I am inspired by the professionalism of others. I believe there is an obligation to strive for excellence in what one is asked to do. No pains are too great, no revisions too tedious no matter how small the result. But I also believe that while humility should not be overdone, excellence should never be taken for granted, otherwise we stop reaching for it.
NOTHING SHOULD BE TAKEN FOR GRANTED IN 'EVERYONE ELSE,' WHICH IS AT ONCE LAID-BACK AND RIGOROUSAbout the world we create when we fall in love, and how we navigate the space between us and that separating us from everyone else.
There's a million ways to live on this thing called a planet, I'mma live everyday, I ain't takin' nothing for granted.
most Americans are in deep awe of things-as-they-are. Even with everything this obviously out of control, they still tell themselves that those in authority must know what they are doing, and must be describing our condition to us as it really is; they still take it for granted that somehow what is, what is done, must make sense, can't really be insane. These assumptions exercise a tyranny over their minds.
Beginning to create again was something that I took for granted but I never will take it for granted again.
Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.
Reason and emotion counsel and supplement each other. Whoever heeds only the one, and puts aside the other, recklessly deprives himself of a portion of the aid granted us for the regulation of our conduct.
To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.
. . . also took for granted that secret services were the only real measure of a nations political health, the only real expression of its subconscious.
The reader can't take much for granted in a fiction where the scenery can eat the characters.
My broad sense of this is that authors like Smil really paint the clear picture, and once you see that, it's kind of Oh, of course. That's such a primal thing to all these physical services that we take for granted.
I'm not only a romanticist but a romantic myself. I take it for granted the originality matters.
It's important not to take anything for granted.
'Reality' is a notion that journalists take for granted.
The surprise of animals. . . in and out, cats and dogs and a milk goat and chickens and guinea hens, all taken for granted, as if man was intended to live on terms of friendly intercourse with the rest of creation instead of huddling in isolation on the fourteenth floor of an apartment house in a city where animals occurred behind bars in the zoo.
Caring about what you are doing is considered either unimportant or taken for granted.
I choose to be with him for however many days or minutes we are granted, and to count myself blessed to have them.
I promised myself that no matter where I went, what I did, I'd never take anything for granted again.
I've just always been very aware and careful of everything, so that I can be ready for the perfect opportunities as they come. I don't take anything for granted or wait for anything to come to me.