In this post, you will find great Take Quotes from famous people, such as Mike Parson, Steve Jobs, Milton Friedman, Ramsey Clark, Stephen King. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.
By patrolling our borders, we can take a proactive stand against human trafficking, violence, terrorism, and illegal immigration from spiraling out of control.
Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.
It’s a mystery. That’s the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it’s mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.
Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you – gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.
High school is what kind of grows you into the person you are. I have great memories, good and bad, some learning experiences and some that I’ll take with me the rest of my life.
We are on the forefront of a revolution in which identity and expression will take priority over the labels assigned to us at birth; in which self-identification will take priority over perception; in which gender will fall away entirely.
You can take the girl out of Texas but not the Texas out of the girl and ultimately not the girl out of Texas.
People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.
You don’t pay taxes – they take taxes.
I could prove God statistically. Take the human body alone – the chances that all the functions of an individual would just happen is a statistical monstrosity.
Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context.
In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.
When adversity strikes, that’s when you have to be the most calm. Take a step back, stay strong, stay grounded and press on.
It’s just the risk that I take and the sacrifice that I make: Putting myself, my career, my family’s peace of mind on the line just to do right by my fans. It ain’t no gray area: You’re either with that and willing to go out of your way to make people who contribute to your dreams coming true happy or you aren’t.
Maybe you’re not perfect, but you’re willing to actually look at yourself and take some kind of accountability. That’s a change. It might not mean that you can turn everything around, but I think there’s something incredibly hopeful about that.
The most important thing you learn as a sports photographer is anticipation – not where the action is taking place, but where it’s going to take place. Not where the subject is now, but where they’re going to be.
You can say a lot of things about me, but you can never say I don’t take risks.
Love your neighbor as yourself; but don’t take down the fence.
The girls and women of our race must not be afraid to take hold of business endeavor and, by patient industry, close economy, determined effort and close application to business, wring success out of a number of business opportunities that lie at their very doors.
I take time to open up with people. But once I know you, I’m fine. I’m a shy person.
Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it’s a good place that we’re all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.
You can’t please everybody. You’d be crazy if you’re trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself.
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
When you don’t take a stand against corruption you tacitly support it.
Meditation is not to avoid society; it is to look deep to have the kind of insight you need to take action. To think that it is just to sit down and enjoy the calm and peace, is wrong.
Have a bias toward action – let’s see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.
Life is a series of punches. It presents a lot of challenges. It presents a lot of hardship, but the people that are able to take those punches and able to move forward are the ones that really do have a lot of success and have a lot of joy in their life and have a lot of stories to tell, too.
Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
Back then, as a teenager, I kept thinking, why don’t the adults around here just say something? Say it so they know we don’t accept segregation? I knew then and I know now that, when it comes to justice, there’s no easy way to get it. You can’t sugarcoat it. You have to take a stand and say, ‘This is not right.’
In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
Never take anything for granted.
My sun and my moon signs are mostly Cancer – it’s really strong. We’re deeply intuitive and sentimental. I really like to take care of people, nurturing them. I’m very passionate about the things I do and like to see people I love grow.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.
If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don’t back down.
Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: ‘Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?’ If you don’t ask those questions, your governance will not be good.
Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
In this hectic life, we have no time to take care of ourselves, hence massage is needed for rejuvenation and stress reduction. A lot of people are looking for quick fixes: like, they are taking medications, and they are doing other things which are not healthy. But massage is very holistic and natural.
Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you’re passionate about something, then you’re more willing to take risks.
Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
Only 20 percent of our longevity is genetically determined. The rest is what we do, how we live our lives and increasingly the molecules that we take. It’s not the loss of our DNA that causes aging, it’s the problems in reading the information, the epigenetic noise.
When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
Obedience brings peace in decision making. If we have firmly made up our minds to follow the commandments, we will not have to redecide which path to take when temptation comes our way.
What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.
Everybody just has different steps in their life that they take to do what they should.
I truly believe that everything that we do and everyone that we meet is put in our path for a purpose. There are no accidents; we’re all teachers – if we’re willing to pay attention to the lessons we learn, trust our positive instincts and not be afraid to take risks or wait for some miracle to come knocking at our door.
You’ve got to do what’s right, or what you think is right. And you’ve got to make tough decisions. And you’ve got to be willing to take on your friends when you disagree with them.
Being healthy is the crown that only the sick can see. A lot of times, we take it for granted.
You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, ‘I’m a representative.’
I never thought of losing, but now that it’ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.
In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.
Freedom is man’s capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
I am Maradona, who makes goals, who makes mistakes. I can take it all, I have shoulders big enough to fight with everybody.
