Know How Quotes - Page 3

• Canada could have enjoyed: English government, French culture, and American know-how. Instead it ended up with: English know-how, French government, and American culture.

  John Robert Colombo

  Government, French Culture, Canada

  "Oh Canada" l. 1 (1965)

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• I'm learning how much I have to learn, how little I know, how fragile my understanding is. I'm learning to be thankful and patient; today is all that we will ever have in this life. If we spend our time obsessing with the future or regretting the past then we will never live. Tomorrow will always be tomorrow and yesterday cannot be changed. The wise man seeks God in the now and brings both his regrets and fears before Him. The freedom that we are offered is truly amazing: to live, today, free from even our own fallen desires. This is where I want to be.

  Jon Foreman

  Wise, Regret, Past

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• I want to do #‎ stage again, because there just aren't words for how great it is. People say that all the time, "There's nothing like live theater, blah blah," but it's really true. I see a show and I know how they feel, and it feels great.

  Anna Kendrick

  People, Want, Theater

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. October 7, 2011.

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• The establishment will irritate you - pull your beard, flick your face - to make you fight. Because once they've got you violent, then they know how to handle you. The only thing they don't know how to handle is non-violence and humor.

  John Lennon

  Fighting, Beard, Faces

  YouTube Chanel "Beatlemaniac1960"/ "John Lennon about violence", www.youtube.com. October 8, 2011.

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• I’m a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know. How can we tell the difference between what we would like to be true and what is actually true? The answer is science.

  Michael Shermer

  Believe, Differences, Want

  Michael Shermer (2011). “The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies---How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths”, p.2, Macmillan

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• You can never predict what kind of tough decisions are going to come in front of a President's desk. But if you can trust they will do the right thing, and maybe the hard thing, and maybe not the popular thing, and if you really want to know how a person will operate, look at how they've lived their life.

  Ann Romney

  Decision, President, Looks

  "Romney features wife, touts 'character' in new ad" by Cameron Joseph, thehill.com. December 21, 2011.

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• Everyone knows how to choose; few know how to let go. But it's only by letting go of each experience that you make room for the next. The skill of letting go can be learned, and once learned you will enjoy living much more spontaneously.

  Deepak Chopra

  Letting Go, Skills, Rooms

  Deepak Chopra (2009). “The Book Of Secrets: Who am I? Where did I come from? Why am I here?”, p.89, Random House

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• I'm going to show you all how easy it is to manipulate the human mind once you know how.

  Keith Barry

  Motivation, Inspiration, Mind

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• Let's say you went to Harvard or Oxford or Cambridge, and you said, 'I've come here because I'm in search of morality, guidance and consolation; I want to know how to live,' - they would show you the way to the insane asylum.

  Alain de Botton

  Motivation, Inspiration, Oxford

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• One cup of food a day changes Fabian's life completely. But this morning, about a billion people on Earth - or one out of every seven - woke up and didn't even know how to fill this cup. One out of every seven people.

  Josette Sheeran

  Morning, Motivation, Inspiration

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• In order to be a mentor, and an effective one, one must care. You must care. You don't have to know how many square miles are in Idaho, you don't need to know what is the chemical makeup of chemistry, or of blood or water. Know what you know and care about the person, care about what you know and care about the person you're sharing with.

  Maya Angelou

  Makeup, Blood, Order

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• What the dead don't know piles up, though we don't notice it at first. They don't know how we're getting along without them, of course, dealing with the hours and days that now accrue so quickly, and, unless they divined this somehow in advance, they don't know that we don't want this inexorable onslaught of breakfasts and phone calls and going to the bank, all this stepping along, because we don't want anything extraneous to get in the way of what we feel about them or the ways we want to hold them in mind.

  Roger Angell

  Phones, Mind, Breakfast

  "Over the Wall" by Roger Angell, www.newyorker.com. November 19, 2012.

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• He (Jackie Robinson) knew he had to do well. He knew that the future of blacks in baseball depended on it. The pressure was enormous, overwhelming, and unbearable at times. I don't know how he held up. I know I never could have.

  Duke Snider

  Baseball, Pressure, Unbearable

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• My idea being that for the sublime and the beautiful and the interesting, you do not have to look far away. You have to know how to see.

  Hedda Sterne

  Beautiful, Ideas, Interesting

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• Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That's just hot air.

  Beatrice Wood

  Inspiration, Air, People

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• I'm a great believer that, if you know how to operate in Africa, there are unbelievable opportunities.

  Nicky Oppenheimer

  Opportunity, Unbelievable, Believer

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• The person who doesn't know how to subjugate will all too quickly feel the other's foot on the nape of his neck.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Feet, Necks, Feels

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• You know how to paint pleasure, cruelty, arrogance in glowing colors.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Glowing, Color, Arrogance

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (2015). “Venus in Furs”, p.57, Cosimo Classics

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• Man has gone to the moon but he does not yet know how to make a flame tree or a bird song. Let us keep our dear countries free from irreversible mistakes which would lead us in the future to long for those same birds and trees.

  Felix Houphouet-Boigny

  Country, Song, Mistake

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• Only the closest collaborators of the Fuehrer know how difficult is the burden of this responsibility; how sorrowful are the hours during which decisions must be made which bear upon the well being and the fate of all of Germany

  Hjalmar Schacht

  Responsibility, Fate, Decision

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• In Alaska, the beaches are slumping so much, people are having to move houses. In Tuktoyaktuk, the land is starting to go under water. The glaciers are melting and the permafrost is melting. There are new species of birds and fish and insects showing up. The Arctic is a barometer for the health of the world. If you want to know how healthy the world is, come to the Arctic and feel its pulse.

  Sheila Watt-Cloutier

  Beach, Moving, Alaska

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• Most cornmeal producers dont tell you when their cornmeal was milled, which makes it difficult to know how long the product has been sitting in the store before you bought it.

  Jeremy Jackson

  Long, Sitting, Stores

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• I didn't even know how to shave at 15.

  Paul Azinger

  Knows

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• The people who hate SICP are the ones who just want to know how to drive their car on the highway, just like everyone else.

  Peter Norvig

  Hate, People, Car

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• Like electricity, the Light is everywhere, but one must know how to activate it. I have come for that.

  Mother Meera

  Light, Electricity, Knows

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