Basics Quotes

lean water and health care and school and food and tin roofs and cement floor, all of these things should constitute a set of basics that people must have as birthrights.

I started out as a drummer, and now play with a back-to-basics rock band called the 'Luddites.' I'm happiest when I'm behind the kit.

It sounded stupid, but of course everything does when you're just getting the bare bones facts, only the basics.

The only way you can stay on top is to remember to touch bottom and get back to basics.

What's the basis when rappers don't know the basics? Still not takin' advice from those I wouldn't trade places with.

We learn most readily, most naturally, most effectively, when we start with the big picture - precisely when the basics don't come first.

I really don't wear a lot of makeup, but my makeup artist Priscilla Ono has taught me the basics.

Having a couple really great basics makes it easy to dress well every day.

Let's try to bring more style into basics, and let's touch real people all around the world, people who don't really care who Christophe Lemaire is.

It's just lovely to be involved in a movie that does go back to the basics - characters and great writing.

To see things in black and white is to see the basics, and I would recommend to any designer of gardens that he go out and look at his work by the light of the moon.

You have to take the basics of feminism and the kind of outline of it and do what you do with it. You have to make things work for your own life.

Your own imagination as to the true ability of the permaculture design system, you need to trust the system and stick to main frame basics with profound and thorough thinking while trusting yourself.

At the beginning of every role I take, I have to start from basics and build it up. It's like a new construction.

When we appreciate how much we have, we feel the urge to pare down, get back to basics, and learn what is essential for our happiness. We long to realize what's really important.

...the very basics of photography [can] be potent and strange. So why not make pictures about the medium itself and see where they would take me?

In terms of pots and pans, I just use the basics - Im not a snob like that.

I don't think that you can write music if you don't know how to play an instrument. You have to know the basics, then you can go forward.

I think a lot of modern day guitarists start off playing like Eddie van Halen, and they don't take the time to learn the basics.

You can't invent Google, Facebook or the iPod unless you've mastered the basics, are willing to put in long hours and can pick yourself up from the floor when life knocks you down the first 10 times.

The difference between a poet and a philosopher is that the poet sees logically and describes basically the beauty whereas the philosopher defines the basics and shows the beauty of logics.

Philosophy is not to think deep, but simply speak life's basics that arise, aware and awaken people who are knowingly or unknowingly in the state of sleep.

You can't guarantee that you'll make a great movie, but you can make a greater effort than I made at trying to see that the basics are there.

I think for kids it's the most important part of the game. You have to be able to skate forward and backward, stop and start, go from side to side. Those are the basics of the game.

I've always been serious about music. After you've done it for so many years, you get back to the basics.

We all need that sometimes, to get re-sparked again. Sometimes it's different influences and different motivations; sometimes we've got to go and get back to the basics.

Fashion is meant to be wild and expressive. I love colour but I also love basics - grungy minimalism mixed with this kind of broken-down cheerleader, is my thing.

I started at GM knowing very little about that particular business. Not being an expert means you have to learn everything, starting from the basics.

It's being a grown up, which I never figured out how to do, scrubbing the tub, and remembering to eat and shampoo my hair. It's the basics: I can write a whole book, but I cannot handle the basics.

At 15, I had to choose a vocational school, and I was delighted, of course, to go to culinary school. But learning the basics was not as exciting as being the chef I am today.

The Buddha taught three cycles of teachings. His first cycle of teachings cover the basics, the prerequisites. This would include the Dharmapada.

What you need to learn are basic types of concentration, bringing more energy into your life, plugging up the holes where you lose energy, the basics of self-discovery.

The few women who have been admitted to the study are usually given a second-class status in which they are taught only the basics of self-discovery.

Back to basics Rock & Roll capturing the beauty and simplicity of punk

I was a better writer when I was teaching. I was constantly going over the basics and constantly reminding myself, as I reminded my students, what made a good story, a good poem.

Knowledge is organized data. For it to be shelved as human knowledge it's got to be predictable, repeatable, all the basics of scientific validation have to be there.

People need to understand the basics of evolution if they are going to reject it—otherwise, they are not contributing anything productive to modern society.

I can see myself wanting to write a historical novel - you don't need to worry about references to reality TV or pop music, you can just get on with the basics of story and character.

Champions are brilliant at the basics.

I've been an actor for 30 years, so I pretty much know how to do the basics of a fight without hurting anybody.

Obviously, education is hugely important, along with healthcare. They're the basics and you're hurting your own country if you don't pour money into them.

Adele is so great! I love "Someone Like You"! Everyone is just raving about it. What's so nice about it - and a lot of her songs - is it just takes it back to basics.

The myth of objectivity made nonfiction increasingly unread. In feature articles, we could be playful in the opening and clever in the end but in the middle it was back to the boring basics.

My dad felt pretty strongly that I know about the basic workings of a plane and so he taught me how to read and set the instruments, as well as the basics of taking off and landing.

Generally, the best way to learn git is probably to first only do very basic things and not even look at some of the things you can do until you are familiar and confident about the basics.

I worship makeup. The basics are always: Stila shadows, LeClerc powder for my crazy shiny skin, Bobbie brown liner pot, Chanel mascara, and Koh Gen Do for foundation, Nars for colors and sparkles.

There aren't enough people fighting for being conservative with your sexual tastes. There's a little too much adventuresome stuff going on, so it's good to return to the basics.

I think that if you have a strong narrative, if the idea of the song can be boiled down to the basics, it won't change that much.

The basics of acting are really better in America than in Europe. Just the basic "fake laugh" is impossible to get in France.

Alternative therapists don't kill many people, but they do make a great teaching tool for the basics of evidence-based medicine, because their efforts to distort science are so extreme.