Top Taken Quotes Collection - Page 4

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Image of Blake Mycoskie
If you just go out and try to make money by starting a business, you're going to come up with something that's just like what everyone else has done. But if you look at the world and see opportunities that can be taken more seriously, then you come up with a great idea.
- Blake Mycoskie
Collection: Taken
Image of Claude Bissell
The Social Sciences are good at accounting for disasters once they have taken place.
- Claude Bissell
Collection: Taken
Image of Ruskin Bond
People often ask me why my style is so simple. It is, in fact, deceptively simple, for no two sentences are alike. It is clarity that I am striving to attain, not simplicity. Of course, some people want literature to be difficult and there are writers who like to make their readers toil and sweat. They hope to be taken more seriously that way. I have always tried to achieve a prose that is easy and conversational. And those who think this is simple should try it for themselves.
- Ruskin Bond
Collection: Taken
Image of John Pilger
Many journalists become very defensive when you suggest to them that they are anything but impartial and objective. The problem with those words "impartiality" and "objectivity" is that they have lost their dictionary meaning. They've been taken over. "Impartiality" and "objectivity" now mean the establishment point of view.
- John Pilger
Collection: Taken
Image of Errol Morris
I think we get into all kinds of difficulty by saying photographs should be taken in a certain way which guarantees their veracity. I think that's a slippery slope to hell.
- Errol Morris
Collection: Taken
Image of Guillaume Musso
We are young, but We already know that in life's great game those who are most unhappy are those who haven't taken the risk to be happy. And I don't want to be one of those
- Guillaume Musso
Collection: Taken
Image of Carl Sagan
One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.
- Carl Sagan
Collection: Taken
Image of Rick Scott
Government has no resources of its own. Government can only give to us what it has previously taken from us.
- Rick Scott
Collection: Taken
Image of George Pelecanos
The most popular American fiction seems to be about successful people who win, and good crime fiction typically does not explore that world. But honestly, if all crime fiction was quality fiction, it would be taken more seriously.
- George Pelecanos
Collection: Taken
Image of Hilaire Belloc
The propaganda of Communism throughout the world, in organization and direction is in the hands of Jewish agents. As for anyone who does not know that the Bolshevist movement in Russia is Jewish, I can only say that he must be a man who is taken in by the suppression of our deplorable press.
- Hilaire Belloc
Collection: Taken
Image of Alberto Villoldo
The universe is a Divine thought that has taken form.
- Alberto Villoldo
Collection: Taken
Image of Konrad Adenauer
First make yourself unpopular, then you will be taken seriously.
- Konrad Adenauer
Collection: Taken
Image of Michael Moorcock
Because I had sought to challenge Destiny, Destiny had taken vengeance.
- Michael Moorcock
Collection: Taken
Image of Julia Quinn
Daniel held himself very still, waiting for the wave of jealousy that never came. He was furious with the man who’d taken advantage of her innocence, but he did not feel jealous. He did not need to be her first, he realized. He simply needed to be her last. Her only.
- Julia Quinn
Collection: Taken
Image of May Sarton
Now I become myself. It’s taken time, many years and places.
- May Sarton
Collection: Taken
Image of Louis Bromfield
She had turned her back upon them all and no awful fate had overtaken her; instead, she had taken a firm hold upon life and made of it a fine, even glittering, success; and this is a thing which is not easily forgiven.
- Louis Bromfield
Collection: Taken
Image of Dorothy Koomson
I don't want to rely on something that could be taken away at some point.
- Dorothy Koomson
Collection: Taken
Image of Yasutaka Tsutsui
You see, our hard-earned saving are always going to be taken away from us by someone - whether we have any or not.
- Yasutaka Tsutsui
Collection: Taken
Image of Katherine Paterson
As I look back on what I have written, I can see that the very persons who have taken away my time are those who have given me something to say.
- Katherine Paterson
Collection: Taken
Image of Daniel Boone
Many heroic exploits and chivalrous adventures are related to me which exist only in the regions of fancy. With me the world has taken great liberties, and yet I have been but a common man.
- Daniel Boone
Collection: Taken
Image of Robert Bresson
The future of cinematography belongs to a new race of young solitaries who will shoot films by putting their last penny into it and not let themselves be taken in by the material routines of the trade.
- Robert Bresson
Collection: Taken
Image of Geoff Mulgan
A modest dose of self-love is entirely healthy - who would want to live in a world where everyone hated themselves? But taken too far it soon becomes poisonous.
- Geoff Mulgan
Collection: Taken
Image of William Bennett
Responsible persons are mature people who have taken charge of themselves and their conduct, who own their actions and own up to them--who answer for them.
- William Bennett
Collection: Taken
Image of William Boyd
The only times we are consciously aware of the authorship of a photograph, I would argue, are when we contemplate the photographs we ourselves have taken (or those of friends and family) or when we go deliberately to the photographers monograph or exhibition. The signed image - the appropriated, the owned image - is by far the rarest in this pullulating world of pictures.
- William Boyd
Collection: Taken
Image of Martine Leavitt
I have observed that you treat a man as an old garment to be taken apart and stitched again. Perhaps you could think of him as good cloth, rich fabric that wants only to be embroidered upon. And perhaps, if you will do that, you will see that you love Tailor yourself.
