My Guiding Principle Quotes

#1. Don't reinvent the wheel. Focus on winning one customer at a time. Be honest and sincere. Do what's right. There's nothing magical about this. That's been my guiding principle. To make it work, you have to live it every day. Make it your mindset.

Robert Spector

#2. I've always taken that as my guiding principle and the rest is just set dressing. You can have dragons in it, or aliens and starships, or a western about a gunslinger, or even literary fiction, and ultimately you're still writing about the human heart in conflict with itself.

George R R Martin

#3. My guiding principle is that prosperity can be shared. We can create wealth together. The global economy is not a zero-sum game.

Julia Gillard

#4. My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.

Franz Kafka

#5. I sort of use as my guiding principle that show The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin. Whenever possible, do the stupid thing.

Moby

#6. We all watch and are constantly being watched in the social media. And while we feel this gaze of others, we form our own identities, our own personas, having as a guiding principle the opinion, the values, the (gossiping) interests of others.

Nicos Hadjicostis

#7. Naturalism, therefore, can never be anything more than a guiding prejudice, an established principle only in the sense that it must be indefensibly presumed for the sake of some larger view of reality;

David Bentley Hart

#8. The assumption that things which have been conjured in the past will always be conjured in the guiding principle not of rational but of animal behavior.

C.S. Lewis

#9. Because the intention wasn't always to be an actor, that hasn't been my number one guiding principle.

David Alpay

#10. The guiding principle of my life, 'the means are the ends,' has taught me that our participation in a corrupt system facilitates it and corrupts and therefore defeats us.

Sonia Johnson

#11. I think the guiding principle for me is working with people, because I don't know how long it's going to last, I want to seize the moment and work with people I want to work with.

Tony Scott

#12. Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.

Gary Bauer

#13. For there are fashions in myth, and the world-conquering West of the nineteenth century needed a philosophy of life in which realpolitik - victory for the tough people who face the bleak facts - was the guiding principle. Thus the bleaker the facts you face, the tougher you seem to be.

Alan W. Watts

#14. I don't have a philosophy as such. Maybe a guiding principle, Carnegie's A man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possessionof anything else to which he is justly entitled.' I'm very singular, driven. I like control... of myself and those around me.

E.L. James

#15. It is not just boredom that propels my steps along paths unknown, but a firm belief that the guiding principle of life must be a search not for what is, but for what could be.

R.A. Salvatore

#16. We must convince and empower people to adopt the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity as their guiding principle.

Klaus Topfer

#17. The one guiding principle over my 23-year career in TV has been as long as I'm having fun, I really don't care what the job title is.

Andy Cohen

#18. (Waste = Loss): The first rule of business is to survive and the guiding principle of business economics is not the maximisation of profit, it is the avoidance of loss

Peter Drucker

#19. Chivalry - ... a romantic idealism closely related to Christianity, which makes honor the guiding principle of conduct. Connected with this is the ancient concept of the gentleman.

Richard M. Weaver

#20. As to the Indians, the guiding principle was, promise them anything just so long as they get out of the way.

Stephen Ambrose

#21. I saw that I had followed the chief guiding principle of the petty bourgeoisie in modernity and made a virtue of necessity in telling myself my husband was a good lover.

Nell Zink

#22. The guiding principle of this Nation has been, is now, and ever shall be IN GOD WE TRUST.

John F. Kennedy

#23. All great acquisitions come from voluntary thought" was Elizabeth's guiding principle. She would not cultivate any motive for learning in her students besides curiosity, claiming that study for the sake of reward or in fear of punishment produced "superficial rather than profound" knowledge.

Megan Marshall

#24. The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists.

Walter Ulbricht

#25. The guiding principle of ruling elites was
and still is: When change threatens to rule, then the rules are changed.

Michael Pare

#26. Being an art form, verse cannot be "free" in the sense of having no limitations or guiding principle.

William Carlos Williams

#27. Never let pride be your guiding principle. Let your accomplishments speak for you.

Morgan Freeman

#28. Therefore I feel that the aforementioned guiding principle must be modified to read: If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but at the same time cultivate the fields to produce more bread; otherwise there will be no peace.

Norman Borlaug

#29. Die and disappear, but that's because the mechanism of the world itself is built on destruction and loss. Our lives are just shadows of that guiding principle.

Haruki Murakami

#30. Move forward and let others do the same. Simple. This is a guiding principle everyone should have.

Pope Francis

#31. Net Neutrality - a guiding principle of the Internet since its beginning - means that content is all treated equally.

Chellie Pingree

#32. The only guiding principle you can use is to make something that you want to see.

Thomas Tull

#33. The universe is not for man alone, but is a theater of evolution for all living beings. Live and let live is its guiding principle. 'Ahimsa Paramo Dharmah' - Non-injury is the highest religion.

Virchand Gandhi

#34. There is no guiding principle, because the work that is created in collaborations should be created from its own principles.

Eyvind Kang

#35. Love is the guiding principle of the Christian life, and generosity is the chief way love manifests itself in the world of work, our communities, and society.

Matt Perman

#36. In Africa, listening is a guiding principle. It's a principle that's been lost in the constant chatter of the Western world, where no one seems to have the time or even the desire to listen to anyone else.

Henning Mankell

#37. Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.

Walter Gropius

#38. As a guiding principle, life shrinks and life expands in direct proportion to your willingness to assume risk.

Casey Neistat

#39. To have a reason to get up in the morning, it is necessary to have some kind of guiding principle. A belief of some kind

Judith Guest

#40. The guiding principle of Martin's personality, the sum of his interior existence, was the desire to be left alone. If all those years he'd sought attention, even novelty, and if he still relished them, then that was because attention proved him different and solitude begins in difference.

Jonathan Franzen

#41. I have great faith in optimism as a guiding principle, if only because it offers us the opportunity of creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Arthur C. Clarke