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The Buddha taught three cycles of teachings. His first cycle of teachings cover the basics, the prerequisites. This would include the Dharmapada.
— Frederick Lenz
There are endless exercises for arms, but the basics are best-chinups and pushups.
— Sylvester Stallone
My brother's my teacher, my mentor, and we both learnt all the acting basics from our father.
— Jeff Bridges
POLITENESS must carry the true weight of SINCERITY and INTEGRITY for it to be a true act of POLITENESS.
— Carew Papritz
There is no shortage of opportunity. There is only a shortage of those who will apply themselves to the basics that success requires.
— Jim Rohn
We learn most readily, most naturally, most effectively, when we start with the big picture - precisely when the basics don't come first.
— Alfie Kohn
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.
— Rick Astley
Many times, when children enter school they shun mathematics and science during the years when they should be learning the basics.
— Margot Lee Shetterly
If we just go back to the basics ... I do not want to give up our republic and become a socialistic ideological nation. That's not who we are.
— Diane Hendricks
I can do basics, but I'm not a proper cook. I can do a roast. I can stick a chicken in the oven with vegetables.
— Lesley Nicol
I was obsessed with religious questions, the basics: Why are we here? Why is the world so beautiful?
— Anne Rice
Now it's time to focus on basics for people in our neighborhoods ... and real ethics reform at City Hall.
— Laura Miller
When knowledge becomes overwelming, go back to the basics
— Abdulkadir Abdullahi Mohamed Mirre
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.
— Alber Elbaz
The goal of Football Rules & Positions In A Day For Dummies is to help you understand the basics of football rules and the player positions.
— Howie Long
I was lucky enough when it came to sports and work ethic to be taught some basics that continue to be important.
— Joe Namath
Bet you've never had a bear down your pants before. Though I'm kind of a bear in bed. (Rick from Back to Basics)
— Erin McCarthy
Whenever I get to a low point, I go back to the basics. I ask myself, "Why am I doing this?" It comes down to passion.
— Lyn St. James
Financial literacy is just as important in life as the other basics.
— John W. Rogers Jr.
It sounded stupid, but of course everything does when you're just getting the bare bones facts, only the basics ...
— Sarah Dessen
Riding a bicycle is about getting back to basics. It's good for the waistline and it's good for the wallet, is what I'm saying.
— Phil Keoghan
What I think is the most important thing to learn about any instrument is the basics of music. Learn your ABCs before you write a Hemingway novel.
— Yngwie Malmsteen
Managers are encouraged to focus on complex initiatives like reengineering or learning organizations, without spending time on the basics.
— Marcus Buckingham
Men needed to explain the basics to him. A How to Deal with Women summit. Nothing would bond the races faster.
— Danielle Monsch
Gratifying when the basics reflect a fresh light, leading to real continuing ed.
— Phillip Gary Smith
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.
— Alvin Lee
School taught me how to do language, maths and science; it failed to teach me the very basics of how to keep my home healthy.
— Steven Magee
In hindsight, that time out of football gives you the hunger to want to get back to basics and play football.
— Alan Smith
Do question, even the basics!
You will be a fool for once!
If you don't, you will be, for a lifetime.. — Himmilicious
You will be a fool for once!
If you don't, you will be, for a lifetime.. — Himmilicious
Play small ball. Get back to basics. I would say that you need to be a conservative, but you need to maintain your independent streak.
— Andrea Tantaros
Maybe it's time we got back to the basics of love.
— Waylon Jennings
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.
— Suzanne Vega
Back to Basics was absolute humbug, wasn't it?
— Edwina Currie
During the lockout year, my focus was the basics, sharpening my moves, my fundamentals.
— Brandon Jennings
Champions are brilliant at the basics.
— John Wooden
When we get down to the very basics of human life we find that we arrive to take a ride on spaceship Earth for several decades and then we leave.
— Steven Magee
Work and love these are the basics; waking life is a dream controlled.
— George Santayana
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.
— Edward Whitacre Jr.
When families can afford the basics, they can reinvest in their communities, and higher wages means a broader consumer base for businesses.
— David Rolf
The basics of acting are really better in America than in Europe. Just the basic "fake laugh" is impossible to get in France.
— Thomas Mars
After you have the basics down it's all mental.
— Ken Venturi
Joy is not getting what you want. It's fully appreciating what you have. And it starts with the basics, like water.
— Mark Batterson
You can learn, but you've got to give yourself time to pick up the basics, to practice, and maybe even to fail once or twice.
— Susan Forward
My first job as premier will be to go back to basics.
— Lara Giddings
My mother's family raised grains and crops. My father's grew sugarcane and mangos. So I knew more about the basics of farming than of acting.
— Margot Robbie
It's just lovely to be involved in a movie that does go back to the basics - characters and great writing.
— Clive Owen
I'm an out and out basic man and AC/DC are one of the best rock'n'roll bands in the world, doing things just to the basics, you know.
— Brian Johnson
Rather than trying to master nature we should start with the basics of trying to understand nature, cooperate with nature.
— Bryant McGill
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.
— Sandra Bernhard
Everything in life goes back to the basics.
— Kron Gracie
Move quickly. Sound, calm mind. Be light in body. Have a clever mind. Master the basics.
— Gogen Yamaguchi
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.
— Frederick Lenz
When it's deep into the season and you're not playing well, it's frustrating. This is when it's time to revisit some basics.
— Keegan Bradley
I've been an actor for 30 years, so I pretty much know how to do the basics of a fight without hurting anybody.
— Julie Benz
Hunger and necessity are poor teachers of morality. A society that cannot provide the basics of life does not get its laws obeyed.
— A.J. Quinnell
I have to admit that I only read 'War and Peace' when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then.
— Umberto Eco
Communication is like the basics of mechanical engineering, the more moving parts you have the more likely it is to break down!
— Garrison Wynn
Stick to the basics, hold on to your family and friends - they will never go out of fashion.
— Niki Taylor
The first things to study are form and values. For me, these are the things that are the basics of what is serious in art.
— Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
Somehow, we have gotten off track from the basics of health and spirituality, and we get in our own way.
— Alice McCall
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?
— Abelardo Morell
My main idea was to create a sports facility for the basics. This is why I established the club.
— Sergei Bubka
My basics are black, white, or neutral, and I'll wear a ton of jewelry or carry a brightly colored bag.
— Rachel Zoe
Let us leave a spare place at our table: a place for those who lack the basics, who are alone.
— Pope Francis
When the times are good, stretch them. But when the times are bad, stick to the basics and be honest with yourself.
— Anita Bhogle
What's the basis when rappers don't know the basics?
Still not takin' advice from those I wouldn't trade places with. — Skeme
Still not takin' advice from those I wouldn't trade places with. — Skeme
When you master the basics, and execute them well, there's no need to worry about the score.
— Frank Sonnenberg
That's the classic nature of people, though. We'll skip the basics and get pissed when the sexy stuff doesn't work.
— Martyn Rooney
Reading is the basics for all learning.
— George W. Bush
If you miss the beginning, the basics, then you are destined to go back and visit the basics.
— Buck Brannaman
The best way to keep ahead of the game is to teach it, this forces you to constantly review the basics.
— Johnny FD
At the beginning of every role I take, I have to start from basics and build it up. It's like a new construction.
— Kim Cattrall
I started from zero and went back to the basics in gymnastics.
— Shawn Johnson