Best 239 quotes in «granted quotes» category

If you go back to Adam Smith, you find the idea that markets and market forces operate as an invisible hand. This is the traditional laissez-faire market idea. But today, when economics is increasingly defined as the science of incentive, it becomes clear that the use of incentives involves quite active intervention, either by an economist or a policy maker, in using financial inducements to motivate behavior. In fact, so much though that we now almost take for granted that incentives are central to the subject of economics.

If you refuse where you have always granted you invite to theft.

I grew up taking it for granted that missionaries were what American boys grew up to be.

I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.

I guess the main thing is, you unconsciously take things for granted, and you think the audience is with you, because you're with yourself.

I honestly consider that the greatest gift to me, is the reaction that I get from my work. That is a given which I never, ever take for granted. But to be given that by audiences, individuals, on the street, in the theater, is an extraordinary feeling.

I have learned yet again (this has been going on all my life) what folly it is to take any thing for granted without examining it skeptically.

I have no lucky charm. I am 100 percent superstition-free, and I take nothing for granted.

I just learned not to take a single thing for granted, and I think it just is extraordinary.

I learned that once it's over, it's really over, and to not take anything for granted.

I learned at an early age that every breath that we take is borrowed. We need to be thankful for our life and never take it for granted.

I kind of always took it for granted the fact that my parents were Olympic medalists.

I love going out to clubs. Granted, I don't get hammered or do anything to embarrass myself. I'd call myself wholesome but it's not like I only drink milk.

I live life and I don't take it for granted.

I'll never take for granted the opportunity to put on a Dodger uniform.

I'm not saving lives. I'm singing and I should go placidly and joyously through the whole thing and work hard and not take it for granted. It's great to have this gift.

I love this country because I didn't always have it. Freedom, food, water that is clean, Constitution - these are not things I take for granted.

I'm a lucky guy. I don't take for granted, for one minute, what I do.

I'm not cruel, sir, I won't shoot you in the guts, but I will make you realize how much you took your toes for granted.

I'm not only a romanticist but a romantic myself. I take it for granted the originality matters.

I'm so thankful. I've been blessed. I never took it for granted.

I'm sorry if I took some things for granted, I'm sorry for the chains I put on you. But more than anything, I'm sorry for myself for living without you.

I'm so vigorous, and I so take it for granted, because I've always been a real physical person.

I'm very blessed and I don't take anything for granted.

In his 1930 book, Dirac took for granted that measurements could be made, but was very vague about what was actually involved.

In 1956 I was granted the biggest reward of my career: my wife, Josée Jongen.

In taking life for granted, we fail to notice it.

I now know that things I always thought I could depend on can crash in an instant. Because of the love that I have been shown, I now know what it means to be 'beloved.' I now know that no breath is to be taken for granted.

In the realm of scientific observation, luck is granted only to those who are prepared.

I think one of the things about being around for a while and getting to know yourself is that when you do have these positive experiences, you don't take them for granted - you identify them and you make the most of them. I don't know - it's kind of cool getting old in a lot of ways.

I, quite frankly, am grateful for every day. I don't take anything for granted.

I really appreciate my performing so much better, as I get older. I don't take it for granted anymore. I really relish it and love it.

It cannot be denied that God in choosing and destining Mary to be the Mother of his Son, granted her the highest honor.

It has been an amazing presidential election in 2016. AMAZING. And I don't take it for granted. This sort of race comes along once every century or so.

I promised myself that no matter where I went, what I did, I'd never take anything for granted again.

I suppose one gets to know men quickest by the things they take for granted.

I think I've begun to take for granted how easily information can swirl around me.

It is the activity of the intellect that constitutes complete human happiness - provided it be granted a complete span of life, for nothing that belongs to happiness can be incomplete.

I think that there is generally less of a community and that the fragmentation of the left is a symptom. I think that it is less and less possible to take for granted certain cultural references.

It is not always granted to the sower to see the harvest.

I think women are often taken for granted.

It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.

It is extremely difficult for our contemporaries to conceive of the conditions of free banking because they take government interference with banking for granted and as necessary.

It is very rarely granted even to Nature herself to produce anything absolutely perfect in every part.

I took a lot of things for granted - especially how I treated my body.

It may be taken for granted that, rash as the Americans are, when they are prudent there is good reason for it.

It must be granted that in every syllogism, considered as an argument to prove the conclusion, there is a petitio principii. When we say, All men are mortal Socrates is a man therefore Socrates is mortal; it is unanswerably urged by the adversaries of the syllogistic theory, that the proposition, Socrates is mortal.

I took my sight and mobility for granted.

I took it all for granted, I'm sorry to say.

I've never been the sort of person who takes things for granted, and I'm not an acquisitions girl. So I didn't feel entitled to a car when I was 16. Of course, I was bummed I didn't get one, because I was an American Texas teenager! But I understood it. I've never gotten my self-esteem from having the newest, most spectacular thing.