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Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.
Stephen Covey
Life
Trust
Communication
Relationships
Most
Principle
Glue
Effective
Essential
Holds
Ingredient
Foundational
Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed.
DeForest Soaries
Life
Voting
Principle
Governed
Breathes
Act
Foundational
Consent
Christian faith is... basically about love and being loved and reconciliation. These things are so important, they're foundational and they can transform individuals, families.
Philip Yancey
Love
Faith
Important
Christian
Reconciliation
About
Individuals
Families
Being
Loved
Transform
Foundational
Christian Faith
Things
Basically
The American birthright belongs, potentially, to everyone. This is unprecedented. Other countries accept migrants on the basis of economic necessity or as a humanitarian gesture. Only in America is it the direct consequence of our foundational ideals.
Bret Stephens
Gesture
Other
Other Countries
Everyone
Our
Birthright
Unprecedented
Direct
Only
Potentially
Economic
Countries
Ideals
Accept
America
American
Foundational
Humanitarian
Necessity
Belongs
Basis
Consequence
Breaking down barriers is tough. Many companies make the mistake of dismissing diversity early on, only to realize later how foundational it is to their success or failure.
Christine Tsai
Success
Failure
Mistake
Tough
Diversity
Down
Later
Only
Make
How
Breaking
Realize
Companies
Barriers
Many
Foundational
Early
As we become more spiritually mature and increasingly steadfast and immovable, we focus upon and strive to understand the fundamental and foundational doctrines of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ.
David A. Bednar
Christ
Focus
Become
Increasingly
Strive
Immovable
Restored
Steadfast
More
Spiritually
Doctrines
Gospel
Understand
Mature
Fundamental
Foundational
Jesus
Jesus Christ
Foundational autonomy asserts instead that in the most fundamental practical sense, I am my own creator, which means that at the core, I am alone.
David Novak
Alone
Own
Sense
My Own
Instead
Most
Practical
Am
Which
Autonomy
Means
Creator
Fundamental
Foundational
Core
The only way to create a foundational document that could stand the test of time was to build in enough flexibility that later generations would be able to adapt it to their own needs and uses.
Diane Wood
Time
Needs
Build
Own
Enough
Later
Way
Would
Would-Be
Able
Only
Could
Generations
Document
Test
Create
Stand
Flexibility
Uses
Foundational
Adapt
There is no more reason to think that they expected the world to remain static than there is to think that any of us holds a crystal ball. The only way to create a foundational document that could stand the test of time was to build in enough flexibility that later generations would be able to adapt it to their own needs and uses.
Diane Wood
Time
Needs
World
Build
Own
Think
Enough
Later
Way
Static
Would
Would-Be
Able
More
Only
Remain
Could
Generations
Document
Crystal
Crystal Ball
Ball
Test
Than
Expected
Any
Holds
Us
Create
Stand
Flexibility
Reason
Uses
Foundational
Adapt
Baseball always gets credit for the foundational part of masculinity - the father thing. The eternal game of backyard catch, 'Field of Dreams', the Ripkens, the Griffeys, the Bondses, so on. But football is the real paternal game, because it's a conveyor belt of father figures, in the form of coaches.
J. R. Moehringer
Dreams
Game
Father
Field
Backyard
Football
Masculinity
Part
Catch
Because
Always
Real
Paternal
Gets
Form
Eternal
Conveyor
Coaches
Figures
Baseball
Foundational
Credit
Thing
Belt
The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely telling a story here. We are being called to a radical act of empathy. Here we are, embarking on an ancient, perennial attempt to give human lives - our lives - dignity.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Dignity
Memory
Book
Law
Radical
Living
Our
Our Lives
Embarking
Ancient
Torah
Telling
Give
Perennial
Attempt
Empathy
Merely
Text
Human
Being
Story
Act
Foundational
Lives
Here
Jewish
Whatever its cause, the media's general Hillary Clinton loathing is a foundational truth that would define her as president.
Joy Reid
Truth
Cause
Whatever
Loathing
President
Define
Would
General
Hillary
Hillary Clinton
Clinton
Media
Foundational
Her
I yearn for the day when we'll return to the foundational value that makes this country great.
Mike Gallagher
Day
Great
Value
Country
For The Day
Return
Makes
Yearn
Foundational
President Trump's executive order creating a Muslim ban undermines the foundational ideals of the United States, a nation founded by immigrants.
