“The greatest reward for a children's author is in knowing that our efforts might stir the minds and hearts of young readers with a vision and wonder of the world and themselves that may be new to them or reveal something already familiar in new and enlightening ways.” WorldWayMindHeartMayChildrenMightYoungEffortWonderVisionKnowingReaderRewardsFamiliarHeart And MindEnlighteningWonder Of The World Author:Charles Ghigna
“When I write, I lose time. I'm happy in a way that I have a hard time finding in real life. The intimacy between my brain and my fingers and my computer... Yet knowing that that intimacy will find an audience... It's very satisfying. It's like having the safety of being alone with the ego reward of being known.” WayWritingRealHardLosesBrainKnownAudienceKnowingEgoFindingsComputerSafetyFingersRewardsReal LifeIntimacyHard TimesSatisfying Author:Jill Soloway
“The only real security in life comes from knowing that every single day you are improving yourself in some way.” WayRealKnowingSecurityImprovingCaliberImproving Yourself Author:Tony Robbins
“I have no way of knowing what you are going to feel when you look at one of my paintings; I only know what I feel.” KnowsWayFeelsLooksKnowingPainting Author:Danny Fox
“I'd like to go out knowing that I helped a few people along the way.” PeopleWayKnowing Author:Alex Gaskarth
“But knowing that the world had come full circle to our Depression story didn't change the way we worked on it, or encourage us to change our thrust. I want people to be able to pick up this book in the future no matter what's going on in the world, and appreciate it on its own merits, not for any perceived winks at the headlines.” PeopleWorldWayWantBookMatterStoriesAbleKnowingPicksAppreciateNo Matter WhatCirclesMeritThrustHeadlinesFull Circle Author:James Vance
“Trying to tell an authentic, raw and honest story without making it therapy. Separating myself enough to have perspective while putting myself in the emotional hot seat so that I could make this thing real. Asking for help. Delegating responsibility. Standing up for myself. Fighting the impulse to be sweet and likeable 24/7. Being open to all ideas, but staying true to the spine of the story. Knowing when to let go and when to hold on and fight like hell. Getting out of my own way. Shall I go on?” WayTryingIdeasRealEnoughHelpingStoriesFightingMy OwnResponsibilityHellKnowingHonestEmotionalSweetPerspectiveGoes OnLetting GoStandingHotAskingImpulseTherapySeatsStayingSpineStay TrueSeparatingLikeableAsking For Help Author:Jessie Kahnweiler
“I always worry that knowing too much about a novel or a story early on in writing will close it down - it feels fatalistic in some way.” WayFeelsWritingStoriesWorryNovelKnowingToo MuchKnowing Too Much Author:Dan Chaon
“Even though I had a fantastic family, I always felt lonely - not lonely in the melancholic way but knowing that, to really survive, I have to do everything for myself. I had to work and study, and I was out in the street really surviving, bringing food back home.” WayHomeFeltKnowingStudyStreetsLonelyFantasticSurvivingBack Home Author:Riccardo Tisci
“These events are swirling around them. In the white community, people felt like they had no control over their neighborhoods, their destiny. In the black community, centuries of government and economic forces were pushing on them. I went in with a kind of arrogance, maybe, that came from living in a very intellectual family, and I left knowing that there was a lot about the way people lived that I didn't know about.” PeopleKnowsWayKindGovernmentLeftForceFeltBlackCommunityWhiteDestinyKnowingEconomicCenturyEventsIntellectualArroganceNeighborhoodPushingBlack CommunityPushing On Author:Sara Paretsky
“The notion that "this too shall pass" is comforting, both in knowing that whatever pain I'm in will change into something else and allowing myself to experience the pain, not trying to blunt it or brush it aside. It's important to feel and to be connected to your emotions, whichever way they play out.” WayFeelsTryingImportantPlayPainEmotionKnowingNotionConnectedAllowingBrushesComfortingBluntThis Too Shall Pass Author:Patrick Fabian
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Most people have a hard time confronting their weaknesses in a really straightforward, evidence-based way. They also have problems speaking frankly to others. Some people love knowing about their weaknesses and mistakes and those of others because it helps them be so much better, while others can't stand it.” PeopleWayHardHelpingProblemMistakeKnowingWeaknessEvidenceHard TimesStraightforwardConfronting Author:Ray Dalio
