Maybe I enjoy the work because I keep one
simple principle in mind: if marriage is going to work, it needs to become a contest to see which spouse is going to lose the most, and it needs to be a race that goes down to the wire.
There is literally no limit to how far and wide the ideation process can go, but with a few
simple principles in place, most companies can transform traditional group - think, eye - rolling meetings into innovative, genuine and honest sessions.
Typically you'll get an introduction to basic surf board knowledge, beach safety and
some simple principles in how to get to your feet and ride a white water wave to the shore.
Nature is not based on equality but simple and sincere goal toward what need to be achieved reaching a balance with nature functioning without spoiling
simple principles in the underlying of our fundamentals.
Not exact matches
You've probably heard the navy's «Keep it
Simple, Stupid» slogan coined
in 1960 as a design
principle to make systems work better.
As the founder of iROKO Partners, and iROKOTv, the leading online streaming platform
in Africa, Jason Njoku's
principle is
simple.
A
simple way to encourage mindfulness
in the workplace is to make the
principles easy to remember using the four Cs — calm, compassion, clarity and choice.
Pixar's strategy lies
in three core
principles so
simple they need only a 3x5 card to hold them.
These touch points can be elevated by using the
simple, yet often forgotten
principles in this book, like the power of a smile.
The premise is that it is all about living
in the present, accepting change and having a
simple set of
principles that guide you through life.
The amount of
simple yet brilliant
principles Ries and Trout lay out
in this book are game - changing and have stood the test of time.
Success Made
Simple is Wesner's attempt to condense the keys to Amish business success into a set of
principles that are applicable
in the outside world.
The
principles of investment are
simple, says Bernstein, so he takes a long view of the financial industry, dedicating half the book to investment history and theory (
in a manner accessible to the math - challenged among us)
in the hopes of giving his readers «the ability to coolly observe extraordinary current events and say «I've seen this movie before, and I know how it ends.»»
Whether you're running a business
in 1812, 1886, 1925, 1950, 1975, 2000, 2050, I see nothing to contradict the
principle that who comes first and what comes second, for a very
simple reason: If you can not predict the what, you have to be able to do a good job with the who, because the what is going to be constantly shifting.
In its 16 years of existence, the UN Global Compact (UNGC), an initiative within the UN which began as a
simple list of 10
principles businesses could sign onto, has mobilized a vast network of companies.
The now - endangered fiduciary rule is based on a
simple — and seemingly unarguable —
principle: that
in giving advice to clients with retirement funds, stockbrokers, registered investment advisers and insurance agents must act
in the best interests of their clients... It simply doesn't seem like a good business practice for Wall Street to tell its client - investors, «We put your interests second, after our firm's, but it's close.»
Contains sound investment advice and
simple principles of investing from two of the most respected individuals
in the investment world
This
principle means, of course, a «one size fits all» disclosure regime is suspect on its face of fiduciary breach for the
simple reason that all clients are not equal
in their investing knowledge.
Miles, who has been to 85 countries
in his career, says he drew inspiration from Buffett's
simple investment
principles, fair management style and his ability to lead by example.
In principle, quantitative easing is
simple — print money, buy bonds.
The
principle is quite
simple: sell stocks when they are doing well and squirrel away the profit
in bonds from which you draw an income, don't sell stocks when they are not doing well and continue to draw your income from bonds until, potentially, they run out at which point you draw from stocks, replenish your bonds when stocks are doing well again.
These posts were key additions to my series on the Importance of Returns on Invested Capital, and Connor does a great job at laying out those
principles in a
simple, common - sense fashion.
Value Investing for Smart People will explain you
in a
simple manner how you can include the margin of safety
principle in your investing to preserve your capital.
While «operating earnings» are not even defined under Generally Accepted Accounting
Principles, and «forward operating earnings» only surfaced as a creature of Wall Street
in the early 1980's, it's
simple enough to impute historical values of forward operating earnings because they are almost completely explained by observable earnings and employment data — see Long - term Evidence on the Fed Model and Forward Operating Earnings.
The United States of America have exhibited, perhaps, the first example of governments erected on the
simple principles of nature; It will never be pretended that any persons employed
in that service had interviews with the gods, or were
in any degree under the influence of Heaven, more than those at work upon ships or houses, or laboring
in merchandise or agriculture; it will forever be acknowledged that these governments were contrived merely by the use of reason and the senses.
They say then that it is more
simple to believe at once
in the eternal pre-existence of the world, as it is now going on, and may for ever go on by the
principle of reproduction which we see and witness, than to believe
in the eternal pre-existence of an ulterior cause, or Creator of the world, a being whom we see not, and know not, of whose form substance and mode or place of existence, or of action no sense informs us, no power of the mind enables us to delineate or comprehend.
Martin thinks that this doctrine «reads well
in principle, but will rarely be helpful
in practice, except
in very
simple cases» (PSV 142).
You are making it needlessly hard, or are perhaps just plain too stupid to understand such a
simple fact as: there's no point debunking myths that virtually no one and no one at all with any real clout believes
in anyway, but MUCH point
in debunking myths that large numbers of people, including powerful politicians, believe should be the guiding
principles for the country's entire political culture and laws.
Yet the general
principle that applies to almost every method of execution is that the process be fairly
simple, brutal and blood - curdling
in order to impress the victims — and more important, would - be criminals — with the severity of the infraction and the depth of society's righteous anger.
Even someone who is no triumphalist can
in certain circumstances lament that at such and such a point even the
simplest principles which the Church proclaims were disregarded.
