Take On Quotes

#1. It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on first, without enquiry and almost at first sight, the unseen doings and unspoken sentiments of our friends; the parts known give us evidence enough that the unknown parts cannot be much amiss.

George Santayana

#2. I am grateful for the lessons I learned from my parents' sacrifices. They often had trouble making ends meet, so we moved for them to find work. I remember my mom would sometimes take on second jobs, like ironing, just so we could buy groceries.

Rick Scott

#3. Look at everything through the lens of eternity. If you will do this, life will take on a different perspective.

James E. Faust

#4. Future strong individuals will not take on personal sacrifices, hardships and corporate crap that sidetrack them from their dreams and goals.

Bill Jensen

#5. Once your decisions take on the impractical responsibility of validating the choices of others, your decisions cease to be your own.

Kirk DeMatas

#6. While raising my children, I would like to take on other challenges.

Ryoko Tani

#7. Our lives take on meaning to the degree that our love and our actions are the same.

Bob Harris

#8. Gateway layers tend to take on more and more functionality, which itself can end up being a giant coupling point. And the more functionality something has, the greater the attack surface

Sam Newman

#9. I don't really necessarily think I'm a funny guy, but I like the opportunity to take on something that I don't feel I'm the best at doing.

Seann William Scott

#10. My main motivation for staying in the spotlight at all is, I don't want to just be known for being involved in 'Playboy,' or having been Hugh Hefner's girlfriend - I hate that. I like to show I can do other things and take on other challenges. That's my main motivation.

Holly Madison

#11. Once I decide to take on a role it's because I find that guy to be really interesting to watch and very compelling to play. And from that point on I can no longer judge him. I can only take on his point of view in order to play him effectively. And his point of view is often not mine.

Ronald Perelman

#12. Change requires individuals who recognize that new things can be done and who take the initiative to get them done ... The existing bureaucracies, public and private, will not take on the job of changing what is.

Lester Thurow

#13. Most people have an aversion to risk, my college economics professor told me. Which means they have to be rewarded to take on that risk. The higher the risk, the higher the possible payout has to be for people to jump.

Michael Arrington

#14. Tomorrow, I will take on all of these things. I will be unstoppable.

Marie Lu

#15. There would not be enough talent that's educated, developed and ready to take on the next leadership challenge, and it would cap our growth. Now we've put programs in place not to have that happen, but that could be a weakness.

Kevin Rollins

#16. Any place that manufactures humans into weapons is going to piss off a couple members of X-Force. I always want a personal reason for why these characters take on these missions,

Rick Remender

#17. I am really excited about Battle of the Stars, the line-up looks fantastic. I've no doubt that despite their fame my hand holding will still be in high demand as they take on the judges often harsh words. Lets just hope I'm not having to mop up too many tears!

Kate Thornton

#18. For me to be able to punch above my weight creatively, to actually take a stand for what I was doing, I had to take on everything. I had to be the person who says, 'I wrote it. I directed it.'

Jill Soloway

#19. It is a curious fact that personal possessions take on fictitious values and exceptional charms when the owner, no matter how generous, is faced with giving them away or even selling them (which usually amounts to the same thing).

Marjorie Hillis

#20. The Christian take on Hellfire seems less dramatic than the Muslim vision, which I grew up with, but Christian magical thinking appeals to me no more than my mother's angels and djinns.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#21. France will take on a militant tone, leaving its beautiful cultural tower to chase power after all these years.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#22. When you grow up in a city like Boston, where I grew up, a lot of kids became criminals or cops. I never really had a bad take on cops other than I hate when there's one behind me on the highway.

Donnie Wahlberg

#23. I think that shows a level of maturity and understanding that I think bodes well for getting to the bottom of this. But it is really up to you and your staff, on behalf of the American people, to take on that challenge.

David Kay

#24. Treat life as a suicide mission, take on the impossible jobs and attack with the gusto of someone who has nothing to lose ... and when you revel in victory, make like it's a dirty win

Josh Stern

#25. Governments must take on the central role of creating an investment climate across Africa that supports enterprise and the role of the private sector and provides a clear and predictable economic policy framework for business to succeed.

