The guiding principle of ruling elites was--and still is: When change threatens to rule, then the rules are changed.
Never let pride be your guiding principle. Let your accomplishments speak for you.
The one guiding principle over my 23-year career in TV has been as long as I'm having fun, I really don't care what the job title is.
The guiding principle of this Nation has been, is now, and ever shall be IN GOD WE TRUST.
My first guiding principle is this: willing and active co-operation between independent sovereign states. Europe will be stronger precisely because it has France as France, Spain as Spain, Britain as Britain, each with its own customs, traditions and identity. It would be folly to try to fit them into some sort of identikit European personality.
Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
Widely dispersed knowledge concerning the important role of basic cooperative processes among living beings may lead to the acceptance of cooperation as a guiding principle both in social theory and as a basis for human behavior. Such a development when it occurs will alter the course of human history.
My mother was the source from which I derived the guiding principles of my life.
Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.
By building a simple system, with just a few guiding principles, eBay was open to organic growth.
I love the term "everything is copy," attributed to Nora Ephron, which was my guiding principle as I wrote.
Being an art form, verse cannot be "free" in the sense of having no limitations or guiding principle.
As to the Indians, the guiding principle was, promise them anything just so long as they get out of the way.
Chivalry -. . . a romantic idealism closely related to Christianity, which makes honor the guiding principle of conduct. Connected with this is the ancient concept of the gentleman.
Wheeler hopes that we can discover, within the context of physics, a principle that will enable the universe to come into existence "of its own accord. " In his search for such a theory, he remarks: "No guiding principle would seem more powerful than the requirement that it should provide the universe with a way to come into being. " Wheeler likened this 'self-causing' universe to a self-excited circuit in electronics.
The guiding principle of my life, 'the means are the ends,' has taught me that our participation in a corrupt system facilitates it and corrupts and therefore defeats us.
The assumption that things which have been conjured in the past will always be conjured in the guiding principle not of rational but of animal behavior.
My guiding principle as president has been to try to do the right thing even when it's not politically convenient.
Find that thing you are super passionate about. A lot of founding principles of Facebook are that if people have access to more information and are more connected, it will make the world better; people will have more understanding, more empathy. That’s the guiding principle for me. On hard days, I really just step back, and that’s the thing that keeps me going.
