Quotes About Groundwork

Let's consider a series of lessons that lay the groundwork for our discussion of breaking free. I will list them as nine lessons about captivity and freedom. LESSON 1 The people of God can be oppressed by the enemy.

It is the innovation that never occurs, and the knowledge that is never created, because you have ceased to lay the groundwork for it. It is what you never learned that might have saved you.

the knowledge that is never created, because you have ceased to lay the groundwork for it.

When I teach master classes, I tell young singers if the foundation isn't good, the house will crumble.

You can't build a great building on a weak foundation. You must have a solid foundation if you're going to have a strong superstructure.

Our history is imperfect, but it has laid the groundwork for the greatest experiment in democracy the world has ever known: America.

Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict.

We now concern ourselves with a labor less spectacular but nevertheless not unrewarding: that of making the terrain for these majestic moral edifices level and firm enough to be built upon; for under this ground there are all sorts of passageways, such as moles might have dug, left over from reason's vain but confident treasure hunting, that make every building insecure. (A319/B377)

Michael Collins, who laid the groundwork for this series with his deep commitment to educating his children on war and peace,

In a sense, fantasy is a freer play of the imagination. You can achieve exactly the situation you want with less groundwork, less of a need to fill in all of the background. For science fiction, I would use a lot of sources to set up, for instance, what a being from another planet would be like.

The X Factor' - I watch it because I'm always searching for talent to use in my musicals, so they do all the groundwork for me.

Never try to build a house without first laying a foundation.

The possibility of my presidential candidacy emerged spontaneously in public opinion polls. For my part, I noticed people's affection when I was doing work on the ground. I think the important thing is that my candidacy was born from citizens themselves, driven by the people and which the parties picked up favorably.

I've been working on my ground skills. Putting in there upwards of 3 to 6 hours a day dedicated to training. And of course part of it is groundwork, and being that I am a striker, ground work for me is more for positioning and striking on the ground.

Fundamentals, fundamentals, fundamentals. You've got to get the fundamentals down because otherwise the fancy stuff isn't going to work.

Fundamentals are the building blocks of fun.

First master the fundamentals." —LARRY BIRD