Top 1200 Taking Things For Granted Quotes & Sayings

When the eye wakes up to see again, it suddenly stops taking anything for granted.

I appreciate everything that I have, versus taking it for granted.

When you do anything for eight or nine years, you start getting a little comfortable; you start taking things for granted.

Granted, everybody is different, but I think it's real important to know all the people that you are around, and how they operate their history, and things like that. You know where they are coming from a little bit, and you don't insult them, or take something for granted.

I am not taking anything for granted.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

Divorce is never a nice thing, but it's very easy to take family for granted, and when there's a divorce, you don't take things for granted so much.

I just say 'Amen' a lot. It's just about being grateful and never taking things for granted.

I am not taking for granted a call-up to the England squad or making any assumption about my future international career.

I'm very fortunate to be in the position that I am, to be able to play the sport that I love every single day. I'm never taking that for granted.

I hope my career will be long-term. It's not something I'm taking for granted, but we try to plan that way.

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.

Taking things from one source is plagiarism; taking things from several sources is research.

The way I see it, the impossible happens all the time; but we're so good at taking it for granted, we forget it was once impossible.

Look closely and you will find that people are happy because they are grateful. The opposite of gratefulness is just taking everything for granted.

I try and take everyone's ideals, common morals, flip them around, make people look at them differently, question them, so that you're not always taking things for granted.

That's what a community is: taking for granted certain assumptions, not having to start from zero every time. This is no longer true.

What is being black? It's making the most of your life, not taking a single moment for granted. Taking something that's seen as a struggle and making it work for you, or you'll die inside. Not to say that my struggle is like the collective struggle of black America. But maybe my struggle is similar to one black dude's.

I'm happy for all the small things a man never gets around to putting his finger on - the things we take for granted.

Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio.

Faith is not a question of basking in the certainty that there is a God and that God is taking care of us. Many of us are never granted this kind of assurance. Certitude is not the real substance of faith. Faith is a way of seeing things.

It's not a bad idea to occasionally spend a little time thinking about things you take for granted. Plain everyday things.

Man has an almost infinite capacity for taking things and people for granted and thereby missing out on the pleasure of being grateful that things aren't worse and of praising and thereby lifting the spirits of others.

It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door.

I never take my things for granted, or the things I've been granted will get taken away.

We will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things.

If a guy is taking his girl for granted, he really deserves a slap, with a baseball bat.

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.

Say a child raises this beautiful beet. It's going to give her a sense of ownership, and that changes everything. You stop taking things for granted; you become less wasteful.

A lot of things change when one is granted success: random people pop up, and a lot of the adjustments are rough. My way of coping with them is through focusing on the things that I have accomplished and the things that are yet to come.

I'm not taking anything for granted at all.

In taking life for granted, we fail to notice it.

I'm not taking for granted being managed by Roc Nation. They have a lot of relations, and they have a reach that I clearly could benefit from.

With time, the one thing that I have learnt is, never taking the opportunity for granted.

I guess I'm taking for granted how open my parents are.

All those months of taking it for granted that Peeta thought I was wonderful are over. Finally, he can see me for who I really am. Violent. Distrustful. Manipulative. Deadly. And I hate him for it.

In taking the everyday details of life for granted, we fail to appreciate the extraordinary fact that we are conscious at all.

To be moral involves taking a position towards that matrix, thinking critically about what is taken for granted.

The little things I used to take for granted before I don't take for granted anymore. This whole situation has evolved me into a better person. Mentally, I'm much stronger, I'm more loving. I'm a man now. Cancer has played a huge role into making me into this person.

Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do somehing else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted.

It's very important to keep yourself fit when you are young. Many people take youth for granted and start taking care of their health only as they get older.

Life as an astronaut in space is a very interesting one. There are things we all take for granted here on earth, like gravity, that can make things a bit challenging. One of the fun things about getting here is the zero gravity and floating around. But it also makes things very difficult.

Rose and Dimitri moved almost as one entity, like a matched pair of wolfes or lions, both wary and deadly as they studied their surroundings, taking no detail or person for granted.

I try to encourage people to think for themselves, to question standard assumptions... Don't take assumptions for granted. Begin by taking a skeptical attitude toward anything that is conventional wisdom. Make it justify itself. It usually can't. Be willing to ask questions about what is taken for granted. Try to think things through for yourself.

Of the many things we have done to democracy in the past, the worst has been the indignity of taking it for granted.

In Bollywood, once an actor becomes a fairly established name, he or she usually starts taking things for granted.

There is no fool like a careless gambler who starts taking victory for granted.

My quarrel with the advocates of contraceptives lies in their taking for granted that ordinary mortals cannot exercise self-control.

I am still not taking my "career" in music for granted. It is constantly surprising that it works. Generally my thinking about the future has this assumption of an impending apocalypse.

The Tamil audience has accepted me and given me a place to establish myself. I'm not taking things for granted... I've learnt the language.

I have always found myself trying to study and analyze the world around me - not just taking everything for granted and following whatever is popular.

If you are a kid in Beverly Hills, (I am not putting down people who live in Beverly Hills) if that kid knows private school and a credit card... you can't say the kid is taking life for granted. He is taking the life that was given to him.

Science is like society and trade, in resting at bottom upon a basis of faith. There are some things here, too, that we can not prove, otherwise there would be nothing we can prove. Science is busy with the hither-end of things, not the thither-end. It is a mistake to contrast religion and science in this respect, and to think of religion as taking everything for granted, and science as doing only clean work, and having all the loose ends gathered up and tucked in. We never reach the roots of things in science more than in religion.

Life is a thin narrowness of taken-for-granted, a plank over a canyon in a fog. There is something under our feet, the taken-for-granted. A table is a table, food is food, we are we - because we don't question these things. And science is the enemy because it is the questioner. Faith saves our souls alive by giving us a universe of the taken-for-granted.

I think always staying focused and not taking things too seriously, but taking the important things seriously.

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.

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.

You can't take your win for granted. Your next win might be your last win or you might never get to your next win, so I can't imagine not being overcome with joy by winning and never taking winning for granted.

I've taken for granted that we have clean air to breathe in cities, relatively speaking, and most people have access to clean water. But we can't take these things for granted.

Children today will grow up taking for granted that an African-American or a woman can, yes, become the president of the United States.