Granted Quotes - Page 16

• Design does matter. And not necessarily in a way that people realize. A lot of what you do, people take for granted - that a park has always been here, that a bicycle lane has always been there, that the street is safe or clean.

  Michael Bloomberg

  People, Design, Doe

  Interview with Janette Sadik-Khan, www.fastcodesign.com. September 11, 2013.

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• Personally, I find it romantic not to be with someone all the time; you don't get used to someone or take them for granted.

  Monica Bellucci

  Used

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• I want to expose and evaluate the fact that the seeing and sensing process is a system that should not be taken for granted as natural - it's a cultivated means of reality production that, as a system, can be negotiated and changed.

  Olafur Eliasson

  Taken, Mean, Reality

  Olafur Eliasson, Matthew Drutt (2004). “Olafur Eliasson: photographs”

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• I think that sometimes I've been a little too nice. I think you have to have a balance. When you're too nice people take you for granted, they take you for a fool I think.

  Godfrey

  Nice, Thinking, People

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• A prayerful life is the key to possessing gratitude. We often take for granted the people who most deserve our gratitude. Let us not wait until it is too late for us to express our gratitude. Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. If I gratitude be numbered among the serious sins, then gratitude takes its place among the noblest of virtues. To express gratitude is gracious and honorable, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live with gratitude ever in our hearts is to touch heaven.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Gratitude, Heart, Keys

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• There will be found to exist at all times an imperious necessity for restraining all the functionaries of the Government within the range of their respective powers thereby preserving a just balance between the powers granted to this Government and those reserved to the States and to the people.

  John Tyler

  Government, People, Balance

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• Most of what's around us we take for granted. We ignore it. Appreciation-spending time looking for the good-helps us overcome one of the primary limitations to enjoying the wealth we already have: ignoreance.

  Peter McWilliams

  Appreciation, Overcoming, Helping

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• 'Reality' is a notion that journalists take for granted.

  Andrew O'Hagan

  Reality, Notion, Journalist

  "Bad press: a new play gives journalists a voice" by Andrew O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2012.

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• What happens someday if more people own my record than the bible? That will make me god because a lot more people believe in me than him? Because it's just about popularity. There are plenty of people in the world how have never heard of Jesus, while America takes him for granted.

  Marilyn Manson

  Jesus, Believe, America

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• So when I feel the spirit upon me it's something I don't take it for granted, and I don't think I'm solely responsible for these things.

  John Frusciante

  Thinking, Spirit, Responsible

  Interview with Evan C., www.scenepointblank.com. October 16, 2010.

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• My kids are coming up in a different time then me. Interracial couples are of the norm. With me, it's about making sure my kids understand the importance of education and having opportunities that I didn't. My goal as a parent is to make sure they don't take what they have for granted.

  Kevin Hart

  Couple, Kids, Opportunity

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• The business of judging a headline AFTER you read the copy is wrong. It takes for granted that everybody reads the copy.

  John Caples

  Judging, Headlines, Copies

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• ...I am afraid that education is conceived more in terms of indoctrination by most school officials than in terms of enlightenment. My own belief is that education must be subversive if it is to be meaningful. By this I mean that it must challenge all the things we take for granted, examine all accepted assumptions, tamper with every sacred cow, and instill a desire to question and doubt. Without this the mere instruction to memorise data is empty. The attempt to enforce conventional mediocrity on the young is criminal.

  Bertrand Russell

  Meaningful, School, Data

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• The whole of theology, in regard to hell no less than to heaven, takes it for granted that Man is what is of most importance in the Universe of created beings. Since all theologians are men, this postulate has met with little opposition.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Heaven, Littles

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.53, Routledge

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• The media is in the business of finding exceptions to everyday life. Bad things are still the exception. That's good, because once bad things stop being news, we really are in trouble. If people forget that bad is the exception, they think they live in a horrible world. There is so much that works and is right and friendly and warm. But we take that for granted.

  Tom Bodett

  Thinking, Media, People

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• One realizes how we take water for granted and how important it is to have it in order to stay alive. Beyond the drinking of it, let's not forget the hygiene.

  Kim Basinger

  Drinking, Order, Hygiene

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• Stillness empowers. Being able to detach from all external stimulants - social media, social engagements, TV, alcohol, food, etc. - and face our own silence is an enormous luxury that should not be taken for granted. The most rewarding moments in my life have stemmed from such stillness.

  Romany Malco

  Taken, Media, Luxury

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The opportunity to live and experience life inspires me. Watching others not take it for granted inspires me. Using time to create something timeless through creativity and proactivity inspires me.

  Malcolm Goodwin

  Creativity, Opportunity, Inspire

  "iZombie Actor Malcolm Goodwin: Life-Changing Leap of Faith". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I get to wake up and do what I love every day and I don't take that for granted. I feel grateful for it every day.

  Laura Prepon

  Grateful, Wake Up, Feels

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

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• I think women are often taken for granted.

  Sheila Johnson

  Taken, Thinking, Taken For Granted

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• I never take anything for granted. I think it's very cool to still get excited about things. I get as excited now as I ever did when I get a chauffeur driven car pick me up and I stay in a fantastic hotel or get to fly in a private plane. I never want to get blasé.

  Victoria Beckham

  Thinking, Car, Pick Me Up

  Interview with Kevin Sessums, www.marieclaire.com. October 6, 2010.

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• I'm a global ambassador for the World Wildlife Fund and United for Wildlife and I am also a Unicef UK ambassador. It's important to me to support charities. I never want to take my wealth for granted.

  Andy Murray

  Support, Important, World

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Take no moment for granted.

  Christina Applegate

  Moments

  "Christina Applegate Life Will Surely Manifest Where You Put Your Attention". Interview to Origin Magazine, www.awaken.com. January 6, 2014.

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• The last thing I would want is for Monbiot, Mann, Flannery, Jones, Hansen and the rest of the Climate rogues' gallery to be granted the mercy of quick release. Publicly humiliated? Yes please. Having all their crappy books remaindered? Definitely. Dragged away from their taxpayer funded troughs and their cushy sinecures, to be replaced by people who actually know what they're talking about? For sure. But hanging? Hell no. Hanging is far too good for such ineffable toerags.

  James Delingpole

  Book, Talking, People

  "Denier Delingpole Wishes For 'Climate Nuremberg,' Says 'Hanging Is Far Too Good' For Climate Scientists!". thinkprogress.org. April 7, 2013.

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• Scientists generally, not just evolutionary biologists, don't take much for granted.

  Noam Chomsky

  Scientist, Biologist

  Source: libcom.org

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