“When you are stuck in a group of people who merely trade turns at talking about themselves instead of actually conversing, it could be a matter of their not really knowing how to converse as opposed to being too small-minded or excessively Facebooked.” PeopleMatterTurnsTalkingKnowingGroupsTradeStuckConverses Author:Carolyn Hax
“There's something very special about knowing what you want to do and knowing the story you want to tell, but finding it together.” WantStoriesTogetherKnowingSpecialFindingsWhat You WantKnowing What You Want Author:John Ridley
“These people looked Japanese, were originally Japanese, were numerous. We had no way of knowing to what extent they had been infiltrated. To their great credit, it seems not to have been very much at all. But I can understand why. And I rather respect Eleanor for standing out against the tide at that point. But it certainly was a tide. And I'm not going to say it was unjustified.” PeopleWayHas BeensI CanSeemsKnowingStandingCreditTidesStanding OutEleanorUnjustified Author:William A. Rusher
“My grandmother has kept all of his stuff in a drawer. This one notebook was particularly chilling. He's [howard Brookner] writing to his parents knowing he has a death sentence; his movies are how he'll live on.” WritingStuffParentKnowingSentencesGrandmotherMy GrandmotherChillNotebookDrawersDeath Sentence Author:Aaron Brookner
“I've never really had a certain style of music in mind that I make, or am really adamant on how something should sound, but I like the process of not knowing, of just seeing what happens and what comes out.” ShouldMindHappensCertainProcessSoundKnowingSeeingStyleNot KnowingAdamant Author:Courtney Barnett
“Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.” ProblemSuccessLeadershipKnowingPresidential Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“I have a sign on my door. I look at it every single day of the week. The sign says, "Attitude is everything, so pick a good one." You need a very strong internal knowing. For instance, when I sat down to write the book The Power of Intention, I had a very strong internal knowing that I call thinking from the end.” ThinkingNeedsWritingLooksBookEndsStrongAttitudeKnowingDoorsWeekPicksIntentionInstanceSatInternalsVery StrongAttitude Is EverythingDays Of The WeekPower Of Intention Author:Wayne Dyer
“I didn't work hard for success. I worked hard because that's what is in me. I showed up in this world somehow knowing that you have to work hard. You can't just have a thought. You have to follow the thought through.” WorldHardKnowingThis WorldHard Work Author:Wayne Dyer
“When we believe we have all the answers, we are not open to mystery. To begin a mystical journey, you have to start with a sense of wonder, of not knowing where you are going or how you will travel. The initial phase of alchemy is called the nigredo-it's the phase of darkness, when it's "blacker than black." You feel this when you start something new-go off to college, start a new job, travel to a foreign land, or end a relationship that is not working.” FeelsBelieveEndsJobsBlackAnswersWonderDarknessKnowingMysteryJourneyLandCollegeSomething NewWhere You AreNot KnowingPhasesMysticalInitialsAlchemyNew JobSense Of WonderWhere You Are GoingForeign LandsOff To College Author:Mary Pope Osborne
“Sometimes it's difficult because you like some regularity in your life, but never knowing who's gonna pop up at what show, what person you might see that you don't expect to see in that city, what problem you're gonna have that night, even the problems at some of these venues, if you look at them the right way, it's an adventure. You're like a cowboy. That's the best part about being in the music industry. You get your gun and you ride your horse.” IfsWayLooksPersonsSometimesShowsProblemMightNightDifficultCitiesKnowingAdventureIndustryGunHorsePopsRight WayCowboyMusic IndustryVenuesRegularity Author:Colin Munroe
“If some event happens and it seems really important to me and moving to me, I'll write it down in my lyric book knowing that it will come out in a song.” IfsWritingImportantBookSeemsHappensMovingSongKnowingEvents Author:Amy Ray
“The hardest part was knowing that I would have to talk about the album when I released it. I think the hardest part was waiting to see how long it would take for me to be able to get through the questions people would ask me.” PeopleThinkingLongAbleAsksWaitingKnowingAlbumsHardestAsk Me Author:Alejandra Deheza