The film is made in the editing room. The shooting of the film is about shopping, almost. It’s like going to get all the ingredients together, and you’ve got to make sure before you leave the store that you got all the ingredients. And then you take those ingredients and you can make a good cake – or not.
We should take care not to make the intellect our goal; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
You can take a man out of Ireland, but you can’t take the Irishness out of the man.
Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.
Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
Beauty is in the character of a person. It’s about having an interesting face and about what’s inside. Anyone can take a good picture.
The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.
Everything depends on our ability to sustainably inhabit this earth, and true sustainability will require us all to change our way of thinking on how we take from the earth and how we give back.
I work hard and I party hard. When I go to work, I know what I am doing and I do it to the best of my abilities. When I party, I take exactly the same rule book with me.
If you look at it ecologically, deforestation is high on the list of things which bring devastation. You cut down trees to build homes, for fuel, and you end up with no trees left, and you have to move on. If you take the earth as a whole, eventually there’s nowhere to move on to.
Electric cars are not going to take the market by storm, but it’s going to be a gradual improvement.
Revenge is a sorrow for the person who has to take it on. And the person who is rash enough to think it’s going to help a situation is always wrong.
But the real secret to lifelong good health is actually the opposite: Let your body take care of you.
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.
Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.
You take care of you and your family first. Then you go to your neighborhood, and then you spread it on out within the community.
I knew I wanted to do music, but leaving such a successful career one would think I’d kind of shot myself in the foot. I knew I made the right decision, and at the end of the day it’s up to me to get where I want to go, but it’s a lot to take on.
Art must take reality by surprise.
Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.
The reason you take antidepressants is to feel calm. And romantic love is not calm – it’s elation, it’s mood swings, and you’re killing all that when you take the drug.
All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.
We cannot change the political system, we cannot change the economic system, we cannot change the social system, until the people control the land, and then we take it out of the hands of that sick minority that chooses to pervert the meaning and the intention of humanity.
Nothing in life is so hard that you can’t make it easier by the way you take it.
I take a massage each week. This isn’t an indulgence, it’s an investment in your full creative expression/productivity/passion and sustained good health.
A father figure is setting the blueprint, the model, the standard, the way for you to become a man and take on the world for yourself.
If it’s the right chair, it doesn’t take too long to get comfortable in it.
Ain’t no point in stopping or slowing down. Ain’t like no ‘A’ight, I’m done with this, now take a break,’ you just keep going.
Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure – they can be turned into wisdom.
I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art.
We don’t want to make the same mistakes twice, though I tend to take the positives from past experiences, even unhappy ones.
Take a different route to the coffee shop to see what you can see and hear. When we get in a routine, we can become zombie-like and shut down. It’s about discipline. You have to push yourself.
In chess you try to do your best, but there are instances where you make mistakes or you try and take risks that you shouldn’t. And I think losing games is a good thing, because you learn more from when you lose than when you win.
I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
The whole point of collaboration is that you give and take from each other, and that’s how you create things that are totally new.
Everybody is responsible for their own actions. It’s easy to point the finger at somebody else, but a real man, a real woman, a real person knows when it’s time to take the blame and when to take responsibility for their own actions.
Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
No matter who you meet in life, you take something from them, positive or negative.
The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that’s making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?
God has blessed me with a wonderful family, a successful business, and outstanding employees. I do not take these blessings lightly.
It is not what they take away from you that counts. It’s what you do with what you have left.
The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.
It’s never too late to get fit; it’s never too late to feel good and confident and change the way you eat and train. Just give it a go and momentum will take you the rest of the way.
I’m willing to take any amount of pain to win.
I take things like honor and loyalty seriously. It’s more important to me than any materialistic thing or any fame I could have.
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
I’ve known for years that the university underserved the community, because we assumed that university education is for 18- to 22-year-olds, which is a proposition that’s so absurd it is absolutely mind-boggling that anyone ever conceptualized it. Why wouldn’t you take university courses throughout your entire life?
Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.
People think because I’m a nice person I’m a weak person. But I don’t think being nice means you don’t know how to take tough decisions.
The best thing is to accept the circumstances, not take them personally, deal with them, stop complaining, and give everything your best.
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself – that is the best combination.
Letting go helps us to to live in a more peaceful state of mind and helps restore our balance. It allows others to be responsible for themselves and for us to take our hands off situations that do not belong to us. This frees us from unnecessary stress.
Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take.
No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life’s slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.
How many years has it taken people to realize that we are all brothers and sisters and human beings in the human race? I mean how many years does it take people to see that? We’re all in this rat race together!
Every opportunity that comes your way, you can’t take lightly. You have to take it very, very seriously, because the opportunities are limited. If you want to keep working, you can’t be such an elitist, to say no, that’s not good enough, not big enough, not smart enough, whatever.
