#take

Liberalism, on the other hand, regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situations, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#adventure #always #good #guarantee #hand

I failed to fulfill what should have been an interesting role. I couldn't take their formula and bring what I had, my humor, my ideas, and make it my own. ↗

— Dianne Wiest

#bring #failed #formula #fulfill #had

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance. ↗

— Robert Collier

#assistance #battle #begin #come #essential

As I look back on the day I signed my professional contract in 1973, I've never gone to sleep wondering if I could pay the bills or take care of my family. That's what basketball has done for me. It's given me the greatest of thrills from high school to college to the Olympics to coaching to broadcasting. ↗

— Doug Collins

#basketball #bills #broadcasting #care #coaching

Not every financial company toppled during the 2008 crisis, and some seized the opportunity to take advantage of weaker competitors in the midst of the tumult. ↗

— James C. Collins

#company #competitors #crisis #during #every

I think it has something to do with being British. We don't take ourselves as seriously as some other countries do. I think a lot of people take themselves far too seriously; I find that a very tedious attitude. ↗

— Joan Collins

#being #british #countries #far #find

You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing. ↗

— Rene Descartes

#every #i #just #keep #kept

We also own a little boat and I'm like a kid with it. I take off early in the morning, fishing rod in tow, and just drift about the ocean all day. ↗

— Perry Como

#all day #also #boat #day #drift

Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#commonplace #did #done #effect #freshness

Freedom cannot be given... It can only be taken away. ↗

— David Allan Coe

#cannot #freedom #given #only #taken