Jeroen Van Der Veer

#26. Furniture manufacturing in plastics requires very costly machinery, which the Danish market is not big enough to justify. Or so they say. But show me a plastics manufacturer who dares to take on the experiment.

Arne Jacobsen

#27. In the fourth quadrant (lower right), working-class people are motivated to take on green-collar jobs and start green businesses.

Van Jones

#28. There are so many funny people and so many talented people, but the one thing nobody else has is my take on the world. So, when I'm developing my show, that's going to be the focus.

Ross Mathews

#29. When you accept a leadership role, you take on extra responsibility for your actions toward others.

Kelley Armstrong

#30. It is inconceivable that even the gang who runs Russia would be willing to take on war, but one always has to remember that there seemed to be no reason in 1939 for Hitler to start war, and yet he did, and he started it with a world practically unprepared.

James Forrestal

#31. I take on a philosophical and postmodernist approach to the art-making process, investigating problems on a personal and intuitive level. This process is what fuels my mind and informs me, raises new questions, and gives my work resonance.

Michael Bell

#32. I've seen Joe take on many battles, cancer being one of them, and the determination that he has, and he won't stop, he's not going to make one announcement and write one editorial and go away.

Joe Eszterhas

#33. If you're with me, I think I could take on anything. - Ace Locke

Ella Frank

#34. A man cannot take on new burdens of debt at every turn or he will buckle beneath the weight and be unable to move.

Mark Lawrence

#35. I know for some girls, tight clothes make them feel like they can take on the world-and that's fine too. But I don't think that sexy only means showing skin: It's all about wearing whatever makes you feel the most badass.

Holland Roden

#36. People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don't have their own song.

Neil Gaiman

#37. You'll never reach the top (you won't even get out of the basement) if all you ever do is take on the role of victim. Forget about blaming other people for your failures and shortcomings.

Joe Girard

#38. No new projects at the moment. There are restrictions to how much I can take on. And I need to finish those that I am committed to do before thinking ahead. But I'd rather they take final shape before we talk of them.

Amitabh Bachchan

#39. Everything in the universe has life and you must always try to sty in contact with that life. It understands your language and the world will begin to take on a different meaning for you.

Paulo Coelho

#40. One of the strategies for doing first-person is to make the narrator very knowing, so that the reader is with somebody who has a take on everything they observe.

Rachel Kushner

#41. It was a very bizarre experience for me, to get the songs together, go in there, and try to deliver them as I would perhaps in a live setting. But I realized that I couldn't take on that coffeehouse style that I came from and go in there and burn it up.

Jason Mraz

#42. The goal is to have every character take on a life of his or her own. Sometimes characters will come into the story that I haven't planned.

Francine Rivers

#43. I get clarity through quiet time, reflection, reading, and meditation. Finding the space between thoughts gives me the energy to take on new challenges with enthusiasm.

Jaime Murray

#44. I've just written a very gritty, non-magical take on the King Arthur legend, 'Here Lies Arthur,' and I'm currently toying with some other historical ideas, as well as working with the illustrator David Wyatt on some sequels to my Victorian space opera 'Larklight.'

Philip Reeve

#45. I didn't want to become a reserve player, or a bench player, and it was time to move on and take on another challenge.

Julius Erving

#46. Your mind will take on the character of your most frequent thoughts: souls are dyed by thoughts.

Marcus Aurelius

#47. That's when I tossed a coin. If it came up heads, I'd take on Sakamochi and...

If the coin came up tails, I decided I'd take part in the game.

Koushun Takami

#48. When you take on more than the norm, your boss can't help but think that you're capable of a bigger role. This includes showing that you're willing to take risks by making innovative suggestions.

Travis Bradberry

#49. You can be sad for others but you don't have to take on their pain.

Leonard Jacobson

#50. What is important to me as an actor is that, even if I have to spread my arms, take my shirt off on a mountain top with my heroine in a chiffon sari, it still has to be me and my twist or my funny take on it.

Vir Das

#51. Chet Faker's a reference to the late Chet Baker. I'm a big fan of his vocal style; it's quite fragile and soft, and that was a style I wanted to take on.

