Knack Quotes

Sticking with that uncertainty, getting the knack of relaxing in the midst of chaos, learning not to panic-this is the spiritual path.

I seem to have a knack for picking movies that go on to be cult favorites.

School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn.

Man has the supreme knack of deceiving himself; the Englishman is supremest among men.

A knick-knack is a thing that sits on top of a whatnot.

I always had a pretty good knack for raising hell.

I have the knack of easing scruples.

every Jack He must study the knack If he wants to make sure of his Jill!

The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are.

Some people are born losers; others acquire the knack gradually.

I wanted to tell her that being loved is a talent too, that it takes as much guts and as much work as loving; that some people, for whatever reason, never learn the knack

I'll tell you what makes a great manager: A great manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are. He forces you to have a good opinion of yourself. He lets you know he believes in you.

Basically, I'm a people pleaser who has a knack for disappointing.

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?

As I grew older I found that I really had a knack for rhyming and I pursued that. So by thirteen I got serious about using my writing and rhyming skills. I did it everywhere I could.

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.

Some teachers just have a knack for working with autistic children. Other teachers do not have it.

Donald Trump is not going anywhere. And we see as calculated as these are, he has a knack for telling a certain segment of a base what they want.

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.

stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves

I obviously have a knack for getting on paper what a lot of people have thought and didn't realize they thought. And they say, 'Hey, yeah!' And they like that.

When I started designing in school, I discovered that I had a knack for it. I fell completely in love with architecture, and I remain in love with it.

Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.

I've been told by the prosecutors and by my own attorneys I should go to law school. I guess I have a knack for it.

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.

Comedy is just to me, maybe it's a natural knack, if I can see where the joke is in the writing and I can see where the setup is and I can tell this is the way to make it.

She still cared for me, and the best way I could make amends to her was to be happy. I do have a knack for finding great women.

Get the knack of getting people to help you and also pitch in yourself.

I don't think anyone enjoys raising money, but for some reason I seem to have a knack...

I don't actually have a lot of discipline. I've worked hard at music. But I feel like you know, I felt like kind of natural at it. I always had a knack for it.

We are all human beings with our own little knick-knacks and ways of doing things.

Killing is like riding, you see. One never really loses the knack.

I want no men around me who have not the knack of making friends.

I am one who fights without a knack of hoping confidentlysimply a Scotch-Irishman who will not be conquered.

I swear I've never met a man who has your knack for lack of social grace. If you weren't naturally charming, someone would have stabbed you by now.

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.

The way Gansey saw it was this: if you had a special knack for finding things, it meant you owed the world to look.

The ‘equilibrium’ that people see in me is really an illusion. I am as flawed as anyone. It’s only that I seem to have the knack of hiding.

At UCLA I quickly learned the knack of getting grades, a craven surrender to custom, since grades had little to do with learning.

In retrospect, I'm really shocked at how far I put my heart out there on the line with 'Prima Donna'. I seem to have this knack for being able to accomplish that.

I initially wanted to work in the music industry more on the A&R side. While I was in school, I began working in the New Business department of an advertising firm, and very quickly I was responsible for roughly 70% of their business, so you could say I had a natural knack for the advertising world.

I have a knack of hoping, which is as good as an estate.

As he demonstrated with 'Juno' and 'Up in the Air,' Reitman has an uncanny knack among contemporary directors for tapping into the zeitgeist in dramatically satisfying ways.

If I had the knack I'd sing like Cherry flakes falling

I've always had that knack for staying pretty even keel and the more the situation gets tense the more I see things clearly and I think that's just a knack that I've always had.

I used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like precious things on a shelf.

I'll be the first to admit that we're the 90's version of Cheap Trick or the Knack...

I know I haven't much sense or sobriety, but I've got what is ever so much better — the knack of making people like me.

When I was in college, at Wheaton-I inadvertently got cast in a play, and I had a really great time doing it. I didnt know I had any knack for it, but I really enjoyed myself. It was a complete surprise.

I can't draw a stick person. I can't play a musical instrument. But I've always had a knack for making money.