Top 1200 Know-How Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

We can fly, you know. We just don't know how to think the right thoughts and levitate ourselves off the ground.

How can you know what is missing if you’ve never met it? You must know of something’s existence before you can notice its absence.

I don't think that you can write music if you don't know how to play an instrument. You have to know the basics, then you can go forward.

All I know how to do is take what's on my mind and spit it out funny. I don't know what else I could do besides comedy.

Sometimes we don't know how afraid we are until we've reached a strange door and we don't know what will be on the other side.

I would be writing and trying to write like Joan Didion. Or if I was reading Raymond Carver. You know, strong stylists. But that's how you find your voice, is imitating other people. So things like that didn't embarrass me, because I thought, well, that's how it goes. That's how everyone learns.

We know that when law-abiding citizens who know how to utilize a firearm have one on their person, it helps prevent crime.

I do think we're on the edge of a terrifying world, and that many young people know that but don't know how to talk about it.

I just didn't know how much of this I was capable of. How far this - whatever it was - would actually go before old fears overshadowed the warmth.

In this business, it's important to constantly do things that you don't know how to do. I love touring and making records, but I've learned how to do that, so sometimes you just have to dive in and try it.

Like when you go to a magic show and you know how they do the illusions. That's how I am when I watch any movies where they have people flying through the air.

It helps to know how to lose. You know it is not the end of the world, and you pick yourself up and move ahead.

Part of living is understanding where the fringes are. Once you know how far people go, you can say, "Well, here's how I choose to represent myself."

How much the making of a garden, no matter how small, adds to the joy of living, only those who practice the arts and the science can know.

If you look at history, at the first time hip-hop was invented, there was a Latino right there. How they got erased, I don't know how that all came about.

We know that when law abiding citizens who know how to utilize a firearm have one on their person, it helps prevent crime.

There are times when you see how ridiculous is this life, how ludicrous it is, you know, leaving your house every morning and being followed by paparazzi.

What you wear can be such an indicator of so many things. You know, how you feel, how you want others to perceive you. So, that is an absolutely essential part of building a character.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that the way to solve this problem is for the white man to give us some territory of our own. And then our people - we have technical know-how, we have agricultural know-how. We have been working for the white man in his business. In every phase of his government we work.

I know what it's like to be dependent on the government for food and housing, and what doctor you are going to see, and I know how limiting it can be.

How did you know Cassandra was the mother? (Wulf) I know lots of things when I apply myself. (Acheron)

I guess early on in my Christian walk, you know, people said to me, "Never question God" you know? But actually I just found Him to be such a good Father. He's such a good Father and He spoke to me in amazing ways that I'm sure I never would have learned some of these things on mountaintops, you know? I thought I knew how much he loved me, but then one day He asked me "What do you believe?" And I'm like, "I believe this and this and this and this" you know. I was a very good Christian in all my answers, and then he said, "No, no, what do you believe, Daughter, about how much I love you?"

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

As you get older and you realize you really don't know as much as you think you know, you listen more. Because then you think, now I need to be more receptive to the things I don't know. That's how you learn.

The [best] coaches... know that the job is to win... know that they must be decisive, that they must phase people through their organizations, and at the same time they are sensitive to the feelings, loyalties, and emotions that people have toward one another. If you don't have these feelings, I do not know how you can lead anyone. I have spent many sleepless nights trying to figure out how I was going to phase out certain players for whom I had strong feelings, but that was my job. I wasn't hired to do anything but win.

I've been double-teamed my whole life. I know when a double team's coming. I know what side the guy's coming from. I know how to dribble out of it.

I won't claim that I know it all, but I do know how much money is involved in making a Kannada movie. I've done my homework.

How much there is in books that one does not want to know, that it would be a mere weariness and burden to the spirit to know.

When you have to do small talk, you know, 'Hello, how are you?' after that, I don't know what to do. I go, 'OK, then,' and walk away.

How do you open up? I didn't know how to.

