Top 100 It Takes Sayings
#1. You know, writing is really difficult, and it takes a real patience and a skill. I don't know if I have that. I admire it in others, so much, and I envy it.
Adam Scott
#2. Listen: You can't short-circuit the learning process. It takes time to get to the top, and that's good-because by the time you get there, you'll have learned what you need to know in order to stay there.
Maria Shriver
#3. My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.
Adrien Brody
#4. The little things become big things over time, but it takes an intelligent consistency to hang in there long enough to reap the fruits of what you have sown.
Richard Ehrlich
#5. It takes centuries to invent the primitive.
Don DeLillo
#6. Sometimes it takes one instance to have something snap in your mind - rearrange your head - and make you realize what has always been there.
E.L. Todd
#7. It takes more than language to know what language can know.
Barry Allen
#8. Unfortunately time is the master of us all; it takes what it will, and often there are no words to ease the emptiness of what is gone.
Bette Lee Crosby
#10. It takes me longer than an instant to get over somebody.
Kristen Tracy
#11. Julia taught me what it takes to find your way in the world. It's not what I thought it was. I thought it wa all about-I don't know, confidence or will or luck. Those are all some good things to have, no question. But there's something else, somethng that these things grow out of. It's joy.
Julie Powell
#12. It takes no time to fall in love, but it takes you years to know what love is.
Jason Mraz
#13. If you let hope inside, it takes you over. It feeds on your insides and uses your bones to climb and grow. Eventually it becomes the thing that is your bones, that holds you together. Holds you up until you don't know how to live without it anymore. To pull it out of you would kill you entirely.
Ally Condie
#14. TV is so different from the movies. It takes a lot of stamina because you work such long hours. It is really challenging. You are learning the next day's lines while you are shooting today's scenes. I found courage I never realised I had. I hope to do more.
Sharon Stone
#15. Focus your attention around the naval area, feel that spot. Visualize it. Do whatever it takes. When thoughts come in and out of your mind, pay no attention. You just stay right on that spot!
Frederick Lenz
#16. Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
Helen Keller
#17. Doing a musical is not just acting. It's total theater. When you have to justify the enormous projection of energy it takes to just go into song and dance, you realized why it's such a humbling experience every time you go into a show.
Donna McKechnie
#18. I read a review on the Herald, it says it takes 40 minutes to get to the first sex session apparently and the whole movie only contains 11 minutes of forbidden fruit,
John Key
#19. It takes courage and intelligence, you know, to do the stages of Yoga right, and to start with this Hatha Yoga ... It's just you and nothing but you, standing in one spot frozen like a statue with no place to go for help or excuse or scapegoat except inward.
Bikram Choudhury
#20. For a moment his expression reveals nothing. Then I see the smile light his eyes, though it does not reach his lips. He cups my head with his hand and looks at me with an expression of such adoration it takes my breath away. Don't you know, Nikki? No matter where you go, I will always find you.
J. Kenner
#21. Mousse was a Labrador retriever, which is a large enthusiastic bulletproof species of dog made entirely from synthetic materials. This is the kind of dog that, if it takes an interest in your personal regions (which of course it does) you cannot fend it off with a blowtorch.
Dave Barry
#22. It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.
John Ruskin
#23. A journey of four hundred and thirty miles can be made in any part of the United States, but in Turkey it takes as many days.
Ellsworth Huntington
#24. You can't solve many of today's problems by straight linear thinking. It takes leaps of faith to sense the connections that are not necessarily obvious.
Matina Horner
#25. Everything slows down with age, except the time it takes cake and ice cream to reach your hips.
John Wagner
#26. It takes repetitive exposure over time to a new idea before that idea becomes a natural part of your way of thinking and being.
Jack Canfield
#27. It takes a smart guy to play dumb.
Mr. T
#28. When I am working on an epic-length book, the writing process is fairly long. It takes from four to five years to get through all the drafts. The book is done when I am exhausted.
Gunter Grass
#29. It takes a lot of guts to stop measuring things that are measurable, and even more guts to create things that don't measure well by conventional means.
Seth
#31. I'm constantly scared. I'm constantly fearful of what's to come and people don't realize that just because you're doing something doesn't mean that you're fearless but you get up every day and you do it. It takes a lot of courage to be real.
Adrienne Bailon
#32. We are only peripherally tied to the lives of others. It takes a long long time for us to become deeply involved with others, and for some this never happens.
Edward T. Hall
#33. It takes Rs. 10 per kms in Ahmedabad by auto- rickshaw, but it took us only Rs. 7 per kms to reach Mars.
Narendra Modi
#34. It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it.
Erich Fromm
#35. The thing is, emotion - if it's visibly felt by the writer - will go through all the processes it takes to publish a story and still hit the reader right in the gut. But you have to really mean it.
