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Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.

When I am totally race fit, I don't worry about breathing or technique - they take care of themselves.

I take conscious breaks for myself 'cause I like to rejuvenate and get my creative juices flowing. I also like to take my time with my creativity; I think it's important.

A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.

We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

I have three kids. I should know how to take care of them.

I am going to take something I learned over in Israel. Their Independence Day is preceded the 24 hours before with Memorial Day, so it gives them a chance to serve and reflect and then celebrate. I am going to try to start that tradition here in America.

If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.

What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself.

It doesn't take Warren Buffett to realize that when companies don't know what new rules will look like, it affects their ability to commit capital and create new jobs.

Keep a cool head and maintain a low profile. Never take the lead - but aim to do something big.

Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be.

Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company, Flower Films, and producing movies. Now that I'm almost 30, I would like to try other things in lie. I'm crazy about photography, and I want to take an art history class.

A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.

Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised.

Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.

When you take a look at the problems our country is facing, debt is No. 1. The math is downright scary and the credit markets aren't going to keep on giving us cheap rates.

How do you tell troops who volunteered to fight for our freedoms that the country they fought for won't take care of them when they come back? In the time of war our troops and their families are supposed to be our number one priority.

To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men.

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.

I think that if you keep banging at the door all you need is a little foothold, a little tiny foothold, and then the rest will take care of itself.

I'm not trying to take New York by storm. I just want to sneak in there, keep my head down, batten down the hatches and cook.

Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something.

Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.

In those days he was wiser than he is now - he used frequently to take my advice.

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.