How Things Quotes

296 quotes by 268 authors

I love working out how things are made, which is why I have so many models of towers. — Douglas Coupland
The novelist wants to know how things will turn out; the historian already knows how things turned out, but wants to know why they turned… — Michael Korda
My role is to just tell the highest degree of truth with every character and every story. From there, I have no clue whatsoever how… — Sarah Shahi
Religion can have psychological and social roles, but in terms of really explaining how things work, science works differently. Science is based on material elements… — Lisa Randall
Followers need to see how things will get better and what that future might look like. Leaders need to build that foundation of stability, and… — Tom Rath
For the first case I did with Octone, 360 deals were not at all being talked about. And then for the follow-up case, it was… — Anita Elberse
As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them. — Lucy Hawking
As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them. With a friend, I built a number of complicated models that… — Stephen Hawking
When I was four or five years old, my grandfather showed me how to build things, paint, saw. Through years of fixing bikes, repairing lawn… — Tony Fadell
Essentially, I spent most of my childhood with my mother and my older sister, and I suppose I had rather a romantic vision of how… — Claire Tomalin
Characters are so important to a story that they actually decide where the story is going. When I write, I know my characters. I know… — E L Konigsburg
I hate how things must be classified. How this is applied to musicians implies that they somehow contrive their products and have studied the demographics… — Trevor Rabin
Failure is central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation. Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break… — Henry Petroski
Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break or fail. — Henry Petroski
Quite often, intent on conveying how things can go wrong for a culture (science fiction) or an individual (horror) or all of magical creation (fantasy),… — Paul Di Filippo
The stakeholder approach to business sees integration rather than separation, and sees how things fit together. — John Mackey
I just wondered how things were put together. — Claude Shannon
Especially when I first really started to work with Kenneth and Franklin, who had been in space already. And so, they were able to talk… — Philippe Perrin
I definitely like the mystery of not knowing how things will turn out, you know. — Ian Williams
To me, the newspaper business was a way to learn about life and how things worked in the real world and how people spoke. You… — Carl Hiaasen

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