Basic Principles Quotes

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

I tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy.

Any structure must have a strong foundation. The cornerstones anchor the foundation. For some reason the cornerstones that I chose to begin with I never changed.

Basic Economics 101. It's the most complicated simple subject there is.

Berkshire was built on the eternal verities: basic mathematics, basic horse sense, basic fear, and basic diagnosis of human nature to make predictions regarding human behavior. We stuck to the basics with a certain amount of discipline and it has worked out quite well.

We have to stick to basics. Sometimes, you expect that miracles will happen, but it does not work out that way.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

The Government will regard as its first and foremost duty to revive the spirit of unity and cooperation in the nation and to preserve and defend its basic principles of Christianity as the foundation of our national morality, and the family as the basis of national life.

What does it mean to be an American? While each of us may have our own specific answer to that question, we likely can agree on the basic principles of America: freedom, equal opportunity, and rights accompanied by responsibilities.

The National Government will regard it as its first and foremost duty to revive in the nation the spirit of unity and cooperation. It will preserve and defend those basic principles on which our nation has been built. It regards Christianity as the foundation of our national morality, and the family as the basis of national life.

There can be no compromise on basic principles. There can be no compromise on moral issues. There can be no compromise on matters of knowledge, of truth, of rational conviction.

When the target audience is American teenage kids, you can have problems. My generation prized really fine acting and writing. Sometimes you have to go back to the basic principles which underpin great visual comedy.

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

Above all, keep it simple.

A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change. So it's a matter of fitting your current practices to fit the event and the individual. See, what's good for you might not be worth a darn for the next guy.

Having a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing seems to me to be one of the most basic principles that you can adopt to contribute to individual and world peace.

No matter what engineering field you're in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.

Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women.

Simple truths are a relief from grand speculations.

One of the basic principles when you dealing with mathematics and Islam: Seek knowledge.

Maintain a firm grasp of the obvious at all times.

This oxidation of hydrogen in stages seems to be one of the basic principles of biological oxidation.

Just the basic principles of what makes America work for me are very strong in my heart. It's like no other nation in the world.

We Indians are Latin America's moral reserve. We act according to a universal law that consists of three basic principles: do not steal, do not lie and do not be idle.

Simple things are always the most difficult.