I’m grateful for always this moment, the now, no matter what form it takes.
The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.
I’m a really good team player. That’s what it takes to work in the theater. That’s what it takes to work in a band with musicians and writers.
Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.
As I grow older, the idea takes increasing hold in me that we’ve misunderstood our own delicacy and diversity as human beings.
A building is hard to judge. It takes many years to find out whether it works. It’s not as simple as asking the people in the office whether they like it.
Deciding not to decide is, of course, among the most important things done by the Supreme Court. It takes a lot of doing, but it can be done.
I call ‘Community’ the best day job in the world, because between takes, I get to write music. I get to write sketches. I get to write movies. It’s the best job ever.
Don’t respond to haters’ taunts – even politely. Ignore them. If nobody takes their bait, most will grow bored and move on.
It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income.
You need to be aware, educated, and willing to do whatever it takes to remain healthy and keep the body healthy.
If you look at the common denominator of all the comics who have had big success, it’s being true to their nature… that’s what takes a long time to learn.
It takes intelligence to make real comedy, and it takes a reality base to create all that little stuff I like to do that makes you giggle inside.
Sometimes it just takes a little longer to get to your destination, but if you make sure to enjoy the journey, eventually you will get there.
A lot of people think it takes millions of dollars to give back or inspire, but just you showing up means a lot.
Journalism is a craft that takes years to learn. It’s like golf. You never get it right all the time. It’s a game of fewer errors, better facts, and better reporting.
Life hits you hard. But it takes you three seconds to decide if you are a superhero or not. I am.
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.
It takes having your golf peak four different times throughout the year. You have to like all four golf courses. You’ve got to be the best of that week for the four weeks.
Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.
I firmly believe, only because I’ve been doing this for so long, every show takes three years. 90% of them don’t get three years. It just does. It takes a long time to build a community, build a friendship with your characters. It’s hard for people to grasp on and make them care about you.
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.
I guess that’s just the life of an inventor: what people do with your ideas takes you totally by surprise.
Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by friction.
It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.
When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely – the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears – when you give your whole attention to it.
What does it take to be the first female anything? It takes grit, and it takes grace.
It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can’t remember if it’s the thirteenth or the fourteenth.
You can’t be the dad who takes your kid out after your wife has said, ‘No ice cream,’ buys the ice cream, and says, ‘Don’t tell your mother.’ You teach the child to lie – and to disrespect the other parent.
I think permitting the game to become too physical takes away a little bit of the beauty.
Sanctions work over time. They do work, but it takes years for them to have an effect.
Ski jumping is just 10 per cent physical, 90 per cent mental. Some people can’t do that. It’s not just to do with the fear at the top. It takes a lot of guts to go off the top, but it takes 100 times more courage to jump off the end.
Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.
We are all shaped by where we grow up, though that shaping takes different forms. I don’t think there’s any doubt that coming of age in Winnipeg both opened my eyes and made me hungry – if I can subvert all claims to be a real writer by mixing metaphors like that.
I’m not much of a talker. When I do talk, it takes a lot for it to come out.
You know sometimes in life it just takes one little push to get you over the hill and from there it can be a beautiful ride.
Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking.
Since I don’t look like every other girl, it takes a while to be okay with that. To be different. But different is good.
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.
After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.
It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.
If you put in the dirty work, if you do what you’re asked on every single play whether it’s pass or run, the rest for us takes care of itself.
‘Steve Jobs’ is my seventh movie. I believe, if you added them up, I don’t think there is more than a total of 10 minutes that takes place in a person’s home. They’re all in offices, courtrooms, laboratories, things like that.
The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.
It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.
This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn’t want to be tracked. It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
I will always do stand-up, even if my acting career takes off. Stand-up is my life.
To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction – and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.
Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together.
I believe in lust at first sight; I don’t know about love. For me, I think it takes more than a glance. But who knows? Maybe it’ll happen.
Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he’ll be there.
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.
It’s when we start working together that the real healing takes place… it’s when we start spilling our sweat, and not our blood.
Winning takes precedence over all. There’s no gray area. No almosts.
Creativity takes courage.
I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.
The rule of law in place of force, always basic to my thinking, now takes on a new relevance in a world where, if war is to go, only law can replace it.
Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to fully understand the consequences of our actions.
And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.
It takes a lot of people to make a winning team. Everybody’s contribution is important.
Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.
Nothing takes the sting out of these tough economic times like watching a bunch of millionaires giving golden statues to each other.
