Famous Quotes & Sayings

Casey Neistat

As a guiding principle, life shrinks and life expands in direct proportion to your willingness to assume risk.

David Suzuki

Because we aren't certain about the effects of GMOs, we must consider one of the guiding principles in science, the precautionary principle. Under this principle, if a policy or action could harm human health or the environment, we must not proceed until we know for sure what the impact will be. And it is up to those proposing the action or policy to prove that it is not harmful.

Alan Lightman

I picked such seemingly disparate essays, I thought it was important to say what was the guiding principle in the selection rather than focus on any one essay. I reached for some principle that had been subconscious in me and lifted it into consciousness. Authenticity and sincerity were the most important unifying principles of all these apparently different essays.

Stephen Ambrose

As to the Indians, the guiding principle was, promise them anything just so long as they get out of the way.

Mark Zuckerberg

Find that thing you are super passionate about. A lot of founding principles of Facebook are that if people have access to more information and are more connected, it will make the world better; people will have more understanding, more empathy. That’s the guiding principle for me. On hard days, I really just step back, and that’s the thing that keeps me going.

Franz Kafka

My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.

Howard Schultz

When we began Starbucks, what I wanted to try to do was to create a set of values, guiding principles, and culture.

John F. Kennedy

The guiding principle of this Nation has been, is now, and ever shall be IN GOD WE TRUST.

Walter Ulbricht

The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists.

Dennis Kucinich

The FDA has received over a million comments from citizens demanding labeling of GMOs. 90 percent of Americans agree. So, why no labeling?

Edward Forbes

As we descend deeper and deeper in this region its inhabitants become more and more modified, and fewer and fewer, indicating our approach towards an abyss where life is either extinguished , or exhibits but a few sparks to mark its lingering presence.

Bill Gates

There are GMO skeptics more in Europe maybe than in other places, but not exclusively.

Bruce Kent

Some people are genetically programmed to be difficult.

Brian Ferneyhough

I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form of 'variation' much as if measure lengths were concrete musical 'material.'

Annalee Newitz

GMO agriculture will probably save the world in this century. But in the developed world, where few people are haunted by the specter of famine, people are free to fetishize heirloom tomatoes and worry about the provenance of what sits on their dinner tables.

E. O. Wilson

There doesn't seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.

Steven Pinker

But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses.

Norman Borlaug

Therefore I feel that the aforementioned guiding principle must be modified to read: If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but at the same time cultivate the fields to produce more bread; otherwise there will be no peace.

Chris Abani

As with much of the world's problems, they become public--or much more of interest--the moment they begin to impact the West.

Chogyam Trungpa

The visual impact of the stupa on the observer brings a direct experience of inherent wakefulness and dignity. Stupas continue to be built because of their ability to liberate one simply upon seeing their structure

Chip Conley

Great leaders help their people see how they can directly impact the company's objectives and their own personal goals.

Barnett Newman

I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality.

David Hong

The positive impact of an FTA is tremendous, ... Prospects for the Philippine Economy.

Richard Flood

We are seeing an expanded use of impact fees.

Kathryn Wylde

We've already got reports that sales were down this last weekend over last year. I'm sure there's been an impact on tourism as well.

Jim Tracy

We're talking about a catcher. Squatting, up and down out of the crouch, runners going, boom, the impact of landing. ... It doesn't make any sense to push it.

Mark Cuban

It's always the little decisions that have the biggest impact.