Pema Chodron
Buddhist Teacher, Author
"Sticking with that uncertainty, getting the knack of relaxing in the midst of chaos, learning not to panic-this is the spiritual path."
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Knack
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Kurt Russell
Actor
"I seem to have a knack for picking movies that go on to be cult favorites."
Leonardo DiCaprio
Actor, Producer, Environmental Activist
"School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn."
Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"Man has the supreme knack of deceiving himself; the Englishman is supremest among men."
Brandon Lee
Actor, Martial Artist
"I always had a pretty good knack for raising hell."
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"I have the knack of easing scruples."
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"It looks as if I were meant to be alone, and that any hope of happiness is not meant. Am I too old to acquire the knack for happiness?"
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"When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb if I don't. I have a knack for disturbing."
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"stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves"
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"I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on."
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"Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain-tricks of custom: but of all of these, perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous, by simple repetition, ceases to be miraculous."
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"Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them."
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"I am one who fights without a knack of hoping confidentlysimply a Scotch-Irishman who will not be conquered."
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"Depend upon it, sir, it is when you come close to a man in conservation that you discover what his real abilities are; to make a speech in a public assembly is a knack."
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"I have a knack of hoping, which is as good as an estate."
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"If I had the knack I'd sing like Cherry flakes falling"
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"I'll be the first to admit that we're the 90's version of Cheap Trick or the Knack..."
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