Takes - Quotes
It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.
When you`re lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost. For the longest time, you can convince yourself that you`ve just wandered a few feet off the path, that you`ll find your way back to the trailhead any moment now. Then night falls again and again, and you still have no idea where you are, and its time to admit that you have bewildered yourself so far off the path that you dont even know from which direction the sun rises anymore.
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.
"Well, I don`t think rocks would be very interesting to God," I said. "They just sit on the ground and erode." "You think that way because you are unable to see the storm of activity at the rock`s molecular level or the level beneath that, and so on. And you are limited by your perception of time. If you watched a rock your entire life it would never look different. But if you were God and could observe the rock over fifteen billion years as though only a second had passed, the rock would be frantic with activity. It would be shrinking and growing and trading matter with its environment. Its molecules would travel the universe and become a partner to amazing things that we could never imagine. By contrast, the odd collection of molecules that make a human being will stay in that arrangement for less time than it takes the universe to blink.
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
I think that wherever your journey takes you, there are new gods waiting there, with divine patience - and laughter.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. Nothing is "mere." I too can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination - stuck on this carousel my little eye can catch one-million-year-old light. A vast pattern - of which I am a part - perhaps my stuff was belched from some forgotten star, as one is belching there. Or see them with the greater eye of Palomar, rushing all apart from some common starting point when they were perhaps all together. What is the pattern, or the meaning, or the why? It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little about it. For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined!