improve as the season goes.

I see film as a real opportunity to examine the human condition. No matter where the technology goes in the future, the basics don't change. Storytelling is a primitive tribal function. The elders sat around the fires and told these stories as a way to pass on the 'dos' and the 'don'ts.' That will never change.

It allowed us to get the basics like razor blades, Listerine, gloves, things we needed right then.

I talk to both parties several times a day. We're looking to get the basics together to sign an agreement very soon.

I think women have the advantage over men - they tend to be much more in touch with their feelings and understand the dynamics of how relationships work. Men are much more cold-blooded and less willing to explore what makes a marriage or a relationship work. We like to deal in results and women are interested primarily in the process of the relationship, the little things which are actually the basics of how men and women interact.

Our basics didn't work for us today. We weren't right with the bat, the ball or in the field.

I won't seek changes to the basics of the agreement,

I think our passing game was not very good. I think our offensive line performed very well and we ran the ball with consistency. But we have work to do with some of the basics with regard to our passing game.

It has been a tough conference. You can get beat on any given night. You have to stick to your basics and concentrate on fundamentals.

I thought Ben has gotten better and better each week. The biggest thing with Ben is just learning the basics of offensive line play. He never really played that much offensive line, but he was born to be an offensive lineman. He has a bright future in this game. He's such a good person; he works hard, and he's smart.

I was a subject of ridicule and lectures about the basics of crystallography. The leader of the opposition to my findings was the two-time Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling, the idol of the American Chemical Society and one of the most famous scientists in the world.

We've told the kids that our best way to win a championship is through defense. I thought coming into the season defense would a strong point but I think we've gotten into an offensive frame of mind at times. We're trying to get back to basics with defense.

Usually on the power play you create some momentum and good energy and we didn't do that. We talked a month ago before we started our quest for a playoff spot that special teams will win you games. We have to get back to basics on the power play.

We have been working on all the basics in practice. Everything is equally important this time of season.

We have a lot of professional commercial pilots who come here to fly 'seat of the pants' and 'stick and rudder' planes. They like to get back to basics after all the hours in the big planes.

We had to restore the attitude of being hard to beat. Over the past 18 months we've tried to change that philosophy because you try to improve by getting in better players and trying to play more open, attractive football. We had to go back to basics and to do that I had to rely on players who have been with me a long time. I always know what I'm going to get off them and they gave everything they could.

We got back to the basics after that. We've had a month to get ready. This will be a big test for us.

We're just trying to get back to basics and get back to the style of play that we want to play. Obviously if you're on the outside looking in, it's looking like it's pretty bad. But we know what we have to do.

The external motivation lasts maybe one or two plays ? I?m just directing things a little bit. We needed to shake things up a bit and just get back to the basics and fundamentals.

We've run into two pretty good defenses in a row, but we've still got a good offense. We just need to get back to basics and do what we do. I never questioned our effort. We had our guys giving it everything they had out there, we just need to play a complete game.

There is a very flat yield curve globally for different reasons, even in some emerging markets. I really don't see where the easy money is. No matter how sophisticated you are, you can't get away from the basics of banking: Borrow short, lend long.

We started with the basics of kicking and punching, then we moved on once we got proficient in that, we moved on to working with the weapons, and from then on working with the wires.

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

We can't turn the ball over 20 times with two seniors and an experienced junior guard. I just told them I don't want to hear any more about rankings or what we're supposed to do. We have to get back to the basics and start doing the things again that we were doing early in the season.

When children's minds are open to new ideas and concepts at the age of six, they could be taught the basics of molecular structure, how Oxygen and Hydrogen and Carbon join up to make ever-day substances. By the age of 14, their minds are already doubtful of new ideas which suggest something fundamentally different to what they know, and they can no longer be inspired into exploring science.

We need to do our jobs. That is the biggest thing. We need to hang on to the football and make our blocks. Football is a pretty basic sport and we didn't get the basics done last week. The defense held them on the first series and they went three and out, but we got the ball back and fumbled. The offense needs to get their jobs done.

We have to go back to some of the basics. Those basics are the parents have to get involved in the young people lives. The parents have to know what their kids are doing. The churches are going to have to get involved. We are going to have to start educating our kids.

We're still in the hole and we've got to battle to get even again. When you have a performance like we had, everything needs work. We have to get good at the basics and try to give ourselves a chance.

What this industry is about is back to the basics in the new Internet economy; and the basics are profitability, cash flow, productivity and market-share gains,

With nobody over 30 in the last Test, it is a young side but a very talented one. A lot of great things came out of that match and we outplayed India for the bulk of it. But the one thing we can't do now is get complacent just because we competed. As long as that doesn't happen and we stick to the basics I think we'll be fine.

