#given

You are only as great as the opportunities that are given to you. ↗

— Charlize Theron

#great #only #opportunities #you

I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents! It's an art form. I talk a lot. And I think a lot. And I draw a lot. But never in a million years would I have been a parent. That's just work that's too hard. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#art form #been #being #capable #draw

If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken. ↗

— Idries Shah

#give #given #giving #really #take

I saw clearly how those who saved the state so heroically and courageously in the War of Independence would be capable of bringing a catastrophe upon it if they are given the chance in normal times. ↗

— Moshe Sharett

#capable #catastrophe #chance #clearly #courageously

Talent is a gift that can be given, and it can be taken away. We have to appreciate that. ↗

— Sidney Sheldon

#away #gift #given #taken #talent

That a strong stimulus to such an afferent nerve, exciting most or all of its fibres, should in regard to a given muscle develop inhibition and excitation concurrently is not surprising. ↗

— Charles Scott Sherrington

#develop #exciting #given #inhibition #most

The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, 'Don't spend anything unless you have to.' ↗

— Dinah Shore

#advice #anything #best #ever #father

Almost six years ago, before I was given the incredible opportunity to be in 'Leaving Las Vegas,' I was going through a long period of artistic confusion. I'd spent years doing work that hadn't pushed me enough, and I was beginning to wonder if I had any talent. ↗

— Elisabeth Shue

#almost #any #artistic #before #beginning

He wants to be his own man and be recognized for what he's done. He's not asking for anything because of his name. That was a tough situation to go into at Alabama, but he probably wouldn't have been given the job if the situation would have been different. ↗

— Don Shula

#anything #asking #because #been #different

If you ask someone if they like music, they look at you strangely. It seems to be a universal given. Like asking someone if they like breathing. It is like breathing. Or air, rather. Flowing without and within. A matrix within which our lives are set. The setting for the tableware of our beings. ↗

— Jane Siberry

#ask #asking #beings #breathing #flowing