"Think simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.
~By Frank Lloyd Wright ~
Just as predatory animals follow a similar general design and behave in similar ways, so organizations, especially those in competition with one another, must follow certain design principles if they are to succeed and prevail.
~By Robert Shea ~
Just because people are in authority, if it doesn't seem right, don't do it. If it violates your own principles, don't do it.
~By Steve Chabot ~
Rotary provides training at all levels so that those who have been selected for leadership positions have the opportunity to learn and apply leadership principles to their jobs.
~By Ron D. Burton ~
America's strength is not our diversity; our strength is our ability to unite people of different backgrounds around common principles. A common language is necessary to reach that goal.
~By Ernest Istook ~
According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.
~By Naguib Mahfouz ~
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
~By Mark Twain ~
The importance of the facts testified, and their relations to the affairs of the soul, and the life to come, can make no difference in the principles or the mode of weighing the evidence.
~By Simon Greenleaf ~
The two principles referred to are Authority and Liberty, and the names of the two schools of Socialistic thought which fully and unreservedly represent one or the other of them are, respectively, State Socialism and Anarchism.
~By Benjamin Tucker ~
A person is born with desires of the eyes and ears, and a liking for beautiful sights and sounds. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to immorality and lack of restriction, and any ritual principles and propriety will be abandoned.
~By Xun Zi ~
This is not a time to back away from the principles that this country was founded on.
~By Jeff Bingaman ~
All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.
~By Ann Landers ~
My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught me and what he spoke to me. America's strength is not our diversity; it is our ability to unite around common principles even when we come from different backgrounds.
~By Ernest Istook ~
It is often said by reformers that government should be conducted upon business principles.
~By John Buchanan Robinson ~
There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.
~By Stephen Covey ~
Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right.
~By Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach ~
One of the grand fundamental principles of Mormonism is to receive truth, let it come from whence it may.
~By Joseph Smith, Jr. ~
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.
~By Jim Evans ~
The issue for us is rebuilding a governing majority that is comfortable with differences that can transcend the divisiveness and unify behind the principles that we know our party has succeeded on.
~By Eric Cantor ~
No politician has ever yet been able to rule his country, nor has any country ever yet been able to face the world, upon the principles of the Sermon on the Mount.
~By Frederick Scott Oliver ~
We love your adherence to democratic principles.
~By William F. Buckley, Jr. ~
I had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market system.
~By George W. Bush ~
The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and to present masses of detail of doubtful truth and questionable weight in such a way as to obscure principles.
~By Ronald Fisher ~
The business of a Political Economist is neither to recommend nor to dissuade, but to state general principles, which it is fatal to neglect, but neither advisable, nor perhaps practicable, to use as the sole, or even the principal, guides in the actual conduct of affairs.
~By Nassau William Senior ~
Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.
~By Arthur Machen ~
When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.
~By Xun Zi ~
Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.
~By Anatole France ~
By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
~By Galileo Galilei ~
Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
~By William Cowper ~
Success in management and success in sport are derived from the same basic principles.
~By Will Carling ~
I think Bible principles are principles for life.
~By Joel Osteen ~
Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
~By Leonardo da Vinci ~
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. ~
Freedom. And Justice. If you have those two, it covers everything. You must stick to those principles and have the courage of your convictions.
~By Ian Smith ~
Being from Africa is the best thing that could have ever, ever happened to me. I cannot see it any other way. All of my fundamental principles that were instilled in me in my home, from my childhood, are still with me.
~By Hakeem Olajuwon ~
Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?
~By Blaise Pascal ~
Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.
~By William Feather ~
It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.
~By Frederick The Great ~
Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law.
~By Stockwell Day ~
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!
~By William Lloyd Garrison ~
The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country.
~By James Otis ~
By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market.
~By Vaclav Klaus ~
The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition.
~By John Acton ~
Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail?
~By Stephen Ambrose ~
Throughout out history, when people have looked for new ways to solve their problems, and to uphold the principles of this nation, many times they have turned to political parties. They have often turned to the Democratic Party.
~By Barbara Jordan ~
America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.
~By Barack Obama ~
The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.
~By Andrew Carnegie ~
Avarice seems to have so pervaded our vital principles as to battle all hopes of a remedy but for peace and plenty.
~By Edmund Pendleton ~
Film-makers should remain true to their principles and never compromise, there is a real revival in the British film industry but there is a danger that we will become colonial servants of Hollywood. We need to maintain our own integrity.
~By Mike Leigh ~
Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs. principles based on personal gain, and consider the basis of your own principles.
~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
In addressing you I feel that I am not so much speaking to the representatives of diverse States of Europe and America as to the exponents of principles and hopes that are common to us all, and without which our life on earth would be a life without horizon or prospect.
~By Henry Campbell Bannerman ~
Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.
~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art.
~By Albrecht Durer ~
Although... the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a party only, but of the whole people of the United States.
~By James K. Polk ~
From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
~By Tom Stoppard ~
Obey the principles without being bound by them.
