Quotes by Guiding Principles 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 guiding-principlesbeliefmorning 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 guiding-principleszerogames We must convince and empower people to adopt the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity as their guiding principle. Klaus Topfer guiding-principlesempoweringpeople Nothing can tell us so much about the general lawlessness of humanity as a perfect acquaintance with our own immoderate behavior. If we would think over our own impulses, we would recognize in our own souls the guiding principle of all vices which we reproach in other people; and if it is not in our very actions, it will be present at least in our impulses. There is no malice that self-love will not offer to our spirits so that we may exploit any occasion, and there are few people virtuous enough not to be tempted. Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable guiding-principlesselfthinking My first guiding principle is this: willing and active co-operation between independent sovereign states. Europe will be stronger precisely because it has France as France, Spain as Spain, Britain as Britain, each with its own customs, traditions and identity. It would be folly to try to fit them into some sort of identikit European personality. Margaret Thatcher guiding-principlesindependenteurope Find that thing you are super passionate about. A lot of founding principles of Facebook are that if people have access to more information and are more connected, it will make the world better; people will have more understanding, more empathy. That’s the guiding principle for me. On hard days, I really just step back, and that’s the thing that keeps me going. Mark Zuckerberg guiding-principlesempathypeople Reason as an organ for perceiving the true nature of reality and determining the guiding principles of our lives has come to be regarded as obsolete. Max Horkheimer guiding-principlesreasonreality The guiding principle of ruling elites was--and still is: When change threatens to rule, then the rules are changed. Michael Pare rulingguiding-principlespolitical Never let pride be your guiding principle. Let your accomplishments speak for you. Morgan Freeman guiding-principlesaccomplishmentpride I sort of use as my guiding principle that show The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin. Whenever possible, do the stupid thing. Moby guiding-principlesstupidfall My guiding principle will be justice and complete impartiality, and I am sure that with your support and co-operation, I can look forward to Pakistan becoming one of the greatest Nations of the world. Muhammad Ali Jinnah becoming-oneguiding-principlesjustice 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 gmosguiding-principlesjustice Wheeler hopes that we can discover, within the context of physics, a principle that will enable the universe to come into existence "of its own accord." In his search for such a theory, he remarks: "No guiding principle would seem more powerful than the requirement that it should provide the universe with a way to come into being." Wheeler likened this 'self-causing' universe to a self-excited circuit in electronics. Paul Davies guiding-principlespowerfulscience (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 guiding-principlesbusinessloss As a guiding principle I believe that every poem must be its own sole freshly created universe, and therefore have no belief n 'tradition' or a common myth-kitty or casual allusions in poems to other poems or poets, which last I find unpleasantly like the talk of literary understrappers letting you see they know the right people. Philip Larkin guiding-principlesbelievepeople By building a simple system, with just a few guiding principles, eBay was open to organic growth. Pierre Omidyar ebayguiding-principlessimple 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 guiding-principlesgentlemanwar 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 guiding-principlesfocuswinning Before you disagree make sure you understand. In other words, we must make sure that we can describe another's theological position as he would describe it before we criticize or condemn. Another guiding principle should be 'Do not impute to others beliefs you regard as logically entailed by their beliefs but that they explicitly deny'. Roger E. Olson guiding-principlesdenybelief For the child whose impulsiveness is indulged, who retains his primitive-discharge mechanisms, is not only an ill-behaved child but a child whose intellectual development is slowed down. No matter how well he is endowed intellectually, if direct action and immediate gratification are the guiding principles of his behavior, there will be less incentive to develop the higher mental processes, to reason, to employ the imagination creatively. . . . Selma Fraiberg direct-actionguiding-principleschildren«123»
