I Quotes
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“It takes a great deal of humility to recognize you have made a wrong turn on the road to successful innovation, but better to stop and try a radically different approach then to continue down the wrong route for too long.”
“It takes a great deal of labor and love to make ice wine. When you have it with dessert, you miss the point of enjoying it on its own.”
“It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.”
Source: John Ruskin's Works
“It takes a great deal of strength to be able to live and to forget how far living and being unjust are one.”
Source: On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life
“It takes a great deal of time and thought to install work carefully. This should not always be thrown away. Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved again.”
Source: Complete Writings, 1975-1986
“It takes a great degree of tolerance, and that of humility, to strongly disagree with someone, and not express your disagreement.”
“It takes a great man to be a good listener.”
“It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.”
“It takes a great man to make a great listener”
“It takes a great personal audacity to question the status quo, to take exception to it, to redefine it, and, ultimately, decide for your Self what “normal” is going to be. But guess what? That autonomy to choose your own circumstances is your birthright.”
Source: You Are Not Stuck: How Soul-Guided Choices Transform Fear into Freedom
“It takes a great reader to make a great book. (Creative Self-Publishing)”
“It takes a great woman to respect the little man in her child, and the little child in her man.”
“It takes a greater God to steer a world populated with free agents than it does to steer a world of preprogrammed automatons.”
Source: God of the Possible: A Biblical Introduction to the Open View of God
“It takes a habit to break a habit. You can pray every day for a generous heart, but until you start acting in that direction, nothing's going to change.”
“It takes a habit to replace a habit.”
“It takes a heap o' children to make a home that's true,And home can be a palace grand, or just a plain, old shoe;But if it has a mother dear, and a good old dad or two,Why, that's the sort of good old home for good old me and you.”
“It takes a heap o' livin' in a house t' make it home”
“It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.”
“It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain
“It takes a heck of a lot of courage to stay true to yourself when the world has forgotten it's way.”
“It takes a hell of a lot for a man to put up with me. I can be a handful.”
“It takes a huge amount of culture to normalize "crazy", and of course that's its main focus”
“It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory, but when you succeed, you start to realize that you're capable of far more than you imagined.”
“It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory, but when you succeed, you start to realize that you’re capable of far more than you imagined. You live in this vast body called the Universe, which contains all the solutions and all the problems. Visit your soul; don’t visit your past. The Universe goes through many mutations and carries the past with it. We call each of those mutations a ‘life,’ but just as the cells in your body change and yet you remain the same, so time does not pass, it merely changes.”
“It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory.”
“It takes a human being to not do wrong in return.”
Source: The Islamophobic Civilization: Voyage of Acceptance
“It takes a hundred times more skill to make love than to command an army.”
“It takes a keen ear to distinguish the voice of the lion from that of the silly ostrich.”
“It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.”
“It takes a lady of a certain age to contain the stuff [whiskey]. Particularly the Irish. No offense but a bit of weathering and experience are required not to go right off the edge with it. I would heisitate to serve Irish to a green schoolgirl. Mixes and vodka are enough for them to go wrong on. I couldn't look at myself shaving if I poured Irish for the young.”
“It takes a leader to know a leader, grow a leader, and show a leader.”
Source: Maxwell 2in1 (Developing the Leader w/in You/Developing Leaders Around You)
“It takes a level of creative depression to hear 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun' and weep.”
Source: How Did You Get This Number
“It takes a level of obsession to achieve greatness. Anthony Pompliano”
Source: How To Live An Extraordinary Life
“It takes a lifetime, sometimes, to work out what anything you're doing's got to do with the real realities of living. Rather than what turns out to be the fake realities.”
Source: Gliff
“It takes a lifetime to build a good reputation, but you can lose it in a minute.”
“It takes a lifetime to build a name, and yet one day is enough to flush it down the toilet.”
Source: Woman Over World: The Novel
“It takes a lifetime to build a reputation, and only minutes to ruin it. Most great scammers could have been greater business people instead.”
Source: sciVive
“It takes a lifetime to build tradition.”
“It takes a little bit of mindfulness and a little bit of attention to others to be a good listener, which helps cultivate emotional nurturing and engagement.”
“It takes a little crazy to make a difference.”
“It takes a little more time to get into the role, but not very much more. In making a record you don't have the sense of projection over a distance as in an opera house. We have this microphone and this magnifies all details of a performance, all exaggerations. In the theater, you can get away with a very large, very grand phrase. For the microphone, you have to tone it down. It's the same as making a film, your gestures will be seen in close-up, so they cannot be exaggerated as they would be in a theater.”
“It takes a little time sometimes
To get your feet back on the ground.”
“It takes a little time to create a gap between the witness and the mind. Once the gap is there, you are in for a great surprise, that you are not the mind, that you are the witness, a watcher. And this process of watching is the very alchemy of real religion. Because as you become more and more deeply rooted in witnessing, thoughts start disappearing. You are, but the mind is utterly empty.”
“It takes a little time, but the pleasures of cooking begin before the pleasures of the palate, and preparing means anticipating.”
Source: The Prague Cemetery
“It takes a little work to be a vegan, but now it's really possible to have tasty stuff and it's better for you. I say the best test is go as far as you can and see how you feel. Personally, I feel great.”
“It takes a long time before we really get to grips with this [Darwin's 'On the Origin of Species'] and begin to understand it, because not only does it seem incredible and thoroughly demeaning to us, but it's yet another shock to our system to discover that not only are we not the centre of the Universe and we're not made by anything, but we started out as some kind of slime and got to where we are via being a monkey. It just doesn't read well.”
Source: The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
“It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait.”
“It takes a long time for the gleam in the eye to turn into something solid.”
“It takes a long time for women to feel it's alright to be chingona. To aspire to be a chingona!...You are saying, 'This is my camino, this is my path and I'm gonna follow it, regardless of what culture says.' I don't think the church likes chingonas. I don't think the state likes chingonas.! And fathers definitely do not like chingonas. And boyfriends don't like chingonas. But, you know, I remain optimistic. I will meet a man who likes a chingona, one day. One day, my chingon will come.”
“It takes a long time for words to become thought.”
Source: Collected Poems: 1930–1973