~By Bruce Lee ~
Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the nature of language.
~By Kenneth Burke ~
Neither can men, by the same principles, be considered as lands, goods, or houses, among possessions. It is necessary that all property should be inferiour to its possessor. But how does the slave differ from his master, but by chance?
~By Thomas Clarkson ~
In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.'
~By Jimmy Carter ~
We would fight not for the political future of a distant city, rather for principles whose destruction would ruin the possibility of peace and security for the peoples of the earth.
~By Neville Chamberlain ~
Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.
~By Muhammad Iqbal ~
My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature's laws, these tasks and principles are indifferent to language, culture, gender, or the particular mode of information that is provided.
~By Edward Tufte ~
We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.
~By Sandra Day O'Connor ~
In the early centuries of Islam, the great schools of Islamic jurisprudence were built upon the above principles. Basic to all their legal systems they developed the doctrine that liberty is the fundamental basis of law.
~By Aly Khan ~
I consider no man honest who does not observe towards other nations the principles which he desires to be observed towards his own: and therefore I will not interfere in your domestic questions.
~By Lajos Kossuth ~
Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle.
~By Adolf Hitler ~
The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.
~By Henry Bolingbroke ~
Studies indicate that most of young adults struggle to grasp even the most basic financial principles that will allow them to manage money and prepare for their future.
~By Ron Lewis ~
Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.
~By Laurence Sterne ~
In stating the principles which regulate exchangeable value and price, we should carefully distinguish between those variations which belong to the commodity itself, and those which are occasioned by a variation in the medium in which value is estimated, or price expressed.
~By David Ricardo ~
I pray God I may never be brought to the melancholy trial; but, if ever I should, it will then be known how far I can reduce to practice principles which I know to be founded in truth.
~By James Otis ~
Sir, I am a republican; and I desire to see this House observe the principles of that democracy which is ever on the lips of its members, and which, I hope, is in their hearts, as I know and feel it is in mine, and mean it shall be in my conduct.
~By Caleb Cushing ~
But there's no reason why we should abdicate our foundational principles because certain groups don't believe in them. You know, no majority should surrender its deeply held beliefs to those who don't believe in anything.
~By Pat Robertson ~
The first issue of The Register was printed in London, and gave a glowing account of the province that was to be - its climate, its resources, the sound principles on which it was founded.
~By Catherine Helen Spence ~
The individual makes a clear effort to define moral values and principles that have validity and application apart from the authority of the groups of persons holding them and apart from the individual's own identification with the group.
~By Lawrence Kohlberg ~
I bought some books in order to learn the first principles of philosophy.
~By Johann Heinrich Lambert ~
Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity.
~By Robert Evans ~
In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.
~By Kofi Annan ~
The challenge is always before us. Whenever we lose sight of the principles that mattered to our founders we run into trouble.
~By Jesse Helms ~
If you deny that any principles of conduct at all are common to and admitted by all men who try to behave reasonably - well, I don't see how you can have any ethics or any ethical background for law.
~By Frederick Pollock ~
When we deal with questions relating to principles of law and their applications, we do not suddenly rise into a stratosphere of icy certainty.
~By Charles Evans Hughes ~
We believe in some basic human principles - everyone should have the opportunities not just to survive, but to excel with their God-given talents and abilities. Those are the values that should be reflected in our budgets.
~By Patrick J. Kennedy ~
The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
~By Oriana Fallaci ~
There was the best teachers from the Czech Philharmonic, highly dedicated people, some of the best musicians in the world passing on the knowledge about the country, about the principles, and about the music.
~By Miroslav Vitous ~
The case for freedom, the case for our constitutional principles the case for our heritage has to be made anew in each generation. The work of freedom is never done.
~By Anthony Kennedy ~
All the great things of humanity have been accomplished in the name of absolute principles.
~By Ernest Renan ~
When a battle for suffrage is conducted, it should only be conducted according to socialist principles, and therefore with the demand of universal suffrage for women and men.
~By Clara Zetkin ~
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
~By Napoleon Bonaparte ~
The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions.
~By Henry A. Kissinger ~
To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.
~By Margaret Thatcher ~
I don't consult polls to tell me what my principles are or what our policies should be.
~By Paul Ryan ~
I am outraged that a House member has tried through this provision to breach the traditional confidentiality of individual Americans' tax returns. There is no reason for this measure, and this last-minute act violates all principles of judgment and common sense.
~By John Warner ~
I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it.
~By Andrew Jackson ~
All the principles of heaven and earth are living inside you. Life itself is truth, and this will never change. Everything in heaven and earth breathes. Breath is the thread that ties creation together.
~By Morihei Ueshiba ~
The proposition that Muslims are welcome in Britain if, and only if, they stop behaving like Muslims is a doctrine which is incompatible with the principles that guide a free society.
~By Roy Hattersley ~
The principles and policy of these Presidents were marked by the most enlarged and comprehensive statesmanship, promoting the highest interests of the Republic.
~By Robert Toombs ~
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