Quotes About Fundamentals

The rule is: The basics are the basics, and you can't beat the basics.

You have to know the classics if you want to cook modern food.

There's a lot of bad habits a lot of guys have now in the NBA and in college, so there's only one way to get them started right and that's to go back to the roots.

My business in life is to eat, drink, sleep, and die. Everything else is superfluity and I will have none of it.

Part 1 First Things First

Human intelligence is a limited resource. It cannot solve problems caused by ignoring fundamentals of existence.

Principles make it simple.

The beginning, the laying down of the fundamentals, was always the worst part, which he supposed was why so few people did it.

The beginning, the laying down of the fundamentals, was always the worst part, which he supposed was why so few people did it. That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that you didn't expect.

The fundamentals of the token model are valuable and powerful. They allow communities to govern themselves, their economics, and rally a community in powerful ways that will allow open systems to flourish in a way that was previously impossible.

Three months later—a Jewish girl having in the meantime explained the fundamentals of kosher dining—he returned to the B & H Dairy Bar, and when, finally, the old man asked him if he'd ever been in a restaurant, Jeff answered, "I don't know—you ever worked in one?" After that he was a New Yorker. Cruising

The principle of majority does not work when differences on fundamentals are involved.

I lay a lot of blame at the feet of Dusty Baker for not being more strict about fundamentals, which I think would give the team a stronger day-to-day identity.

I learned how to play the game without using my athletic abilities while playing overseas. When I got my NBA opportunity, it enhanced my fundamentals.

In other words, general set theory is pretty trivial stuff really, but, if you want to be a mathematician, you need some and here it is; read it, absorb it, and forget it.

Basketball isn't a game; It's an art form. You master the fundamentals so you can forget 'em, so you can improvise and just concentrate on what really matters: getting buckets.

Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.

I've been doing Tai Chi on and off for 20 years. The fundamentals of all martial arts are the same.

Move quickly. Sound, calm mind. Be light in body. Have a clever mind. Master the basics.

Junk-bond investors cannot win. When fundamentals improve, stock returns dominate bond returns. When rates decline, noncallable bonds provide superior risk-adjusted returns. When fundamentals deteriorate, junk-bond investors fall along with equity investors.

Creo que es necesario para nosotros como seres humanos aprender más de la naturaleza y, con gran humildad, regresar a los fundamentos básicos de los alimentos.

The biggest thing we get out of it is seeing the kids smile. And hopefully we will also see that the lessons we're teaching - not only the fundamentals of hockey, but also the life values - are sinking in.

Being a Navy SEAL and sniper taught me all about risk management. Take away all the risk variables under your control and reduce it to an acceptable level. The same fundamentals apply in business.

Investment bubbles and high animal spirits do not materialize out of thin air. They need extremely favorable economic fundamentals together with free and easy, cheap credit, and they need it for at least two or three years. Importantly, they also need serial pleasant surprises in such critical variables as global GNP growth.