Mike Quigley
Nation
President
States
Immigrants
Muslim
Ideals
Executive
Trump
Ban
Order
Creating
United
Foundational
United States
Founded
It is my belief that no matter how advanced man may become in science, technology, systems, and knowledge, he can never improve on the foundational precepts of marriage as the bedrock of social development.
Myles Munroe
Knowledge
Technology
Man
Science
Marriage
Matter
Become
Precepts
Systems
Never
He
Advanced
Development
How
Bedrock
Improve
May
Social
Social Development
Belief
Foundational
But there's no reason why we should abdicate our foundational principles because certain groups don't believe in them. You know, no majority should surrender its deeply held beliefs to those who don't believe in anything.
Pat Robertson
You
Surrender
Believe
Our
Those
Abdicate
No Reason
Know
Majority
Principles
Because
Anything
Them
Held
Certain
Should
Reason
Who
Groups
Beliefs
Foundational
Why
Deeply
And these things are pretty much foundational: thou shall not kill, steal, bear false witness. All these things are embedded into the laws we enjoy in our nation.
Pat Robertson
Witness
Nation
Enjoy
Our
Thou
Embedded
Pretty
Laws
Steal
Bear
Shall
False
Much
Foundational
Things
I cite in my book countless examples of the foundational documents of the colonial period in America and the writings of the leaders, that this was intended to be a Christian nation.
Pat Robertson
Book
Nation
Christian
Cite
Examples
Colonial
Writings
Leaders
Countless
Period
Documents
America
Intended
Foundational
Christian Nation
Many believe effective networking is done face-to-face, building a rapport with someone by looking at them in the eye, leading to a solid connection and foundational trust.
Raymond Arroyo
Trust
Looking
Building
Believe
Solid
Eye
Rapport
Face-To-Face
Someone
Networking
Leading
Effective
Done
Them
Many
Connection
Foundational
When the Bible and the Gospels say that the victims should have been spared, they do not merely 'take pity' on them. They puncture the illusion of the unanimous victimization that foundational myths use as a crisis-solving and reordering device of human communities.
Rene Girard
Bible
Illusion
Puncture
Say
Unanimous
Take
Myths
Merely
Device
Gospels
Been
Human
Pity
Victimization
Victims
Them
Spared
Should
Use
Communities
Foundational
Respect for the dignity of the human person is the foundational principle of any just society. From a Catholic perspective, it also forms the foundation of all of our Church's social teachings.
Salvatore J. Cordileone
Respect
Dignity
Perspective
Church
Society
Our
Also
Principle
Catholic
Person
Any
Human
Just
Forms
Social
Teachings
Foundation
Foundational
The UPA's strategy of 'inclusive growth' remains the foundational pillar of economically, politically, and socially sustainable development.
Sanjaya Baru
Sustainable Development
Strategy
Inclusive
Remains
Development
Economically
Pillar
Politically
Sustainable
Foundational
Growth
Socially
I think trust is primarily built through relationships, and it's important because it's the foundational currency that a leader has with his team or his followers.
Tom Rath
Trust
Leader
Important
Think
Relationships
Followers
Through
Primarily
Because
Built
His
Currency
Team
Foundational
In the long run, we need to build a leadership force of people. We have a whole strategy around not only providing folks with the foundational experience during their two years with us, but also then accelerating their leadership in ways that is strategic for the broader education reform movement.
Wendy Kopp
Education
Leadership
Experience
People
Long
Build
Strategy
Broader
Ways
Run
Folks
Only
Long Run
Also
Accelerate
Force
Around
Education Reform
Years
Providing
Reform
Movement
Then
Us
Strategic
Whole
Foundational
Two
Need
In every case where I've seen a transformational school, there's a principal who really has the foundational experience of having taught successfully.
Wendy Kopp
Experience
School
Seen
Every
Case
Having
Principal
Taught
Where
Really
Successfully
Who
Foundational
Being a Secret Service agent, I have an obligation not to disclose personal conversations and security details. But that doesn't prevent me from speaking generally about foundational principles and the system of patronage and punishment I saw in the Obama administration.
Dan Bongino
Service
Me
Obligation
Disclose
Secret
Saw
Punishment
System
Security
Obama
Administration
Obama Administration
Details
About
Prevent
Generally
Principles
Personal
Being
Patronage
Conversations
Agent
Speaking
Foundational
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