“The years of the Great Depression were a superb time for economists because people not knowing what could be done or what should be done would always assume that maybe an economist had the answer. If you were just a lawyer in Washington, you were nobody. But if you were an economist, you might have the answer.” PeopleIfsShouldYearsDoneMightAnswersKnowingAssumingLawyerNot KnowingEconomistGreat DepressionSuperb Author:John Kenneth Galbraith
“You feel so happy about that, that you feel loving towards these poor being who are suffering in their separateness, and their alienation Then have the problem of how to help them get free, because just by your knowing that they're essentially free, that doesn't free them. Just by your being blissful, it doesn't release them from their knot of separation and false self absolutization.” FeelsSelfHelpingProblemSufferingPoorKnowingSeparationReleaseAlienationKnotsSeparateness Author:Robert Thurman
“Theorizing is of course essential to make progress in understanding, but theorizing in the absence of knowing available relevant facts is not very productive.” FactsCoursesUnderstandingKnowingProgressEssentialsAvailableAbsenceProductiveRelevant Author:Patricia Churchland
“Knowing about the neurobiological and evolutionary basis for social behavior can soften the arrogance and self-righteousness that often attends discussions of morality. It may help us all to think a little more carefully and rationally.” ThinkingMayLittlesSelfHelpingSocialKnowingMoralityBehaviorBasesDiscussionArroganceRighteousnessSelf RighteousnessSocial Behavior Author:Patricia Churchland
“I've learned that I can only live for myself. I cannot be focused on the world's idea of who they think I am or who I'm supposed to be. I can only be the best me. And if that means that even though I seem eligible and should be in a relationship, maybe I shouldn't be right now, because I am not emotionally available. It's knowing yourself and being more in tune with who you are vs. who the world wants you to be.” IfsThinkingWorldWantShouldMeanI CanIdeasSeemsKnowingRight NowWho You AreAvailableFocusedSupposed To BeI've LearnedBeing The BestTunesKnow Yourself Author:Eva Marcille
“I want to push myself to be brave and out of my comfort zone, but I guess I stay in my comfort zone knowing I have my family close by.” WantKnowingComfortMy FamilyBraveZoneComfort ZoneBe Brave Author:Lissie
“I guess we all feel like underdogs. I remember being a freshman at Brown University and not knowing what a WASP was. We were reading an Edward Albee play, and - it was just a moment of accepting, certainly that I wasn't very worldly, but also that a lot of the plays that I'd been reading, let's say other kinds of family plays, were speaking a foreign language.” FeelsKindPlayMomentsRememberReadingLanguageAcceptingKnowingUniversityBrownNot KnowingWorldlyUnderdogForeign LanguageFreshmanWaspsBrown University Author:Stephen Karam
“Wouldn't that be an amazing super power? Knowing where to press on someone's neck to make them immediately urinate.” KnowingPressesNecksSuper Power Author:Ryan Reynolds
“There are so few surprises left in life. We've gotten so addicted to knowing. It's the Google generation. We want the answer to everything right now!” WantLeftAnswersKnowingGenerationsRight NowSurpriseGoogle Author:Ryan Reynolds
“For a human being, to possess a consciously experienced first-person perspective means to have acquired a very specific functional profile and distinctive level of representational content in one's currently active phenomenal self-model: It has, episodically, become a dynamic inner model of a knowing self.” FirstsHumansMeanPersonsSelfHuman BeingsLevelsKnowingPerspectiveModelsActiveFirst PersonProfilePhenomenalDistinctive Author:Thomas Metzinger
“Some people do want to stand on the rooftop and scream out their story. Others are cowering in the corner, or sitting with a blank face in class, and not knowing how to tell their story.” PeopleWantStoriesFacesClassKnowingSittingCornersScreamNot KnowingBlankRooftops Author:Lauren Myracle
“The shape the words end up taking are themselves the meaning of the words, they are retrospectively what we meant to say. There's no way of knowing this until you register it in visible form. But the other side of this is that you do have some idea of where you are going.” WayIdeasEndsFormSidesKnowingShapesVisibleWhere You AreRegisterWhere You Are Going Author:Teju Cole
“There are a lot of people who go their whole lives without truly knowing what love is, or ever experiencing that.” PeopleWholeLove IsKnowingWhole Life Author:Melanie Martinez
