Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable trusted element in another person's life.

It is curious that with my somewhat antinomian tendencies I should have gone to Trinity Hall - which was and is before all a Law College - and should thus have been thrown into close touch with the legal element in life.

I enjoy the element of pushing yourself learning something new whether it's a dance step a scene an emotion.

My one thing is I continue to be interested and want to be a student. I don't want to be a master. When I'm learning something I'm in my element.

I wanted to get to that aesthetic proposition that comes out of learning the human elements of a world so that those notes and rhythms mean something to you besides just the academic way in which they fall in place.

That was a real learning element for me because I realized that the more true you are to yourself the more you will lose people.

Having photographed the landscape for a number of years and specifically working with trees and in the forest I found without consciously thinking about it that it was a great learning experience for me in terms of organizing elements.

In Britain you do your job. When you do an American TV show there is a sense of being one with the crew and there is a leadership element which was a learning curve for me because it is very different culturally. In Britain you just do it leave and say 'Thanks.'

There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

According to the Jain view soul is that element which knows thinks and feels. It is in fact the divine element in the living being. The Jain thinks that the phenomena of knowledge feeling thinking and willing are conditioned on something and that that something must be as real as anything can be.