Quotes about know-how
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“A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise... But it is necessary to know how to disguise this nature well and to be a great hypocrite and a liar.”

Niccolo Machiavelli book The Prince

Source: The Prince (1513), Ch. 18; translated by ‎Peter Bondanella

Nature

“Nor is there any embarrassment in the fact that we're ridiculous, isn't it true? For it's actually so, we are ridiculous, light-minded, with bad habits, we're bored, we don't know how to look, how to understand, we're all like that, all, you, and I, and they! Now, you're not offended when I tell you to your face that you're ridiculous? And if so, aren't you material? You know, in my opinion it's sometimes even good to be ridiculous, if not better: we can the sooner forgive each other, the sooner humble ourselves; we can't understand everything at once, we can't start right out with perfection! To achieve perfection, one must first begin by not understanding many things! And if we understand too quickly, we may not understand well. This I tell you, you, who have already been able to understand. .. and not understand … so much. I'm not afraid for you now;”

Fyodor Dostoyevsky book The Idiot

The Idiot (1868–9)

Bad luck, Forgiveness, Understanding, Light

“Now, when we go into a park on the road people start booing me. You don't know how good that makes me feel. To me it means the fans recognize who I am and what I mean to my ball club. Fans don't boo nobodies.”

Reggie Jackson (1946) American professional baseball player, outfielder, coach

As quoted in "A's Jackson glad about 'boos'," in "The Chicago Defender" (April 23, 1974)

People, Making love, Feeling

“One night you discover to your great surprise that you have not spent all your money that day, he said. Next morning you wake up early and go out and buy yourself a hat – and when you have got the hat you realize that you now have even more money in your pocket. You invite a friend, two or three of them perhaps, to come with you to a restaurant, and you eat your fill of all the best food and wines available there. When you simply can’t force down another bite and you leave the restaurant, you discover that you’ve made yet another haul while you were sitting inside. You become flurried and go and buy a house with a garden to try to rid yourself of this trash, but no sooner have you paid for the house cash down than you notice that your money has multiplied through the purchase. Now you are seized with a kind of frenzy that Björn of Brekkukot would never understand, far less your grandmother. You set off travelling round and round the world, pouring out money with both hands to other demented vagrants wherever you go, and you don’t even dare to open your letters because you know that they will all say the same thing: your deposits at I don’t know how many banks all over the world are still growing with ever increasing speed.”

Halldór Laxness (1902–1998) Icelandic author

Brekkukotsannáll (The Fish Can Sing) (1957)

Money, World, Food, Travel

“An Entrepreneur knows how to build a business from multiple failures.”

Akshay Makadiya (1993) an Entrepreneur and Founder of RankLane

In a speech given on 12 March 2013, at the Google Business Groups https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Business_Groups, Rajkot.

Failure, Business

“And now I know how Joan of Arc felt
Now I know how Joan of Arc felt
As the flames rose to her roman nose
And her Walkman started to melt”

Johnny Marr (1963) musician

Bigmouth Strikes Again, The Queen Is Dead (1986), co-written with Morrissey.

Variation in Live at Earls Court: "And her IPod started to melt."

“Keep your stupid rules
I don't know how to use it
Keep your bad news
I won't read itǃ”

Mara Balls (1983) Finnish musician

Bad luck, Stupidity, Reading

“…There’s two sides of the coin: One where people don't expect you to do anything and won't let you do anything because they think you don't know how, and then the other side is when you're fucking up but they won't tell you because you're a girl. Then you don’t learn.”

Esperanza Spalding (1984) American jazz bassist and singer

On how recording in the studio can be a double-edged sword in “Esperanza Spalding: Insubordinate by Nature” https://pitchfork.com/features/interview/9830-esperanza-spalding-insubordinate-by-nature/ in Pitchfork (2016 Mar 8)

People, Girl, Thinking, Learning

“You are welcome in my mind
Follow me we're going deeper
To a place thats hard to find
Tell me, can you keep a secret
I know I know
Something you dont know
I know how to shake
To turn you on
Dont put on the breaks
Lemme keep it rolling
Can you keep it going?”

Antonio Fresco (1983) American DJ, music producer, and radio personality

Written by Antonio Fresco, Patricia Possollo, Lorena J'zel <br class="br">Song lyrics, Rattlesnake https://genius.com/Antonio-fresco-patricia-possollo-rattlesnake-lyrics (2019)

Secret

“I did not speak until I was 16. I understood everything everyone said and I would want to talk, but I just didn't know how to say it.”

