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  • I'm beginning to see that just knowing the piece is not enough. Having a clear technique is not enough. Having a broad repertory is not enough. I want desperately to get past all those things. -- Leonard Slatkin
  • I am not as scared about people tearing this one up as I would have been in the past because of the basis in 'knowing' this one has. There are people out there that are hungry for this. -- Kenny Loggins
  • The faith religious believers have in God is small compared to the faith people put in politicians, knowing how many times they have been disappointed in the past but still insisting that this time it will be different. -- Jonathan Sacks
  • I learned to put 100 percent into what you're doing. I learned about setting goals for yourself, knowing where you want to be and taking small steps toward those goals. I learned about adversity and how to get past it. -- Kristi Yamaguchi
  • History is a way of interpreting, rather than, say, knowing, the past. It is usually a set of disputes between those who have access to the same sources. It depends on ideology as much as voting in an election does. -- Colm Toibin
  • Broadly speaking, there are two approaches to crime: the realistically detailed police procedural, usually grim and downbeat, and the more left-field, joyous theatre of ideas in which past masters once specialised. Knowing that I would never be able to handle the former, I set about reviving the latter. -- Christopher Fowler
  • At the solemn moment of death, every man, even when death is sudden, sees the whole of his past life marshalled before him, in its minutest details. For one short instant the personal becomes one with the individual and all-knowing ego. But this instant is enough to show to him the whole chain of causes which have been at work during his life. -- Annie Besant
  • Power is knowing your past. -- Spike Lee
  • The unhistorical are usually, without knowing it, enslaved to a fairly recent past. -- C. S. Lewis
  • The past stands in the path of the future, knowing it will be crushed. -- Alaya Dawn Johnson
  • It's important to know the past, but your survival depends on knowing the present. -- Jonathan Maberry
  • Happiness is the ability to move forward, knowing the future will be better than the past. -- Zig Ziglar
  • The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
  • Trying to plan for the future without knowing the past is like trying to plant cut flowers. -- David Boorstin
  • There is wisdom in knowing your limits and then daring to push past them. Choose to live an exceptional life. -- Truth Devour
  • Somehow you've come past the realm of just knowing about this Person called Jesus Christ and He is real to you. -- Norman Grubb
  • Maybe the secret to continued success is as simple as knowing that your past successes could be done so much better now. -- Bill Loguidice
  • ...knowing about your past lives is worse than useless if that knowledge doesn't bring you some kind of positive change or healing." -- Lianne Downey
  • They were watching, out there past men's knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea. -- Cormac McCarthy
  • Doubting things go ill often hurts more Than to be sure they do; for certainties Either are past remedies, or, timely knowing, The remedy then born. -- William Shakespeare
  • It would be no reproach to a philosopher, that he knew the future better than the past, or even than the present. It is better worth knowing. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • One key to success is knowing the difference between knowledge and wisdom. One is information from the past while the other is the key to the future. -- Bill Crawford
  • Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only on that score. -- Alexander Pope
  • The past and the future were starlight, seemingly so close, but forever out of reach. Eli felt that starlight, the infinity of knowing nothing but his finite existence. -- Daniel J. Rice
  • This seems to have been St. Augustine's very notion of "memory," not just nostalgia for some past moment, but connecting past, present, and future in one complete contemplative knowing. -- Richard Rohr
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