Top 100 Quotes About Fundamentals
#1. Trust is one of the fundamentals of human existence. We need to be able to trust one another. A man who can no longer trust anyone will become sick.
Desmond Tutu
#2. Sometimes the best way to learn is to return to the fundamentals.
John C. Maxwell
#3. Art is a thing so much of the imagination, of the soul, that it is difficult to descend to the fundamentals of technique and yet make it plain to the student that these are but the 'means' and not an end in themselves.
John F. Carlson
#4. Return to the fundamentals of politics - sell our story door to door.
Richard J. Daley
#5. To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter. To abstract in art is to separate certain fundamentals from irrelevant material which surrounds them.
Ben Shahn
#6. Bicycle Thief is a triumphant discovery of the fundamentals of cinema, and De Sica has openly acknowledged his debt to Chaplin.
Satyajit Ray
#7. In fundamentals, faith is primary, and we may not appeal to love as an excuse to deny essential faith. In nonfundamentals, however, love is primary, and we may not appeal to zeal for the faith as an excuse for failures in love.
John R.W. Stott
#8. If we can't begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of child labor, then we really are not ready to march forward into the future.
Alexis Herman
#9. What people don't realize is that professionals are sensational because of the fundamentals.
Barry Larkin
#10. Franklin's illness ... gave him strength and courage he had not had before. He had to think out the fundamentals of living and learn the greatest of all lessons - infinite patience and never ending persistence.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#11. every town, identical in the fundamentals and yet unique in the details. There
Skyler Grant
#12. We invest in undervalued companies that exhibit strong fundamentals, above-market dividend yields and historic earnings growth, which our analysis indicates will persist. Our strategy is to own strong, fundamentally sound companies and to avoid speculative stocks or potential bankruptcies.
David Dreman
#13. You build a player like you build a house. You start with the foundations. The fundamentals.
Arsene Wenger
#14. A Magician is not a Magician because he knows tricks, but because he knows Magic - the principles, the fundamentals.
Harlan Tarbell
#15. To win it all, winners have to be obsessive about the fundamentals and doing the little things right.
Don Meyer
#16. I always laugh at people who say "I've never met a rich technician" I love that! Its such an arrogant, nonsensical response. I used fundamentals for 9 years and got rich as a technician
Martin S. Schwartz
#17. Once the jazz musician learns all the fundamentals they can keep track of a lot of choices in an instant.
Sheena Iyengar
#18. What's sort of interesting about the whole public relations disaster that is the Net, in some ways, is that the fundamentals are really good.
Meg Whitman
#19. Soaps taught me the fundamentals of the game. You know, how to show up, hit your mark, how to be on time. That soap opera world is a microcosm of the entertainment culture.
Michael Weatherly
#20. Selling is not complicated. If salespeople consistently practice the fundamentals - getting up early, contacting prospective clients, sharing their belief in their products and services, following up with customers - they'll be successful.
John G. Miller
#21. Winners don't just learn the fundamentals, they master them. You have to monitor your fundamentals constantly because the only thing that changes will be your attention to them.
Michael Jordan
#22. Fundamentalism is only a problem if the fundamentals are a problem
Sam Harris
#23. Have fun doing whatever it is that you desire to accomplish. Learn it one step at a time, emphasizing the fundamentals, and do it because you love it, not because it's work.
Paul Westphal
#24. Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise
Michael Jordan
#25. any leader who did not or could not understand the fundamentals of what their teams did, should not be leading those teams in the first place.
Michael C. Grumley
#26. One of the fundamentals of understanding love is that love comes from within oneself rather than from someone else.
Gabriel Cousens M.D.
#27. Freedom of conscience, of education, of speech, of assembly are among the very fundamentals of democracy and all of them would be nullified should freedom of the press ever be successfully challenged.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#28. In a world of constant change, the fundamentals are more important than ever.
James C. Collins
#29. The principle of majority does not work when differences on fundamentals are involved.
Mahatma Gandhi
#30. Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone.
John Hannah
#31. I love to teach, especially high school-aged students, because I like introducing them to the absolute basics of everything they're ever going to learn, the things I wish I had learned at that age. It's the stuff you can always go back to in terms of absolute fundamentals.
Josh Cooke
#32. You had a lot of novice investors who got into the market looking for easy money, without any regard to the fundamentals. These stocks were running on fumes.
Bernard Madoff
#33. Economists who adhere to rational-expectations models of the world will never admit it, but a lot of what happens in markets is driven by pure stupidity - or, rather, inattention, misinformation about fundamentals, and an exaggerated focus on currently circulating stories.
Robert J. Shiller
#34. There's no shame in losing money on a stock. Everybody does it. What is shameful is to hold on to a stock, or worse, to buy more of it when the fundamentals are deteriorating.
Peter Lynch
#35. Doubts about the fundamentals of the gospel exist in certain churches, I am told, to a large extent. My dear friends, where there is a warm-hearted church, you do not hear of them. I never
saw a fly light on a red-hot plate.
