Knack Quotes - Page 4

• I'll tell you what makes a great manager: A great manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are. He forces you to have a good opinion of yourself. He lets you know he believes in you.

  Reggie Jackson

  Believe, Thinking, Opinion

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• He has an awareness of what's happening around him on the edge of the box which is better than most players. As a kid he always had a knack of arriving in the penalty area just at the right time, but he's proving just as effective from outside the box because he's using his experience in the right way. It doesn't matter who I am thinking about bringing into my midfield, Paul Scholes will be included, as he would in any side in the world.

  Alex Ferguson

  Kids, Player, Thinking

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• I've sung my whole life. I did a lot of musical theater growing up, I sing in the shower, sing in the car, sing everywhere really, on set at Chuck, all the time. I like it, and I've always felt like I've had a knack for it, or a talent for it, on some level, I don't know.

  Zachary Levi

  Growing Up, Car, Musical

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• Man has the supreme knack of deceiving himself; the Englishman is supremest among men.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Deceiving, Mankind

  Mahatma Gandhi, U. R. Rao (1963). “The Way to Communal Harmony”, Ahmedabad, [India] : Navajivan Publishing House

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• The streets would have chewed me up and spit me out and I knew that, but I found my own ways and different knacks for getting in trouble and being reckless with my life. And I've overcome a lot of personal demons and to be alive is really my greatest achievement.

  Michael K. Williams

  Achievement, Alive, Way

  "Talking With Our Mouths Full: Michael Kenneth Williams". Interview with Mark Anthony Green, www.gq.com. October 4, 2011.

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• You know, I've always said, I've never felt I was a particularly good singer, but I've always thought I had a great knack for picking hit songs.

  Kenny Rogers

  Song, Singers, Said

  "Gay Adoption Controversy in Boston; Interview with Kenny Rogers". "American Morning", edition.cnn.com. March 22, 2006.

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• You can have a knack for dancing, but you still have to practice till your feet are bleeding to be worthy of being in front of an audience.

  Bronson Pinchot

  Practice, Feet, Dancing

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• I love Cate Blanchett. She's extremely classy and has this knack for taking on roles and being very, very strong, but also embedding vulnerability. She has this relatable quality. I like the path she chose.

  Ashley Greene

  Strong, Quality, Roles

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• I always had a pretty good knack for raising hell.

  Brandon Lee

  Hell, Raising Hell

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Depend upon it, sir, it is when you come close to a man in conservation that you discover what his real abilities are; to make a speech in a public assembly is a knack.

  Samuel Johnson

  Real, Men, Speech

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• I always had a knack for putting the peanut butter on the bread. My brother Kevin knew how to spread the jelly around real good. When we found out Joe could cut off the crusts, well, that's when we knew we had something special.

  Nick Jonas

  Brother, Real, Cutting

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• I want no men around me who have not the knack of making friends.

  Frank A. Vanderlip

  Men, Making Friends, Want

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• Alex [Da Kid] does have diversity, not just in what he produces, but what he hears. He has this knack for finding talented people.

  Skylar Grey

  Kids, People, Diversity

  "Skylar Grey on Her New Album, Eminem's Mystique and Why She Almost Quit Music". Interview with Steve Baltin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 9, 2013.

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• A commander should have a profound understanding of human nature, the knack of smoothing out troubles, the power of winning affection while communicating energy, and the capacity for ruthless determination where require by circumstances. He needs to generate an electrifying current, and to keep a cool head in applying it.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Determination, Winning, Should Have

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• I have a discipline that has served me very well in my career and in my personal life... and that's gotten stronger as I've gotten older. I've always felt if I don't just have a natural knack for it, I will just out-discipline the competition if I have to -- work harder than anybody else.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Hard Work, Careers, Discipline

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Happiness isn't about what happens to us - it's about how we perceive what happens to us. It's the knack of finding a positive for every negative, and viewing a setback as a challenge. If we can just stop wishing for what we don't have, and start enjoying what we do have, our lives can be richer; more fulfilled - and happier. The time to be happy is now.

  Lyn Peters

  Happy, Challenges, Wish

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• Highly resilient people are flexible, adapt to new circumstances quickly, and thrive in constant change. Most important, they expect to bounce back and feel confident that they will. They have a knack for creating good luck out of circumstances that many others see as bad luck.

  Al Siebert

  Good Luck, Creating, People

  "The Resiliency Advantage: Master Change, Thrive Under Pressure, and Bounce Back from Setbacks". Book by Al Siebert, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 5, 2005.

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• A detective with his murder mystery, a chemist seeking the structure of a new compound, use little of the formal and logical modes of reasoning. Through a series of intuitions, surmises, fancies, they stumble upon the right explanation, and have a knack of seizing it when it once comes within reach.

  Gilbert N. Lewis

  Murder Mysteries, Intuition, Littles

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• I would feel dead if I didn't have the ability periodically to put my world in order with a poem. I think to be inarticulate is a great suffering, and is especially so to anyone who has a certain knack for poetry.

  Richard Wilbur

  Thinking, Order, Suffering

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• Working on Drive, a lot of fun. This is Tim Minear whom I've worked with before on Firefly of course. He called me up and said I've got a part for you that you will love and I love Tim's writing. I love his stories. I love his characters, his dialogue. He has a knack for reveals and he has a knack for moments.

  Nathan Fillion

  Fun, Writing, Character

  "Nathan Fillion Interview - WAITRESS". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. May 2, 2007.

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• I always had a knack for improvisation. I can write down the notes I play, but never really had a proper academic musical background. I suppose I'm blessed and cursed by the fact I have that freedom.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Blessed, Writing, Play

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• God is the creativity, so if you really want to enter into the world of God you will have to learn the ways of creativity - and that has disappeared. Instead of creativity we value productivity: we talk about how to produce more. Production can give you things but cannot give you values. Production can make you rich outwardly but it will impoverish you inwardly. Production is not creation. Production is very mediocre; any stupid person can do it, one simply needs to learn the knack of it.

  Rajneesh

  Stupid, Creativity, Giving

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• I've always had that knack for staying pretty even keel and the more the situation gets tense the more I see things clearly and I think that's just a knack that I've always had.

  Tiger Woods

  Thinking, Tense, Keel

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• I swear I've never met a man who has your knack for lack of social grace. If you weren't naturally charming, someone would have stabbed you by now.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Men, Grace, Charming

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.61, Penguin

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• If you love math, have a knack for numbers, study hard and become a successful accountant; who cares if you can't draw a straight line or sing on key?

  Nick Carter

  Math, Successful, Keys

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