Taken For Granted

Traveling can never be

Traveling can never be taken for granted, no matter how meticulous the preparations. Eugene Linden

It was when I was on the set of Dead Poets Society.There was actor,his name was Norman Lloyd. One day he took us all aside and said, You guys don’t even understand what a powerful experience you’re having. You don’t really understand what a gift this is. We were going, What does he mean? It … Read more

I do not know

I do not know if the doctrine that the nation-state arose in the 19th century was still being taught:;… but it is erroneous. The nation-state reaches back far into the origins of Europe itself and perhaps beyond. If Europe was not always a Europe of nations, it was always a Europe in which nations existed, … Read more

The surprise of animals…

The surprise of animals… in and out, cats and dogs and a milk goat and chickens and guinea hens, all taken for granted, as if man was intended to live on terms of friendly intercourse with the rest of creation instead of huddling in isolation on the fourteenth floor of an apartment house in a … Read more

All your youth you

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved. Elizabeth Bowen

Blessings taken for granted

Blessings taken for granted are often forgotten. Elisabeth Elliot

There is a mental

There is a mental fear, which provokes others of us to see the images of witches in a neighbor’s yard and stampedes us to burn down this house. And there is a creeping fear of doubt, doubt of what we have been taught, of the validity of so many things we had long since taken … Read more

One very important aspect

One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity. Edward de Bono

The simple process of

The simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity. Edward de Bono

Culture is the deeper

Culture is the deeper level of basic assumptions and beliefs that are shared by members of an organization, that operate unconsciously and define in a basic ‘taken for granted’ fashion an organization’s view of its self and its environment. Edgar Schein