A Quote by David Hackworth
It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door.
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When you do anything for eight or nine years, you start getting a little comfortable; you start taking things for granted.
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
I feel like sometimes people on television shows can start taking things for granted, or they don't want to be here or something like that.
In fact, we will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things. We have to learn to understand nature and not merely to observe it and endure what it imposes on us. Stupidity, from being an amiable individual defect, has become a social crime.
Hollywood's not knocking on our door. They're banging down the door with a sledgehammer.
Consequently there is a need for spiritual vitality. What protection is there against the danger of organisation? Man is once more faced with the problem of himself. He can cope with every danger except the danger of human nature itself. In the last resort it all turns upon man.
Taking experimental results and observations for granted and putting the burden of proof on the theory means taking the observational ideology for granted without having ever examined it.
There is a lot of work out there to take people out of the loop in things like medical diagnosis. But if you are taking humans out of the loop, you are in danger of ending up with a very cold form of AI that really has no sense of human interest, human emotions, or human values.
The human person is in danger: this is certain, the human person is in danger today, here is the urgency of human ecology! And it is a serious danger because the cause of the problem is not superficial but profound: it is not just a matter of economics, but of ethics and anthropology.
Drive Nature from your door with a pitchfork, and she will return again and again.
Beginning to create again was something that I took for granted but I never will take it for granted again.
I'm all about taking chances. You have to ask yourself, if you're not taking any chances, are you actually even living? Every time you walk out of your door and you're out in the world, you take a chance on not coming back. That is the danger and the dynamic of being alive.
I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me.
When the eye wakes up to see again, it suddenly stops taking anything for granted.
People are hypocritical. That's just human nature. I embrace my hypocrisy. Once you come to grips with who you are and what's in you, and you aren't ashamed of it...but people are made to feel ashamed. You start thinking, like, "Is this human nature? That I like certain things, but I don't like certain aspects of certain things? Should I just shun it altogether?"
Growing up in England, people told you why you couldn't do things. Suddenly, I had a publisher banging on my door, and was given the creative green light to simply make.
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