Top 100 Quotes About How It Works
#1. I've dealt with life the only way I know how. It works for me, and I don't need you or anyone else to try and figure me out or fix me. I am who I am and I've accepted that.
Colleen Hoover
#2. You know why horror-movie characters always get killed? Because they've never seen horror movies. They don't know how it works. Right? But we do. So no one go into the basement alone. No one go screaming off into the woods alone. No one has any sex.
Carrie Vaughn
#3. So is this how it works Doctor? You never interfere with the affairs of other peoples or planets, unless there are children crying?
Steven Moffat
#4. I have a unique workout schedule. I concentrate on balancing with my core and my legs. Then, like any other surfer, I try to read the ocean. It's always changing and moving - doing its own thing - so you need to learn how it works and how to position yourself.
Bethany Hamilton
#5. Do you guys ever reach the point of drunkenness where you're so drunk you're like "I better keep drinking to sober up" and then you're like "you know, I recognise that that is not how it works. But ...
Hannah Hart
#6. It's a very old word, it means 'to breathe into.' That's how it works: An angel breathes into men and shows us what to play, what to draw. How to find the truth of who we are and why we are here.
Jon Steele
#7. I miss, but I do hit the board, and all eight cans tumble to the ground as a result.
"I win," I tell him. "The goal was to knock down the cans, right? I knocked down all eight with one bullet. Can't beat that."
"I'm afraid that's not how it works, love.
Rysa Walker
#8. I've broken a cardinal rule of art, music, and career paths: actors are supposed to act, and musicians are supposed to music. That's how it works. You don't buy fish from a dentist, or ask a plumber for financial advice, so why listen to an actor's music?
Hugh Jackman
#9. Earlier, if you had a piece of technology, anyone could theoretically take it apart and put it back together again, and understand how it works. Some people would do that with the technology that they owned. It's not as easy to do that today. Most users wouldn't even think to do anything like that.
Charlie Jane Anders
#10. I don't ask what Alex sees in him because I'm afraid my disapproval will make her latch on to him even more. That's how it works. I'll have to pretend he doesn't bother me and that I don't want to drown him in the bay.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#12. To become a good clinical neurologist, you have to be intensely interested by what the brain does, how it works, how it breaks down.
Allan H. Ropper
#13. But that's how it works: no matter what the odds of a given event, that one-in-whatever-it-is has to come in at some point, or it wouldn't be a one-in-whatever chance. It would be zero.
Ben H. Winters
#14. To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.
Ai Weiwei
#15. People lead complicated lives and aren't hanging on your every word or the company mission statement. You have to become a broken record of your expectations of the organization and show people why it is relevant and how it works in specific ways.
Douglas Conant
#16. The more I find out about the dynamic and how it works, the more I realize how lucky I am to have ever got anything. Like ... there was no need to put me in 'Cinderella Man' - there was no need. Why? Just get an American actor - it would've been cheaper, probably.
Paddy Considine
#17. People assume that death hanging over my head would allow me to put things into perspective, but that's not how it works.
John Diamond
#18. Turmoil is everywhere, and the whole world is waiting for solutions to come from the top down. That's not how it works - community change from the bottom up makes a real difference.
Betty Williams
#19. I understand it all. I can write my own ticket for one or two movies. But if they're not the right ones, my ticket gets yanked. I understand that's how it works, and I'm okay with it.
Cuba Gooding Jr.
#20. We are rather like children, who must take a watch to pieces to see how it works.
Ernest Rutherford
#21. Because that's how it works after something terrible has happened. You know this is true if something terrible has ever happened to you. A thousand objects take on new meaning. Everything is a reminder of something else.
Deb Caletti
#22. The only way Magick ever has power is when its secrets are truly secret. Once too many people know how it works, then it doesn't work anymore.
Abramelin Keldor
#23. I read once that explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog," Mark said. "You find out how it works, but the frog dies in the process.
Cassandra Clare
#24. In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.
Olivia Wilde
#25. How it works is you have an organization that provides you with players, and our job, as we've said all along, is just to coach 'em up.
Randy Carlyle
#26. You can't do business without money, of course, because that's how it works, but I'm not in business only for money.
Alexander Mamut
#27. I'm constantly running across comments from developers who don't seem to understand that the code already tells us how it works; we need the comments to tell us why it works. Code comments
Jeff Atwood
#28. If you had told me at 45 years old that I would have to go on tour to get rest, I would've said, 'That's not how it works.' But nothing can be more gratifying. I'm a very hands-on dad.
Chris Robinson
#30. If you repeat something enough times, you will learn it. That's how it works!