Freedom does not come without a price. We may sometimes take for granted the many liberties we enjoy in America, but they have all been earned through the ultimate sacrifice paid by so many of the members of our armed forces.
There have been times when I have deliberately tried to take my life… I think I must have been crying for some attention.
You never know where life is going to take you. So everything I do, I just take it one day at a time, and it always leads you to the right place.
If you take yourself too seriously, something like a bad review could put you off your stride.
You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
I want to marry Arline because I love her – which means I want to take care of her. That is all there is to it. I want to take care of her. I am anxious for the responsibilities and uncertainties of taking care of the girl I love.
I don’t think it’s healthy to take yourself too seriously.
Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you’ll never know. I truly believe what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.
If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.
Take a step back, evaluate what is important, and enjoy life.
Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming.
It’s true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?
I even don’t dare to watch our stock price, because this is what other people think who you are. I dare not watch it. I think, let the market take care of themselves; we should take care of the business.
Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
If you can make me laugh, my heart is yours! I think there’s nothing more attractive than someone who doesn’t take themselves too seriously.
Anyone can take the wheel of the ship in calm water but it’s not so easy when it’s not calm water. You can’t just enjoy the good times, you have to be resilient in the tough times.
Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.
When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does.
What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.
Unprecedented technological capabilities combined with unlimited human creativity have given us tremendous power to take on intractable problems like poverty, unemployment, disease, and environmental degradation. Our challenge is to translate this extraordinary potential into meaningful change.
I want people to follow their dreams, yes… but I’m not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers… I want to show them that there’s so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.
Take care of your inner, spiritual beauty. That will reflect in your face.
Where I am today… I still have my ups and downs, but I take it one day at a time and I just hope that I can be the best that I can possibly be, not only for myself, but also young people that are out there today that need someone to look up to.
Making better choices takes work. There is a daily give and take, but it is worth the effort.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
I always feel good after I change my hair. You get a haircut and feel positive and ready to take on the day.
If you’re so afraid of failure, you will never succeed. You have to take chances.
My biggest success is getting over the things that have tried to destroy and take me out of this life. Those are my biggest successes. It has nothing to do with work.
During a negotiation, it would be wise not to take anything personally. If you leave personalities out of it, you will be able to see opportunities more objectively.
Take a walk on the wild side.
I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.
The only safe thing is to take a chance.
If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.
I always had a philosophy which I got from my father. He used to say, ‘Listen. God gave to you the gift to play football. This is your gift from God. If you take care of your health, if you are in good shape all the time, with your gift from God no one will stop you, but you must be prepared.’
In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, as quickly and as effortlessly as possible, when circumstances change – as they surely will in our liquid modern society, over and over again.
My dad said, ‘Go to college and take whatever you want.’ So, I went to the University of Miami. When I got up to the line at registration, I saw that you had to take math and history. I said, ‘There’s no way I’m taking math and history.’ And right next to it was the line for the drama department.
It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
I could never take orders from anyone.
Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.
I am a woman in process. I’m just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.
To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct – crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!
I take time to get close to, and I don’t immediately throw my arms round someone.
In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.
Don’t be afraid to take risks. Create a vision for you life. Be a leader in your own life. Give of yourself selflessly to make a positive change in another human being.
When placed in command, take charge.
I am looking forward to being part of the E! team. This unique opportunity allows my company to take the next step in providing multimedia content.
As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.
Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.
If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.
The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That’s the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!
I know all I really wanna do is get money and take care of my family.
The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.
Keep the circus going inside you, keep it going, don’t take anything too seriously, it’ll all work out in the end.
I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.
The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands.
I do take advantage of, you know, feeling sensual and feeling sexy. And I think that is tremendously empowering and is not diminishing in any way. I fell that any woman who is in control, who is in touch with her femininity and sensuality, is a woman that is empowered.
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.
Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That’s what surfers do – take control of the situation, then be carried, then take control. In the last few thousand years, we’ve become incredibly adept technically. We’ve treasured the controlling part of ourselves and neglected the surrendering part.
It’s very refreshing to go away and take a break, to clear your head, and just get into something else.
Take what you can from your dreams, make them as real as anything.
When we believe in lies, we cannot see the truth, so we make thousands of assumptions and we take them as truth. One of the biggest assumptions we make is that the lies we believe are the truth!
It’s not who’s the best – it’s who can take the most pain.
If you take away print and embroidery, you have to challenge yourself a bit more on the cut.
To have faith doesn’t mean you get any less frustrated when you don’t do your best, but you know that it’s not life and death. Take what you’re given, and when you continue to work hard, you will see results. That will give you the confidence you need to keep going.
