Know How Quotes - Page 25

• The fact is, when I wrote 'Juno' - and I think this is part of its charm and appeal - I didn't know how to write a movie. And I also had no idea it was going to get made!

  Diablo Cody

  Movie, Writing, Thinking

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• New York, which is founded on forward motion and thus loath to acknowledge its dead, merely causes them to walk, endlessly unsatisfied and unburied, to invade the precincts of supposed progress, to lay chill hands on the heedless present, which does not know how to identify the forces that tug at its rationality.

  Luc Sante

  New York, Hands, Progress

  Luc Sante (2016). “Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York”, p.10, Macmillan

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• Beauty comes, we scarce know how, as an emanation from sources deeper than itself.

  John Campbell Shairp

  Source, Deeper, Knows

  John Campbell Shairp (1872). “Studies in Poetry and Philosophy”, p.333

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• To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Greatness, Men, Fortune

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• Great names abase, instead of elevating, those who do not know how to bear them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Names, Bears, Knows

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• At bottom, no real object is unpoetical, if the poet knows how to use it properly.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Real, Use, Poet

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.256, Ravenio Books

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• Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup. The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.

  Robert Fulghum

  Roots, Growth, Styrofoam

  Gail Feinstein Forman, Robert Fulghum (1994). “It All Started in Kindergarten: Unforgettable Stories for Listening and Conversation”, Prentice Hall

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• How the hell do I know why there were Nazis? I don't know how the can-opener works.

  Woody Allen

  Understanding, Hell, Nazi

  "Hannah and Her Sisters". www.imdb.com. 1986.

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• I know how to handle women who act like ladies, but my landlady ain't no lady. Sometimes I even wish I was living with my wife again so I could have my own place and not have no landladies.

  Langston Hughes

  Women, Wife, Wish

  Langston Hughes, Donna Sullivan Harper (2002). “The Early Simple Stories”, p.24, University of Missouri Press

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• I was brought up to be a gentleman. That means you know how to walk, talk and dress the part.

  Brian McKnight

  Mean, Gentleman, Dresses

  "Celebrity Collector: Brian McKnight". Interview with Reyne Haines, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 29, 2013.

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• One has to trust that God knows how to manage the world.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  God, World, Knows

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• I'm not a prophet or a teacher, I just ask questions. I don't think a writer should be a teacher, but should know how to pose the questions and explain the problems.

  Vladimir Sorokin

  Teacher, Thinking, Problem

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• The world knows how to straighten out a spoiled child but never makes it up to a child deprived.

  Robert Breault

  Children, Childhood, World

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• The difference between education and know-how is that one you pay for, the other you charge for.

  Robert Breault

  Differences, Experience, Pay

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• The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.

  Cato the Younger

  Silence, Tongue, Quiet

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• I do see that the world that we live in is collapsing to a certain extent, and civilization as we know it is caving in on itself. I believe that we are at a very low level of consciousness, and we do not know how to treat each other as human beings. We are caught up in our own lives, our own needs, our own ego gratification. I feel a strong sense of responsibility in delivering that message.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Strong, Believe, Responsibility

  "Madonna to Anderson Cooper: Shedding a new ray of light on art and life". Interview with Anderson Cooper, www.cnn.com. October 3, 2013.

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• I think of myself as a writer with a sense of humour rather than a comedy writer. Happy to tell a story with lots of jokes in it - I wouldn't know how to do jokes without the story.

  Steven Moffat

  Thinking, Stories, Comedy

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• Because as a father of three kids, I know how important good seeds are for providing healthy food for my family.

  Sam Roberts

  Father, Kids, Healthy

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• If you really love something, you have to know how to let go.

  Kim Tae-yeon

  Letting Go, Knows, Ifs

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• You can't make everybody love what you do, but you can know how great you feel doing it.

  Michael Bolton

  Feels, Knows

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• If you don't know how to serve men, why worry about serving the gods?

  Confucius

  Men, Worry, Confucianism

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• To be fond of learning is to draw close to wisdom. To practice with vigor is to draw close to benevolence. To know the sense of shame is to draw close to courage. He who knows these three things knows how to cultivate his own character. Knowing how to cultivate his own character, he knows how to govern other men. Knowing how to govern other men, he knows how to govern the world, its states, and its families.

  Confucius

  Character, Men, Practice

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• By the time an actor knows how to act any sort of part he is often too old to act any but a few.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Actors, Knows

  W. Somerset Maugham (2010). “The Summing Up”, p.106, Random House

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• He can best avoid a snare who knows how to set one.

  Publilius Syrus

  Snares, Knows

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• One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take.

  Havelock Ellis

  Giving, Worthy, Knows

  Havelock Ellis (2013). “On Life and Sex: Essays of Love & Virtue”, p.12, Elsevier

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