Taking Things For Granted Quotes - Page 2

• I feel a responsibility to my backyard. I want it to be taken care of and protected.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Taken, Responsibility, Artist

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• For so long people have just taken what I do for granted. It is not easy to do year-in, year-out, to win Grand Slams and be No. 1.

  Pete Sampras

  Taken, Winning, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You've always got to work to your highest ability level. When times are great and restaurants are jamming, that's when some restaurants get sloppy and take things for granted. Never take things for granted.

  Michael Symon

  Levels, Restaurants, Ability

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• You are always learning; there is a lot of grey; don't take things for granted.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Granted, Grey, Always Learning

  Interview With Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. October 26, 2012.

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• I think that those of us who are ordinary disappear easily into the backdrop of life and we take things for granted. We often wake up in our lives and wonder how we got there. But the characters I create, the people I am drawn to, are quite extraordinary (and not always in wholesome ways), and they offer us the chance to understand who we really are and how we became who we are.

  Chris Abani

  Character, Thinking, People

  RUMPUS INTERVIEW with Peter Orner, therumpus.net. February 10, 2014.

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• I try to encourage people to think for themselves, to question standard assumptions... Don't take assumptions for granted. Begin by taking a skeptical attitude toward anything that is conventional wisdom. Make it justify itself. It usually can't. Be willing to ask questions about what is taken for granted. Try to think things through for yourself.

  Noam Chomsky

  Wisdom, Attitude, Taken

  Institute Professor Department of Linguistics and Philosophy Noam Chomsky, Noam Chomsky, John Junkerman, Takei Masakazu (2015). “Power and Terror: Conflict, Hegemony, and the Rule of Force”, p.5, Routledge

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• I try to make images that have the immediate presence we take for granted in objects - a chair, a shoe, a book, a Judd - and compose them like sentences.

  Michael Craig-Martin

  Art, Book, Shoes

  Source: briansherwin-artcritic.blogspot.com

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• I want justice to be so pervasive that it will be taken for granted, just as injustice is taken for granted today.

  Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

  Taken, Justice, Want

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• Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted.

  Paula Abdul

  Art, Taken, Talent

  FaceBook post by Paula Abdul from Mar 25, 2012

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• The simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.

  Edward de Bono

  Powerful, Taken, Creativity

  Edward De Bono (1992). “Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas”, Harpercollins

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• When the magistrate says 'That's not a good enough reason my man.' He said 'Excuse me, could I ask you? Have you taken an oath of allegiance to the Monarch?'

  Anthony Holden

  Taken, Men, Umpires

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• Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Taken, Dull, Today

  Wyndham Lewis (1969). “Wyndham Lewis: an anthology of his prose”

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• I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much and too often. As for money, I have only realized its true worth when I didn't have it.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Wise, Wisdom, Taken

  Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

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• We will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things.

  John Desmond Bernal

  Giving Up, Simple, Giving

  John Desmond Bernal (1967). “The origin of life”

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• A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted. The character of an era hangs upon what needs no defense.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Taken, Character, Ideas

  Lawrence Lessig (2002). “The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World”, p.5, Vintage

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• Every day that we allow ourselves to take things for granted, every day that we allow some little physical infirmity or worldly worry to come between us and our obstinate, indignant, defiant exultation, we are weakening our genius for life.

  John Cowper Powys

  Worry, Genius, Littles

  "The Meaning of Culture". Book by John Cowper Powys, p. 134, 1929.

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• Don't take things for granted.

  Allen Evangelista

  Granted

  "Allen Evangelista – Project Almanac Actor: Maintaining Perspective". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Most of us readily take things for granted that at an earlier time remained to be discovered

  Robert A. Dahl

  Granted

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• When something does not insist on being noticed, when we aren't grabbed by the collar or struck on the skull by a presence or an event, we take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Gratitude, Skulls, Taken For Granted

  "Noted with pleasure". The New York Times Archives, www.nytimes.com. 1984.

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• I don't take anything for granted.

  Bubba Watson

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

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

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• It is very easy to take for granted the phenomenon that we are each alive, but we must try not to.

  Alex Grey

  Taken For Granted, Trying, Alive

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• The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

  Franz Kafka

  Travel, Taken, Two

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

  Winston Churchill

  Taken, Political, Events

  Sir Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Onwards to Victory”, p.19, RosettaBooks

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• I try and take everyone's ideals, common morals, flip them around, make people look at them differently, question them, so that you're not always taking things for granted.

  Marilyn Manson

  People, Trying, Looks

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I think people in England take things for granted, we complain about our NHS system and yes it's not perfect but believe me it's far better than what they've got here.

  Alesha Dixon

  Believe, Thinking, Nhs

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