Charles Spurgeon
#36. That which a person works hardest on, he winds up having. That's one of the fundamentals of this universe.
That to which he devotes energy, he finally has.
L. Ron Hubbard
#37. My parents were strict and taught me the proper fundamentals that I would use in my life. They taught me commitment to work hard.
Billy Casper
#38. Evolution means letting go of our false fundamentals so that God can get into those shadowy places we're not sure we want him to be. It means being okay with being wrong, okay with not having all the answers, okay with never being finished.
Rachel Held Evans
#39. It is so hard and long before a student comes to a realization that these [first] few large simple spots in right relations are the most important things in the study of painting. They are the fundamentals of all painting.
Charles Webster Hawthorne
#40. Within this confusion a few fundamentals remain constant:
a. A strong belief is more important than a few facts.
b. The stronger the belief, the fewer the facts.
c. The fewer the facts, the more people killed.
Milton A. Rothhman
#41. I got into trouble a while ago for saying that I thought the internet led to increased literacy - people scolded me about the shocking grammar to be found online - but I was talking about fundamentals: quite simply, you can't use the net unless you can read.
Margaret Atwood
#42. There is always something to worry about. Avoid weekend thinking and ignoring the latest dire predictions of the newscasters. Sell a stock because the company's fundamentals deteriorate, not because the sky is falling.
Peter Lynch
#43. He who attacks the fundamentals of the American broadcasting industry attacks democracy itself.
William S. Paley
#44. Each Middle East country has their own unique kinds of challenges; but the fundamentals, the desire for democracy and freely elected governments is a common thread throughout.
John McCain
#45. I think no one has written a history of the great coaches who were around 30 to 40 years ago who taught the fundamentals.
Oscar Robertson
#46. But she did believe that the fundamentals of most people remained the same throughout their lifetimes. People who were generous usually remained generous, unless life taught them not to be. And people who saw the world through the prism of their own needs first and foremost would always be that way.
Sarah Mayberry
#47. I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I'm still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals.
Zac Efron
#48. Our perceptions of 'managing' employees are founded on archaic outdated business fundamentals.
Shawn Casemore
#49. There are no new fundamentals.
Jim Rohn
#50. You hear all the time about European players playing the game. These players that come over at 17, 18 and 19, they just don't all of a sudden become skilled. From the time they were little fellas, they learned the fundamentals of the game. Let them create.
Bobby Orr
#51. I suggest that the introductory courses in science, at all levels from grade school through college, be radically revised. Leave the fundamentals, the so-called basics, aside for a while, and concentrate the attention of all students on the things that are not known.
Lewis Thomas
#52. We've got to do a better job with our kids. Teach good values, teach the fundamentals.
Bobby Orr
#53. Not all horses are going to be show jumpers, not all horses are going to be dressage horses. So you have to sort of find where the horse physically fits into what might suit him, but all horses can be comfortable and all horses can have good, solid fundamentals.
Buck Brannaman
#54. The fundamentals of baseball haven't changed, but how we can teach those fundamentals has. With an e-book, learning can be more rewarding and fun.
Dusty Baker
#55. There are three things an athlete must do. You must be in physical condition ... You must execute properly and quickly the fundamentals ... and you must have eagerness to sacrifice personal interests or glory for the welfare of the team.
John Wooden
#56. I think it is one of the fundamentals, not only of the European Union but also of free trade, that competition is fair.
Margrethe Vestager
#57. The beginning, the laying down of the fundamentals, was always the worst part, which he supposed was why so few people did it.
Lev Grossman
#58. It's fascinating how the fundamentals of business-to-business marketing are the same today as they were 50 years ago. It's still about relationships although today we have new tools and techniques at our disposal.
David Meerman Scott
#59. A philosophy can and must be worked out with the greatest rigour and discipline in the details, but can ultimately be founded on nothing but faith: and this is the reason, I suspect, why the novelties in philosophy are only in elaboration, and never in fundamentals.
T. S. Eliot
#60. It's really important for me to do the fundamentals of this job really, really well. And to let people know that I think the core responsibilities of a member of Congress aren't seeking the national headlines or being the spokesperson on this issue or that issue when you just get there.
Joseph P. Kennedy III
#61. Playing without the fundamentals is like eating without a knife and fork. You make a mess.
Dick Williams
#62. The young athlete who aspires to greatness, generally speaking, learns a number of things from several different coaches. The first one taught him the fundamentals; the second one instilled discipline in him and taught him more of the techniques that must be mastered to excel.
Zig Ziglar
#63. Our economy, I think, is still
the fundamentals of our economy are strong.
John McCain
#64. There are differences in the businesses themselves, but the fundamentals are the same: give customers a good experience, charge them a reasonable price, listen to them, and treat them with respect.
