Quotes on Basic

There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space.

If longevity is the best index to measure a company, a basic requirement is the ability of the corporation to generate new and new leaders.

Progress is possible, but it is fragile - and across our country, the battles for our most basic civil rights rage on.

I hope that if you are employed full-time, you are doing it to ensure that basic needs are met and not simply to indulge a taste for an elaborate home, fancy cars, and other luxuries.

If you work on a comedy show, your basic form of communication is teasing. That's generally how we speak to each other: you communicate the information between the lines of insulting sentences.

I'm convinced that the main reason we've become so obsessed with restaurants is due to our basic need to get out of virtual space and into a real one. We're not going out to eat merely to share food; we're there to sit at the same table together, slow down, breathe the same air.

You have that one basic string, but it can vibrate in many ways. But we're trying to get a lot of particles because experimental physicists have discovered a lot of particles.

But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

I'm not very interested in people. I recognize it in myself - there is a basic indifference toward people.

I don't think there are any students who should not be exposed to a basic financial literacy course.

Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.

Basic clothes are for all women, to last for decades and decades. They are the future and will never change. I am persuaded of that.

The basic human reaction to pleasure is not satisfaction, but rather craving for more. Hence, no matter what we achieve, it only increases our craving, not our satisfaction.

To me, basic SEAL training was a lifetime of challenges crammed into six months.

Black people have been fighting for basic citizenship rights since the inception of the country.

I don't think journalism changes. It's about digging into stories and telling them well. The basic tenets of great reporting stay the same while things around it change. Technology has made reporting easier, but it has also caused job loss. Social media has increased discussion around topics, but it has its own challenges at times.

Listening is active. At its most basic level, it's about focus, paying attention.

Drama's not safe and it's not pretty and it's not kind. People expect the basic template of television drama where there might be naughty villains, but everyone ends up having a nice cup of tea. You've got to do big moral choices and show the terrible things people do in terrible situations. Drama is failing if it doesn't do that.

We are not humans because we've invented a different type of brain cell, a different type of brain chemical. We are the same basic building blocks as even a fruit fly.

Smooth functioning of social life has always depended on the recognition of certain basic limits to behavior. We cannot simply say or do anything we wish, or offend people, without paying consequences - isolation, ostracism, etc.

No matter how counter-intuitive it may seem, basic research has proven over and over to be the lifeline of practical advances in medicine.