“The worst thing we can do as a nation is taking the easy way out. If you start opening up offshore drilling, then you are buying time and you are not addressing the fundamental problem with fossil fuels.” IfsWayProblemNationsEasyCan DoWorstFundamentalsOpeningFuelBuyingWorst ThingsFossilsFossil FuelOpening UpEasy WayDrillingOffshore Author:Joe Biden
“All I can do is just go in there and tighten up my game, tighten up my handles. Just all the little basic things that you wouldn't even think about, the fundamental parts of the game.” ThinkingLittlesI CanGamesCan DoFundamentalsHandleBasic Things Author:Derrick Rose
“I think that we'll continue to try to look at ourselves in the mirror and see where we can do a better job, maybe where we can improve the process. But I think the fundamentals of the process will remain the same.” ThinkingTryingLooksJobsProcessCan DoMirrorsFundamentalsBetter Jobs Author:Bill Belichick
“People sometimes say I broke an oath of secrecy - one of the early charges leveled against me. But it's a fundamental misunderstanding, because there is no oath of secrecy for people who work in the intelligence community. You are asked to sign a civil agreement, called a Standard Form 312, which basically says if you disclose classified information, they can sue you; they can do this, that and the other. And you risk going to jail.” PeopleIfsSometimesFormCan DoCommunityRiskInformationStandardsFundamentalsBrokeAgreementJailMisunderstandingSecrecyOathIntelligence CommunityClassified Information Author:Edward Snowden
“I think of Google as a set of overlapping things. It's a consumer platform, consumer phenomenon of which search is its fundamental activity, but there are many other things you can do than search... I think of Google as an advertising company who services the broader advertising industry in the ways that you know.” ThinkingKnowsWayCan DoCompanyIndustryActivityFundamentalsAdvertisingConsumersPhenomenonPlatformsGoogleOverlappingAdvertising Industry Author:Eric Schmidt
“Honesty before God requires the most fundamental risk of faith we can take: the risk that God is good, that God does love us unconditionally. It is in taking this risk that we rediscover our dignity. To bring the truth of ourselves, just as we are, to God, just as God is, is the most dignified thing we can do in this life.” DoeCan DoSinRiskHonestyDignityFundamentalsThis Life Book:Addiction and Grace Source: Addiction and Grace
“That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.” GovernmentPoliticalPoliticsCan DoLibertyPrinciplesKingsConstitutionFundamentalsFundamental Principles Author:William Blackstone
“There have been many authorities who have asserted that the basis of science lies in counting or measuring, i.e. in the use of mathematics. Neither counting nor measuring can however be the most fundamental processes in our study of the material universe-before you can do either to any purpose you must first select what you propose to count or measure, which presupposes a classification.” FirstsHas BeensUseLyingPurposeUniverseProcessCan DoStudyMaterialsAuthorityBasesMathematicsFundamentalsCountingProposeSelectMeasurementMeasuringClassification Book:Classification and Biology Source: Classification and Biology
“I consider it…as subverting the fundamental and characteristic principle of the Government…and as bidding defiance to the sense in which the Constitution is known to have been proposed, advocated, and adopted. If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one.” IfsHas BeensDoneGovernmentCan DoKnownPrinciplesConstitutionFundamentalsCongressWelfareCharacteristicsAdoptedDefianceDiscretionBiddingGeneral Welfare Book:1769-1793 Source: 1769-1793
“When we obey the commandments of the Lord and serve His children unselfishly, the natural consequence is power from God—power to do more than we can do by ourselves. Our insights, our talents, our abilities are expanded because we receive strength and power from the Lord. His power is a fundamental component to establishing a home filled with peace.” ChildrenHomeCan DoNaturalAbilityLordTalentConsequenceFundamentalsFilledInsightCommandmentsComponentsNatural Consequences Author:Richard G. Scott
“We've had the U.N. for almost 60 years, yet we've never actually made a fundamental list of all the big things that we can do in the world, and said, 'Which of them should we do first?'” WorldShouldYearsFirstsMadeSaidBigsCan DoFundamentalsActivismListsBig Things Author:Bjorn Lomborg