We're getting clues but we really don't understand the basics yet.

The only competition that (Stafford) is doing right now is just trying to learn what to do. The other three guys, even four guys when you count (walk-on Nick) Dalton, have a lot better idea of what to do, even on the basics of calling the cadence. He's a talented passer. I think we all know that, and you can tell he's going full speed as far as trying to learn, but there's so much to learn in such a short amount of time.

There are college graduates not trained in this; business courses don't always cover the basics of communicating.

At Regions, we believe it is important for kids to learn the basics of money management at an early age. That's why we support this program. We also offer Junior Savings accounts to get kids started on the right path.

While today's kids can receive email through their cell phones or use the Internet to do their homework, many don't know the basics of saving and money management.

We need to get back to the basics in elementary school. Without that, the enhanced curriculum in junior and senior high school will reject more students.

When we started writing, we went back to the basics of just kind of jamming out riffs, ... That brought us back to some of our influences. It made the songs seem like some of them could use guitar solos. We just thought we would expand on that. We're trying to contribute in our way bringing this element back to rock music.

When we plan a campaign, we make sure we take care of the basics like television and print and then we add something different. The sidewalk displays, being an innovative concept, fit perfectly with our aims, stressing the innovation of Zephyr and Lincoln as a whole.

The road wasn't too friendly to us the last time. I'm already getting a bad memory. Hopefully, we'll have a better response on the road overall than the last game and give ourselves a chance to win by playing our system. But we've gone back to some basics that seem to have helped us.

With rapidly rising household bills for energy, water and council tax, it's no wonder that consumers remain cautious about spending money expect on basics such as food.

We taught him enough basics to survive the fight. We work mainly on defense. Of course we want to win, but we respect all fighters.we fight to win, not to lose.

We've never had trouble creating chances. We just need to get back to basics and keep doing the same things we've done for years.

Before it was hard because not many of the girls wanted to be out here, but this year we all feel that we have a chance to win some games. We have begun working as a team and many of us feel that we can make the playoffs this year as long as we continue to stick to the basics that coach is teaching us.

Brent is passionate in what he does and the kids see that, ... He's very positive in his coaching and a great role model. He teaches the basics well and has a system such that players understand what they need to practice.

Even though we were out-manned at Porum, we had a lot of offensive breakdowns where one guy didn't do his job. We had a lot of kids on the field who are first-year players. We'll get back to the basics this week.

The thing about the basics is they don't really change - it's the details and the proportions that change. The shirt may be cut slimmer or looser, the suit might be darker or lighter, the sneakers might not have laces, but you're still talking about shirts and suits and sneakers.

(Self-checkout is) negative because more and more retailers are losing the personal touch. People want to do business where people know their name and communicate with them. With a world full of email and more self-service we will begin to start seeking out the basics from retailers who create emotion. There is not emotion out of self-service and most people buy out of emotion.

Actually, it was a combination of all three of those things. Our offense is designed to be able to run the football against any defense we face. We just didn't do that very well in our first game. So we went back to the basics and looked at some things, and hopefully we'll have it corrected by Saturday.

No matter how challenged people are financially, owning a home remains one of the basics -- a first building block in the American dream,

Defensively we were playing scared and weren't coming out and being aggressive. Offensively we had to put a drive together and with Caleb hurt, we had to do some things to be able to move the ball. I wish I could say I had a stroke of genius, but I really didn't. When you look at it, we just kind of went back to basics and ran our leads and ran our option and that put us in good scoring range.

A little effort goes a long way. Do one or two things on the list, not all of them. Otherwise, do a good job with the basics and be a friendly, hospitable host. As word gets around and your guests become regulars, your off-season problem will solve itself.

Although weddings are emotional and spiritual, they also represent a series of business transactions. This book teaches the basics of negotiation and how to apply them to meetings with vendors.

A lot of it was just going back to the basics of what good teaching looks like.

Our computer basics and Web basics series continue to be most popular, but we've also had good attendance at some of our more subject-oriented classes, everything from finding health information to conducting genealogical research.

There's no wrong reason to save money, but it's a good idea to think about the basics initially. First create a fund to cover living expenses if you're left without income for period of time. Once you have that established, you can start putting away money with other things in mind, like a vacation or a new car purchase.

With all the nerves of a grand final, it's a stick to basics game and a guy like (hooker) Tai McIsaac will lead the Breakers in doing what they have to do.

This is a way for girls to build self-esteem and learn the basics of cheering, stunting and tumbling. I love to watch their faces after they get done performing because they are so excited.

This is really the time to get back to basics and make sure that we're carrying out the fundamental issues of football.

I learned the basics at a very young age. If it's a sad song, act sad.