“Naturalness is the basis of effectiveness. If one poses to be something else, one loses the charm of naturalness. The result is that one accumulates stress.” IfsLosesResultsBasesStressCharmEffectiveness Author:Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
“Suppression of expression conceals the real problems confronting a society and diverts public attention from the critical issues. It is likely to result in neglect of the grievances which are the actual basis of the unrest, and thus prevent their correction.” RealProblemResultsAttentionIssuesAtheismExpressionBasesCriticalPositive AtheismNeglectCorrectionsReal ProblemsSuppressionGrievanceConfrontingUnrest Author:Thomas I. Emerson
“We favor putting Congress on a commission basis. Pay them for results. If they do a good job and the country prospers, they get 10% of the extra take.” IfsCountryJobsResultsPayBasesCongressFavorsExtrasGood Job Author:Gracie Allen
“Wars results in immediate deaths and destruction, but the environmental consequences can last hundreds, often thousands of years. And it is not just war itself that undermines our life support system, but also the research and development, military exercises and general preparations for battle that are carried out on a daily basis in most parts of the world. The majority of this pre-war activity takes place without the benefit of civilian scrutiny and therefore we are unaware of some of what is being done to our environment in the name of 'security.” WorldYearsWarDoneLastsNamesResultsSupportEnvironmentOur LivesSecurityMilitaryDevelopmentExerciseBattleActivityBenefitsResearchConsequenceDestructionBasesMajorityEnvironmentalPreparationCiviliansOur EnvironmentScrutinyBeing DoneResearch And DevelopmentSupport SystemsJust War Book:Planet Earth: The Latest Weapon of War Source: Planet Earth: The Latest Weapon of War
“When you look at the results on an after-fee, after-tax basis over reasonably long periods of time, there's almost no chance that you end up beating the index fund.” LooksLongEndsChanceResultsPeriodsTaxesBasesInvestingFundFeesLong Periods Of TimeIndex Funds Author:David F. Swensen
“We rarely use much debt and, when we do, we attempt to structure it on a long-term fixed rate basis. We will reject interesting opportunities rather than over-leverage our balance sheet. This conservatism has penalized our results but it is the only behavior that leaves us comfortable, considering our fiduciary obligations to policyholders, depositors, lenders and the many equity holders who have committed unusually large portions of their net worth to our care.” LongUseCareOpportunityTermInterestingResultsBalanceBehaviorComfortableBasesStructureRateInvestingCommittedDebtObligationFixedLong TermRejectsPortionsConsideringSheetsEquityConservatismNet WorthLendersBalance SheetsFiduciary Author:Warren Buffett
“There is, between the sexes, a law of incessant reciprocal action, of which God avails himself in the constitution of the family, when He permits brothers and sisters to nestle about the same hearthstone. Its ministration is essential to the best educational results. Our own educational institutions should rest upon this divine basis.” ShouldActionLawSexResultsEducationDivineBrotherEssentialsBasesConstitutionInstitutionsEducationalPermitBrothers And SistersIncessantReciprocalBest EducationEducational Institutions Author:Caroline Wells Healey Dall
“It is amazing how many of the horrors of the 20th century were a result of charismatic quacks misleading millions of people to their own doom. What is even more amazing is that, after a century that saw the likes of Hitler, Lenin and Mao, we still see no need to distrust charisma as a basis for choosing leaders, either in politics or in numerous organizations and movements.” PeopleNeedsStillsResultsLeaderMillionsSawsCenturyMovementHorrorOrganizationBasesLikes20th CenturyDistrustDoomMisleadCharismaCharismaticMaoQuacks Book:Controversial Essays Source: Controversial Essays
“The method of differences is, in fact, a method of additions; and as it includes within its means a larger number of results attainable by addition simply, than any other mathematical principle, it was very appropriately selected as the basis on which to construct an Adding Machine, so as to give to the powers of such a machine the widest possible range.” GivingMeanFactsDifferencesResultsNumbersPrinciplesMachinesBasesMethodMathematicalRangeConstructsSelected Author:Ada Lovelace
“Comedy is the result of what's happening, not what people are doing. Because if people are doing comedy. It's embarrassing. The individual elements have to be straight-faced, serious, realistic with a firm basis. What makes it comedy is a somewhat shifted way to put it together.” PeopleIfsWayTogetherIndividualResultsComedySeriousElementsHappeningsBasesFirmRealisticEmbarrassing Author:Christoph Waltz
“Practise any one of the human values. Prema (love) is the basis for all the values. Action with love is right conduct. Speak with love and it becomes truth. Thinking with love results in peace. Understanding with love leads to non-violence. For everything love is primary. Where there is love there is no place for hatred.” ThinkingHumansActionValuesSpeakUnderstandingLove IsResultsViolenceHatredBasesPrimariesNon ViolencePractiseHuman ValuesRight Conduct Author:Sathya Sai Baba