In retrospect, the arguments I have been advancing in favor of my interpretation of the principle of process seem straightforwardly simple and, I hope, convincin
In retrospect, the arguments I have been advancing
in favor of my interpretation of the principle of process seem straightforwardly simple and, I hope, convincin
in favor of my interpretation of the
principle of process seem straightforwardly
simple and, I hope, convincing.
Though a dietician, she abandoned the pseudo-scientific techniques of her peers — even calorie and fat - gram counting —
in favor of the
simple (and perhaps simplistic)
principle that one should learn to eat when hungry and stop, even if midway through a candy bar, when full.
The homogeneity of less complex entities is commensurate with continuity, and hence, closer to the being of the élan vital Therefore, we should not be surprised that the
simpler a life form is, the more prolific and ubiquitous it is.84 This point brings us to the
principle of «metaphysical divisibility» I mentioned above that the more homogeneous a concrete form of existence is, the more divisible it becomes (
in the sense that it can be divided without altering its form).
But I too long for a world «
in which modernity would have its full place» and
in «the technological deployment of virtual realities» is possible without denying the truth of the «elementary
principles» and «the
simplest words» that correspond to who we really are.
I long for a society
in which modernity would have its full place but without implying the denial of elementary
principles of human and familial ecology; for a society
in which the diversity of ways of being, of living, and of desiring is accepted as fortunate, without allowing this diversity to be diluted
in the reduction to the lowest common denominator, which effaces all differentiation; for a society
in which, despite the technological deployment of virtual realities and the free play of critical intelligence, the
simplest words — father, mother, spouse, parents — retain their meaning, at once symbolic and embodied; for a society
in which children are welcomed and find their place, their whole place, without becoming objects that must be possessed at all costs, or pawns
in a power struggle.
The United States of America have exhibited, perhaps, the first example of governments erected on the
simple principles of nature; and if men are now sufficiently enlightened to disabuse themselves of artifice, imposture, hypocrisy, and superstition, they will consider this event as an era
in their history.
Though it is impossible to state a
simple rule, considering the variety of situations
in the mission churches, the following
principles have to be observed.
This essay is largely a
simple, concrete, particularized application of the universal
principles discussed
in the chapter entitled «Abstraction» found
in Science and the Modern World.
But instead of vengeful invective, over the following minutes, days and years he spoke
simple,
principled sense, refusing to give up the struggle, armed if necessary, against injustice until Apartheid was dismantled, but articulating a sense of place for all races
in South Africa.
Systems and
principles of justice are the servants and instruments of the spirit of brotherhood
in so far as they extend the sense of obligation towards the other, (a) from an immediately felt obligation, prompted by obvious need, to a continued obligation expressed
in fixed
principles of mutual support; (b) from a
simple relation of the self and one «other» to the complex relations of the self and the «others»; and (c) finally from the obligations... which the community defines from its more impartial perspective.5
He is one of the founders of The
Simple Way, a «new monastic» Christian community
in Philadelphia, USA, that promotes radical faith
in Christ and radical engagement with the global poor through
principles of peacemaking, communal living and hospitality
in «the abandoned places of empire».
I choose to obey those laws because I love my fellow man as I love myself which is a
simple principle to live by that outdates the bible by nearly 800 years as it was included
in the code of Hammurabi.
12 Even on the assumption of a Vitalism of essentially higher
principles of that kind, which raise the organic, as an intrinsically higher level of reality, above merely inorganic matter, and constitute biology as an independent science, and even if we regard the entelechy factor as
simple and indivisible, there would only be an eductio e potentia materiae when a new living being came into existence, if we excluded creation
in this case
in the way it is exemplified
in the human soul, though that is not very easy to prove, and at the same time rejected the not at all absurd supposition that
in the generation of new life below the human level what happens is only the extension of the entelechial function of one and the same vital
principle to a new position
in space and time within inorganic matter.
Which again amounts to saying that from the time of Man (above all, modern Man) the factor consciousness, which for a long time perhaps represented no more than a secondary and accessory effect
in Nature, a
simple superstructure of the factor complexity, is finally becoming individualized
in the form of an autonomous spiritual
principle.
We should then expect either a condition of «no change» beyond
simple elements, surviving very nicely as
principles of intense energy, or else a riot of physical «mutations» having neither «survival value» nor any
principle of control by «survival value», a Universe
in which so stable and inelastic a thing as complex life could not survive.
«But for citizens and elected officials alike, the basic
principle is
simple: We must begin with a commitment never to intentionally kill, or collude
in the killing, of any innocent human life, no matter how broken, unformed, disabled, or desperate that life may seem.
Though I was excited to read it, and agree
in principle with the «
Simple Church» concept, that every church needs to drastically simplify what it is doing so that it can do a better job of making disciples, I was a tiny bit disappointed with some of the approaches used by the authors.
To simply ram - rod Baptism and Marriage
in as
simple religious ceremony and consider them both falling under the same
principles is simply to lack any real knowledge about either of them.
I believe that the we can all create Heaven on Earth and live according to the
simple principles outlined
in the bible.
Solve for us the question of the reasonableness of athiesm, where you get something (big bang) from nothing — there must be a first cause of everything; explain implications of the anthropic
principle and the wildly unprobablistic likelihood that our universe could even form
in such a fashion as to be capable of sustaining life (which has, interestingly, your athiest heavy hitters (i.e. Dawkins, Schwartz, etc.) necessarily positing multiple universe theories to get around the near probablistic impossibility of all conditions be present at time of big bang for life to be possible without acknowledgement of a divine designing hand guiding the process); explain The probablistic impossibility of non-irreducibly complex basic cells (life) coming together spontaneously (DNA, cell membrane, etc), even the most basic,
simple forms of life allowing for reproduction, metabolism, etc...