Anne McCaffrey
#36. There's no question that the galleries still like to see birdies and eagles. If you take them all away, it takes some of the dramatics, the excitement of a golf tournament and we [people] don't want to do that.
Arnold Palmer
#37. I like fearless characters, people just not afraid to do anything it takes to make people laugh.
Dane Cook
#38. So do you believe in second chances?" I bite my lip.
"Second, third, fourth. Whatever it takes. However long it takes. If the person is right," he adds.
"If the person is ... Lola?"
This time, he holds my gaze. "Only if the other person is Cricket.
Stephanie Perkins
#39. It takes two to tango; when I go, you go.
Malcolm X
#41. Scorpions are quite ruthless, you know. That is why Artemis bid one of them to kill her foe Orion. And as a reward she set the scorpion on up in the sky.
I'm not ruthless. I merely do whatever it takes to achive my goals
That's not ruthless?
Lisa Kleypas
#42. It is only with the companionship of the Holy Ghost that we can hope to be equally yoked in a marriage free from discord. I have seen how that companionship is crucial for felicity in a marriage. The miracle of becoming one requires the help of heaven, and it takes time.
Henry B. Eyring
#43. It takes a great cook to pull life truth from poultry.
Joan Bauer
#44. When you start something you cannot give yourself a time-frame for success. You can't say: if it doesn't work out in six-months I will give up. Your only task is to keep doing whatever it takes to achieve the goal.
G.R. Gopinath
#46. It takes an enormous amount of work to complete a novel, and each of the students who completed the course has accomplished something many people only dream about.
Daniel Schwabauer
#47. It is only in folk tales, children's stories, and the journals of intellectual opinion that power is used wisely and well to destroy evil. The real world teaches very different lessons, and it takes willful and dedicated ignorance to fail to perceive them.
Noam Chomsky
#48. Even if you're lucky to have a play on Broadway like 'Chinglish,' you don't necessarily earn enough off it to support the years it takes to get there.
David Henry Hwang
#49. It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
Robert H. Schuller
#50. Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
J.G. Ballard
#51. The more generous the benefit, the easier you make it to stay on unemployment insurance, and the less incentive there is for people to actually go out and do what it takes to get a job.
John Ensign
#52. It takes loneliness in oneself to recognize it in another.
Aimee Carter
#53. No matter how hard I worked, whatever I accomplished was attributed to my looks. If you're working your ass off, then you don't want to be told that you only got whatever because of the way you look. It takes the heart out of you.
Gloria Steinem
#54. Never defend yourself; agree with your critics, it takes the wind out of their sails.
Fay Weldon
#55. Life usually tells the best stories - but sometimes it takes an artist to show us what they mean.
Terry Teachout
#56. You might be a redneck if your wheelbarrow breaks and it takes four relatives to figure out how to fix it.
Jeff Foxworthy
#57. It takes a community to start a revolution.
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#58. If you start any large theory, such as quantum mechanics, plate tectonics, evolution, it takes about 40 years for mainstream science to come around. Gaia has been going for only 30 years or so.
James Lovelock
#59. Just because politicians, scientists, and business execs are raging about it, and newspaper headlines are screaming it, doesn't mean the message sticks - or that people care. It takes more than that to change a culture. In
Jeanne Marie Laskas
#60. You have to remind kids to stay connected to the meaning of Christmas. Sometimes it takes a little bit of effort, but it's so worth it.
Caroline Kennedy
#61. It's a cruel fact of war that it takes little more than applying pressure to one finger to end another person's life. More than that, it's a cruel fact of life that we are hardwired to follow the crowd in a moment of panic.
Trevor D. Richardson
#62. An interesting thing about drugs is often, when a new drug is discovered, it takes a long time to figure out how do you do it.
Terence McKenna
#63. Once his wife goes to sleep it takes a minor nuclear explosion to wake her.
Tony Blair
#64. This business of really knowing people, deep down, including your own self, it is not something you can learn in school or from a book. It takes your whole being to do it - your eyes and your ears, your brain and your heart. Maybe your heart most of all.
James Howe
#66. At the end of the day, both men and women who become CEOs have showed tenacity and hard work to succeed in their careers. It takes not just skills but also extreme dedication and commitment. And regardless of gender, CEOs are measured by the same criteria - the growth and success of the business.
Susan Wojcicki
#67. Our minds do unusual things sometimes, Tamara. When we're looking for things it takes it upon itself to go down its own route. All we can do is follow
Cecelia Ahern
#68. Joy melts away the frown from our faces, it takes away anxiety, worries and fears.
Euginia Herlihy
#69. It takes love, you see, to bring the world back to life.
S. Jae-Jones
#70. It takes a sharp blade, a huge effort to separate one half of a coin from the other. It would take something a hell of a lot stronger and sharper to separate me from her.
