#takes

Reading takes solitude and it takes focus. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#reading #solitude #takes

Life throws some curveballs at you and you go where it takes you. ↗

— Sophia Bush

#life #some #takes #throws #where

To be happy, it first takes being comfortable being in your own shoes. The rest can work up from there. ↗

— Sophia Bush

#being #comfortable #first #happy #own

Since I was a kid, he's told me to learn from his mistakes. ↗

— Scott Caan

#i #kid #learn #me #mistakes

Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#cities #city #cloud #continents #differences

I mean, you have to be able - you have to have made the commitment within yourself to do whatever it takes to get the job done and to try to inspire other people to do it, because obviously the first rule is you can't do it by yourself. ↗

— James Cameron

#because #commitment #done #first #get

Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day. ↗

— Albert Camus

#every #every day #judgment #last #place

It takes 20 years to make an overnight success. ↗

— Eddie Cantor

#overnight #overnight success #success #takes #years

My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak. ↗

— John le Carre

#decent #definition #first #first of all #losers

Thank heaven, though, one of the few mistakes I haven't made is to talk about the unwritten book. ↗