Thomas McKean (1734–1817) American politician (1734-1817)

Autistic Writer Finds Voice, Delivers a Message of Hope

“Don't you know how to paint? My grandson will paint it better! What is this? Are you men or damned pederasts? How can you paint like that? Do you have a conscience?”

Nikita Khrushchev (1894–1971) First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Said to avant-garde artists Ely Bielutin and Ernst Neizvestny during a visit to their exhibition (1 December 1962)

Men, Painting

“55 years ago today, we were beaten, tear gassed, and trampled by horses. I thought I saw death. I thought I was going to die. I don't know how I made it back, but I know we cannot rest. We cannot become weary. We must keep pushing and pulling and find a way to get in the way.”

John Lewis (civil rights leader) (1940) American politician and civil rights leader

Source: Twitter https://twitter.com/repjohnlewis/status/1236392740717543424, (7 March 2020)

Death, Way, Tear, Horse

“When I was younger I thought about becoming a nun for a while. You know how it is when you're growing up and you're going to be a lot of different things, but I actually wanted to be an actress before I wanted to be a nun. The nun was more of a side-bar thing.”

Anne Hathaway (1982) American actress

Source: "Anne Hathaway wanted to be a nun" https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/anne-hathaway-wanted-to-be-a-nun-2343678.html. The Independent. (August 25, 2011).

“I do not know how long I can continue my game with this team. But I can assure you that when I realize that my skills and willpower are decreasing, then I will drop myself.”

Mashrafe Mortaza (1983) Bangladeshi international cricketer and politician

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&u=https%3A%2F%2Fbani.com.bd%2F402%2F1996%2F

Game

“I love simplicity, I like people who know how to listen to music with their heart, feel the smells of life, capture their soul. Because there is truth there, there is sweetness... there is still love.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Amo la semplicità, mi piacciono le persone che sanno ascoltare musica con il cuore, sentire gli odori della vita, catturarne l'anima. Perché lì c'è verità, c'è dolcezza... lì c'è ancora amore.
Source: prevale.net

Love, Life, People, Truth

“Difficult or sad events belong to every being. Whenever it happens to have, it must seriously think if that situation is really worth getting a smile. Who has and knows how to give smile, is the master of the whole world.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Eventi duri, difficili o tristi appartengono ad ogni essere. Ogniqualvolta dovesse capitare di averne, bisogna seriamente pensare se per quella situazione valga davvero la pena farsi togliere il sorriso. Chi ha e sa donare sorriso, è padrone del mondo intero.
Source: prevale.net

World, Sadness, Smile, Thinking

“Life is a strain many times; if you do not know how to play it well, you've lost before you started.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Molte volte la vita mette a dura prova; se non sai giocartela bene, hai perso prima di iniziare.
Source: prevale.net

Life, Time

“Who has and knows how to give smile, is the master of the whole world.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Chi ha e sa donare sorriso, è padrone del mondo intero.
Source: prevale.net

World, Smile

“This world taught woman nothing skillful and then said her work was valueless. It permitted her no opinions and said she did not know how to think. It forbade her to speak in public, and said the sex had no orators. It denied her the schools, and said the sex had no genius. It robbed her of every vestige of responsibility & then called her weak.”

Carrie Chapman Catt (1859–1947) American social reformer, suffragist (1859-1947)

From a 1902 speech as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association quoted in "The Wings of Dawn" by Louise Scarmato (2013)

World, School, Sex, Thinking

“I think even if I did try to write something that had nothing to do with women or race, which are two pretty broad topics, I don’t know how I would do that. I don’t think there’s a way that I could write a buddy cop drama, or something really far from anything I’ve written, that didn’t have pieces of race and gender. Those are parts of the world we live in, and they are things I think about. It all comes into the voice of your writing, and you can’t write about someone else’s voice. You can only write in your own.”

Celeste Ng (1980) American novelist

On why she revisits certain themes in “AN INTERVIEW WITH CELESTE NG, THE 2018 INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE DAY AMBASSADOR” https://bookriot.com/2018/04/27/celeste-ng-interview/ in BookRiot (2018 Apr 27)

Women, World, Way, Thinking

“I don't even know how this word came into being: "aerobics."”

Rita Rudner (1953) American comedian

I guess gym instructors got together and said, "If we're going to charge ten dollars an hour, we can't call it 'jumping up and down'."
Essay 4: "Survival of the Fattest", p. 18
Naked Beneath My Clothes (1992)

“I want to know how many years I got.”

