Core Quotes

I am struck by the fact that the more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and I think that the same is true of human beings.

If there's a field you're interested in, do some research. If you can, go to school and study it to really understand it from its core.

For underground metaphors, you can scrape an inch below the turf. For what it's worth, my style's been developed in the core of the Earth. The exhale's volcanic, the inhale is seismic.

Golf inflicts more pain than any other sport. If you're the sort of person whose self-worth is tied up in how you play, golf will cut you to the core of who you are.

The desire for reinvention seems to arise most often when companies hear the siren call of synergy and start to expand beyond their core businesses.

All of the common core standards stuff about critical reading and critical thinking and so on can only be positive.

There is no question we need higher academic standards and at the local level the rigor of the Common Core state standards must be the new minimum in classrooms.

A lot of conservatives, a big part of the Republican base don't like his position on common core, don't like his position on immigration.

Based on my own experiences, I made sure, and I'm proud of this, that the Common Core curriculum is hard on plagiarizers.

There's plenty about God that I don't understand and can't explain. But I come back to my core belief that God is good, that He's for us.

Nature has neither core nor skin: she’s both at once outside and in.

Democrats talk about programs like Social Security or Medicare, but it's not clear to most voters what Democrats' core moral values are.

When you see a close person you know pass in front of your eyes, it's hard core. After all that, I just wanted to enjoy every day. That was my goal. And to give thanks and to live fully.

I have a positive core, and what I'm doing for music and Earth and the people is more living and less critical thinking.

The men can have a moral compass that is just unshakeable, they can have ethics that run to the core.

Montaigne [puts] not self-satisfied understanding but a consciousness astonished at itself at the core of human existence.

To me, I think the core values that will help create the world that we're striving to live in are constant.

We're on safe ground to presume that self-interest and hubris are at the core of the rebellion.

I see it as my job to try to keep Bach in the mainstream and present his music with, rather than without, its emotional core.

I believe you can have a much better life if you are true to your core self, and therefore guided by love and intuitive inner knowing.

There certainly are some good aspects to Common Core.

I just feel much more secure about whatever I write if I stand with one foot in reality - meaning if the stories I write about have a core of "this actually (could have) happened."

Redemption implies that your self worth comes at the end. I think it's there from the start. If it's your core values, it's there from day one.

How do we get out of our small mind? When we enquire into the core of our existence. What is life? Who am I? This spirit of self-inquiry can awaken something inside you.

Suffering is not an elective; it is a core course in the University of Life.

Danger and anger are everywhere. Love is the rarity, the gem buried in the core of the mine, the outpost of God.

No matter what you're going through, there is no temporary feeling or circumstance that can take away the core of who you are.

I don't think fear necessarily is a core human emotion, but I do think fear of death is something that is at the core of every person's existence.

The surface of learning is hearing what your ears aren't prepared to hear, and the core of learning is hearing what your ears don't want to hear.

Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's part of any endeavour, not just writing.

Yeah, you know I don't ever see myself doing a super-gritty, hard-core drama.

I've had the same core group of friends that I've always had. We're surfing, so that definitely keeps you grounded.

Beauty is my heritage and my core. But my passion is design for the spaces where we live and work.

Separation can make us feel helpless and powerless, like we have no control. To withstand this negative force, we must return to our inner core, and that takes work. That takes time and patience.

I don't think a name defines the core of who you are.

It is easier for a libertarian to attack the science of global warming than to alter one's core libertarian beliefs.

I have a number of vague ideas where I just have the core or kernel of the idea. I feel like I need some time for my mind to fill up again. I feel empty. Right now.

Commercial to the core, Elvis was the kind of singer dear to the heart of the music business. For him to sing a song was to sell asong. His G clef was a dollar sign.

At the core, I try to write characters who are real people with real insecurities, fears, hopes, and dreams, which is why hopefully readers can identify with them.

I think that I have this core group of fans that fell in love with the character I played on Buffy and now they're following me to everything I do. They're very dedicated and loyal. I'm very lucky.

The core of creation is to summon an image and the power to work with the image.

Have Faith! Have faith in the Eternal Goodness. Believe that the core of the Universe is sound and sweet.

I worked in sales. It was definable, it had a quantifiable approach to accomplishment that had a great deal of importance to me. It had a degree of clarity that I loved. And of course, it was core.

Now, my friend, I beg you to consider that this blindness and unyielding hardness is the very core of your iniquity, and to be convinced that you are thus blind and stupid is true conviction of sin.

Trust is such an important principle for me. I want to believe in the best of each person, and some time back, I have experienced that trust being broken - which shook me to the core.

I feel good when I'm engaged in what I think are the core issues of the society, and those core issues to me are what's happening to poor folks in this society.

The Democrats should not waiver on our core beliefs and principles.

My core goal is to dismantle, defeat, destroy al Qaeda and its allies that killed Americans and are still plotting to go kill Americans.

When I was born, my father was a copper miner in Butte, Montana. It was a hard-core, blue-collar situation.

What you want is what you need. Your dearest wish comes straight from your core, loaded with vital information about who you are and who you can become.