Fundamentals Quotations | Page 7

In almost all sciences the fundamental knowledge is either found in earliest times or is still being sought.

A fundamental responsibility of leadership is make sure that everybody knows the mission, understands it, lives it.

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.

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

The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all others.

The conservation of our natural resources and their proper use constitute the fundamental problem which underlies almost every other problem of our national life.

Winners don't just learn the fundamentals, they master them. You have to monitor your fundamentals constantly because the only thing that changes will be your attention to them.

Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise

Action is the fundamental key to success.

Build your empire on the firm foundation of the fundamentals.

The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny.

There are no new fundamentals. You've got to be a little suspicious of someone who says, "I've got a new fundamental." That's like someone inviting you to tour a factory where they are manufacturing antiques.

There are no new fundamentals.

Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not. It is only after you have faced up to this fundamental rule and learned to distinguish between what you can and can't control that inner tranquility and outer effectiveness become possible.

Work is fundamental to the dignity of the person. Work, to use an image, 'anoints' with dignity, fills us with dignity, makes us similar to God who has worked and still works, who always acts.

The fundamental desire of life is the desire to exist.

Religious freedom is a fundamental human right.

Fundamental relationships are being called into question, as is the very basis of marriage and the family. I can only reiterate the importance and, above all, the richness and the beauty of family life.

When a parliamentary or social majority decrees that it is legal, at least under certain conditions, to kill unborn human life, is it not really making a tyrannical decision with regard to the weakest and most defenseless of human beings?....While public authority can sometimes choose not to put a stop to something which were it prohibited would cause more serious harm, it can never presume to legitimize as a right of individuals even if they are the majority of the members of society an offense against other persons caused by the disregard of so fundamental a right as the right to life.

Work is fundamental to the dignity of a person. . . . It gives one the ability to maintain oneself, one's family, to contribute to the growth of one's own nation.

A fundamental role in the renewal of society is played, of course, by the family and especially by young people.

The sacred attitude is, then, one of deep and fundamental respect for the real in whatever new form it may present itself.

For our duties and our needs, in all the fundamental things for which we were created, come down in practice to the same thing.

If everything in the universe depends upon everything else in a fundamental way, it might be impossible to get close to a full solution by investigating parts of the problem in isolation.

The laws of science, as we know them at present, contain many fundamental numbers, like the size of the electric charge of the electron and the ratio of the masses of the proton and the electron .... The remarkable fact is that the values of these numbers seem to have been finely adjusted to make possible the development of life.

We do not seek to thrust the principles of our religion upon anyone. The fundamental principles of our religion forbid that.

Were I to be the founder of a new sect, I would call them Apiarians, and, after the example of the bee, advise them to extract the honey of every sect. My fundamental principle would be ... that we are to be saved by our good works which are within our power, and not by our faith which is not within our power.

It's not what people do to us that hurts us. In the most fundamental sense, it is our chosen response to what they do to us that hurts us.

By centering our lives on timeless, unchanging principles, we create a fundamental paradigm of effective living. It is the center that puts all other centers in perspective.

A life of integrity is the most fundamental source of personal worth.

Intolerance of groups is often, strangely enough, exhibited more strongly against small differences than against fundamental ones.

Appraise war in terms of the fundamental factors. The first of these factors is moral influence.

Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.

It's like when IBM drove a lot of innovation out of the computer industry before the microprocessor came along. Eventually, Microsoft will crumble because of complacency, and maybe some new things will grow. But until that happens, until there's some fundamental technology shift, it's just over.

Most intellectuals outside the field of economics show remarkably little interest in learning even the basic fundamentals of economics. Yet they do not hesitate to make sweeping pronouncements about the economy in general, businesses in particular, and the many issues revolving around what is called 'income distribution'.

One of the fundamental points about religious humility is you say you don't know about the ultimate judgment. It's beyond your judgment. And if you equate God's judgment with your judgment, you have a wrong religion.

Memory is the primary and fundamental power, without which there could be no other intellectual operation.

It is not alone that property, in all its forms, is struck at, but that liberty, in all its forms, is challenged by the fundamental conceptions of socialism.