Orson Scott Card book Red Prophet

“Many,” said Ta-Kumsaw. “Or few. All that matters is what you do with however many years you have.”
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Red Prophet (1988), Chapter 17.

“I don’t know how anybody would like to do anything but CGI today. Because they sit there on the computer and they can make it look so real.”

Joe Alves (1936) Film designer

‘Jaws’ At 45: Joe Alves Explains Making The Most Famous Movie Monster https://www.forbes.com/sites/markhughes/2020/06/24/jaws-at-45-joe-alves-explains-making-the-most-famous-movie-monster/?sh=1dcc247752a3 (June 24, 2020)

Making love

“So imagine somebody who has Donald's charisma, but first rate management skills... actually knows how to be an executive and get things done, how to prioritize, how to follow-up, how to select people and hold them accountable, and who doesn't believe you should be able to question what he does.”

David Cay Johnston (1948) Investigative journalist and author

The Tyrant Next Time (November 7, 2019)

People, Imagination, Question

“People don't know how great you are. People don't know how smart you are. These are the smart people. These are the smart people. These are really the smart people. And they never like to say it, but I say it. And I'm a smart person. These are the smart. We have the smartest people. We have the smartest people. And they know it. Some say it, but they hate to say it. But we have the smartest people.”

Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America

Council Bluffs, Iowa, quoted in * 2016-09-29
Donald Trump's Bizarre Speech: 'You Are The Smartest People'
Leading Britain's Conversation
https://www.lbc.co.uk/politics/us-election/donald-trump/donald-trumps-bizarre-speech-smartest-people/
2016, September 2016

Hate, People, Personality

“Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.”

William Ellery Channing (1780–1842) United States Unitarian clergyman

Reading, For Men

“It’s hard for people to know themselves. It’s hard to know how you’re charming. When you’re young, even when people compliment you, it’s difficult to accept that.”

Moon So-ri (1974) South Korean actress

As quoted in "Now a director and scriptwriter, actress Moon So-ri speaks about her film" in The Korea Herald (6 Septmeber 2017) http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20170906000677

People

“If we're born in God's image, then God knows how we can fuck up. And he knows that you really didn't mean it.”

Tom Petty (1950–2017) American musician

Esquire interview (2006)

God

“Let us greedily enjoy our friends, because we do not know how long this privilege will be ours.”

Seneca the Younger book Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXIII

“Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardships of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die.”

Seneca the Younger book Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter IV: On the terrors of death

Life, Death, Men, Fear

“Who knows how to give true love belongs exclusively to that rarity of living beings, capable of changing the world.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Chi sa donare vero amore appartiene esclusivamente a quella rarità di esseri viventi, capaci di cambiare il mondo.
Source: prevale.net

Love, World, Change

“You are the occurrence of my life, you know how to be my most overwhelming madness.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Tu, sei l'occorrenza della mia vita, sai essere la mia più travolgente follia.
Source: prevale.net

Life, Madness

“To have a great capital is not so necessary as to know how to manage a small one, and never to be without a little.”

William Cooper (judge) (1754–1809) judge 1754-1809

A Guide in the Wilderness, Gilbert & Hodges, 1810, p. 38 https://books.google.com/books?id=zNDTAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA38.

“On my way, maybe I am looking for the destination, I am walking towards my destination by taking steps, I do not know how far, I am walking towards my destination, I do not see the way, I start thinking in the middle of the road, I keep my spirits in my life, maybe I can get my destination.”

Shabdon Ka Jahan

Life, Way, Thinking

“Money really is a great power, only one must know how to use it.”

Bolesław Prus book The Doll

The Doll

Money

“The heaven of the scientists lies in knowing how the Creator did everything.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“Too much isolation can be a danger to you and your health. It is a hazard to the common people, as well as a benefit to those who know how to use their free time.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

People, Health, Time

“If the next generation of people to take over the West does not know how to think, western civilization will come apart and it will be replaced in the way that civilizations before it have been. ...What we face is a very dire problem.”

Bret Weinstein (1969) biologist, professor, public intellectual

Speak Freely (Sept 14, 2018)

People, Way, Problem, Thinking

“It’s gone away from the thing that I hate, and now it’s more the thing that I don’t know how to do at all, or the thing that’s really hard to do…”

Young Jean Lee (1974) American theatre director and playwright

On her career span in “There Is No Escape for, or From, Young Jean Lee” https://www.americantheatre.org/2014/10/29/there-is-no-escape-for-or-from-young-jean-lee/ in the American Theatre (2014 Oct 29)

Hate

“You know how vivid things are in extremis. There's something going on in the brain. Chemicals. They make the moment indelible."”

