Know How Quotes - Page 4

• Well, we're all a little hostile every now and then, some of us are able to sublimate, others of us can't adjust. You know how it is.

  Stan Freberg

  Littles, Able, Now And Then

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• The people who really rule the world are those who know how to pray.

  Derek Prince

  People, World, Praying

  Derek Prince (2009). “Secrets of a Prayer Warrior”, p.55, Chosen Books

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• I'm not a very serious person. You know how they say that clowns are very funny in public and are really sad at home? I'm really kind of stupid at home and more serious in public.

  Roland Joffe

  Stupid, Home, Serious Person

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• If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud!

  William Strunk, Jr.

  Pronunciation, Loud, Knows

  William Strunk Jr., E.B. White (1962). “the Elements of Style”

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• If we're not able to be alone, we're going to be more lonely. And if we don't teach our children to be alone, they're only going to know how to be lonely.

  Sherry Turkle

  Lonely, Children, Motivation

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• Everything is out there if you know how to find it, and have the patience. I don't and haven't, but that's my problem

  Tom Holt

  Patience, Problem, Havens

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• Marseilles isn't a city for tourists. There's nothing to see. Its beauty can't be photographed. It can only be shared. It's a place where you have to take sides, be passionately for or against. Only then can you see what there is to see. And you realize, too late, that you're in the middle of a tragedy. An ancient tragedy in which the hero is death. In Marseilles, even to lose you have to know how to fight.

  Jean-Claude Izzo

  Hero, Fighting, Cities

  Jean-Claude Izzo (2016). “Total Chaos”, p.28, Penguin

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• Destroying species is like tearing pages out of an unread book, written in a language humans hardly know how to read, about the place where they live.

  Holmes Rolston III

  Book, Pages, Stewardship

  Holmes Rolston III (2012). “A New Environmental Ethics: The Next Millennium for Life on Earth”, p.131, Routledge

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• Microorganisms will give you anything you want if you know how to ask them.

  Kinichiro Sakaguchi

  Giving, Want, Microorganisms

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• Ultimately, I wanted to own a big truck, exercise my second Amendment rights, listen to hardcore music, and let my congressman know how poorly he represents me. None of this could occur in France.

  Mark Twight

  Exercise, Rights, Second Amendment

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• 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 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I am convinced that unconditional love is the most powerful known stimulant of the immune system. If I told patients to raise their blood levels of immune globulins or killer T cells, no one would know how. But if I can teach them to love themselves and others fully, the same changes happen automatically. The truth is: love heals.

  Bernie Siegel

  Love, Change, Truth

  "Love, Medicine & Miracles". Book by Bernie Siegel, 1984.

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• Know how blessed you are to be able to work this hard!

  Chalene Johnson

  Blessed, Able, Knows

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• It's interesting to wake up at 3 in the morning by someone saying they're a reporter and they want to know how you feel. I felt fine, but I said, 'Well, why do you ask?'

  Saul Perlmutter

  Morning, Interesting, Wake Up

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• I want to show to those who deprive people the right to love of country, that when we know how to sacrifice ourselves for our duties and convictions, death does not matter if one dies for those one loves – for his country and for others dear to him.

  Jose Rizal

  Country, Sacrifice, People

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