“Alan Rickman was such a terrific actor, and that was such a terrific character that he played. And it was a joy to be with him. We used to laugh together because we ran out of reaction shots. They were always - when everything had been done and the children were finished, they would turn the camera around and we'd have to do various reaction shots of amazement or sadness and things. We used to say we'd got to about number 200-and-something and we'd run out of knowing what to do when the camera came around on us. But he was a joy.” ChildrenDoneCharacterRunningTogetherUsedJoyTurnsActorsNumbersLaughingKnowingSadnessShotsCamerasVariousFinishedReactionsRanTerrificAmazementKnowing What To Do Author:Maggie Smith
“When I first starting making beats, I didn't know samples were being used in any beats. I had no idea where producers were getting the real string sounds or the voices on their tracks. I knew nothing about loops or sampling off of records. So, by me knowing nothing about this it made me concentrate on my chords on the keyboard.” KnowsFirstsMadeIdeasRealUsedSoundVoiceKnowingRecordsBeatsStartingTrackProducersNo IdeaStringsChordsKeyboardsSampleLoopsKnowing NothingSampling Author:Rahki
“I think at the end of the day you can do both: make money and stay true to yourself. But a lot of young people look for that fame that some of these huge artists that they see on TV have, not knowing they can do what some of these underground artist are doing which is not selling their souls for a buck.” PeopleThinkingLooksSoulEndsYoungArtistCan DoKnowingTvsHugeFameSellingMaking MoneyThe End Of The DayNot KnowingBucksTrue To YourselfStay TrueStay True To Yourself Author:Rahki
“It's a beautiful thing to build your own fan base and pay the bills knowing that you're staying true to your music at the end of the day. I look at life like this, the sky's the limit!” LooksEndsBeautifulPayKnowingSkyFansLimitsBillsThe End Of The DayStayingBeautiful ThingsStay TrueSky's The Limit Author:Rahki
“We are still focussing too much on gender. If we all just gave ourselves a break, knowing that we could all be everything, we'd feel relieved and more equal.” IfsFeelsStillsBreakKnowingToo MuchEqualGenderRelieved Author:Gemma Cairney
“I was shocked to find out how many deaths occurred due to fires across the country and how simply they could've been avoided. Knowing how to get out of our homes is important, especially in less than 2 minutes.” ImportantCountryHomeKnowingFireMinutesDuesShockedAvoided Author:Frankie J. Grande
“They're not allowed to talk about it at school and they maybe feel uncomfortable talking about it with their parents. But instead of them not knowing about it, now we have these gadgets and we can learn about it and not tell our parents and get ourselves into potentially dangerous situations.” FeelsSchoolParentTalkingSituationKnowingDangerousUncomfortableNot KnowingGadgetsDangerous Situations Author:Sarah Steele
“I remember, in elementary school, being asked what my father does and not knowing how to answer. When I asked my mom what I should say next time, she replied, "Just say he's self-employed." I love that.” ShouldDoeSelfSchoolRememberNextFatherAnswersKnowingMomMy MomNot KnowingNext TimeEmployedElementary School Author:Yoshi Wada
“I feel happier knowing a starting point came from me. And I like stuff that gives you a physical reaction.” GivingFeelsStuffKnowingStartingReactionsStarting Point Author:Anna Meredith
“It was more about getting together with other musicians and playing live. I needed to suss out a full set [for the Last Summer tour], and I didn't want to play Fiery Furnaces material. So half of our set was new songs that we ended up recording for this album. And that made such a huge difference - going into the studio after playing a song for two years, knowing it inside-out and having sung it millions of times, and then recording it is a totally satisfying experience. You're suddenly in this controlled environment and you can make it sound exactly as you've been imagining it.” WantYearsMadeTwoPlayTogetherLastsSongSoundDifferencesHalfMillionsKnowingEnvironmentMaterialsHugeNeededSummerMusicianAlbumsStudiosTwo YearsControlledSatisfyingFieryFurnacesNew SongsLast Summer Author:Eleanor Friedberger
“You can forgive your leaders for not knowing the intricacies of Islamic history. You cannot forgive them for not knowing their own. And when you look at American democracy, where did it start? It started, if you need to pick a point, at Runnymede in 1215. We have now been at this process, we and our English-speaking allies, for 800 years.” IfsNeedsYearsLooksProcessLeaderKnowingDemocracyPicksForgivingIslamicAlliesNot KnowingAmerican DemocracyIntricacyEnglish Speaking Author:Michael Scheuer
