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“I'm very stodgy. I'm always looking at old photos of California and Los Angeles, knowing that what I'm looking at is now full of houses. There used to be vacant lots in Los Angeles, now all taken up by three-storey boxes - it's all getting infilled.”

Used Three House Knowing Taken Boxes Used To Be California Los Angeles Vacant

Author:Edward Ruscha

“In every union roles are assumed, some traditional, some not. My husband used to pay his own bills, I used to call my own repairman. But as marriages progress, you surrender areas of your own competence, often without even knowing it.”

Used My Own Pay Roles Knowing Progress Husband Areas Bills Unions Surrender Traditional My Husband Competence

Author:Ayelet Waldman

“What is an intellectual? In general, someone seriously devoted to what used to be called the “life of the mind”: thinking pursued not instrumentally, for the sake of practical goals, but simply for the sake of knowing and understanding.”

Thinking Mind Used Understanding Goal Knowing Intellectual Sake Practicals Used To Be Devoted Pursued Mind Thinking Knowing And Understanding

Author:Gary Gutting

“There is freedom in being a writer and writing. It is fulfilling your function. I used to think freedom meant doing whatever you want. It means knowing who you are, what you are supposed to be doing on this earth, and then simply doing it.”

Thinking Want Writing Mean Earth Used Knowing Function Who You Are Supposed To Be Fulfilling Writers And Writing Knowing Who You Are

Author:Natalie

“Sadhyojata means “creating every moment anew, knowing every moment new.’ We are used to a certain dimension, so this may go beyond you.”

May Mean Moments Used Certain Knowing Creating Dimensions

Author:Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

“I just love learning about the way people used to live their lives, and I think what also ties into that is psychology, because I like knowing why people do certain things.”

People Thinking Way Used Certain Knowing Psychology Ties

Author:Molly Quinn

“There are two kinds of people in this world, my grandmother used to say: the Have's and the Have-not's, and she stuck to the Have's. And today, Señor Don Quixote, people are more interested in having than in knowing. An ass covered with gold makes a better impression than a horse with a packsaddle.”

People World Kind Two Wisdom Today Used Politics Economy Knowing This World Gold Horse Stuck Impression Ass Liberalism Grandmother Covered My Grandmother

Book:Don Quixote

Source: Don Quixote

“Today at school I wrote an essay about Flag Day which was so beautiful, but ever so beautiful - for I even used words without really knowing what they meant.”

Today School Beautiful Used Knowing Flags Essays Flag Day

Book:Descoberta Do Mundo

Source: Descoberta Do Mundo

“I'm used to people with very high IQs knowing how to recognize reality, but there's a huge human tendency where it may be instructive to think that whatever you're doing to succeed is all right.”

People Thinking Humans May Reality Used Knowing Huge Succeed Tendencies

Author:Charlie Munger

“Google is where we go for answers. People used to go elsewhere or, more likely, stagger along not knowing.”

People Used Answers Knowing Elsewhere Not Knowing Google

Author:James Gleick

“The most used program in computers and education is PowerPoint. What are you learning about the nature of the medium by knowing how do to a great PowerPoint presentation? Nothing. It certainly doesnt teach you how to think critically about living in a culture of simulation.”

Thinking Used Culture Teach Knowing Computer Program Mediums Presentation Great Power Simulation Powerpoint

Author:Sherry Turkle

“Scientists used to do an experiment whereby a dog's repeated reward for performing a task was unaccountably replaced by punishment. The dog, knowing it would be penalized for doing well or doing badly, would become melancholic and inactive. This and other unforeseeable results were funded by taxing up to sixty percent of people's earnings. People became strangely melancholic and inactive”

People Wells Would Be Used Results Knowing Dog Percent Tasks Scientist Rewards Punishment Experiments Performing Sixty Replaced Earning

Author:Steve Aylett

“Quite generally, the familiar, just because it is familiar, is not cognitively understood. The commonest way in which we deceive either ourselves or others about understanding is by assuming something as familiar, and accepting it on that account; with all its pros and cons, such knowing never gets anywhere, and it knows not why.... The analysis of an idea, as it used to be carried out, was, in fact, nothing else than ridding it of the form in which it had become familiar.”

Thinking Knows Way Ideas Facts Form Used Understanding Accepting Knowing Understood Accounts Assuming Familiar Used To Be Analysis Thoughtful Deceiving Pros And Cons

Author:Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“Propose a new concept, most people especially acquaintances will outrightly reject it on knowing that it's from an ordinary person; but when the same becomes the popular subject, none will ever reflect to accept that they once used to object to the very same idea's beneficial effect.”

People Persons Ideas Used Accepting Knowing Subjects Effects Objects Ordinary Concepts Rejects Acquaintance Beneficial Propose Ordinary Person

Author:Anuj

“I used to have very good sixth sense - knowing exactly where someone was without seeing them.”