Ronnie Apteker
#65. There are three fundamentals for human happiness - love and faith, and work which will produce at least a minimum of material security. These things must be made possible for all human beings, men and women alike.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#66. Respect the building blocks, master the fundamentals, and the potential is unlimited
PJ Ladd
#67. Through basic science literacy, people can understand the policy choices we need to be making. Scientists are not necessarily the greatest communicators, but science and communication is one of the fundamentals we need to address. People are interested.
James Murdoch
#68. Where there is union in fundamentals, there ought to be union in affections.
Thomas Watson
#69. I've been doing Tai Chi on and off for 20 years. The fundamentals of all martial arts are the same.
Terence Stamp
#70. That's one of the central challenges we face - how to stay true to events and compress the fundamentals.
Paul Greengrass
#71. The bounden duty of a true believer towards men who profess to be Christians, and yet deny the Word of the Lord, and reject the fundamentals of the Gospel, is to come out from among them
Charles Spurgeon
#73. Fundamentals in the gaming sector remained relatively healthy during the first quarter.
Brian Gordon
#74. Timing and pace are important in any film, whether it be comedy or drama. And how better to learn the fundamentals of these show show business ingredients than by dancing?
Charles Walters
#75. Today when the Fundamentalists are once more insisting that the fundamentals of fundamentalism are fundamental to our being No. 1 on the Lord's totem pole, it's very brave of you to invite the "resident atheist" of mid-Missouri to share her thoughts with you.
Ruth Hurmence Green
#77. Morale and attitude are the fundamentals to success.
Bud Wilkinson
#79. The fundamentals that founded our great nation included the freedom of speech and religion.
Markwayne Mullin
#80. The truth of the matter is this - I never look for films specifically, because ultimately if the fundamentals of the character and the script and the director aren't there, it makes it a moot point.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#81. Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things that they are doing. It's all really good, so I am actually encouraged by the fundamentals that underlie usage growth on the Net.
Meg Whitman
#82. The underlying principles or fundamentals should be so hidden away by the beauty they are eventually to support, that it would require much digging to disclose them.
John F. Carlson
#83. The book is there for inspiration and as a foundation, the fundamentals on which to build.
Thomas Keller
#84. I always believe that prices move first and fundamentals come second
Paul Tudor Jones
#85. The point is that market returns are determined by both investment factors - the fundamentals of the initial dividend yield on stocks plus the rate at which their earnings grow - and by speculative factors - the change in the price that investors will pay for each $1 of corporate earnings.
John C. Bogle
#86. Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying basic fundamentals.
Jim Rohn
#87. House prices have risen by nearly 25 percent over the past two years. Although speculative activity has increased in some areas, at a national level these price increases largely reflect strong economic fundamentals.
Ben Bernanke
#88. 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.
Billy Corgan
#89. My feeling is that poetry will wither on the vine if you don't regularly come back to the simplest fundamentals of the poem: rhythm, rhyme, simple subjects - love, death, war.
James Fenton
#90. The whole inspiration of our civilization springs from the teachings of Christ and the lessons of the prophets. To read the Bible for these fundamentals is a necessity of American life.
Herbert Hoover
#91. Here in Australia we do get impacted by global economic events. But we should have some confidence that our economy has got strong underlying fundamentals.
Julia Gillard
#92. The fundamentals of who we are, depend on how we prioritise the following: family, work, hobbies, our soul.
P.S. Mokha
#93. A strategic inflection point is a time in the life of business when its fundamentals are about to change. that change can mean an opportunity to rise to new heights. But it may just as likely signal the beginning of the end
Andrew S. Grove
#94. I have always loved Reese Witherspoon and Amy Adams as role models - I read all their interviews and agree with the fundamentals of how they manage the limelight and also how they look and carry themselves. A huge part of beauty is how you carry yourself and how you deal with certain situations.
Brittany Snow
#95. Good coaching may be defined as the development of character, personality and habits of players, plus the teaching of fundamentals and team play.
Clair Bee
#96. A knowledge of and the ability to properly and quickly execute the fundamentals. Be prepared and cover every little detail.
John Wooden
#97. Preseason game plans are always about fundamentals and playing football. You're not trying to out-scheme anybody, you're just trying to beat people and out-execute people. That's what's fun to me.
Matt Flynn
#98. Horrible, terrible AAU basketball. It's stupid. It doesn't teach our kids how to play the game at all so you wind up having players that are big and they bring it up and they do all this fancy crap and they don't know how to post. They don't know the fundamentals of the game. It's stupid.
Kobe Bryant
#99. In one of my recent books, 'The Success Principles,' I taught 64 lessons that help people achieve what they want out of life. From taking nothing less than 100 percent responsibility for your life to empowering others, these are the fundamentals to success - and to great leadership.
Jack Canfield
#100. We talked about some of our experiences, focusing, hanging together down the stretch, important games. It's not necessarily who has the most talent but what team sticks together and executes their fundamentals the best.
Tony Dungy
