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Quotes About Know-how

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~ Eric Van Lustbader
I remembered the times I'd second-guessed myself or questioned my own ability. The times when a little voice in my head worried that I didn't have the know-how or the experience to reach for an exciting opportunity.
~ Marillyn Hewson
Moreover, as the Smolensk Archive spells out in detail, Stalin's methods of rule succeeded in destroying whatever measure of competence and technical know-how the country had acquired after the October Revolution.
~ Hannah Arendt
You would have entire suburban neighborhoods of upper-middle-class professionals, none of whom had possessed even the basic know-how to replace a cracked window.
~ Max Brooks
And he treated me with a chivalrous masculine know-how that I sopped up like a person who'd never heard of how chivalry was just another nefarious masculine scheme to keep women in their place.
~ Eve Babitz
Developing countries have much to gain from capital mobility: the ability to tap external sources of finance, greater financial efficiency from deeper stock and bond markets, and technology transfer and know-how from foreign direct investment.
~ Zanny Minton Beddoes
We know who are the best doctors, which doctors are performing well. Why are we not giving this know-how to our customers?
~ Thomas Buberl
The outdoors is one of the safest places you can be--provided that you've got a little bit of know-how and a lot of common sense.
~ Karen Berger
Stoutly pro-tax-cut and libertarian on social issues like abortion, Trump is a Republican with the business know-how to turn the country's economy around.
~ Roger Stone
Privately now, I would like to comment to you on the Noble Bitch in Trace 32. Why this eltchl, this conservative from the halls of the ikons and holy rollers, the pluckers of rondeaux and smellers of lilies, why this spalpeen should set himself up as a special critic of literary know-how is more than I can dispense with with a quodlibet. I need a stronger antiseptic.
~ Charles Bukowski
Eggplants are finicky, complicated, and often misunderstood. If you know how to treat one well, then it shows that you have know-how and dedication.
~ Antoni Porowski
'Independents' - the industry term for companies that have more capital and know-how than the typical 'wildcatter' - can grow either by exploring and finding reserves or by buying a company that already has them.
~ Tahl Raz
That amazing poise of character, which we call serenity is the closing lesson of subculture, the fruitage of the soul. It is treasured as know-how, greater to be preferred than gold—yea, than even nice gold. How insignificant mere cash searching for appears in assessment with a serene existence—a existence that dwells in the ocean of Truth, below the waves, beyond the attain of tempests, in the Eternal Calm!
~ James Allen
Africa needs roads. Roads bring know-how and fertilizer to farmers and ideas and business for commerce.
~ Norman Borlaug
Being able to see and recombine existing assets and know-how in new ways allows us to take an 'ingenious approach to innovation' - one that creates even more value from what we already have and know.
~ Cathy Engelbert
Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.
~ Thomas Merton
The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard thing to evaluate and it manifests itself in so many different ways. I do think the ability to know how to live a life and not be miserable is a sign of that.
~ Todd Solondz
The strict competences of independence, the formal mastery, the complexities of attitude and know-how necessary to life on the farm, which have been in the making in the race of farmers since before history, all are replaced by the knowledge of some fragmentary task that may be learned by rote in a little while.
~ Wendell Berry
He strides ahead of many of the other merchant princes. Inborn know-how they call it, but more likely it's lightning in the blood from the old sea-roving days when Norsemen set out in longboats to plunder whatever took their fancy. Anyway, men were born to be aggressive and I say hail to the male who isn't afraid to be one.
~ Violet Winspear
necessity gave them inspiration to action...experience gave them know-how...and I taught them the necessary knowledge.
~ W. Clement Stone
seeking self-inspiration, to action, seeking know-how, and seeking knowledge.
~ W. Clement Stone
inspiration to action, know-how, and activity knowledge. They are the keys to the system.
~ W. Clement Stone
The word know-how does not mean knowing how to do something-that's activity knowledge. Know-how is doing that something the right way, with skill and effectiveness, and with minimum expenditure of time and effort.
~ W. Clement Stone
In Italy there is a supreme know-how and a desire to achieve that doesn't really exist anywhere else. You can't make clothes like that in America, because it's just not in the tradition.
~ Unknown