Taken Quotes — Page 27

Writer, Scholar

“If and when a horror turns up you will then be given Grace to help you. I don't think one is usually given it in advance. "Give us our daily bread" (not an annuity for life) applies to spiritual gifts too; the little daily support for the daily trial. Life has to be taken day by day and hour by hour.”

Thinking Spiritual Taken

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Edward de Bono

Psychologist

“The simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.”

Powerful Taken Creativity

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B. F. Skinner

Psychologist, Behaviorist

“A piece of music is an experience to be taken by itself.”

Taken Pieces

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Steve Jobs

Entrepreneur

“The lunatics have taken over the asylum and we can do anything we want.”

Want Taken

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Epictetus

Philosopher

“It is not my place in society that makes me well off, but my judgements, and these I can carry with me... These alone are my own and cannot be taken away.”

Taken Wells Judgement

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Benjamin Franklin

Inventor, Statesman, Author

“In 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation. This I mention for the sake of parents who omit that operation, on the supposition that they should never forgive themselves if a child died under it; my example showing that the regret may be the same either way, and that, therefore, the safer should be chosen.”

Children Taken Regret

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Bruce Lee

Martial Artist, Actor, Director

“The Now is indivisible. Completeness, the now, is an absence of the conscious mind to strive to divide that which is indivisible. For once the completeness of things is taken apart it is no longer complete.”

Mind Taken Absence

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Alec Baldwin

Actor

“There's less critical thinking going on in this country on a Main Street level - forget about the media - than ever before. We've never needed people to think more critically than now, and they've taken a big nap.”

Thinking Country Taken

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William Wells Brown

Writer, Abolitionist

“Someone must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen to me to do so. The awful death roll called every week is appalling, not only because of the lives taken, the cruelty and outrage to the victims, but because of the prejudice it fosters.”

Taken Race Justice

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Rabindranath Tagore

Poet, Playwright, Novelist

“The realization of our soul has its moral and its spiritual side. The moral side represents training of unselfishness, control of desire; the spiritual side represents sympathy and love. They should be taken together and never separated. The cultivation of the merely moral side of our nature leads us to the dark region of narrowness and hardness of heart, to the intolerant arrogance of goodness; and the cultivation of the merely spiritual side of our nature leads us to a still darker region of revelry in intemperance of imagination.”

Heart Spiritual Taken

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Samuel Beckett

Playwright, Novelist

“Already all confusion. Things and imaginings. As of always. Confusion amounting to nothing. Despite precautions. If only she could be pure figment. Unalloyed. This old so dying woman. So dead. In the madhouse of the skull and nowhere else. Where no more precautions to be taken. No precautions possible. Cooped up there with the rest. Hovel and stones. The lot. And the eye. How simple all then. If only all could be pure figment. Neither be nor been nor by any shift to be. Gently gently. On. Careful.”

Eye Simple Taken

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Susan Sontag

Essayist, Critic, Activist

“The quote is always fascinating because it changes out of context, becomes different and sometimes more mysterious. It has a directness and assertiveness it may not have had in the original. I think the quality of inaccessibility, the mystery, is important - that whatever matters can't be taken in on just one reading or one seeing. This is certainly a quality of the little of art that lasts.”

Art Reading Taken

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