Used Knowing Seeing Very Good Sixth Sense

Author:Chris Pronger

“When I first discovered it it was so weird because I was doing all these positions, they're called Asanas, and I was thinking 'But I used to do this when I was a kid. I used to do shoulder stands and upside down positions.' So I think I used to do it as a child subconsciously, but not knowing what it actually was.”

Thinking Firsts Children Kids Used Knowing Position Shoulders Not Knowing Upside Down Asana

Author:Jayne Middlemiss

“Even some rock star girls, which I didn't really know her name. I will probably find out and probably get slaughtered for not knowing her name, but she brought some of her clothes that she used to wear on stage. I wore one of the corsets and stuff. I don't know why I'm blanking. It was not Pat Benatar. It's like Debbie Gibson, Pat Benatar, Joan Jett, I know those girls.”

Knows Used Girl Names Stars Stuff Knowing Rocks Stage Clothes Not Knowing Rock Star Corsets

Author:Julianne Hough

“I used to have to downplay my sexuality because I wanted to be taken so seriously as a thespian and as an artist and as an actor, so I'd play crack heads and down trotting women and disguise myself, and I think as I've gotten older, I become more comfortable with who I really am and all parts of me knowing that my physical self doesn't diminish me in any way or my talent.”

Thinking Way Self Play Wanted Used Artist Actors Knowing Taken Talent Comfortable Sexuality Cracks Disguise Diminish Thespians Trotting

Author:Halle Berry

“I used to think it would be neat to play my whole career with one team. But as a baseball player you want to come to the ballpark every day knowing you have a chance to win and that the games mean something.”

Thinking Want Mean Play Whole Would Be Used Games Winning Chance Careers Knowing Player Team Baseball Neat Baseball Player Ballparks

Author:Carlos Beltran

“I come from an improvisational background so I'm used to playing. I'm used to not knowing what exactly is going to come out.”

Used Knowing Backgrounds Not Knowing Exactly Is

Author:Naomi Grossman

“[W]e shall have the satisfaction of knowing that we have acted conscientiously, and have used our best judgment. And if we have to throw away our votes, we had better do so upon a worthy rather than an unworthy individual who might make use of the weapon we put in his hand to destroy us.”

Ifs Use Hands Might Used Individual Knowing Judgment Weapons Vote Satisfaction Worthy Unworthy

Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.

“There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.”

Used Certain Ability Knowing Talent Amount Dissatisfaction Talents And Abilities

Author:Zig Ziglar

“Being creative is having something to sell, or knowing how to sell something, or having sold something. It has taken over what we used to mean by being "wised up" knowing the tricks, the shortcuts.”

Mean Used Creative Knowing Taken Sells Tricks Be Creative Being Wise Shortcuts

Author:Pauline Kael

“When I was in architecture school, rather than giving us drafting boards and t-squares and lead pencils and stuff they gave us all the same tools that places like Digital Domain and ILM used to make features films or special effects. They gave us all these digital tools like Alias and Mya and Soft Image and all these kind of high-end computers, so I came out of architecture school knowing how to use all that stuff. And I started making short films at night.”

“Knowing is different from doing and therefore theory must never be used as norms for a standard, but merely as aids to judgment.”

Different Used Knowing Theory Judgment Standards Aids Norm

Author:Carl von Clausewitz

“People who used magic without knowing what they were doing usually came to a sticky end. All over the entire room, sometimes.”

People Ends Sometimes Used Rooms Knowing Magic Discworld Sticky

Book:Moving Pictures: (Discworld Novel 10)

Source: Moving Pictures: (Discworld Novel 10)

“I'm used to being in front of camera and knowing what to think. But if you're asking me to be me, I get very self-conscious. My job isn't to be me. Being an actor, people think you can do a eulogy at a funeral, a speech at a wedding. I find all that very nerve-racking.”

People Ifs Thinking Self Jobs Used Actors Can Do Knowing Fronts Speech Conscious Asking Cameras Nerves Funeral Self Conscious Eulogy

Author:Eddie Marsan

“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.”

Children Done Character Running Together Used Joy Turns Actors Numbers Laughing Knowing Sadness Shots Cameras Various Finished Reactions Ran Terrific Amazement Knowing 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.”

Knows Firsts Made Ideas Real Used Sound Voice Knowing Records Beats Starting Track Producers No Idea Strings Chords Keyboards Sample Loops Knowing Nothing Sampling

Author:Rahki

“So much of what we understand comes from knowing what something is and what that something used to be, which allows us to figure out, or at least imagine, what happened in between.”

Used Knowing Imagine Happened Figures Used To Be

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

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