Bernard MacLaverty book Midwinter Break

Ch 9 - p.187
Novels, Midwinter Break (2017)

“Do not judge yourself, but live with someone who knows how to behave himself properly.”

Poemen (340–450) Egyptian monk and desert father

Saying 73

“The Jews belong to a dark and repulsive force. One knows how numerous this clique is, how they stick together and what power they exercise through their unions. They are a nation of rascals and deceivers.”

Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman

Oration in Defense of Flaccus. See Apostle Paul: A Polite Bribe https://books.google.com.br/books?id=wefkDwAAQBAJ&pg=108 by Robert Orlando, p. 108.

Exercises

“When you’re in this room, I don’t know how to describe it. It’s soaked in history. It just washes over you. I mean, it’s not even like it’s in the past. You’re in history. You’re in it.”

Stephen Colbert (1964) American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, and actor

Source: " Stephen Colbert Tells Rep. Adam Schiff What Russian Oligarch Revealed About Trump 'Pee Tape' https://www.huffpost.com/entry/stephen-colbert-adam-schiff-pee-tape_n_616e2de7e4b00cb3cbd6ead0" (2021?)+videos

History, Past

“I don't like to second-guess, but I do believe we've lost something. I can't get my hand on it, but we're just not quite where we should be, as the greatest democracy in the world. And I don't know how you correct it, but I keep hoping that there will be a change in my lifetime.”

Bob Dole (1923) American politician

Source: In Susan Page, " At 98 and facing cancer, Bob Dole reckons with legacy of Trump and ponders future of GOP https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/07/22/98-bob-dole-reckons-legacy-trump-ponders-future-gop/7995412002/", USA Today (July 22, 2021).

World, Hope, Democracy, Change

“You know how you’re completely different with your mom than you are with your best friend, than you are with your romantic partner, than you are with your boss? They’re just different facets of me.”

Padma Lakshmi (1970) Indian-born American author, actress, model, television host and executive producer

Source: "Padma Lakshmi’s Delicious Mission" in Vanity Fair https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2021/06/padma-lakshmi-top-chef-taste-the-nation (24 June 2021)

Moms

“Every man that has felt pain, knows how few the comforts are that can gladden him to whom health is denied. I fed Hodge valerian to ease his agonies. I bought oysters for his delight, these being soft, and the best meat for his toothless jaws. I went for them myself.”

Robin Saikia British writer and actor

Source: A Very Fine Cat Indeed: A Dramatic Monologue (2020), p. 25

Pain, Health

“Not to know how one has become what one is, means one has a grossly inadequate idea of what one is.”

Bruce Wilshire (1932–2015) American philosopher

Source: Fashionable Nihilism (2002), p. 4

Idea

“I came here to be who I am, to do the work the way I know how to do, and that’s the way I’ve been doing it.”

Edgar Moreira da Cunha (1957) Catholic bishop

Fall River Bishop da Cunha has challenges to face, but don’t expect him to make headlines along the way https://www.heraldnews.com/article/20160325/NEWS/160327607 (March 25, 2016)

Way

“They say that comedy and sausages are the two things that if you know how they're made they affect the appetite. I'm always creating and writing stuff so it's nice for me to be able to watch it as a fan.”

Mike Myers (1963) Canadian- British- American actor, comedian, singer, screenwriter, and film producer

Interview with Joe Utichi, RT-UK: Mike Myers Interview https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/article/rtuk-mike-myers-interview/, rottentomatoes.com, 27 June 2007.

“It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading.”

Mike Tyson (1966) American boxer

Miscellaneous
Source: https://books.google.ca/books?id=ww3ikzftnNsC&pg=PA82&dq=it%27s+dangerous+to+know+how+to+read+and+not+how+to+interpret+what+you%27re+reading&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjOssCd-cr0AhWSHc0KHTQvDuQQ6AF6BAgCEAI#v=onepage&q=it's%20dangerous%20to%20know%20how%20to%20read%20and%20not%20how%20to%20interpret%20what%20you're%20reading&f=false Ebony September 1995

Reading

“Special, authentic and rare people are made of love: they have the gift of knowing how to conquer and warm the heart.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Le persone speciali, autentiche e rare sono fatte d'amore: hanno il dono di saper conquistare e scaldare il cuore.
Source: prevale.net

Love, People, Heart

“We're fat, we're greedy, and we don't give a shit. Our religion is TV. Our saviour is Bill Gates. We've learned our lessons well. We know how to put number one first.”