“The most powerful place you can come from is just having a really deep knowing of who you are and what you want for yourself.” WantPowerfulKnowingWho You AreWhat You WantMost PowerfulReally Deep Author:Sara Bareilles
“I don't think that village idea of actually knowing what you're contributing to the whole exists anymore.” ThinkingIdeasWholeKnowingVillageContributing Author:Feist
“It's hard to make music knowing that it's not going to be received by the listener in the way that it should be.” WayShouldHardKnowingListeners Author:Beck
“One of the first decisions I made, as the director of "Hide and Seek," was that our film would be silent and use underscoring of original music that I was planning on composing. The decision was mostly predicated on knowing how time consuming the editing of dialogue can be and given the various locations we shot in, I didn't want to worry about having to mix room tones in such a short amount of time.” WantFirstsMadeUseWould BeFilmGivenDecisionRoomsWorryKnowingAmountDirectorsShotsOriginalsSilentVariousPlanningDialogueToneEditingLocationConsumingComposingTime ConsumingHide And SeekOriginal Music Author:Garth Kravits
“The line changed my life 'cause I thought of some poor woman I hadn't even met walking around the United States or the world not knowing she's going to be beaten up by me and these kids, unborn, not knowing they were going to be born into the family of a child-beater just because I was. So it really did have a great effect on me.” WorldChildrenStatesKidsCausesBornLinesPoorUnitedUnited StatesKnowingEffectsChangedWalkingMetsNot KnowingBeatenUnbornChanged My Life Author:Terry Gross
“I went through a furnace and came out knowing who I am.” KnowingWho I AmFurnaces Author:Britta Phillips
“I've always thought that reviews and knowing how much your fans appreciate or don't like something, that's the sugar coating. I'm trying not to think about those things.” ThinkingTryingKnowingFansAppreciateReviewsSugarLike SomethingSugar Coating Author:Chaz Bundick
“Some people are really into being music-minded and knowing all their scales and how to read music and speak the language.” PeopleSpeakLanguageKnowingScales Author:Blake Judd
“I'm a girl from Sweden. I took a lot of risks and went to New York by myself when I was 19 just because I read about it in a few books. I came here knowing nobody, having no money, and now I'm doing all these things like making records and videos every day.” BookGirlKnowingRecordsRiskNew YorkVideoNo MoneySweden Author:Lykke Li
“I've been playing one way or another since I was about three years old. I don't remember not knowing how to play any instruments.” WayYearsPlayRememberThreeKnowingInstrumentsOne WayThree YearsNot KnowingThree Year Olds Author:Frank Fairfield
“I can't totally talk about why we divide, but... it's interesting because we're doing this scene today that's sort of the pinnacle of that. Two gangs fighting against each other, ultimately knowing that... ya know, it's like friends fighting friends. To me it's fun, personally.” KnowsI CanTwoTodayFightingFunInterestingKnowingSceneDividesGangPinnacle Author:Jeremy Renner
“I love telling stories. I think of myself as a storyteller, and I don't feel bound by being just a singer or an actress. First, I'm a storyteller, and history is stories - the most compelling stories. There is a lot you can find out about yourself through knowing about history. I have always been attracted to things that are old. I have just always found such things interesting and compelling.” ThinkingFeelsFirstsStoriesFoundInterestingKnowingBoundsActressesSingersAbout YourselfCompellingStorytellerTelling Stories Author:Zooey Deschanel
“Without a doubt, Robert Rodriguez is the reason I was drawn to it. The fact that he even knew who I was and then was interested in me for the role was amazing. I am a huge fan of his and it's like a bucket list thing for me to be able to work with him and knowing that Jessica Alba and Jeremy Piven were in it I knew that part was going to be good and as you said, the pedigree of the series was great, so it was really one of those things I couldn't resist.” SaidReasonFactsAbleRolesKnowingDoubtFansHugeSeriesBe GoodListsBucketsJessicaBucket ListPedigree Author:Joel McHale
“It's still the classic thing to get nice lines, but knowing that your computer model, on your little machine, is on the screen, is priceless. And that doesn't happen too often I don't think.” ThinkingLittlesStillsHappensLinesKnowingNiceComputerModelsMachinesScreensClassicPriceless Author:Daniel Simon