Anyone living, especially your peers, is a threat. You're judging them, they're judging you. This sort of criticism is as close to human nature as you can get. That can be a good thing sometimes. Jealously, rancor, competition, those can be good things in art. But it mostly puts you in a dangerous and disadvantageous position, and one that just takes away from you so much.
All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.
Anyone can steer a ship, but it takes a leader to chart the course
A true journey, no matter how long the travel takes, has no end.
I've always really liked theater. It fascinated me. You can create a reality and get people involved in that reality. It takes place in real time.
A sailor chooses the wind that takes the ship from a safe port. Ah, yes, but once you're abroad, as you have seen, winds have a mind of their own. Be careful, Charlotte, careful of the wind you choose.
Work takes me away from my wife, Sue, and my life in Santa Barbara.
I like baked potatoes. I don't have a microwave oven, and it takes forever to bake a potato in a conventional oven. Sometimes I'll just throw one in there, even if I don't want one, because by the time it's done, who knows?
It takes loneliness in oneself to recognize it in another.
The president's attempted diktat takes money from bondholders and gives it a labor union that delivers money and votes for him. . . . Shaking down lenders for the benefit of political donors is recycled corruption and the abuse of power.
Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.
It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it.
No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.
Chess truly uncovers whether or not someone has imagination and takes initiative.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
When [man] is happy he takes his happiness as it comes and doesn't analyze it, just as if happiness were his right.
Fortunately, all it takes for us to be of one mind is some buttercream frosting.
While we can never truly repay the debt we owe our heroes, the least we should do for our brave veterans is to ensure that the government takes a proactive approach to delivering the services and benefits they have earned, so they can access the care they need and so richly deserve.
Remember it only takes giving love and good feelings a minimum of 51 percent of the tiem to reach the tipping point and change everything.
Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage, slime pits, and debris.
