Take Nothing For Granted Quotes - Page 2

• Never take anything for granted.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Thank You, Thankful

  Benjamin Disraeli, (1992). “The Sayings of Disraeli”, p.25, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• Take nothing for granted. Make an emotional discovery as often as you can find one in every scene. Ask yourself: What is new?

  Michael Shurtleff

  Emotional, Discovery, Acting

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• Gratitude takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder.

  Thomas Merton

  Thank You, Gratitude, Awakening

  Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.48, Macmillan

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• When you hear the word 'disabled,' people immediately think about people who can't walk or talk or do everything that people take for granted. Now, I take nothing for granted. But I find the real disability is people who can't find joy in life and are bitter.

  Teri Garr

  Real, Thinking, People

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• Creative people have an abiding curiosity and an insatiable desire to learn how and why things work. They take nothing for granted. They are interested in things around them and tend to stow away bits and pieces of information in their minds for the future use. And, they have a great ability to mobilize their thinking and experiences for use in solving a new problem.

  William Redington Hewlett

  Thinking, People, Creative

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• Take nothing for granted. Not one blessed, cool mountain day or one hellish, desert day or one sweaty, stinky, hiking companion. It is all a gift.

  Cindy Ross

  Blessed, Hiking, Mountain

  Cindy Ross (1987). “Journey On the Crest: Walking 2600 Miles from Mexico to Canada”, p.36, Mountaineers Books

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• Miroslav Holub seems to expect his readers to act like scientists, who are curious in every direction, take nothing for granted, and are willing to accept any truth, however unexpected.

  Matthew Zapruder

  Unexpected, Granted, Scientist

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• And so [my brother] Gilbert and I, brought up without a formal religion, remained throughout our lifetimes just what Father was, freethinkers. And, likewise, doubters and dissenters and perhaps Utopians. Father's rule had been 'Question everything, take nothing for granted,' and I never outlived it, and I would suggest it be made the motto of a world journalists' association.

  George Seldes

  Brother, Father, World

  George Seldes (2011). “Witness to a Century: Encounters with the Noted, the Notorious, and the Three SOBs”, p.24, Ballantine Books

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• Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Beauty, Beautiful, Ugly

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1931). “Two Lectures on Architecture”

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• Most things don't stay the way they are very long.

  Richard Ford

  Long, Way, Player Piano

  Richard Ford (2012). “Canada”, p.202, A&C Black

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• Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

  Peter Drucker

  Care, Time Management, Making Time

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• Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can complel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Wisdom, Peace, Freedom

  Farewell Address, delivered 17 January 1961

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• The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Farewell, Nwo, Acquisition

  Farewell radio and television address to the American people, 17 Jan. 1961

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• Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly, but take every building to pieces, and challenge every feature. Learn to distinguish the curious from the beautiful. Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind. 'Think simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Beautiful, Thinking, Challenges

  Frank Lloyd Wright, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (1992). “Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1930-1932”, Rizzoli Intl Pubns

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• If somebody knew every time they did something it was going to be a hit there would never be any failures. Sadly, that's not how it works. You take nothing for granted.

  Adam Rayner

  Granted, Ifs

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Military, Farewell, Responsibility

  Farewell radio and television address to the American people, 17 Jan. 1961

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• Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

  Peter Drucker

  Time, Unique, People

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• I don't take anything for granted.

  Bubba Watson

  Taken For Granted, Taking Things For Granted, Never Take Anything For Granted

  "I don't take anything for granted". Interview with Greg Prato, bravewords.com. May 24, 2016.

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• I have no lucky charm. I am 100 percent superstition-free, and I take nothing for granted.

  Jeff Bridges

  Lucky Charms, Superstitions, Granted

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