“Let us take what the terrain gives.”

— Amos Tversky

Source: A phrase Tversky used increasingly often in the last few years with respect to choosing areas of research. Daniel Kahneman, 2002 Nobel Prize address. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/2002/kahneman/biographical/

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Israeli psychologist 1937–1996

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“Give us what belongs to us in peace, and if you don't give it to us in peace, we will take it by force.”

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“Take what you can use and let the rest go by.”

Ken Kesey book One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

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“[ What one day gives us another takes away from us. ]”

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest

Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“Let us have one creative energy, one incessant revelation. Let it take what form it will, and let us not bind it by the past to man or woman, black or white.”

Margaret Fuller book Woman in the Nineteenth Century

Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845)
Context: What I mean by the Muse is that unimpeded clearness of the intuitive powers, which a perfectly truthful adherence to every admonition of the higher instincts would bring to a finely organized human being. It may appear as prophecy or as poesy. … and should these faculties have free play, I believe they will open new, deeper and purer sources of joyous inspiration than have as yet refreshed the earth.
Let us be wise, and not impede the soul. Let her work as she will. Let us have one creative energy, one incessant revelation. Let it take what form it will, and let us not bind it by the past to man or woman, black or white.