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“The principle of self-reliance grows out of a fundamental doctrine of the Church, that of agency. Just as each individual is accountable for his choices and actions in spiritual matters, so also is he accountable in temporal matters. It is through our own efforts and decisions that we earn our way in this life. While the Lord will magnify us in both subtle and dramatic ways, he can only guide our footsteps when we move our feet. Ultimately, our own actions determine our blessings or lack of them. It is a direct consequence of both agency and accountability.”

“Early experience shapes the structure and function of the brain. This reveals the fundamental way in which gene expression is determined by experience.”

Way Brain Expression Shapes Function Fundamentals Structure Determined Genes Structure And Function

Book:The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are

Source: The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are

“Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of a good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles.”

Way Joy Values Found Effort Principles Example Respect Universal Fundamentals Educational Ethical Good Examples Ethical Principles Olympism

Book:Olympism: Selected Writings

Source: Olympism: Selected Writings

“I contend that financial markets never reflect the underlying reality accurately; they always distort it in some way or another and the distortions find expression in market prices. Those distortions can, occasionally, find ways to affect the fundamentals that market prices are supposed to reflect.”

Way Reality Expression Fundamentals Investing Financial Distortion Financial Markets

Book:The Crash of 2008 and What it Means: The New Paradigm for Financial Markets

Source: The Crash of 2008 and What it Means: The New Paradigm for Financial Markets

“There is a fundamental spiritual quality to gratitude that transcends religious traditions. Gratitude is a universal human experience that can seem to be either a random occurrence of grace or a chosen attitude to create a better experience of life; in many ways it contains elements of both. Grateful people sense that they are not separated from others or from God; this recognition of unity with all things brings a deep sense of gratefulness, whether we are religious or not.”

“Just as the great oceans have but one taste, the taste of salt, so too there is but one taste fundamental to all true teachings of the way, and this is the taste of freedom.”

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Author:Gautama Buddha

“Emotion is not opposed to reason. Emotions guide and manage thought in fundamental ways and complement the deficiencies of thinking.”

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Author:Les Greenberg

“"Spirituality" in business sounds lofty. How practical is it? The answer is "very." There's a fundamental way in which Spirit and consciousness contribute to worldly success-and it has long been ignored. [. . .] As experts, authors and gurus often note, the game of business is to influence the external world. But here's the point: How can you control your environment if you can't even manage your own thoughts and emotions? In other words, how do you rule the world without first mastering yourself? The cornerstone of effective leadership is self-mastery.”

“In its most fundamental sense, execution is a systematic way of exposing reality and acting on it. Most companies don't face reality very well. ... Realism is the heart of execution, but many organizations are full of people who are trying to avoid or shade reality. Why? It makes life uncomfortable.”

People Way Trying Wells Heart Reality Faces Acting Company Organization Fundamentals Uncomfortable Shade Execution Realism Systematic Exposing

Author:Lawrence Bossidy

“Freud was way off base in considering sex the fundamental motivation. The ruling passion in men is minding each other's business.”

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Author:Robert Frost

“We must intertwine business and ethics in a very fundamental way.”

Way Business Ethics Fundamentals

Author:Robert Bruner

“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.”

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Author:Meg Whitman

“I think it's important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we conduct our lives is we reason by analogy. [With analogy] we are doing this because it's like something else that was done, or it is like what other people are doing. [With first principles] you boil things down to the most fundamental truths…and then reason up from there.”

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Author:Elon Musk

“Ladies and gentlemen, I stand before you tonight in my … chiffon evening gown, my face softly made up, my fair hair gently waved, the Iron Lady of the Western world. Me? A Cold War warrior? … Well, yes — if that is how they wish to interpret my defense of values of freedoms fundamental to our way of life.”

“That one record changed everything for me. After Sgt. Pepper, it's the most influential record in the history of rock and roll. It affected Pink Floyd deeply, deeply, deeply. Philosophically, other albums may have been more important, like Lennon's first solo album. But sonically, the way the record's constructed, I think Music from Big Pink is fundamental to everything that happened after it.”

Thinking Way Firsts May Has Beens Important Bigs Records Happened Rocks Changed Fundamentals Albums Affected Solo Rock And Roll Influential Peppers Lennon Sgt Pepper

Author:Roger Waters

“A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times.”

Way Country Cities Fundamentals Contrast

Book:The Country and the City

Source: The Country and the City

“Our modern world defined God as a ‘religious complex’ and laughed at the Ten Commandments as OLD FASHIONED. Then, through the laughter came the shattering thunder of the World War. And now a blood-drenched, bitter world — no longer laughing — cries for a way out. There is but one way out. It existed before it was engraven upon Tablets of Stone. It will exist when stone has crumbled. The Ten Commandments are not rules to obey as a personal favor to God. They are the fundamental principles without which mankind cannot live together.”