Dan Fante (1944–2015) American writer

Dan Fante [quote appears on Goodreads but does not state a source]
Unsourced

Religion, Learning

“I said … unprepared, unscripted, that, "I know how to fight and I know how to dance, and I'd much rather dance than fight." ... What I didn't tell everybody was I was always a better fighter than dancer.”

Harry Reid (1939) American politician

Source: "Reid Says He's A Fighter Who'd Rather Dance", All Things Considered, NPR (18 May 2010) https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126905578

Dance, Fight

“I don't know how they reproduce!.. They are a scavenging people.”

Richard Nixon (1913–1994) 37th President of the United States of America

1970s, Tape transcripts (1971) <br class="br">Source: On Nov. 12, 1971, in the middle of a discussion about India-Pakistan tensions with Henry Kissinger and Secretary of State William P. Rogers, after Rogers mentioned reprimanding Indira Gandhi. Conversation 617-009 https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/617/conversation-617-009 of the White House Tapes. Quoted https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/03/opinion/nixon-racism-india.html The Terrible Cost of Presidential Racism The Terrible Cost of Presidential Racism] (September, 3, 2020) by Gary J. Bass, [[The New York Times

People

“Do you know what it's like to be suddenly poor and not know how to live poor?”

Larry Niven book A Relic of the Empire

Source: Short fiction, Neutron Star (1968), A Relic of the Empire (p. 43)

“Instead of determining the action of life, ends, norms and values are determined by it. This determination consists in the fact that one experiences oneself constantly and knows oneself at every moment. Life also knows at each instant what must be done and what is suited to it. This knowledge is no different from action. It does not precede it or "determine" it, properly speaking. It is identical to it, as the original know-how of life, as praxis and a living body. Action, as we have seen, is only the actualization of the primitive power of this phenomenological body.”

Michel Henry (1922–2002) French writer

Michel Henry, Barbarism, Continuum, 2012, p. 96-97
Books on Culture and Barbarism, Barbarism (1987)

Life, Knowledge

“Above all, I believe sports have given me the God´s gift of ease to relate to people. It is very easy for me to be with people of any age, social condition or circumstance. Sports helps you not to have barriers. This has helped me a lot in the priesthood. In the second place, I would say that in sports, one works as a team. One person doesn't win, the whole team does. Moreover, I have played basketball especially. This also leads one to see the need to be organized. Each one has to give his best. The leader is not the one who carries a plan forward. He is the one who creates conditions in such a way that each one can give the best of himself. He is not the one in front carrying the flag. This is also very important in the priesthood and the episcopate. In the third place, as in sports, it is very important to know how to struggle. Life, for a man who wants to be loyal in the Church today, is a real struggle. Today we cannot say that the Church is synonymous with success — on the contrary.”

Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne (1943) Catholic cardinal

Source: From Basketball Player to Cardinal https://zenit.org/2001/02/27/from-basketball-player-to-cardinal/ (27 February 2001)

Life, God, People, Age

“I learned that comprehending someone’s heartache is, unfortunately, very often the only way to stop condemning them…I learned that most of us wouldn’t necessarily do certain things over again—like not partake in a moment of passion—even if we know how long it might stay with us/hurt us.”

Lisa Taddeo (1980) American writer and journalist

Source: On what she learned after completing Three Women in “Three Women Author Lisa Taddeo: ‘You Are Seen’” https://www.bookish.com/articles/lisa-taddeo-three-women-interview/ in Bookish (2019 Jul 9)

Way, Learning, Passion, Hurt

“None knows the day that friends must part
None knows how near is sorrow;
If there be laughter in your heart
Don't hold it for tomorrow.”

Edgar Guest (1881–1959) American writer

Source: A Heap o' Livin' (1916), A Song, opening lines, p. 34.

