Basics Quotes - page 3

During the lockout year, my focus was the basics, sharpening my moves, my fundamentals. (Brandon Jennings)
Having a couple really great basics makes it easy to dress well every day. View quote
Cameron Russell
Things have changed a lot since the earth was cooling and I was a teenage girl, but the basics of teenage bedrooms have remained the same. Every girl wants a place that they are proud to call their own and where they can express their own individuality. View quote
Candice Olson
The thing about being at home versus being out in the world working is, it's a whole different vibe. When I'm home with my kids and partner, I will cook - even though she's a very good cook. She's learned over the years. We started with basics, you know, how to saute onions, how to saute mushrooms. View quote
Cat Cora
(Self-checkout is) negative because more and more retailers are losing the personal touch. People want to do business where people know their name and communicate with them. With a world full of email and more self-service we will begin to start seeking out the basics from retailers who create emotion. There is not emotion out of self-service and most people buy out of emotion. View quote
Debbie Allen
I think any song should sound good just played on a solitary instrument with the vocal. If you have those basics you have all you need. The production then just polishes that idea into the finished thing. View quote
Gary Numan
The things you leave school knowing - some dates and long division - so much of it has been of no use to me. Schools should teach the basics of cookery, first aid, how to look after your money and how to speak foreign languages. Useful things. View quote
Jane Asher
I'm getting the basics with the AFL, but the NFL is a different animal. View quote
John Elway
No two children learn in the same way. While we might agree that every American eight-year-old should be able to read and multiply, beyond those basics, there are few reasons to make every student follow the same path. View quote
John Katzman
The thing about the basics is they don't really change - it's the details and the proportions that change. The shirt may be cut slimmer or looser, the suit might be darker or lighter, the sneakers might not have laces, but you're still talking about shirts and suits and sneakers. View quote
John Varvatos
Great sculptors and artists spend countless hours perfecting their talents. They don't pick up a chisel or a brush and palette, expecting immediate perfection. They understand that they will make many errors as they learn, but they start with the basics, the key fundamentals first. (Joseph B. Wirthlin)
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. View quote
Keegan Bradley
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. View quote
Lesley Nicol
A lot of these things will fly in later forms on the space station themselves, or a later form of that research will, once they kind of find out some of the basics from flying it on shuttle. View quote
Linda M. Godwin
I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff. View quote
Laura Linney
In many ways, our campaign this year will be the same as last time: We're still going to focus on fixing up basics and cleaning up ethics at City Hall. View quote
Laura Miller
What I'm making music for now is more similar to what I was doing in the beginning. In those days it was all about doing music so when people heard it in a club it would take their minds of their worries. I got more artistic but now I've gone back to basics. View quote
Curtis Jones
Financial literacy is just as important in life as the other basics. View quote
John W. Rogers, Jr.
If we went back to the basics of vegetables, legumes, grains - the things closer to the Earth - it's a lot better for the Earth and for other people. We can feed more people, we can feed the starving people. View quote
Nellie McKay
I started from zero and went back to the basics in gymnastics. View quote
Shawn Johnson
At my core, what I think we need to do is to get the basics right again. We need to rebuild our family structure, stay away from redefining marriage, and stand by marriage as a union between a man and a woman. (Sam Brownback)
If you don't have a voice that forces you back to basics, you're a dangerous person. Or to put it another way: You're at risk, and the people with you are at risk. I'm not a daredevil. I don't fly without a safety net. View quote
Steve Wynn
I feel lucky in that I don't really have to go to college to study something job-specific. I just want to go to learn about what is interesting to me and learn about the classes that you don't really get to take in high school because you have to take the basics. View quote
Tavi Gevinson
Someone could have an outstanding comprehension of a bodybuilding diet and a background in nutrition but not have the work ethic and desire to put it into practice. That person won't be as successful as the person who understands some basics and puts them into action regularly. View quote
Robert Cheeke
I have to admit that I only read War and Peace when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then. View quote
Umberto Eco