“But one thing you have to understand clearly is that it is the man who longs for domination, and it is the woman who dominates. This is what I call coexistence: live and let live. More than that is all imagination. If you really had known what love is...the basic thing is not to create a relationship. Stand aloof as the pillars of a temple stand aloof, but support the same roof. Don't destroy the individuality of the other, enhance it if you can; otherwise, at least leave it as it is, uninterfered with.” IfsMenImaginationLove IsKnownSupportRelationshipOne ThingHe ManIndividualityTemplesRoofDominationPillarsCoexistenceAloofLive And Let LiveBasic Things Author:Rajneesh
“People who say they don't see the acceleration of innovation is a wilful blindness. We are innovation at a wonderful speed for the basic things we think everyone should get.” PeopleThinkingShouldInspiringWonderfulEconomicInnovationSpeedBlindnessAccelerationBasic Things Author:Bill Gates
“One of the basic things about a string is that it can vibrate in many different shapes or forms, which gives music its beauty.” GivingDifferentFormBeautyShapesStringsNonconformityVibrateBasic Things Author:Edward Witten
“Despite my vast interest in other universes and new ideas and space, travel and time travel, which by the way I think is impossible, the basic thing is human character, which is the main thing of most writers.” ThinkingWayWritingHumansIdeasCharacterUniverseInterestSpaceImpossibleDespiteTime TravelNew IdeasSpace TravelBasic ThingsInterest In Others Author:Philip Jose Farmer
“Why should someone have to retrain themselves to use a new application that does the same basic thing as the old application, just because something as trivial as the operating system changed out from under them?” ShouldDoeUseChangedApplicationCornyOperating SystemsBasic Things Author:Jamie Zawinski
“This is crossing the Rubicon, after which there will be no more sovereign states in Europe with fully-fledged governments and parliaments which represent legitimate interests of their citizens, but only one State will remain. Basic things will be decided by a remote 'federal government' in Brussels and, for example, Czech citizens will be only a tiny particle whose voice and influence will be almost zero. ... We are against a European superstate.” StatesGovernmentVoiceInterestInfluenceExampleCitizensEuropeDecidedTinyZeroSovereignFederal GovernmentParliamentParticlesCrossingsEuropean UnionEuroBrusselsCzechBasic ThingsAlmost Zero Author:Vaclav Klaus
“When it comes to educating all of us about the most basic things in life, it seems to me we need more kindergartens and fewer graduate schools.” NeedsSeemsSchoolEducationGraduatesFewerThings In LifeKindergartenGraduate SchoolBasic Things Author:Andy Rooney
“To a crisis of the spirit, we need an answer of the spirit. To find that answer, we need only look within ourselves. When we listen to the better angels of our nature, we find that they celebrate the simple things, the basic things--such as goodness, decency, love, kindness. Greatness comes in simple trappings.” NeedsLooksSpiritSimpleAnswersKindnessGreatnessGoodnessAngelCrisisCelebrateDecencySimple ThingsBasic Things Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1969 Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1969
“There are etiquette things that actors, new actors, need to know about. Because it only takes one mess-up on a set to get fired. Not being where you're supposed to be or saying something to the wrong person that you're not supposed to say, and those are like basic things that the actors need to know.” KnowsNeedsPersonsActorsMessSupposed To BeEtiquetteWrong PersonBasic Things Author:Loretta Devine