Laughter, Heart, Parting

“Correct breathing also performs a constant massage of the internal organs by raising them up and down, thus curing constipation when it is caused by faulty insufficient breathing (as is often the case) which holds the muscles of the abdomen in a static position. Therefore the first thing to do is to make sure that you know how to breathe from the physical standpoint, and how to control the muscle of the diaphragm. This muscle forms the dividing line between the chest and the stomach just below the ribs. Place the fingers upon the diaphragm muscle just below the ribs and under the centre breast bone. In this arched hollow lies the muscle upon which correct breathing depends. Take a slow breath, drawing the muscle upwards and inwards, following its movement with the fingers, fill the lungs with air right up to the collarbones. Then breathe out slowly whilst tucking the diaphragm still further inwards and upwards!”

Vera Stanley Alder (1898–1984) British artist

Source: Humanity Comes of Age, A study of Individual and World Fulfillment (1950), Chapter XV The Essential Science of Breathing

Drawing, Dependency

“How much grit do you think you've got?
Can you quit a thing that you like a lot?
You may talk of pluck; it's an easy word,
And where'er you go it is often heard;
But can you tell to a jot or guess
Just how much courage you now possess?You may stand to trouble and keep your grin,
But have you tackled self-discipline?
Have you ever issued commands to you
To quit the things that you like to do,
And then, when tempted and sorely swayed,
Those rigid orders have you obeyed?Don't boast of your grit till you've tried it out,
Nor prate to men of your courage stout,
For it's easy enough to retain a grin
In the face of a fight there's a chance to win,
But the sort of grit that is good to own
Is the stuff you need when you're all alone.How much grit do you think you've got?
Can you turn from joys that you like a lot?
Have you ever tested yourself to know
How far with yourself your will can go?
If you want to know if you have grit,
Just pick out a joy that you like, and quit.It's bully sport and it's open fight;
It will keep you busy both day and night;
For the toughest kind of a game you'll find
Is to make your body obey your mind.
And you never will know what is meant by grit
Unless there's something you've tried to quit.”

Edgar Guest (1881–1959) American writer

Source: Just Folks (1917), On Quitting

Men, Game, Courage, Business

“I still don’t know how to define or answer what is the meaning behind life and death. And I don’t think I will be able to define them in the future either. It’s difficult. What I can do, is to live my life, which is only given to me once, without regret until it runs its course. That’s I think the best I can do, at the present.”

Gong Yoo (1979) South Korean actor

Source: "Gong Yoo talks life, death and 20 years in the business" in Korea JoongAng Daily https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/2021/04/19/entertainment/movies/Gong-Yoo-actor-interview/20210419145803689.html (19 April 2021)

Life, Death, Thinking, Future

“Don’t kid yourself: The pain and scars from that day run deep.
I said it many times and it’s no more true or real than when we think about the events of January 6th: We are in a battle for the soul of America. A battle that, by the grace of God and the goodness and gracious — and greatness of this nation, we will win.
Believe me, I know how difficult democracy is. And I’m crystal clear about the threats America faces. But I also know that our darkest days can lead to light and hope.”

Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)

Source: 2022, Remarks to Mark One Year Since The January 6th Deadly Assault On The U.S. Capitol (2022)

God, Pain, Hope, Democracy

“I want to create new educational and work opportunities for young professionals in our country. I want them to gain experience and to become educated and trained to be owners and managers of all sectors of our society. While, at this time, we must rely on foreign know-how in the oil and gas sectors, the ground must be readied now for young Guyanese to assume those positions, regardless of their race, color or creed.”

Irfaan Ali (1980) President of Guyana

Source: Irfaan Ali (2022) cited in: " President pledges more oil and gas scholarships https://www.stabroeknews.com/2022/01/01/news/guyana/president-pledges-more-oil-and-gas-scholarships/" in Stabroek News, 1 January 2022.

Education, Color, Time, Training

“The art of knowing how to live: being grateful for who you are.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) L'arte del saper vivere: essere grati per ciò che si è.
Source: prevale.net

Art

“You are guilty every time you use an alibi, saying you don't know how you want to live.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Sei colpevole ogni volta che usi un alibi, dicendo che non sai come vuoi vivere.
Source: prevale.net

Time

“I don’t know how long I sat there reading about it, but at some point I’d read enough. I leaned back and stared at the ceiling. I suppose I was in shock, but whether it was the shock of learning about something horrific, or the shock of learning about my own ignorance, I’m not sure.”

