“Art too is just a way of living, and however one lives, one can, without knowing, prepare for it; in everything real one is closer to it, more its neighbor, than in the unreal half-artistic professions, which, while they pretend to be close to art, in practice deny and attack the existence of all art - as, for example, all of journalism does and almost all criticism and three quarters of what is called (and wants to be called) literature.” WayWantDoeArtRealThreeLiteratureExistenceHalfPracticeKnowingExampleCriticismDenyProfessionNeighborJournalismArtisticQuartersUnrealReal Ones Book:Letters to a Young Poet Source: Letters to a Young Poet
“The first half of the 1960s was the apogee of what might be termed the Age of Cool - as defined by that quality of being simultaneously with-it and disengaged, in control but nonchalant, knowing but ironically self-aware, and above all inscrutably undemonstrative.” FirstsSelfMightAgeHalfQualityKnowingDefined1960sNonchalant Author:Martin Filler
“Since I learned the secret and started applying it to my life, my life has truly become magical. I think the kind of life that everybody dreams of is one I live on a day to day basis. I live in a four-and-a-half-million-dollar mansion. I have a wife to die for. I get to vacation in all the fabulous spots of the world. I've climbed mountains. I've explored. I've been on safaris. And all of this happened and continues to happen, because of knowing how to apply The Secret.” ThinkingWorldKindDreamHappensDiesSecretHalfMillionsKnowingFourWifeHappenedMountainBasesDollarsSpotsVacationDay To DayFabulousMillion DollarsMansions Author:Jack Canfield
“what makes us so afraid is the thing we half see, or half hear, as in a wood at dusk, when a tree stump becomes an animal and a sound becomes a siren. And most of that fear is the fear of not knowing, of not actually seeing correctly.” FearSoundAnimalHalfKnowingSeeingTreeWoodsNot KnowingDuskSirensStumps Author:Edna O'Brien
“And this prime hour of fragrance is the hour so many miss upon beds of sloth, never half knowing what a beautiful, marvellous world is around them. Not all the long hours of day can possibly bring back again the charm and blessedness of this, either to the body or to the soul.” WorldLongSoulBodyBeautifulHoursHalfMorningKnowingMissingBedCharmPrimeFragranceBack AgainSlothMarvellousLong HoursBlessedness Author:Sarah Smiley
“To see something marvelous with your own eyes-that's wonderful enough. But when two of you see it, two of you together, holding hands, holding each other close, knowing that you'll both have that memory for the rest of your lives, but that each of you will only ever hold only have an incomplete half of it, and that it won't ever really exist as a whole until you're together, talking or thinking about that moment ...that's worth more than one plus one. It's worth four, or eight, or some number so large we can't even imagine it.” ThinkingTwoEnoughWholeMomentsHandsEyeTogetherMemoriesNumbersHalfTalkingKnowingFourImagineWonderfulEightThat MomentPlusMarvelousRest Of Your LifeIncompleteHolding HandsHand Holding Author:Alastair Reynolds
“When you know both yourself as well as your competition, you are never in danger. To know yourself and not others, gives you half a chance of winning. Knowing neither yourself or your competition puts you in a position to lose.” KnowsGivingWellsMotivationalWinningSportsLosesChanceHalfKnowingDangerPositionCompetitionKnow Yourself Author:Sun Tzu
“My father died many years ago, and yet when something special happens to me, I talk to him secretly not really knowing whether he hears, but it makes me feel better to half believe it.” FeelsYearsBelieveHappensFatherHalfKnowingSpecialDadDaughterYears AgoDiedFeel BetterFatherhoodFathers DaySomething SpecialFather DiedMy Father DiedMake Me Feel BetterNew Father Author:Natasha Josefowitz
“Creatures are cups. The sciences and the arts and all branches of knowledge are inscriptions around the outside of the cups. When a cup shatters, the writing can no longer be read. The wine's the thing! The wine that's held in the mold of these physical cups. Drink the wine and know what lasts and what to love. The man who truly asks must be sure of two things: One, that he's mistaken in what he's doing or thinking now. And two, that there is a wisdom he doesn't know yet. Asking is half of knowing.” ThinkingKnowsMenWritingArtTwoLastsAsksHalfKnowingHe ManDrinkCreaturesAskingWineCupsBranchesTwo ThingsMistakenMoldInscriptions Author:Rumi
“I can't sleep without knowing there's hope. Half the night I waste in sighs. In a wakeful doze I sorrow. For the hands, for the lips... the eyes. For the meeting of tomorrow.” I CanHandsEyeNightSleepHalfKnowingTomorrowSorrowWasteMeetingsLipsSighCan't SleepI Can't Sleep Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson
“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
“Knowing is half the battle. Explaining it is the other half.” HalfKnowingBattleExplainingOther Half Author:J. Christopher Burch