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  • The accumulation of facts, even if interesting in themselves, should not constitute the main part of education; these facts, whether they be of classical learning or knick-knacks of history, will be of little use unless the mind has been trained to see them in proper perspective.

    Arthur Lynch (1921). “Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day”
  • In retrospect, I'm really shocked at how far I put my heart out there on the line with 'Prima Donna'. I seem to have this knack for being able to accomplish that.

    Heart   Knack   Lines  
  • I swear I've never met a man who has your knack for lack of social grace. If you weren't naturally charming, someone would have stabbed you by now.

    Men   Grace   Knack  
    Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.61, Penguin
  • I've sung my whole life. I did a lot of musical theater growing up, I sing in the shower, sing in the car, sing everywhere really, on set at Chuck, all the time. I like it, and I've always felt like I've had a knack for it, or a talent for it, on some level, I don't know.

  • Sticking with that uncertainty, getting the knack of relaxing in the midst of chaos, learning not to panic-this is the spiritual path.

    Spiritual   Knack   Panic  
    Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.14, Shambhala Publications
  • I don't think anyone enjoys raising money, but for some reason I seem to have a knack...

    Thinking   Knack   Reason  
    "Profile: Louis Susman, Obama's pick for ambassador to the UK" by Andrew Clark, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2009.
  • every Jack He must study the knack If he wants to make sure of his Jill!

    Knack   Want   Study  
    Arthur Sullivan, W. S. Gilbert (2008). “The Savoy Operas: The Complete Gilbert and Sullivan: The Complete Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.863, Penguin UK
  • There is a technique, a knack, for thinking, just as there is for doing other things. You are not wholly at the mercy of your thoughts, any more than they are you. They are a machine you can learn to operate.

  • If you want to marry me, here's what you'll have to do: You must learn how to make a perfect chicken-dumpling stew. And you must sew my holey socks, And soothe my troubled mind, And develop the knack for scratching my back, And keep my shoes spotlessly shined. And while I rest you must rake up the leaves, And when it is hailing and snowing You must shovel the walk...and be still when I talk, And-hey-where are you going?

    Shoes   Snow   Perfect  
    Shel Silverstein, “My Rules”
  • If there is some good in me, it is because I was born in the subtle atmosphere of your country of Arezzo. Along with the milk of my nurse I received the knack of handling chisel and hammer, with which I make my figures.

  • stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves

    Stupidity   Knack   Way  
    Albert Camus (1948). “The Plague”, Vintage
  • Some people are born losers; others acquire the knack gradually.

    People   Knack   Moral  
  • I used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like precious things on a shelf.

    Knack   Wizards   Littles  
    "Ben Whishaw: Hold the front page" by Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2011.
  • The streets would have chewed me up and spit me out and I knew that, but I found my own ways and different knacks for getting in trouble and being reckless with my life. And I've overcome a lot of personal demons and to be alive is really my greatest achievement.

    Achievement   Alive   Way  
    "Talking With Our Mouths Full: Michael Kenneth Williams". Interview with Mark Anthony Green, www.gq.com. October 4, 2011.
  • I have the knack of easing scruples.

    Knack   Scruples  
  • I am one who fights without a knack of hoping confidentlysimply a Scotch-Irishman who will not be conquered.

    Fighting   Scotch   Knack  
  • I took two fiction-writing courses in college and majored in literature. I felt that I had a knack though I wouldn't go so far as to call it a talent. But it scared me. I felt it was a childish thing wanting to write and that I would forget about it eventually.

    Writing   College   Two  
  • You can have a knack for dancing, but you still have to practice till your feet are bleeding to be worthy of being in front of an audience.

    Practice   Feet   Dancing  
  • It looks as if I were meant to be alone, and that any hope of happiness is not meant. Am I too old to acquire the knack for happiness?

    May Sarton (2017). “The Journals of May Sarton Volume One: Journal of a Solitude, Plant Dreaming Deep, and Recovering”, p.114, Open Road Media
  • The funny thing about our act is that dad gets the worst of it, although I'm the one who apparently receives the bruises [...] the secret is in landing limp and breaking the fall with a foot or a hand. It's a knack. I started so young that landing right is second nature with me. Several times I'd have been killed if I hadn't been able to land like a cat. Imitators of our act don't last long, because they can't stand the treatment.

    Dad   Fall   Cat  
    Interview in "The Detroit News", December 4, 1914.
  • If you love math, have a knack for numbers, study hard and become a successful accountant; who cares if you can't draw a straight line or sing on key?

    Math   Successful   Keys  
  • I have a knack of hoping, which is as good as an estate.

    George Eliot (2009). “Daniel Deronda”, p.550, Oxford Paperbacks
  • As I grew older I found that I really had a knack for rhyming and I pursued that. So by thirteen I got serious about using my writing and rhyming skills. I did it everywhere I could.

    Writing   Skills   Knack  
  • Mistakes are at the very base of human thought, embedded there, feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided with the knack for being wrong, we could never get anything useful done. We think our way along by choosing between right and wrong alternatives, and the wrong choices have to be made as often as the right ones. We get along in life this way.

    Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”
  • I seem to have a knack for picking movies that go on to be cult favorites.

    Knack   Goes On   Cult  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • I didn't know if I still had it in me to be really dangerous, but I thought so. It's like knocking someone off a bike with a baseball bat; you never really lose the knack.

    Baseball   Healing   Bats  
    Simon R. Green (2003). “Something from the Nightside”, p.15, Penguin
  • Happiness isn't about what happens to us - it's about how we perceive what happens to us. It's the knack of finding a positive for every negative, and viewing a setback as a challenge. If we can just stop wishing for what we don't have, and start enjoying what we do have, our lives can be richer; more fulfilled - and happier. The time to be happy is now.

    Happy   Challenges   Wish  
  • I always had a knack for improvisation. I can write down the notes I play, but never really had a proper academic musical background. I suppose I'm blessed and cursed by the fact I have that freedom.

    Blessed   Writing   Play  
  • My dad's a scratch golfer and I've got the knack of seeing something and then replicating it. I saw my dad swing a club and I worked out how to do the same thing. My backswing and follow-through have been basically the same since I was two.

    Dad   Swings   Two  
    "McIlroy a Master in the making when he thinks outside The Box". Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. April 6, 2009.
  • Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain-tricks of custom: but of all of these, perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous, by simple repetition, ceases to be miraculous.

    Simple   Knack   Illusion  
    Thomas Carlyle (1871). “Works”, p.179
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