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  • All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.

    Taken   Greatness   Want  
    ELIZABETH BOWEN (1935). “The House in Paris”
  • ...I am afraid that education is conceived more in terms of indoctrination by most school officials than in terms of enlightenment. My own belief is that education must be subversive if it is to be meaningful. By this I mean that it must challenge all the things we take for granted, examine all accepted assumptions, tamper with every sacred cow, and instill a desire to question and doubt. Without this the mere instruction to memorise data is empty. The attempt to enforce conventional mediocrity on the young is criminal.

  • Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

    Themes and Variations (1950) "Variations on a Philosopher"
  • Clean water and access to food are some of the simplest things that we can take for granted each and every day. In places like Africa, these can be some of the hardest resources to attain if you live in a rural area.

    "Helping East Africa: The Basic Necessities and the People Who Go Without" by Marcus Samuelsson, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 2, 2011.
  • It is very easy to take for granted the phenomenon that we are each alive, but we must try not to.

  • It's not a bad idea to occasionally spend a little time thinking about things you take for granted. Plain everyday things.

  • Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry.

    Norman Ernest Borlaug (1971). “Mankind and Civilization at Another Crossroad”
  • Earth as an ecosystem stands out in the all of the universe. There's no place that we know about that can support life as we know it, not even our sister planet, Mars, where we might set up housekeeping someday, but at great effort and trouble we have to recreate the things we take for granted here.

  • We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

  • Thanks to these eyes...I came to understand how cruel and despicable people can be. But that also allowed me to appreciate true beauty. All you have to do is appreciate things from a different perspective Once I realized the things we take for granted are really miracles, I came to see everything in it's precious, empheral beauty. ..... I love this world.

    Eye   People   Appreciate  
  • Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted.

    Art   Taken   Talent  
    FaceBook post by Paula Abdul from Mar 25, 2012
  • When something does not insist on being noticed, when we aren't grabbed by the collar or struck on the skull by a presence or an event, we take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

    "Noted with pleasure". The New York Times Archives, www.nytimes.com. 1984.
  • When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

  • All of us, I suspect, imagine that a world exists from which we alone have been excluded; all of us have our noses pressed against the glass. But if we contemplate our own lives, not the phantom life on the other side, we might find things in them to envy-a family that’s intact; a job we like; excellent health (the thing we take for granted and on which all happiness depends). Good fortune is there, however sporadic, however modest, however difficult to achieve. The trick is to recognize it.

    Jobs   Glasses   Envy  
  • I think what everyone can do is start creating spaces and forums, talk to peers, friends and family, and start deconstructing these things we take for granted, unpack these old systems, in order to understand ourselves more deeply, to understand why we do the things we do and how our privileges affect other people's lack of privilege.

    Source: thequietus.com
  • It made me have a much greater understanding of loss, of loneliness, and the level of intense tragedy that so many people have experienced in this world, I take a lot less for granted.

    "Profile: Adrien Brody" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2003.
  • Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

    Friendship   Taken   Mean  
    "On Being Blonde: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Most Infamous Blondes" by Paula Munier, (p. 69), 2004.
  • I don't take anything for granted.

    "I don't take anything for granted". Interview with Greg Prato, bravewords.com. May 24, 2016.
  • The more often we see the things around us - even the beautiful and wonderful things - the more they become invisible to us. That is why we often take for granted the beauty of this world: the flowers, the trees, the birds, the clouds - even those we love. Because we see things so often, we see them less and less.

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