Be true to yourself, stay focused and stay you, take advice from other folks, use what you can, but never mind what is not for you. For the most part, trust yourself and believe in what you are doing.
Assets put money in your pocket, whether you work or not, and liabilities take money from your pocket.
The challenge that so many people have is not knowing how to take that first step of reaching out to another person for help.
I want to take Justin Bieber for a month and just lock him up in a cage where we sit and make music. He’s one of the most successful people in the world, but his music could be so much tighter.
There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.
A good teacher who can take the zero pay and help kids develop physically, emotionally, socially, is literally an angel.
He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
Just celebrate who you are and be happy with you are. Take all the ups and downs together, as you’re only human.
Don’t take things too seriously, and just chill.
Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.
I was not in ‘Iron Man 2,’ but I take a daily iron supplement.
It doesn’t take much to make me angry.
If you’ve got a bazooka, and people know you’ve got it, you may not have to take it out.
You’ve got to have faith in what you’re doing and not take no for an answer.
The more often we see the things around us – even the beautiful and wonderful things – the more they become invisible to us. That is why we often take for granted the beauty of this world: the flowers, the trees, the birds, the clouds – even those we love. Because we see things so often, we see them less and less.
A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.
Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.
I think beautiful is like looking like you take care of yourself.
If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.
Whether you’re a DJ, whether you a rapper, whether you a producer, take it seriously. This is an occupation – you can get paid – don’t expect to blow up overnight, and appreciate when you do get paid any type of money, appreciate it.
If the Philippines secure their independence after heroic and stubborn conflicts, they can rest assured that neither England, nor Germany, nor France, and still less Holland, will dare to take up what Spain has been unable to hold.
It’s a long journey to become successful, and you learn to grow with it. You grow with the small steps you take.
I like fish, and I also like bear’s paws. If I cannot have the two together, I will let the fish go, and take the bear’s paws. So, I like life, and I also like righteousness. If I cannot keep the two together, I will let life go, and choose righteousness.
If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
If we are honest with ourselves, we have to admit that sometimes our assumptions and preconceived notions are wrong, and therefore, our interpretation of events is incorrect. This causes us to overreact, to take things personally, or to judge people unfairly.
Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.
Our lives improve only when we take chances – and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
The ground beneath you is shifting, and either you get sucked in by holding on to old ways, or you take a giant step forward by taking some risks and seeing what happens.
Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.
I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.
A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.
You can never take your reputation back. There really is nothing as powerful as a good reputation.
Bad things written about me do bother me and affect me, but then I have learnt to take it in my stride. I have also learnt to keep quiet about certain things.
Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.
You can’t dwell on disappointment. You’ve got to take the positives and keep looking ahead.
I refused to take no for an answer.
It’s good to reflect on life and take a step back and sit and relax and do something else.
Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It’s transporting, for sure. It can take you right back, years back, to the very moment certain things happened in your life. It’s uplifting, it’s encouraging, it’s strengthening.
A BMW can’t take you as far as a diploma.
If your concentration is getting bad, take up bass fishing. It will really improve your ability to focus. If you aren’t ready when that fish hits, you can’t set the hook.
Nostalgia is a powerful drug. Under its influence, ordinary songs take on dimensions and powers, like emotional superheroes.
The universe can take quite a while to deliver.
I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.
Don’t Take Anything Personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.
It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.
Grief is never something you get over. You don’t wake up one morning and say, ‘I’ve conquered that; now I’m moving on.’ It’s something that walks beside you every day. And if you can learn how to manage it and honour the person that you miss, you can take something that is incredibly sad and have some form of positivity.
While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.
Everything is a negotiation. Everything is a little bit of give and take.
Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.
Dream on it. Let your mind take you to places you would like to go, and then think about it and plan it and celebrate the possibilities. And don’t listen to anyone who doesn’t know how to dream.
If we want to get to the next level, let’s take a risk and try something different.
Hold up a mirror and ask yourself what you are capable of doing, and what you really care about. Then take the initiative – don’t wait for someone else to ask you to act.
A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.
You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
Saturate yourself with your subject and the camera will all but take you by the hand.
I am very short-sighted, and if I don’t like a situation I take my glasses off.
I approach video games the same way I approach theatre, filmmaking, poetry, or painting. I wish more people would take that point of view. It would help the industry to move on.
You should take some responsibility for the way you present yourself. But you should not be hung up on your looks, whether you are ugly or handsome, because it isn’t an achievement.
Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.
You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
No matter the risks we take, we always consider the end to be too soon, even though in life, more than anything else, quality should be more important than quantity.
Northern Ireland still suffers from its past, and it will take generations to escape sectarianism and for violence to end totally. Nonetheless, it is in a different place now than during the Troubles, and it will not go back to the old days.
Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.
