“We may be losing the ability to understand animals who are not pets or horses. We have less contact with them. We don't (most of us) tend to know even cows and pigs, let alone bears or wolverines or red tailed hawks.” KnowsMayAbilityAnimalBearsLosingRedHorseContactPetCowsPigsHawks Author:Marge Piercy
“The ability to name poetry's gestures and rhetorics isn't required to write or read them, any more than a painter needs to know the physics of color to bring forward a landscape. The eye and hand and ear know what they need to know. Some of us want to know more, because knowing pleases.” KnowsWantNeedsWritingHandsEyeNamesAbilityKnowingColorPleaseEarsPhysicsPainterLandscapeGesturesRhetoric Author:Jane Hirshfield
“He believed in the primacy of doubt, not as a blemish upon our ability to know, but as the essence of knowing.” KnowsAbilityKnowingDoubtEssencePrimacy Book:Genius: the life and science of Richard Feynman Source: Genius: the life and science of Richard Feynman
“Well, my daddy, he didn't leave me much, you know he was a very simple man, but what he did tell me was this, he did say, son, he said, he say, you know it's possible to become so defiled in this world that your own father and mother will abandon you and if that happens, God will always believe in your ability to mend your ways.” IfsKnowsMenWorldWayBelieveWellsSaidHappensMotherFatherSimpleAbilityThis WorldSonGods WillAbandonBelieve In YouDaddyLeaving MeAlways BelieveSimple Man Author:Bob Dylan
“Maybe sometimes things come to you that you never, in a thousand years, would have included. But they strike a chord, so grab it. Trust your ability to know what's true to it and what would carry you off into outer space.” KnowsYearsSometimesAbilitySpaceThousandStrikesThousand YearsChordsOuter Space Author:Joan Tewkesbury
“You could reduce people's fears if you gave them some useful information before things went wrong. It's really important to create a sense of confidence in the public in their own abilities before a disaster because they're the only ones who are going to be there. No one's going to help you for at least 24 to 72 hours. So it would be good to know more about it.” PeopleIfsKnowsImportantHelpingWould BeHoursAbilityInformationBe GoodDisasterUseful Information Author:Amanda Ripley
“I started to write because of my dream to become a filmmaker. I got to know about a film school in Paris and it was my goal to get there. To do that I knew I had to learn French. In order to practice I started to write journals in French. The effort I made to master what I regarded a bad thing - a language owned by the rich Moroccans - brought me the ability to write.” KnowsWritingMadeDreamSchoolFilmOrderLanguageGoalAbilityEffortPracticeRichMastersParisFilmmakerBad ThingsJournalFilm School Author:Abdellah Taia
“I give you the chameleon, whose ability to blend itself into the background tells you all you need to know about the roots of ecology and the foundations of a personal identity” KnowsNeedsGivingAbilityIdentityRootsFoundationBackgroundsEcologyChameleonPersonal Identity Book:Children of Dune Source: Children of Dune
“Knowledge and productivity are like compound interest. The more you know, the more you learn; the more you learn, the more you can do; the more you can do, the more the opportunity. I don`t want to give you a rate, but it is a very high rate. Given two people with exactly the same ability, the one person who manages day in and day out to get in one more hour of thinking will be tremendously more productive over a lifetime.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantGivingPersonsTwoOpportunityGivenInterestCan DoHoursAbilityLifetimeRateProductivityManageProductiveCompoundsCompound Interest Author:Richard Hamming
“Most people lose money because of lack of emotional discipline -the ability to keep their emotions removed from investment decisions. Dieting provides an apt analogy. Most people have the necessary knowledge to lose weight-that is they know that in order to lose weight you have to exercise and cut your intake of fats. However, despite this widespread knowledge, the vast majority of people who attempt to lose weight are unsuccessful. Why? Because they lack the emotional discipline.” PeopleKnowsOrderLosesAbilityDecisionEmotionCuttingEmotionalDisciplineExerciseWeightMajorityInvestmentFatsDespiteAnalogiesDietingLose WeightUnsuccessful Author:Victor Sperandeo
“Every child has a right to know how to achieve control of his body in order that he may use it to the limit of his ability for the expression of his own reactions to life. Even if he can never carry his efforts far enough to realize dance in its highest forms, he may experience the sheer joy of the rhythmic sense of free, controlled, and expressive movement, and through this know an addition to life to which every human being is entitled.” IfsKnowsHumansMayChildrenEnoughUseBodyFormJoyOrderRealizingHuman BeingsAbilityEffortKnow HowAchieveMovementExpressionLimitsHighestReactionsControlledSheerEntitledExpressiveSheer Joy Author:Margaret H'Doubler
“As far as U.S. intelligence knows, Iran is developing nuclear capacities, but they don't know if they are trying to develop nuclear weapons or not. Chances are they're developing what's called 'nuclear capability,' which many states have. That is the ability to have nuclear weapons if they decide to do it. That's not a crime.” IfsKnowsTryingStatesChanceAbilityCrimeWeaponsCapacityNuclearDevelopingIranCapabilityNuclear WeaponsChances Are Author:Noam Chomsky
“You know, we just buy music now. We don't make it any more. And that goes for just about everything. I think it's so important that people develop and subscribe to and have confidence in their own ability to make music, however rough it is.” PeopleThinkingKnowsImportantAbilityRoughHave Confidence Author:Tom Waits