Quotes About Foundations

The expectation with family foundations is that if your name is on the foundation, unless you're dead, it's your money that's being given away. And even if you are dead, it was your money before.

Passion? Of course it's necessary, but it's more important to have footballing foundations, certainly, when developing players.

I had to change foundations four or five times and I finally found one that I think my skin agrees with.

I'm actually a ridiculously basic person when it comes to make-up, and I pretty much wear the same things I did when I started my company 22 years ago, apart from a few differently textured foundations.

I liked the idea of being one of the foundations for Coach Bennett's program and trying to revive UVa basketball.

You can never really get away from the fundamentals of anything that you're doing.

You go back to fundamentals when things start to go awry.

If you look at all aspects of all sports, everything comes down to basics and fundamentals.

I think the fundamentals of America are strong.

We are walking on the foundations of literature, up the steep, stony path in the fiery heat.

The basics win fights.

foundations On which life and existence rest. For not only would all reasoning collapse, But so, straight away, would life itself, Unless we choose to trust the senses, And avoid precipitous places And other things of the kind that are to be shunned.9 <> As to the error and uncertainty of the

If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in mathematics...

Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundations that underlies and gives reality to all other virtue and personal values. (p. 13)

OS AXIOMAS, EMBORA BÁSICOS PARA TODAS AS PROVAS, SÃO ELES MESMOS NÃO-PROVADOS OU ATÉ MESMO NÃO PROVÁVEIS... SE OS AXIOMAS SÃO NEGADOS, AS PROPOSIÇÕES DEDUZIDAS A PARTIR DOS AXIOMAS NÃO EXISTEM, VISTO QUE NÃO HÁ NADA A PARTIR DO QUE ELAS POSSAM SER DERIVADAS; A VALIDADE DO SISTEMA INTEIRO TORNA-SE SUSPEITO... OS AXIOMAS DE UMA PESSOA DETERMINAM OS SEUS TEOREMAS.

those whom he termed 'primordial characters' of humanity.

And unpredictability can spread: one powerful outlier can pave the way for others, and as more states joint the outlier, the foundations of the rule of law begin to crumble. US counterterrorism practices--and the legal theories that under-pin them--are undermining the international rule of law in precisely this way...

The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. (One is unable to notice something because it is always before one's eyes.) The real foundations of his enquiry do not strike a man at all

I am not interested in constructing a building, so much as in having a perspicuous view of the foundations of possible buildings.

trovarsi davanti a un pazzo sapete che significa? trovarsi davanti a uno che vi scrolla dalle fondamenta tutto quanto avete costruito in voi, attorno a voi, la logica, la logica di tutte le vostre costruzioni!

Most of the great universities of the West were founded with the conviction that theology is the queen of the disciplines. (...) Now, in the latter part of the twentieth century, that tradition has almost disappeared.

The central components of the "institutional approach" outlined here – the adoption of a central focus on institutions, process, social control, new psychological foundations, and empirical and instrumental "scientific" investigation – serve as a reference point to identify the movement and its adherents.

Remember whenever money is involved, it brings out horrific things in people. It has the power not only to split families apart, but to destroy the foundations of one's life. Never lose site of this. Take time and be certain you place your trust in those whose interests and goals mirror your own.

A mind is accustomed to mathematical deduction, when confronted with the faulty foundations of astrology, resists a long, long time, like an obstinate mule, until compelled by beating and curses to put its foot into that dirty puddle.