Chet Faker

#52. In this way Byron's take on the human condition becomes closer to the fractured collage of 20th century existentialists: a conflicted human nature posited within a harsh and painful environment where self-less compassion is essential to human progress, but is rewarded with torture and suffering.

George Gordon Byron

#53. There's no particular role that comes to mind that I'd like to take on, but for me, it's about playing interesting characters and not just two-dimensional ones.

Michelle Dockery

#54. I'm from a rural town outside of Stockholm, so in coming to L.A., I've been able to not think that much about my background. It's much easier for me in this big town, this big bubble to isolate myself from that and be a little more self-confident. I'm here to do my take on soul.

Erik Hassle

#55. I've always been the goofy kid. Growing up, I always enjoyed the comedic aspect of relating to women. Even on camera, it was always the funny take on it.

Will Smith

#56. I made the decision to quit show business. Give up the skintight dresses and manicured smiles. The false concern over sentimental lyrics. I would never again work to make people smile inanely and would take on the responsibility of making them think.

Maya Angelou

#57. I think NASCAR's coming to Canada now so it'll take on a whole new relevance. Be afraid.

Samantha Bee

#58. Who, I ask you, can take, dare take, on himself the rights, the duties, the responsibilities of another human soul?

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#59. I will obviously take on board everything from my past, I always do.

Robin Trower

#60. The human being that I strive to be is a great human being, like a loving human being, but as an actor, you take on roles that are not you and that's the fun part for me as far as acting goes. You really get to learn about other human beings and not judge.

Common

#61. And I gave Malfoy a black eye, and Neville tried to take on Crabbe and Goyle single-handed! He's still out cold but Madam Pomfrey says he'll be all right - talk about showing Slytherin!

J.K. Rowling

#62. The good man's past begins to change so that his forgiven sins and remembered sorrows take on the quality of Heaven.

C.S. Lewis

#63. Someone now has to step up and take on the mantelpiece

Rio Ferdinand

#64. Everybody, doesn't matter who you are, escapes time. And for me, nothing is stranger than the thought that kids are just kids. Nobody is just anything. Whether you are eight or eighty, you've got your own unique take on how weird this world is.

Peter Orner

#65. You've got to do what's right, or what you think is right. And you've got to make tough decisions. And you've got to be willing to take on your friends when you disagree with them.

Antonio Villaraigosa

#66. I suppose I could be accused of taking acting too seriously and losing the fun of it. I do take my work very seriously; I take on the responsibility of it.

David Suchet

#67. In my clinical experience, the greatest block to a person's development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers.

Rollo May

#68. When you take on a role, even if the character is somebody that you are dissimilar to, you have to identify with the role and look for an emotional connection even if there is not a biographical one.

Jesse Eisenberg

#69. I think any actor hopes to have variety and range in what they do. Everybody has a certain range, so you take on roles to expand that the best you can ... See things a little differently and whatnot.

Warren Christie

#70. Theatre, in which actors take on changing roles, has among its many functions the examination of identity. For the individual, theatre is a kind of identity laboratory in which social roles can be examined vicariously.

Richard Hornby

#71. I'm glad to take on the role of a domestic because many of your black leaders, your educators, your professionals came from domestic parents who made sacrifices to see that their children didn't go through what they did.

Esther Rolle

#72. When conventional tactics are altered unexpectedly according to the situation, they take on the element of surprise and increase in strategic value .

Sun Bin

#73. Maybe I was cast into a different role (in Montreal) and it seemed to follow me around wherever I went, ... Everyone is skeptical until you produce. It's up to me from this point forward. I'm going to get an opportunity to maybe take on a bigger role leadership-wise and offensively.

Darcy Tucker

#74. I think phone cases will always be novelties, but there's always so many interesting phone cases I like phone cases and I think the sillier the better - but this is a cool take on it.

Skrillex

#75. Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the difference between these driving times and the calm, slow moving days when we were young.

Rebecca Harding Davis

#76. What does the name Virgin mean? We are a company that likes to take on the giants. In too many businesses, these giants have had things their own way. We are going to have fun competing with them.

Richard Branson

#77. I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realise that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.