- Martine Leavitt
Collection: Taken
Image of Ariana Franklin
Ghosts cannot be put on the witness stand, or have their fingerprints taken. They are completely proof against proof.
- Ariana Franklin
Collection: Taken
Image of Thomas McGuane
We have reached the time in the life of the planet, and humanity's demand upon it, when every fisherman will have to be a river-keeper, a steward of marine shallows, a watchman on the high seas. We are beyond having to put back what we have taken out. We must put back more than we take out.
- Thomas McGuane
Collection: Taken
Image of Frank Peretti
If Truth is taken away from us, then Right and Wrong are taken from us as well. If we don't know Right and Wrong, then we can't, we won't control ourselves, but will look to someone else to bring order through brute force and raw power. We will be controlled by a tyrant, and we will no longer be free.
- Frank Peretti
Collection: Taken
Image of Caroline Myss
When your life begins to harm you, know that you have taken a detour from your true path.
- Caroline Myss
Collection: Taken
Image of Otto von Bismarck
A generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.
- Otto von Bismarck
Collection: Taken
Image of Thomas Woods
If the Tenth Amendment were still taken seriously, most of the federal government's present activities would not exist. That's why no one in Washington ever mentions it.
- Thomas Woods
Collection: Taken
Image of Jackie Kay
Sometimes you remember your life in photographs that were never taken.
- Jackie Kay
Collection: Taken
Image of Kay Boyle
whatever devotion to something else there was in him had been made impure by church taken as a weekly, dutiful thing.
- Kay Boyle
Collection: Taken
Image of Katharine Sharp
Sometimes in your life you will go on a journey. It will be the longest journey you have ever taken. It is the journey to find yourself.
- Katharine Sharp
Collection: Taken
Image of George Chapman
Tis immortality to die aspiring, As if a man were taken quick to heaven.
- George Chapman
Collection: Taken
Image of Mary Ruwart
In the late 1980s, Soviets were allowed to keep the wealth they created by raising vegetables on their garden plots. Although these plots composed only about 2% of the agricultural lands in the Soviet Union, they produced 25% of the food! When Soviets kept the wealth they created, they produced almost 16 times more than when it was taken from them at gunpoint, if necessary!
- Mary Ruwart
Collection: Taken
Image of Burton Silverman
In an era when museum curators were busy introducing the public to photographs of daily life taken by Robert Frank, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Diane Arbus, why did they simultaneously disdain paintings depicting the same kind of people?
- Burton Silverman
Collection: Taken
Image of Keith Jarrett
... The 'cleverness' syndrome has taken the place of melody. It's like everyone has come down with this terrible disease in jazz....you are always expected to do your own material, which is a strange thing to do if you're a poor composer but a great player.
- Keith Jarrett
Collection: Taken
Image of Paolo Veronese
I had not thought that I was doing wrong; I had never taken so many things into consideration.
- Paolo Veronese
Collection: Taken
Image of Prince Charles
It is now 14 years since I first suggested that organic farming might have some benefits and ought to be taken seriously. I shall never forget the vehemence of the reaction.. much of it coming from the sort of people who regard agriculture as an industrial process, with production as the sole yardstick of success.
- Prince Charles
Collection: Taken
Image of Marion Jones
I am against performance-enhancing drugs. I have never taken them and I never will take them.
- Marion Jones
Collection: Taken
Image of Kate Green
Logic taken to an extreme would always equal chaos.
- Kate Green
Collection: Taken
Image of Cesare Borgia
I have taken care of everything in the course of my life, only not for death, and now I have to die completely unprepared.
- Cesare Borgia
Collection: Taken
Image of Susan Cheever
Obsession is so extreme and so hard to imagine with the rational mind that it has a science-fiction-like quality to it-it's almost as if the obsessed one has been taken over by a replica, a pod, a facsimile of the rational person.
- Susan Cheever
Collection: Taken
Image of David Quammen
And so in 1975, the grizzly bear was put on, as I said - on the endangered species list as threatened. And new measures were taken, for instance, bear-proofing garbage, creating new regulations to - essentially to try and keep people and people's food away from the bears, let the bears adjust to eating the abundant wild food that's available in Yellowstone and allow them to be more wild, to be independent of humans as sources of foods for the good of both sides. And that has been quite successful.
- David Quammen
Collection: Taken
Image of A. S. Byatt
Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood.... storytelling is intrinsic to biological time, which we cannot escape. Life, Pascal said, is like living in a prison from which every day fellow prisoners are taken away to be executed. We are all, like Scheherazade, under sentence of death, and we all think of our lives as narratives, with beginnings, middles and ends.
- A. S. Byatt
Collection: Taken
Image of George V. Higgins
Writing is the only trade I know of in which sniveling confessions of extreme incompetence are taken as credentials probative of powers to astound the multitude.
- George V. Higgins
Collection: Taken
Image of Paul Lowe
You know at this point you have everything you need. It's available to you from the inside and you see you are supported in many ways. You realize that there is more to this dimension, to this reality, than you have seen before. You see you are being taken care of, you are being loved, you are being looked after. All that's needed is to go inside, become still and listen.
- Paul Lowe
Collection: Taken
Image of Wright Morris
I prefer a taken to a made photograph.
- Wright Morris
Collection: Taken