“There's incredible effect in being either loved or hated, but knowing that, either way, you have penetrated the mind and have altered it; that is a very pleasurable feeling.” WayMindFeelingsKnowingEffectsIncrediblesHatedAltered Author:Nicolas Winding Refn
“It's true that the best way of knowing yourself is to put yourself into different situations.” WayDifferentSituationKnowingBest WayKnow Yourself Author:Abbas Kiarostami
“To me, what I define as defiance, in some ways, is knowing the "reality" and having the ability to possess a realist mindstate yet still working towards the fantasy and still being childish. While still having the understanding and capacity that would generally inspire pessimism: some sort of more realist perspective that I think most people classify as adult. Anything like that and anything that's sort of fun.” PeopleThinkingWayStillsRealityFunUnderstandingAbilityFantasyKnowingInspirePerspectiveAdultsCapacityPessimismDefianceRealist Author:Alex Ebert
“Appreciate your friends and loved ones. There's no way of knowing what's coming next, so appreciate those who are close to you.” WayNextKnowingAppreciateLoved OnesAppreciate You Author:Lenny Jacobson
“We can't walk where we want to walk or be who we want to be or dress the way we want to dress or go anywhere any time of day. I am talking about the freedom that comes with just knowing that you're okay, and that you have value and you have identity, and you don't have to keep proving yourself.” WayWantValuesWalksTalkingKnowingIdentityProveOkayDressesTime Of DayProving Yourself Author:Eve Ensler
“I know that I can forever walk the streets, drive the freeways, and be alive knowing that I created something with someone whom I love so very much that is such a powerful force. I would love for people to hear it the way I hear it [Forest Green].” PeopleKnowsWayI CanForceWalksPowerfulForeverKnowingAliveStreetsGreenForestsFreeways Author:Andy Kim
“Going back to my mother's passing, there was no way I could hold back my tears or sense of grief at knowing her physical presence left the planet. Working consciously with such an in-my-face overwhelmingly painful loss, I was able to process it to the point of accepting that although my relationship with her would be different, I could still sense and celebrate that there was no separation between our spirits. Being present and open to each stage of grief eventually led to her visiting me in my dreams and a tangible sense of her presence.” WayStillsDifferentDreamWould BeAbleFacesSpiritMotherLeftProcessLossGriefAcceptingKnowingStageTearsPlanetsPainfulSeparationPassingPassingsCelebrateTangibleVisitingStages Of Grief Author:Michael Beckwith
“There have been many things in my life that have tried to break me, going back to when I was two and three years old. It never stops - life will always push you to your limit. The only way I've managed to survive it all is believing in myself and knowing, somehow, beyond everything telling me otherwise, that I will succeed.” WayYearsBelieveHas BeensTwoThreeBreakKnowingSucceedLimitsThree YearsThree Year Olds Author:Nathan Parsons
“"Marginalized others" have access to other ways of knowing, and therefore to deeper, more authentic truths about human reality. They can share that knowledge by speaking about their lived experience while in a safe space. But to provide this kind of safety, members of privileged groups, i.e. white, able-bodied, cis-gendered middle class men, must keep quiet.” MenWayHumansKindRealityAbleSpaceWhiteClassKnowingGroupsShareMiddleQuietSafeMembersSafetyDeeperAccessMiddle ClassPrivilegedMarginalizedSafe Space Author:Christina Hoff Sommers
“Part of obedience to the Golden Rule is knowing how to respond once you've behaved in an unloving way.” WayKnowingGoldenObedienceValentineValentine's DayGolden Rule Author:Doug McIntosh
“The time of reckoning will at length arrive. And when finallly summoned to the bar of God, to give an account of our stewardship, what plea can we have to urge in our defense, if we remain willingly, and obstinately ignorant of the way which leads to life, with such transcendent means of knowing it, and such urgent motives to its pursuit?” IfsWayGivingMeanKnowingAccountsDefensePursuitBarsIgnorantMotiveUrgesLengthUrgentStewardshipTranscendentReckoning Author:William Wilberforce
“What if there's another terrorist attack? I cringe at the ideas of our enemies watching this, knowing much like the president we have now. You can do anything you want, you can jerk us around, you can harass our naval ships the way Iran is doing right now, and we're not going to do anything. We're not going to react.” IfsWayWantIdeasPresidentCan DoEnemyKnowingRight NowTerroristShipsIranWhat IfJerkTerrorist AttacksNavalDoing RightCringe Author:John McCain