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I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world.
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.
To enter into the initiation of sound, of vibration and mindfulness, is to take a giant step toward consciously knowing the soul.
Like a pet fish unaware of the fishbowl it lives in, each of us inherently discriminates against young people without knowing it.
Confidence is believing in your own ability, knowing what you have to do to win. My confidence was developed through preparation.
A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.
Knowing what I now know I would never have done anything so fatuous; but then I never would have known what I know now had I not.
There's something very special about knowing what you want to do and knowing the story you want to tell, but finding it together.
Its all about finding the right note at the right place and knowing when to leave well enough alone. And that's a lifelong quest.
I don't have a lot of stomach for people who don't show up to a set knowing their lines because you're keeping 150 people waiting.
I have a theory that burnout is about resentment. And you beat it by knowing what it is you're giving up that makes you resentful.
Man was made to lead with his chin; he is worth knowing only with his guard down, his head up and his heart rampant on his sleeve.
As far as being married and what it means to me... it's nice knowing that I have a partner in life and that someone's got my back.
In Iran, as in all developing countries, they wanted to copy the outside world, without knowing what was good for our own country.
Knowing that the gospel is true is the essence of a testimony. Consistently being true to the gospel is the essence of conversion.
The new illiteracy is about more than not knowing how to read the book or the word; it is about not knowing how to read the world.
Don't think that examining and knowing the nature of your mind is just an Eastern trip. That's a wrong conception. It's your trip.
We must agree to live in this world, with all that is unfair about it, without knowing why, if we wish to have a God in our lives.
As a reporter, I approach every situation knowing that everyone has his or her own agenda. It's not a bad thing; it's just a fact.
The mountain decides whether you climb or not. The art of mountaineering is knowing when to go, when to stay, and when to retreat.
God is my guide, so I try to not judge myself too much, knowing that at the end of the day, my greatest judge will be Jehovah God.
My children range in age from 5 to 31. We adopted the 5-year-old, but people are often impressed with my wife before knowing that.
You have to start knowing yourself so well that you begin to know other people. A piece of us is in every person we can ever meet.
you cannot confuse bravery or courage with lack of fear. Real courage, true bravery is doing things in spite of fear, knowing fear.
You know what Oscar Wilde said, ma'am? He said, "nothing that is worth knowing can be taught". Nothing personal, ma'am... Carry on.
We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations
When things start to get rough, you find comfort in your faith. Knowing that no matter what, you can dust yourself off and be okay.
Look for opportunities to help someone else, but don't give expecting something in return. Give knowing that if we give we receive.
Sometimes the space between knowing what to do and actually doing it is a very short walk. Other times it is an impossible expanse.
It took nature 100 million years to make the ape stand up and become Homo sapiens. It took us only 10,000 to make knowing obsolete.
...sometimes you just want the comfort of knowing that somebody really does care about you (even if they show it in peculiar ways).
Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.
I don't know all the reasons for these achievements, but I know that I love what I do and I have never wanted to rest on my laurels.
Strength wasn‘t about being able to do everything alone. Strength was knowing when to ask for help and not being too proud to do it.
Just growing up in Pittsburgh and knowing different neighborhoods, having family there and just loving it, it's like no other place.
I like not knowing too much about somebody I'm photographing, because the process also becomes an experience for me to learn about .
It's about me, or people wouldn't be so anxious to keep me from knowing about it. The absence of information is information. ~ Ender
Sold my house in LA, packed myself up and moved to New York, not knowing anybody. Friends are very hard to make after a certain age.
A lot of what we experience as strength comes from knowing what to do with weakness. Nickel and Dimed On (Not) Getting By in America
Where will I be five years from now? I delight in not knowing. That's one of the greatest things about life its wonderful surprises.
I grew up pretty much prevented from knowing anything from Communist China except that they were the bad guys that stole our country.
Neil Kinnock's speeches go on for so long because he has nothing to say and so he has no way of knowing when he's finished saying it.
People tease me about knowing somehow that Obama would put Clinton into the cabinet, and everybody would talk about a team of rivals.
There is no necessity for a technique or formula for meditation. Inner feeling, or inner knowing, is the silent voice of inspiration.
To respect a person is not possible without knowing him; care and responsibility would be blind if they were not guided by knowledge.
By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.
Knowing can be a curse on a person's life. I'd traded in a pack of lies for a pack of truth, and I didn't know which one was heavier.
No one's interested really in knowing what policies or diplomatic initiatives or arms negotiations might have been compromised by me.
I'm always after putting people in extreme circumstances. I'm always after not knowing what I'm doing in those extreme circumstances.
Just knowing that the world is round Here I'm dancing on the ground Am I right side up or upside down? Is this real or am I dreaming?