If somebody says they don't watch the leaderboard, I don't buy that, I'm sorry. Because you've got to know where you are to know how to play.

Everything we "know" from above [heaven], we know from down here [earth]. How can you take something like that seriously?

There are probably brilliant people, geniuses, alive today who don't even know how to say, "Hello, how do you do?" because their minds are absorbed with electronic images.

We have to grasp not only the Know-How but also 'Know Why', if we want to master the Toyota Production System.

You do a film and you know where you're going, you have this material to stretch and play with as much as possible because you know how it ends.

I doubt if these two fine, active minds [President and Mrs. Roosevelt] have ever inquiried how it is they know what they know and think as they do. Nor have they ever thought of what they might have been if they had grown up in an entirely different culture. They have the disposition of all politicians world over to deal only with made opinion. They have never inquired how it is that opinion is made.

Those who know the joys and miseries of celebrities when they have passed the age of forty know how to defend themselves.

Bad directors will tell you they absolutely know how to do it, and how it has to happen; there's this insecurity that leads them to feeling like they have to control everything.

Thou shall know by experience how salt the savor is of others' bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's stairs.

People keep telling us about their love affairs, when what we really want to know is how much money they make and how they manage on it.

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?

You know that Estonia, based largely on how successful Skype was, built by Estonian developers, that was a tenth of the entire country's GDP when eBay bought it. That was like a decade ago, it was f****** Estonia, they were behind the Iron Curtain two decades earlier. They're now pushing for K-12 education in computer science in public schools. They've gotten the message. They know how much value that can bring.

You know, it was only by traveling that I started to mature and to make my own choices, learn how to deal with people and understand how the industry works.

Everyone today is like, 'Shailene, you're getting so much buzz. How does the feel?' It's the most odd question because it's like asking a kid who got into Cornell how it feels to be the top of your class at one of the Ivy League schools. How do you answer that? You just go, 'I don't know.

Everyone today is like, 'Shailene, you're getting so much buzz. How does the feel?' It's the most odd question because it's like asking a kid who got into Cornell how it feels to be the top of your class at one of the Ivy League schools. How do you answer that? You just go, 'I don't know.'

The culture of the United States has flooded the world. It's the inevitable result of a powerful culture, art. We've got an instinctive touch when it comes to the popular mind because we've had no aristocracy. It is a democratic country. And we know without knowing it, without bothering to understand it, how to reach ordinary people, sometimes with the most vulgar, worthless junk on the face of the earth, but we know how to do it [laughter].

We know that someone who has channeled his anger into something constructive has not had a cow. How do we know these things?

There are many ways of performing the operations successfully. I can claim, however, to be in a position to explain how not to putt. I think I know as well as anybody how not to do it.

I would not know how to advise a man how to write. It is a matter of talent and interest. I believe he must be strongly moved if he is to become a writer.

If you know how to get fun out of the so-called discomforts, then you should know you are on the right lines.

the new women in politics seem to be saying that we already know how to lose, thank you very much. Now we want to learn how to win.

Some people don't know how to fall in love, like not knowing how to swim. They panic first when they jump in. Then they figure it out.

Manic depression's touching my soul. I know what I want, but I just don't know how to go about getting it.

You will only succeed if you know that what you are doing is right and you know how to bring out the best in people.

I don't know how, at an age when you're trying to put your identity together, how you cope with the pressure of a performance space, which is what social media is.

I like to make movies in Texas because that's where I learned how to do it. I know the industry there, I know the people, I know the crews. But it's hard to make films in Texas.

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

How are we doing in the electronics field as opposed to, you know, we hear how advanced the Japanese are? Do you think we're still pretty competitive? Oh, yes.

I don't know any jazz stuff. I don't know how to jam in that way. So jamming, for me, is writing a tune.

'The Madison' we three weeks rehearsed in a nightclub. Brasseur and Frey didn't know how to dance. A choreographer had to teach us how to do the steps.