How Things Quotes

296 quotes by 268 authors

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are. — Charles Caleb Colton
I can't control what people think. I'm not trying to manipulate people's thoughts or sentiments. I write all the time. You have to experience life,… — Mos Def
I suppose that the scope and implications of such forces have rendered my personal accounting ritual pretty much obsolete. That's how things sometimes go. — Brian Ferneyhough
You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a… — Nathan Fillion
Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen… — Kazuo Ishiguro
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. — Samuel Johnson
This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer… — Doris Lessing
The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I… — V.S. Naipaul
I think now that I'm in the autumn of my life, and I'm getting a chance of having an overview and looking at the shape… — Ron Perlman
I have principles in my professional and personal life as to how things are done. — Kevin Pietersen
Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight. — Auguste Rodin
Sometimes I feel like I'm in a dream world, because it doesn't always seem too logical how things work out. — Robert Rodriguez
If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree. — Jim Rohn
Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight. — William Safire
Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how… — Herbert Simon
The engineer, and more generally the designer, is concerned with how things ought to be - how they ought to be in order to attain… — Herbert Simon
By reading a lot of novels in a variety of genres, and asking questions, it's possible to learn how things are done - the mechanics… — Nicholas Sparks
You know, with the film industry crews, there's an odd mix between a very technical and a very artistic approach to the work, and sometimes… — Kristen Stewart
I'm hopeless at looking into myself and trying to see how things are working and why. — Tom Stoppard
When I think of how things could have turned out, I feel as if I've dodged, not just bullets, but 6mm shells. — Tom Stoppard

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