Principles Quotes

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It is difficult to connect general principles with such thoroughly concrete things as children. — John Dewey
It is astonishing how many mental operations we can explain when we have once grasped the principles of association — William James
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized. — William James
Practice the 101 Percent Principle. Whenever possible, find the 1 percent you do agree on in a difficult situation, and give it 100 percent of… — John C. Maxwell
I believe that good defense embodies seven cardinal principle: reduce the number of your opponent's shots; force your opponent into low percentage shots; control everything… — Adolph Rupp
The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being - which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs… — Walter Lippmann
A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that is to say,… — Walter Lippmann
If we are machines, then in principle at least, we should be able to build machines out of other stuff, which are just as alive… — Rodney Brooks
Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who… — Gottfried Leibniz
As we fell in Adam, we are saved in Christ. To deny the principle in the one case, is to deny it in the other;… — Charles Hodge
Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism; and… — Abraham Lincoln
The Emancipation Proclamation...can remind us in 2013 of all the mistakes we never want to commit again but it can also motivate us to fulfill… — Aberjhani
Now what is Judge Douglas Popular Sovereignty? It is, as a principle, no other than that, if one man chooses to make a slave of… — Abraham Lincoln
When our party had only seven men, it already had two principles. First, it wanted to be a party with a true ideology. And second,… — Adolf Hitler
We build character in order for us to withstand the rigors of combat and resist the temptations to compromise our principles in peacetime. We must… — Glen E. Morrell
In each succeeding war there is a tendency to proclaim as something new the principles under which it is conducted. Not only those who have… — John J. Pershing
This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty, not of mere… — Thomas Jefferson
Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party. — Mao Zedong
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive of virtue; but… — Philip Sidney
Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions — David Hume
Through some strange and powerful principle of mental chemistry which she has never divulged, nature wraps up in the impulse of strong desire, that something… — Napoleon Hill
The principle element in a performance is risk, and if you're losing interest then by scaring yourself to death the audience will feel it and… — Leo Kottke
It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people then to dominate them, more 'manhood' to abide… — Alex Karras
In Randori we teach the pupil to act on the fundamental principles of Judo, no matter how physically inferior his opponent may seem to him,… — Kano Jigoro

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