Tara Westover book Educated

Source: Educated (2018), Chapter 17, “To Keep it Holy” (p. 157; the reference is to the Holocaust)

Learning, Reading

“Buying the necessary or the important is not synonymous with avarice, but with knowing how to give the right value to money.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Acquistare il necessario o l'importante non è sinonimo di avarizia, ma di saper dare il giusto valore al denaro.
Source: prevale.net

Money

“Age has caught up, and only God knows how much my heart fills with excitement for every moment I represented Botswana and Africa at large”

Amantle Montsho (1983) Motswana sprinter

https://southerntimesafrica.com/amantle-montsho-hangs-up-her-spikes/ Amantle Montsho hangs up her spikes, The Southern Times, 24 October 2021, Retrieved 16 November 2021
"Simply the Greatest" (2020)

God, Age, Heart

“Human beings have this peculiar capacity that no other creatures have: I know how I can be hurt, because I am aware of my own limitations–painfully aware—and now, because I know how I can be hurt, I know how you can be hurt, and I can take advantage of that. And that's how evil enters the world.”

Jordan Peterson (1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology

Unsourced

World, Evil, Hurt

“The Church carries out its mission through the help provided by the offerings of the faithful. And we don't know how much people will be able to give. Precisely for this reason we must be sober, rigorous. We must manage the finances with the passion and diligence of a good family man”

Juan Antonio Guerrero Alves (1959) Roman Catholic clergyman

Guerrero: Holy See’s bottom line is in view of mission https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2020-05/guerrero-holy-see-economy-mission-deficit-default-income-expense.html (13 May 2020)

People, Family, Faith, Passion

“Like sometimes when a coach is behind you, they don’t really know how you feel. It’s hard for me to tell him, because I’m also thinking. If the coach and I think the same thing, that’s good, but sometimes it doesn’t happen. Then do you listen to the coach, or do you listen to yourself?”

Beiwen Zhang (1990) badminton player

"Beiwen Zhang – Adapting To Every Challenge" in Badminton Pan America http://www.badmintonpanam.org/beiwen-zhang-adapting-to-every-challenge/ (15 December 2020)

Feeling, Thinking

“I only know how to approach a place by walking. For what does a street photographer do but walk and watch and wait and talk, and then watch and wait some more, trying to remain confident that the unexpected, the unknown, or the secret heat of the known awaits just around the corner.”

Alex Webb (photographer) (1952) American photojournalist

Source: Bubacz, Kate (June 6, 2017). "6 Photographers On What It Means To Be Close Enough" https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katebubacz/get-closer. BuzzFeed.

Secret, Confidence, Waiting

“[G]ood bankers understand the shortcomings of accounting and know how to correct for them.”

Henry Kaufman (1927) American economist

On Money and Markets (2000)

Understanding

“You can say this for Senior Management: it knows how to articulate a goal. The strategy may be fuzzy, the execution nonexistent, but Senior Management knows what it wants.”

Max Barry book Company

Source: Company (2006), p. 54

“Now, I’m telling you. Mark my fucking words. This, it’ s going to be a clear and decisive win. I don’t know how it’s going to happen. I just want to let my body freely move with headbutts and elbows, I don’t care. I just want to finish the guy.”

Dave Leduc (1991) Canadian Lethwei fighter (born 1991)

Talking about his rematch with Cyrus Washington MyMMANews.com https://mymmanews.com/dave-leduc-the-king-of-lethwei/ (October 13, 2020)

Guy, Decision

“I say this to you because we Spaniards are a forgetful people, because we are used to living for the moment, because we do not look back, because we do not know how to see the chain of heroes, because we do not contemplate the sum of sacrifices.”

Francisco Franco (1892–1975) Spanish general and dictator

1940s, 1940, Laureate Cross acceptance speech (July 1940)

People, Forgetting

“In all people, the main secret is knowing how to distinguish who shows and who demonstrates.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: In tutte le persone, il segreto principale è saper distinguere chi mostra da chi dimostra.
Source: prevale.net

People, Secret

“Anyone who wants to be next to you must know how to add, not remove.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Chi vuole esserti accanto deve saper aggiungere, non togliere.
Source: prevale.net

“Adapting does not mean resigning, but knowing how to act of intellect.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Adattarsi non significa rassegnarsi, ma saper agire d'intelletto.
Source: prevale.net

“Loving means knowing how to listen, being there, knowing how to prioritize, the attentions. To love means to complete each other.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Amare vuol dire saper ascoltare, esserci, saper dare la priorità, le attenzioni. Amare significa completarsi.
Source: prevale.net

Love

“The complicated, crazy and audacious woman… the woman who sculpts the thought, who knows how to excite and fascinate… the woman who smells of life and love: she kidnaps mind, soul and heart.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: La donna complicata, pazza e audace... la donna che scolpisce il pensiero, che sa emozionare e affascinare... la donna che profuma di vita e amore: rapisce mente, anima e cuore.
Source: prevale.net

Love, Life, Soul, Heart

“Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.”

