Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.
You know what? For myself, I kind of like the spy because it takes another guy out of coverage or another guy out of rushing.
It often takes more courage to change one’s opinion than to keep it.
The death penalty not only takes away the life of the person strapped to the table – it takes away a little bit of the humanity in each of us.
A major league pitching coach is a really difficult job. It takes a big commitment in terms of time, travel and workload.
It takes guts to get out of the ruts.
The reason I started my transformation with the mind first is because you have to see it first and believe it before you start your journey. You have set your mind at a place called W.I.T. It’s ‘Whatever it Takes.’
That’s the most beautiful thing that I like about boxing: you can take a punch. The biggest thing about taking a punch is your ego reacts and there’s no better spiritual lesson than trying to not pay attention to your ego’s reaction. That’s what takes people out of the fight half the time.
It takes two flints to make a fire.
I hate death; it takes people away from you. You’re left feeling rudderless.
The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn’t need its brain anymore so it eats it!
It takes discipline not to let social media steal your time.
Sometimes it takes a little bit longer than you want it to take, but it’s better to catch on late than never.
Our forefathers paved the way for us. Let’s take their values and their strengths and rededicate ourselves to doing whatever it takes to keep America the greatest country in the history of man.
I have learned that any fool can write a bad ad, but that it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.
Execution really shapes whether your company takes off or not.
I think that there’s always room for humour in music. It’s something that always takes itself so seriously, which I think is a bit of a shame.
Be who you are. It’s easy to feel like you have to blend in, but it takes courage to live your life with conviction and embrace the person that you are.
Football is just a game. Everybody takes it so much more seriously than it is, but there are many more important things in my life.
It takes a lot of resources to climb Everest, and a lot of other people. But you should go do it.
Clay is a very interesting and fundamental material: it’s earth, it’s water, and – with fire – it takes on form and life.
God always takes the simplest way.
Soros has taught me that when you have tremendous conviction on a trade, you have to go for the jugular. It takes courage to be a pig. It takes courage to ride a profit with huge leverage.
I wanted to learn everything I could about what it takes to be a great chef. It was a turning point for me.
When somebody takes a child from their native culture, that is in itself an act of aggression.
It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
‘Podaa Podi’ is a film that sees Simbu and Varalakshmi in three phases of life. Thus this film of course takes more time to wrap than usual flicks. The film is entirely being shot in London and we require to shoot it only during a particular season as the script demands it.
When you win a championship, you realize it takes a level of stamina that most people don’t have.
An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?
No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to publish that research.
Before the camera, you only had secondhand takes – someone had to tell you what they saw or draw a picture of it or sing a song. Because of the camera, sometimes to our horror, we now know everything that happens in the world – things that before we were sheltered from.
Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
‘Eureka’ moments are very, very rare in my experience. It normally takes several weeks of experiments to tease out the truth, even when you have a really pretty good idea of what is going on.
It takes a real man to make a true confession – a Chocolate Soldier will excuse or cloak his sin.
A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.
It takes a mighty good man to be better than no man at all.
I generally make a point to finish my shot in the initial couple of takes with the goal that the execution would be genuine, and it naturally makes a great deal of strain.
Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in a manner that’s precise, predictive and reliable – a transformation, for those lucky enough to experience it, that is empowering and emotional.
When one looks at Nature through the glass walls of the Farnsworth House, it takes on a deeper significance than when one stands outside. More of Nature is thus expressed – it becomes part of a greater whole.
I’m very interested in writing – it just takes so much discipline, whether it’s short stories or novels.
I am often asked how I can work with a subject as morbid as trauma without becoming burned out or depressed. My answer to this question is that witnessing the transformation that takes place in people when they master their traumas has proven to be a deeply sustaining and uplifting experience in my life.
Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is growing or swelling.
It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.
It takes a lot of people. I would not swim if it was just me. If I didn’t have any teammates, I couldn’t stay in a pool for two hours, twice a day, nine times a week. I can’t do that. And I’m fine with admitting that. I couldn’t do this by myself.
Tennis is a funny game, and it takes a life-time of keeping one’s eyes open on the circuit to have any chance of understanding the strange phenomena that exist in our exciting sport!
It takes no imagination to live within your means.
I’m not so much in the future as always in the present. The future always takes care of itself. What I do now with my video camera, it can only record what is happening now. I am celebrating reality and the essence of the moment. And that’s the greatest challenge that I have.
It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.
We will not have humanoid androids. It’s interesting: when you start trying to make robots look more human, you end up making them look more grotesque. It takes very little to go from super-attractive robot to hideous robot.
Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven’t time, and to see takes time – like to have a friend takes time.
It is one thing to train officers on fighting crime. It is a whole other thing to train them to build friendships and relationships, which are integral to fighting crime. This takes time, effort, and patience on the part of police officers.
We want to be funny. We want to make people laugh… We’ll do whatever it takes.
Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.
Every day you spend drifting away from your goals is a waste not only of that day, but also of the additional day it takes to regain lost ground.
I’ve learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.
I love stand up, but every year, the road takes a little more out of you.
Indeed there are powers in the small child that are far greater than is generally realized, because it is in this period that the construction, the building-up, of man takes place, for at birth, psychically speaking, there is nothing at all – zero!
Building takes passion and energy. Maintenance is awful. It’s nothing but fatigue. Once you reach the top, maintaining that beast is awful.
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.
It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
There’s a popular concept of ‘intelligence’ as book smarts, like calculus or chess, as opposed to, say, social skills. So people say that ‘it takes more than intelligence to succeed in human society.’ But social skills reside in the brain, not the kidneys.
