“In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based on the ludicrous assumption that _men_ know how to fix things, when in fact all they know how to do is _look_ at things in a certain squinty-eyed manner, which they learned in Wood Shop; eventually, when enough things in the home are broken, they take a job requiring them to transfer to another home.” KnowsMenWellsEnoughFactsHomeRunningJobsPastCertainKnow HowTakenBrokenMen And WomenWoodsDecadesMagazinesAssumptionShopsArticlesTransfersSuggesting Author:Robert Briffault
“Know how to play the card of contempt. It is the most politic kind of revenge. For there are many of whom we should have known nothing if their distinguished opponents had taken no notice of them. There is no revenge like oblivion, for it is the entombment of the unworthy in the dust of their own nothingness.” IfsKnowsShouldKindPlayKnownKnow HowTakenShould HaveRevengeCardsDustOpponentsContemptNothingnessOblivionDistinguishedUnworthyShould Have KnownNo Revenge Author:Baltasar Gracian
“We don't know how much we are capable of loving until the people we love are being taken away, until a beautiful story is ending.” PeopleKnowsStoriesBeautifulKnow HowTakenCapable Author:Donald Miller
“Part of what it is to be scientifically-literate is how you think about information that's presented in front of you. I think that's the great challenge. You have people who believe they do know how to think about the information, but don't, and they're in the position of power and legislation. You can't base a society on non-objectively verifiable truth. Otherwise, it's a fantasy land and science is the pathway to those emerging truths that are hard-earned and that some have taken decades, if not centuries, to emerge from experiments all around the world.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWorldBelieveHardChallengesFantasyKnow HowTakenLandCenturyFrontsInformationPositionDecadesExperimentsAround The WorldLegislationEmergingPathwaysPosition Of Power Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Sometimes we do get taken by surprise. For example, when the Internet came along, we had it as a fifth or sixth priority. It wasn't like somebody told me about it and I said, "I don't know how to spell that." I said, "Yeah, I've got that on my list, so I'm okay." But there came a point when we realized it was happening faster and was a much deeper phenomenon than had been recognized in our strategy.” KnowsSaidSometimesKnow HowTakenExampleInternetHappeningsOkayYeahStrategySurpriseDeeperListsPrioritiesFasterPhenomenonSpellsFifth Author:Bill Gates
“Most people don't know how to listen because the major part of their attention is taken up by thinking. They pay more attention to that than to what the other person is saying, and none at all to what really matters: the Being of the other person underneath the words and the mind. Of course, you cannot feel someone else's Being except through your own. This is the beginning of the realization of oneness, which is love. At the deepest level of Being, you are one with all that is.” PeopleThinkingKnowsLoveFeelsMindPersonsMatterCoursesLevelsPayAttentionKnow HowTakenMajorsOnenessRealization Author:Eckhart Tolle
“Everybody grows up and they have to make decisions, and they try and make the best decisions that they know how to. It's taken them their whole lives to finally step out and start making their own decisions.” KnowsTryingWholeGrowsDecisionStepsKnow HowGrowing UpTakenWhole Life Author:Justin Bieber
“As an actor you want people to know you and there are times you want your pictures taken, but it's unnerving to walk out of a venue with friends and there are 20 people flashing lights in your face. Do you know how bright those lights are?” PeopleKnowsWantLightFacesActorsWalksKnow HowTakenDo You KnowYour FaceVenuesPicture TakenFlashing Lights Author:Ashley Greene
“Most people don't know how to listen because the major part of their attention is taken up by thinking.” PeopleThinkingKnowsAttentionKnow HowTakenMajors Author:Eckhart Tolle
“It's hard to be taken seriously if you're a young, female artist making pop music; you never know how people are going to react.” PeopleIfsKnowsHardYoungArtistKnow HowTakenFemalePopsPop MusicFemale Artists Author:Alessia Cara
“Most guys believe that they're supposed to know how to fix things. This is a responsibility that guys have historically taken upon themselves to compensate for the fact that they never clean the bathroom. A guy can walk into a bathroom containing a colony of commode fungus so advanced that it is registered to vote, but the guy would never dream of cleaning it, because he has to keep himself rested in case a Mechanical Emergency breaks out.” KnowsBelieveFactsDreamGuyWalksResponsibilityBreakCasesKnow HowTakenVoteCleanCleaningBathroomEmergenciesThat GuyColonyBreak OutContainingFungi Book:The World According to Dave Barry Source: The World According to Dave Barry
“I think governments are quietly terrified. There's massive unemployment, a recession they don't know how to deal with, and the measures they've taken are not working yet, and maybe they're not going to work. There's a prospect of significant social disorder.” ThinkingKnowsGovernmentSocialDealsKnow HowTakenSignificantMassiveDisorderTerrifiedUnemploymentGoing To WorkRecessions Author:Simon Critchley
“We represent people, and any good congressperson wants to know how their people at home feel about issues. I can tell you for sure in our office that is taken into account, and that is true for any congresspersons I know.” PeopleKnowsWantFeelsI CanHomeKnow HowIssuesTakenOfficeAccounts Author:Charlie Norwood