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) English short-story writer, poet, and novelist

Money

“There are people who still know how to thank. Thank you, a simple word that shows gratitude, a gesture in extinctinction.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Esistono persone che sanno ancora ringraziare. Grazie, una semplice parola che dimostra gratitudine, un gesto in estinzione.
Source: prevale.net

People, Gratitude

“Always choose people who know how to pay attention to details, who know how to be grateful for your attention, but above all choose people who know how to value your time and your person.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Scegli sempre persone che sappiano prestare attenzione ai dettagli, che sappiano essere grate per le tue attenzioni, ma soprattutto scegli persone che sappiano valorizzare il tuo tempo e la tua persona.
Source: prevale.net

People, Time, Personality

“Know how to behave with others. Knowing how to understand their needs, wants and expectations is the art of winning people's hearts and minds.”

Titon Rahmawan

People, Art, Understanding, Heart

“There is nothing wrong with being beautiful. It is a basic right for a woman to look like that. It's just that they must know how to place their dignity and self-respect.”

Titon Rahmawan

Beauty

“A manipulator knows how to capitalize on the strengths and weaknesses of others. They use deception to control others. To be able to avoid this trap, do not be easily lured by lures that sound very tempting before we actually test the reality.”

Titon Rahmawan

Reality

“True warriors know how to maintain their reputation. For it is the cornerstone of all the victories they seek to achieve.”

Titon Rahmawan

Victory

“Happiness does not hide secrets. It is open for anyone to obtain and enjoy. It's just that not everyone knows how to get and enjoy it.”

Titon Rahmawan

Happiness, Secret

“Opinions and criticism can influence and even make a difference when delivered in a good way and at the right time. He just needs to know how to put himself and others in his place.”

Titon Rahmawan

Way, Time

“Empower the useless people who do not know how to empower themselves. That is the beginning of change and progress.”

Titon Rahmawan

People, Change

“The real rulers are those who know how to control the future.”

Titon Rahmawan

Future

“I love women who don't let themselves be tamed. Those who scratch and bite, but know how to love.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Adoro le donne che non si lasciano domare. Quelle che graffiano e mordono, ma sanno amare.
Source: prevale.net

Love, Women

“It's not common to find the woman who smells of dignity, the strong woman who knows how to speak the truth, delicate and complicated because she knows her value and who could belong only to who dare to love her every defect, with notable respect.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Non è comune trovare la donna che profuma di dignità, la donna forte che sa dire la verità, delicata e complicata perché consapevole del suo valore e che potrebbe appartenere solo a chi osa amare ogni suo difetto, con notevole rispetto.
Source: prevale.net

Love, Truth, Strong

“In life by your side, try to find a person who knows how to read your heart and, above all, a person who knows how to give a smile to your soul every day.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Nella vita al vostro fianco, cercate di trovare una persona che sappia leggere il vostro cuore e, soprattutto, una persona che sappia regalare ogni giorno un sorriso alla vostra anima.
Source: prevale.net

Life, Smile, Soul, Reading

“It's difficult, very difficult to find someone who knows how to love. Someone who knows how to listen to the beating of his heart.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: È difficile, molto difficile trovare qualcuno che sappia amare. Qualcuno che sappia ascoltare il battito del suo cuore.
Source: prevale.net

Love, Heart

“Share your life with a person who gives you enchantments and smiles, encourages you to need, stimulates your enthusiasm and, above all, with a person who knows how to love.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Condividete la vostra vita con una persona che vi regala incanti e sorrisi, vi incoraggia al bisogno, stimola il vostro entusiasmo e, soprattutto, con una persona che sappia amare.
Source: prevale.net

Love, Life, Smile, Personality

“There are many types of dwarfism, but the worst is the one who cannot respect others, because he does not know how to respect himself.”

Titon Rahmawan

“Share your life with a special person, who knows how to love, choose and fight, with true and sincere values. A person who at the mere thought of him, makes your heart beat… simply: your love.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Condividete la vostra vita con una persona speciale, che sappia amare, scegliere e lottare, con dei valori veri e sinceri. Una persona che al solo suo pensiero, vi faccia battere il cuore... semplicemente: il vostro amore.
Source: prevale.net

Love, Life, Heart, Fight

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