Granted Quotes

• As I get older... I start to realize that life ain't half bad. Each year, I'm amazed that I'm still alive. I don't take any of this for granted, I'm a lucky dude.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Alive
  • Realize
  • Granted

• ... the photographer is a thief who chooses what he steals (which, at this stage of the crisis, is a luxury) and does not democratize the image, that is to say, the photographer selects the pictures, a privilege which ought to be granted to the person being photographed.

  

  Subcomandante Marcos
  • Persons
  • Stage
  • Crisis

• You've always got to work to your highest ability level. When times are great and restaurants are jamming, that's when some restaurants get sloppy and take things for granted. Never take things for granted.

  

  Michael Symon
  • Taking
  • Restaurants
  • Sloppy

• I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much and too often. As for money, I have only realized its true worth when I didn't have it.

  

  Hedy Lamarr
  • Taken
  • Wise
  • Granted

• Acting is something that I've done since I was so young. I always felt - certainly as a teenager - really cynical about acting. I definitely didn't feel like it was something I wanted to do, and so I really took it for granted.

  

  Sarah Polley
  • Feels
  • Acting
  • Teenager

• And so my brother Gilbert and I, brought up without a formal religion, remained throughout our lifetimes just what Father was, freethinkers. And, likewise, doubters and dissenters and perhaps Utopians. Father's rule had been 'Question everything, take nothing for granted,' and I never outlived it, and I would suggest it be made the motto of a world journalists' association.

  

  George Seldes
  • World
  • Father
  • Brother

• What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.

  

  Norbert Wiener
  • Results
  • Experiments
  • Granted

• I'm ready, ... It was a little bit of a scare and a rocky summer, but the time to take stuff for granted is over. There's some relief but the journey's not over. I've got to live up to the trade and the expectations.

  

  Eddy Curry
  • Journey
  • Ready
  • Trade

• Never take things for granted. Never ignore what is obvious.

  

  Arnold Arre
  • Things
  • Ignore
  • Obvious

• Don't get caught up in other people's expectations. Don't take anything for granted, either.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • People
  • Expectations
  • Granted

• In 2012, I was diagnosed with melanoma - skin cancer - and had to get surgery on my left foot. I was out for four weeks - no dancing, no walking, nothing! It was horrible, but it taught me patience and to never take for granted the simple things we have.

  

  Witney Carson
  • Things
  • Walking
  • Cancer

• If we tried to rely entirely on reason, and pressed it hard, our lives and beliefs would collapse - a form of madness that may actually occur if the inertial force of taking the world and life for granted is somehow lost. If we lose our grip on that, reason will not give it back to us.

  

  Thomas Nagel
  • World
  • Reason
  • Belief

• I think I've begun to take for granted how easily information can swirl around me.

  

  Sean Astin
  • Thinking
  • Information
  • Swirls

• In many parts of the country, water is a precious resource which we can no longer simply take for granted.

  

  Elliot Morley
  • Country
  • Granted
  • Resource

• Growing up in England, you're sort of spoiled, in a way. You sort of take it for granted that within a half-hour's drive, you could be walking around a stately home from the 1700s. It's not very hard to do - in California, you've got to take a flight!

  

  Rupert Friend
  • Home
  • Walking
  • Flight

• We're so lucky to take being alive for granted.

  

  Milana Vayntrub
  • Being
  • Granted

• My mind is in so many different places while we're shooting. Part of it is watching the performance, part of it is watching the camera, and part of it is thinking about the stuff that we have to get that day. It's always a pleasure watching, but you also take it for granted, when you're on the actual grind, making the show.

  

  Cary Fukunaga
  • Different
  • Mind
  • Pleasure

• A favor is half granted, when graciously refused.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Granted
  • Favor
  • Refused

• I learned at an early age that every breath that we take is borrowed. We need to be thankful for our life and never take it for granted.

  

  DeLisha Milton-Jones
  • Learned
  • Breath
  • Borrowed

• We have a chance to do something special for Chicago and we are not taking that for granted.

  

  Eddy Curry
  • Chance
  • Chicago
  • Granted

• Bad music is often the result of an attempt by the untrained, something that takes for granted that you're very highly trained.

  

  Carlo Grante
  • Music
  • Results
  • Granted

• In his 1930 book, Dirac took for granted that measurements could be made, but was very vague about what was actually involved.

  

  Willis Lamb
  • Book
  • Involved
  • Measurement

• When I was a struggling actress in New York in my 20s I worked in a burger joint called Diane's Uptown. I actually loved waiting tables. I still keep who I was in my mind and never take anything for granted.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Mind
  • Struggle
  • Waiting

• You always take for granted what you have until it is gone. And then you realize how much value it truly held in your life.

  

  Elizabeth Chadwick
  • Life
  • Value
  • Realize

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