It’s my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so why not eliminate what you don’t need as long as you’re...

It takes a lot of effort to win back credibility after having lost it so heavily.

Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always.

It takes as much discipline to be a mother and a wife as it does to do anything else.

I’m terrible at texting people back. It takes me, like, three days. I’m not a big phone person.

We have to deal with the world as we find it. The world of what it takes to get this done.

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

Everybody’s just emulated us and now everybody just kinda takes our sound as their foundations.

Whenever I have to do something, I try to minimise the time it takes me to do it. I just cannot wait.

When I feel like I’m renowned enough, I’d love to do a heritage-type line, but that takes time.

What it takes just to earn a living – working two or three jobs – is driving a wedge in families that shouldn’t be there.

Nobody in real life ever takes me seriously.

When I come in from the beach at night, I’m too hungry to wait for anything that takes very long.

I always ask for more takes. I like doing takes, so I’ll do as many as I can.

The Philippines-U.S. Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement takes our security cooperation to a higher level of engagement, reaffirms our country’s commitment to mutual defense and security, and promotes regional peace and stability.

It takes not being a coward to make a great move forward

Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.

What I learned very quickly is that if you get it right in the first two or three takes, it’s not going to get that much better.

A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.

Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.

You are – all your experience just kind of accumulates, and the novel takes a richness of its own simply because it has the weight of all those years that one’s put into it.

Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.

I want to make an extremely strong appeal to those who abstained. Vote. It takes five minutes and then it’s for five years.

I want to be strong enough to cope with the roles, but I don’t want to be cast as the guy that takes his shirt off.

Making better choices takes work. There is a daily give and take, but it is worth the effort.

It was a natural process, because when we go to the ring we are human beings, but once you feel the punches and the competition that’s when the beast comes out and takes hold of...

It takes a long time to understand nothing.

Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.

You don’t build a new power plant in the United States overnight. It takes years to build.

It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.

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.

When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.

It’s hard to notice things without people noticing me and that takes some getting used to.

These days, it takes only seconds – seconds – for a picture, a photo, to suddenly become an international headline.

In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and creates a sort of accompaniment to the signified.

When my characters are questioning things, it’s not me leading up to an answer; it’s me asking those same questions and letting the characters’ lives unfold and seeing where it takes them.

It takes years of building that experience as a filmmaker, as well as physically. You have to have a high level understanding of martial arts.

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves.

Cooking allows you to have travels, adventures and journeys without going anywhere. The running joke between my partner and me is that I’m not really concerned about how long it takes, or how much I...

There is certainly some predisposition to wellbeing, based on the research I’ve looked at. There are people who have a lot more natural discipline. But for most of us, it takes a lot more in...

The secret of concentration is the secret of self-discovery. You reach inside yourself to discover your personal resources, and what it takes to match them to the challenge.

Perfectionism kills art. I find that if I criticise myself, it spoils the fun. You can get paralysed by analysis – it takes all the playfulness away.

I can cook really complicated recipes, but it takes a real talent to do the perfect egg.

So it takes years to make a solid company.

The best way to do that is to pick up a new instrument or an instrument that you don’t typically write on and see where it takes you. Whether it’s using an acoustic guitar, or...

I’ve been around enough to know what it takes to get a team to reach its potential, and I want players who want to reach their potential.

Discipline is what it takes to be a disciple of success

Maturity – among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.

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