#takes

I want to do some skating and then go to law school in three years. I'm enjoying it and I'm going to see where it takes me. ↗

— Sarah Hughes

#go #going #i #law #law school

Africa is a cruel country; it takes your heart and grinds it into powdered stone - and no one minds. ↗

— Elspeth Huxley

#country #cruel #grinds #heart #into

I always worked in institutions, I never had a restaurant of my own before, but I have opened over 30 hotels, restaurants and casinos. I understand what it takes to keep them running. ↗

— Robert Irvine

#before #casinos #had #hotels #i

It never ceases to amaze me what it takes to develop and bring to mass production a product. ↗

— Jonathan Ive

#bring #ceases #develop #mass #mass production

I made a lot of mistakes out of the ring, but I never made any in it. ↗

— Jack Johnson

#i #lot #made #mistakes #never

There's a very passionate pro-chewing movement on the Internet called Chewdiasm. They say that we should be chewing 50 to 100 times per mouthful, which is insane. I tried that. It takes like a day and a half to eat a sandwich. But their basic idea is right. If you chew, you'll eat slower and you will get more nutrients. ↗

— A. J. Jacobs

#basic idea #called #chew #chewing #day

I'm a character actor, so I don't take the hit if the movie's bad, the lead does. So, I don't want to be the lead. He takes the hit, I don't. ↗

— Brion James

#bad #character #character actor #does #hit

Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections? ↗

— Elizabeth Janeway

#biology #connections #family #good #growing

If we experience any failures or setbacks, we do not forget them because they offend our self-esteem. Instead we reflect on them deeply, trying to figure out what went wrong and discern whether there are any patterns to our mistakes. ↗

— Robert Greene

#failures #forgetfulness #mistakes #offense #patterns

I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances. ↗

— John Sculley

#chances #enough #found #i #i always