Knack Quotes - Page 5

• The accumulation of facts, even if interesting in themselves, should not constitute the main part of education; these facts, whether they be of classical learning or knick-knacks of history, will be of little use unless the mind has been trained to see them in proper perspective.

  Arthur Lynch

  Education, Interesting, Perspective

  Arthur Lynch (1921). “Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day”

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• You keep thinking that with practice you will eventually get the knack of enjoying superficial encounters, that you will stop looking for the universal solvent, stop grieving. You will learn to compound happiness out of small increments of mindless pleasure.

  Jay McInerney

  Thinking, Grieving, Practice

  Jay McInerney (2011). “Bright Lights, Big City”, p.52, Vintage

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• I'll be the first to admit that we're the 90's version of Cheap Trick or the Knack...

  Kurt Cobain

  Firsts, Tricks, Versions

  Incesticide liner notes, 1992.

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• When I was in college, at Wheaton-I inadvertently got cast in a play, and I had a really great time doing it. I didnt know I had any knack for it, but I really enjoyed myself. It was a complete surprise.

  Catherine Keener

  College, Play, Surprise

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• You will have a growing knack for gravitating toward wilder, wetter, more interesting problems. More and more, you will be drawn to the kind of gain that doesn't requite pain. You'll be so alive and awake that you'll cheerfully push yourself out of your comfort zone in the direction of your personal frontier well before you're forced to do so by divine kicks in the ass.

  Rob Brezsny

  Pain, Blessing, Interesting

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• At UCLA I quickly learned the knack of getting grades, a craven surrender to custom, since grades had little to do with learning.

  Hugh Nibley

  Learning, Ucla, Littles

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• There is a technique, a knack, for thinking, just as there is for doing other things. You are not wholly at the mercy of your thoughts, any more than they are you. They are a machine you can learn to operate.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Learning, Thinking, Technique

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• I sang 'American Pie' a lot in my stage set. It had a knack of uniting an audience in a sing-along. It's a clever song about American history but wrapped in a fantastic tune.

  Johnny Vegas

  Song, Clever, Pie

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• A knick-knack is a thing that sits on top of a whatnot.

  Oliver Hardy

  Knicks

  "Fictional character: Ollie". "Block-Heads", www.imdb.com. 1938.

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• As he demonstrated with 'Juno' and 'Up in the Air,' Reitman has an uncanny knack among contemporary directors for tapping into the zeitgeist in dramatically satisfying ways.

  Lou Lumenick

  Air, Directors, Way

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• Empowerment is constantly challenging oneself with something difficult that tests his power of nerve, knack, skill, aptitude, attitude and wisdom to do things diligently, delightfully but differently.

  Anuj

  Attitude, Skills, Challenges

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• My dad's a scratch golfer and I've got the knack of seeing something and then replicating it. I saw my dad swing a club and I worked out how to do the same thing. My backswing and follow-through have been basically the same since I was two.

  Rory McIlroy

  Dad, Swings, Two

  "McIlroy a Master in the making when he thinks outside The Box". Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. April 6, 2009.

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• If there is some good in me, it is because I was born in the subtle atmosphere of your country of Arezzo. Along with the milk of my nurse I received the knack of handling chisel and hammer, with which I make my figures.

  Michelangelo

  Country, Nurse, Atmosphere

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• Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain-tricks of custom: but of all of these, perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous, by simple repetition, ceases to be miraculous.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Simple, Illusion, Tricks

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “Works”, p.179

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• I took two fiction-writing courses in college and majored in literature. I felt that I had a knack though I wouldn't go so far as to call it a talent. But it scared me. I felt it was a childish thing wanting to write and that I would forget about it eventually.

  Ben Fountain

  Writing, College, Two

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• I used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like precious things on a shelf.

  Ben Whishaw

  Wizards, Littles, Troll

  "Ben Whishaw: Hold the front page" by Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2011.

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• I don't think anyone enjoys raising money, but for some reason I seem to have a knack...

  Louis Susman

  Thinking, Reason, Raising Money

  "Profile: Louis Susman, Obama's pick for ambassador to the UK" by Andrew Clark, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2009.

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• A championship contender in the early twentieth century needed charisma and a knack for cultivating sponsorship, and Rubinstein was the epitome of the shy and unsocial chess player. Now matter how great his chess skills, he lacked the people skills to be a self-promoter and fund-raiser.

  Garry Kasparov

  Success, Player, Self

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• Soberity makes me write dull songs about reorganizing the knick knacks in my house.

  Devin Townsend

  Song, Writing, House

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• Netflix has such a knack for giving a new life to those B-movies that you thought and hoped no one would ever see. Especially when you have a new project coming out and they're looking to mine some of your lesser-known films.

  Spencer Grammer

  Giving, Netflix, New Life

  "Q&A: Spencer Grammer on Being TV's Unlikeliest Sexy Detective". Interview with Matthew Kitchen, www.esquire.com. October 9, 2010.

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• I have a knack of hoping, which is as good as an estate.

  George Eliot

  Anticipation, Estates

  George Eliot (2009). “Daniel Deronda”, p.550, Oxford Paperbacks

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• You wonder how they do it and you look to see the knack You watch the foot in action, or the shoulder or the back, But when you spot the answer where the higher glamours lurk You'll find in moving higher up the laurel covered spire That most of it is practice and the rest of it is work.

  Grantland Rice

  Sports, Moving, Practice

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• A lot is gained through experience, but experience teaches some and not others. Effectiveness and excellence, whether or not they were attained by simply having the knack or through the school of hard knocks, is really what you want to reward.

  Caterina Fake

  School, Effectiveness, Excellence

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• In retrospect, I'm really shocked at how far I put my heart out there on the line with 'Prima Donna'. I seem to have this knack for being able to accomplish that.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Heart, Lines, Retrospect

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• Donald Trump is not going anywhere. And we see as calculated as these are, he has a knack for telling a certain segment of a base what they want.

  Chris Hayes

  Want, Trump, Certain

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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