It takes time for an acorn to turn into an oak, but the oak is already implied in the acorn.

Jail was a result of me not taking time for myself. So I was forced to take some time for myself.

I tend not to analyse my work, though I'm frequently intrigued when other people take time to do so.

I'm going to continue writing. I'll always be a storyteller. But I'm also taking time to enjoy my life.

It's not difficult to sing in German; it's difficult to feel in German. This takes time. It's a culture.

Some people seem to understand this - that life and change take time - but I am not one of those people.

You've got to be an observer. And you've got to take time to listen to people, talk, to watch what they do.

Take time to be still, in a hallowed place in nature, and you'll discover that you are connected to everything.

We get paid for bringing value to the marketplace. It takes time,... but we get paid for the value, not the time.

It's a lot easier, she realized, to be on the verge of something than to actually be it. This would still take time.

You just get injured more often. You take time off, you come back, you get injured again and you never get in shape.

We're both thieves, Harvey Swick. I take time. You take lives. But in the end we're the same: both Thieves of Always.

Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don't have.

As artists, it's really important to take time to see what other art is happening and to know what's happening in the world.

Isn't it amazing that the God who is in total control of this universe will take time out of His day to hear us pray to Him?

I perceive my limitations even as I work. There are times when I see nothing but restrictions, barriers. Learning takes time.

I'm doing something now where I'm going to have to learn so much and that takes time nurturing, those kinds of relationships.

Take time to get to know people. Understand where they are coming from, what is important to them. Make sure they are with you.

Life is incredibly short, yet we're always told that change takes time. For a race of mortals, dicking around just isn't acceptable.

I think we can build democracy in Pakistan. But it will take time. And it will be a Pakistani democracy. Not one that's imposed by...someone else.

The declaration of love may come sooner than expected. Take time before you reciprocate as this may simply be a statement of what they expect from you.

Pace yourself, pace yourself, pace yourself. And take time to rest. I guess if you don't rest and rejuvenate, then you harden, and I don't want to harden.

Eventually the writing takes time. What I want to do is get the story down and I want to know what happens as I write my way into the knowledge of the story.

Not all meanings are meant to be clear at once. Some ideas take time. Some words are designed to lead us on inner journeys, with truth hidden deep inside them.

Being a professional cricketer, you have to adapt to the conditions quickly. It takes time to get rhythm when you are constantly traveling from one country to another.

For me, self-care is a lesson I'm still learning. But it begins with space away from the heaviness of life. I now take time to play, laugh, and, every once in awhile, sleep.

I had this attitude that it was going to take time for my work to grow. I had to develop skills to do what I wanted and I didn't really expect it was going to happen rapidly.

People will have an altered idea of who you are unless they really take time to get to know you, which of course they don't. They just get what they see, and they take that to the bank.

Sometimes I think of that and I'm like, "Simone, I don't know what else you can do. What more can you do? Maybe you can repeat yourself." I'll take time off, get out more, go outside more, vacation.

I think true originality is perpetual. It's always rolling along. True originality is not like this award or trophy you get if you do something weird. It's with you if you have it, and it's still rolling along somewhere, you just gotta go find it. It takes time to reach that point, and understand true originality... I think we all can find it.

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