Took For Granted Quotes

• 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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• Being taken for granted is an unpleasant but sincere form of praise. Ironically, the more reliable you are and the less you complain, the more likely you are to be taken for granted.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Taken, Complaining, Praise

  Gretchen Rubin (2016). “The Best of the Happiness Project Blog: Ten Years of Happiness, Good Habits, and More”, p.57, Hachette UK

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• Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

  Joyce Brothers

  Friendship, Taken, Mean

  "On Being Blonde: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Most Infamous Blondes" by Paula Munier, (p. 69), 2004.

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• All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Taken, Greatness, Want

  ELIZABETH BOWEN (1935). “The House in Paris”

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• Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry.

  Norman Borlaug

  Taken, Leader, Population

  Norman Ernest Borlaug (1971). “Mankind and Civilization at Another Crossroad”

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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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• In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

  Bertrand Russell

  Leadership, Thank You, Thankful

  "Bertrand Russell's Greatest Paradox was His Faith" by Dan Delzell, www.christianpost.com. November 4, 2011.

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• We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Thanksgiving, Thank You, Thankful

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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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• The popular will cannot be taken for granted, it must be created.

  Herbert Croly

  Song, Taken, Literature

  Herbert Croly (2017). “Progressive Democracy”, p.215, Routledge

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• Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm.

  David Rockefeller

  Father, Taken, Son

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.

  Iris Murdoch

  Relationship, Happiness, Marriage

  Iris Murdoch (1976). “A Severed Head”, p.148, Penguin

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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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• Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

  Francis Bacon

  Life, Education, Teacher

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Studies'

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• In life, so many things are taken for granted, but one thing I can honestly say is that I took every day, enjoyed the game of putting on that uniform and playing the great game of baseball.

  Wade Boggs

  Baseball, Taken, Games

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• One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.

  Edward de Bono

  Motivational, Powerful, Taken

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

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• 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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• Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

  Aldous Huxley

  Thankful, Gratitude, Appreciation

  Themes and Variations (1950) "Variations on a Philosopher"

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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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• The way I approached a question, my habit of mind, the way I looked at things, what I took for granted - all this was myself and it did not seem to me that I could alter it.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Mind, Way, Granted

  Simone de Beauvoir (1971). “The woman destroyed”

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• I had always felt that I was an observer, never a participant; that I was watching from behind a thick glass wall as people went about the business of living--and did it with such ease, with a skill that they took for granted and that I had never known.

  Tana French

  Wall, Glasses, Skills

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• ...also took for granted that secret services were the only real measure of a nations political health, the only real expression of its subconscious.

  John le Carre

  Real, Expression, Political

  John le Carre (2002). “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy”, p.365, Simon and Schuster

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• My goals have gone from being an all-star to just being able to play basketball. I always took for granted that I could play. Now I know what a gift it is.

  Rebecca Lobo

  Inspirational, Basketball, Stars

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• Beginning to create again was something that I took for granted but I never will take it for granted again.

  Lou Gramm

  Granted

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• There was a good deal to be said, Hilary decided, for middle age and infirmity. The years in which one demanded much of life were left behind, together with the bitterness of not getting what one wanted. One's values, too, were altered. Gifts that once one took for granted, sunshine and birdsong, freedom from pain, sleep and one's daily bread, seemed now so extraordinarily precious.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Pain, Sleep, Sunshine

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