Alexandra Bracken
#71. There were two unpleasant surprises [about Washington]. One was the inertia of Congress, the length of time it takes to get a complicated piece of legislation through ... and the other was the irresponsibility of the press.
Jimmy Carter
#72. There is no music like a little river's ... It takes the mind out-of-doors ... and ... it quiets a man down like saying his prayers.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#73. If you're not mad at the world, you don't have what it takes
Sun Ra
#74. If it takes every cent of my money, every single one of my vast resources, I'll see to it that you never insure another vehicle again. When I get done with you, you won't be able to put on roller skates without the Feds breathing down your neck.
J.A. Konrath
#75. Clarity and focus doesn't always come from God or inspirational quotes. Usually, it takes your mother to slap the reality back into you.
Shannon L. Alder
#76. One night I'm going to have a big night scoring; some nights I'm going to have a big night doing other things. Just doing whatever it takes to win the ballgame, not necessarily sitting up here worrying about scoring 30 points.
Dwyane Wade
#77. Socialised humanity represses nature and degrades human nature; it takes life and waters it down - probably to control it - diluting existence with water that is lukewarm, sweet and murky.
Michael Leunig
#78. American cities are kind of difficult contexts to work in. They are politically complex. There are a lot of different interest groups. It takes immense political skill to get anything done at all.
William J. Mitchell
#79. I learnt to test the size of my brain..by trying this simple thought ! Look out for the good things, not the faults.It takes a good deal bigger sized brain to find out what is not wrong with people and things than to fins out what is wrong!!!
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#80. I swear, if I could eat my children, I would. I'd consume them like some beast in a Hieronymus Bosch painting, but in a friendlier, more momlike way. Their little bodies make me salivate. It takes everything I have not to swallow them whole.
Amy Poehler
#81. I guess sometimes it takes a while for the heart to get the memo from the brain.
Jody Gehrman
#82. I understand why you do your job," my mother said to me. "There's a sense of accomplishment when you take down someone bad. It's like being a police officer or being in the Army or being a mother. You have a responsibility to protect and keep order, and you do whatever it takes to get that done.
Janet Evanovich
#83. You have a new audience for every show. Even though you do the same thing all the time, you gotta keep it fresh for yourself, and you gotta keep it good and interesting and something you want to do. I'm anxious to have a really terrific act. Whatever it takes it takes.
Cass Elliot
#84. The unique essence of being an artist is dying. Eveything looks the same. Now there's a formula. And it works. - But it takes away from the reason we do it.
Usher
#85. An artist makes the world her world. An artist makes her world the world. For a little while. For as long as it takes to look at or listen or to watch or read the work of art. Like a crystal, the work of art seems to contain the whole, and to imply eternity.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#86. It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.
Logan Pearsall Smith
#87. It takes tough love to order kids to step away from the iPhone or iPad during dinner or to take the devices away if they're interrupting and interfering with everyone else's pleasure at a movie, concert or other public event.
Regina Brett
#88. After I perform 'My Girlfriend's Boyfriend,' it takes a lot out of me emotionally; and, at the end of it, I feel like I know the audience and the audience knows me. It's this weird unspoken bond that we'll kind of always have with each other.
Mike Birbiglia
#89. She's four minutes late, which doesn't seem like all that much when you think about it's a commercial break, the period within classes, the time it takes to cook a microwave meal. Four minutes is nothing.
Jennifer E. Smith
#90. Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.
Ira Gershwin
#91. As a businessman, I know President Obama understands what it takes to spark economic growth, because I have seen him in action.
Austin Ligon
#92. It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.
Edgar Friedenberg
#93. Once You Realize your Purpose in Life, do whatever it Takes within Good means in order to Fulfill your Destiny. This is Your Life, No One can Live it for You. The Journey is Yours.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#94. People don't always have the vision, and the secret for the person with the vision is to stand up. It takes a lot of courage.
Natalie Cole
#95. I didn't want to tell the story of what makes two people come together, although that's a theme of great power and universality. I wanted to find out what it takes for two people to stay together for fifty years
or more. I wanted to tell not the story of courtship, but the story of marriage.
Diana Gabaldon
#96. A great and priceless thing is a new interest! How it takes possession of a man! how it clings to him, how it rides him!
Mark Twain
#97. Sometimes that's what it takes. Putting it all out there and hoping love wins.
Marissa Clarke
#98. Often, I go and see films where I can see the beats coming. So, if I read something where I don't see the beats coming and it takes me somewhere unexpected, that's a great thing to build upon.
David Brooks
#99. I'll write and make chords with my voice sometimes if I don't have an instrument even though it takes a million times longer.
Zooey Deschanel
#100. We've got some real greedy hogs who own no interest in the company they're running, whose sole interest is in whatever it takes to be able to get to the point to fly out on their golden parachute and milk the shareholder and take risks that they shouldn't take.
Joe Jamail