Maeve Binchy

#78. An important step in getting to know God is to realize how available he is to us. In learning to hear God, it helps us to take on faith the fact that we are already in his presence. If we must make ourselves worthy of his presence first, we will never get there.

Craig S. Keener

#79. I like myself. I think I'm cool. But I think when you're in a band you take on a role within the band, and I think people over the course of years can identify those roles as almost being bigger than just the individual. I don't know. It's kind of hard to talk about.

Stone Gossard

#80. I think I would not be described as a character actor in that I don't take on characteristics which are very alien to me.

Jeremy Irons

#81. All you could do was take on as much weight as you can bear. And if you're lucky, there's someone close enough by to shoulder the rest.

Sarah Dessen

#82. I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take on life is a little different from the bard's.

Jack Prelutsky

#83. When you go to auditions, pretend you already have the job and you're just presenting - almost like you're at the table read. Don't go in with an air of, 'Please like me,' or, 'Please hire me.' You're like, 'Here's my take on it. Take it or leave it. I've got a lot of other things to do today.'

Mary Lynn Rajskub

#84. Being Jewish is a big part of my artistic sensibility and my humor ... I think it gives me a certain take on the world on a literary level.

Adam Mansbach

#85. I will do my best to transform our trade policy and take on these corporations who want to invest in low-income countries around the world rather than in the United States of America.

Bernie Sanders

#86. You become like what you worship. When you gaze in awe, admiration, and wonder at something or someone, you begin to take on something of the character of the object of your worship.

N. T. Wright

#87. I don't just buy a dress because it's pretty - it has to be evocative of a mood, a character I want to take on.

Liz Goldwyn

#88. I've longed for kids since I was very, very young. And so ... I'm waiting to find the right person, someone who's willing to take on the job.

Prince Harry

#89. Any self-help program that discourages me from thinking for myself, that is, from tweaking what I've learned to understand myself is suspect. Growth is all about thinking creatively, and I can't very well do that if I take on the role of parrot.

Dannye Williamsen

#90. When you take on a role you try to do as much as possible beforehand to get your mind into it. Just to prepare because it's a daunting prospect to go six months or whatever.

Jesse Eisenberg

#91. The judiciary must not take on the coloration of whatever may be popular at the moment. We are guardian of rights, and we have to tell people things they often do not like to hear.

Rose Bird

#92. What we can do now is contribute to a clearer understanding of what happened that day on Everest in the hope that the lessons to be learned will reduce the risk for others who, like us, take on the challenge of the mountains.

Anatoli Boukreev

#93. Working with somebody who has a more interesting life than I do - and getting to take on that life temporarily - is an endlessly interesting way to have the experience of writing memoir.

Hilary Liftin

#94. And you know, when you take on something like this, you read a book like this, you know that it's going to be an adventure. That's part of what draws you to it.

Lawrence Kasdan

#95. I think poetry has started to take on a supplementary role of prayer for some people. The churches, I think, including my own, are terrible at teaching people how to pray. It may be that we need to learn from the ground up as religious people, whether Christian or not, how to pray.

Kevin Hart

#96. It does not matter what position you take on the Left, you are safe and secure. But that is not at all the case for positions that the Right take on. You are not safe and secure, so you travel with bodyguards

Dennis Prager

#97. She hadn't realized how much she'd needed a dream, but it had transformed her, changed her from poor motherless and abandoned Tully to a girl poised to take on the world. The goal made her life story unimportant, gave her something to reach for, to hang on to

Kristin Hannah

#98. I do think that what's wonderful in life is that we gain perspective as we take on different roles that are mind and heart opening.

Uma Thurman

#99. Well, on a personal level, I would never want to take on a character who didn't have some redeemable qualities. Even the worst of people, such as Michael Scott in The Office [Carell's character in the US version of the Ricky Gervais sitcom], have some decent human qualities that you can latch onto.

Steve Carell

#100. Every time you do a take on a movie, you're not sure if it's going to succeed. Even if you have a great cast, like we had, every scene you're kind of waiting for the release. 'Oh, yes; it happened. We got it!' There's always the possibility that it's just not going to work.

Wes Anderson