Deyth Banger
#31. I don't specifically sit down to write a Motley Crue song, so for me, that's how it works. The things that sound like they might be Crue, I put aside on my hard drive and keep them in that pile.
Tommy Lee
#32. But then we have to leave, have to. It's always been that way, and it will always be that way, Jane. That's just.. how it works
James Patterson
#33. We need to learn to treat our own brain better - understanding how it works will help us do that.
Richard Bandler
#34. As for the (Ballon d'Or) criteria, I'm not really sure how it works. Sometimes it's a World Cup year, sometimes it isn't. Let them vote. For me, there is no doubt as to who is the best, year after year.
David Villa
#35. There is no reason why anyone should understand how it works ... and of course no reason why anyone should care ... unless you are curious, in which case I love you, for curiosity about the world and all its corners is a beautiful thing.
Stephen Fry
#36. I felt more like a scientist exploring nature, and Windows was my environment. You don't pass judgment on nature; you just explain how it works.
Charles Petzold
#37. As you love yourself, life loves you back. I don't think it has a choice either. I can't explain how it works, but I know it to be true.
Kamal Ravikant
#38. Nobody knows much about women, not even Freud, not even women themselves.
But it's like electricity: you don't need to know how it works to get a shock on the fingers.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#39. Music is made up out of these building blocks. Studying how these blocks go together and what they consist of and the math of how it works - it's all the same stuff; it's just different aesthetics that we're talking about.
Flea
#40. I don't know how it works, but God, in His love, is able to take our messes and make them clean.
Gary Chapman
#41. I've never meditated for a moment in my life. I don't know how it works. But one of the things you have to do to put yourself in the meditating mode is stop narrating yourself to yourself.
Aleksandar Hemon
#42. I'm interested in the structure of art and how it works. And the content is also interesting, but I don't want to keep the same structure and just plug in new content every week.
David Rees
#43. My theory on politics is no one really knows how it works, so I choose not to comment on stuff too outside of my league.
Kyle Kinane
#44. Your culture has become sophisticated, like a computer, or a drug that you take for a headache. You can use it, but you cannot explain how it works. Certainly not to girls who stack up their firewood against the side of the house.
Chris Cleave
#45. Chefs think about what it's like to make food. Being a scientist in the kitchen is about asking why something works, and how it works.
Nathan Myhrvold
#46. A lot of times, I get asked, 'Do you feel you have a responsibility to young girls to be a role model?' I don't see that happening as much to guys. I feel like, just because I'm a girl, I'm supposed to take more responsibility? Is that how it works?
Tove Lo
#47. If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat.
Douglas Adams
#48. Funny how it works out though that when you expect nothing from a person, they might just give you everything you didn't know you wanted.
Jamie Kain
#49. Walking by water frees your creativity. I don't know how it works - there's something about it that's liberating.
Val McDermid
#50. I think a lot of people have this idea that if you put something on YouTube you'll get famous overnight. It would be really great if that was possible, but that's not really how it works.
Lucas Cruikshank
#51. There always has to be someone to take the punches. That's how it works. It isn't fair, it isn't right, but that kid licking slop off the floor over there means that we get to eat in peace.
Alexander Gordon Smith
#52. It's never the right time to have kids, but it's always the right time for screwing. God's not a dumb shit. He knows how it works.
Justin Halpern
#53. If you, or any public-spirited programmer, wanted to figure out what the software on your machine is really doing, tough luck. It's illegal to reverse engineer the source code of commercial software to find out how it works.
Clive Thompson
#54. [...]that's how it works most of the time; we say the things that matter to people when it's already too late.
James Frey
#55. There are smiles that actually travel along telephone wires, although no engineer at Bell Laboratories could explain how it works.
Tom Robbins
#56. I don't know if that's a year's bad luck, or if that's how it works. But stealing a Christmas tree - that can't be a good thing, karma-wise.
Adrian McKinty
#57. I've been living in Portland for five months and I'm not sure how I feel about it. I probably won't really know for years because that's how it works right? You don't really develop feelings about a place till you've left it. It's like a girl or a dog.
Adam Rapp
#58. Quantum mechanics is so counter-intuitive, physicists have never been able to come up with a comfortable picture of how it works.
Taner Edis
#59. I want the players to play that way, so I'd better manage that way. The philosophy has been thrown out there. We've been talking about it. We've been working on it, so let's see how it works. Let's see if theory and reality can come together.
Joe Maddon
#60. There's something really beautiful about science, that human beings can ask these questions and can answer them. You can make models of nature and understand how it works.
Margaret Geller
#61. I am new to this page and still learning how it works. This is a lot of fun though getting to meet and see new people.
Darlene Cozart
#62. Know the business you're in for whatever you do, know it and understand how it works so you can be successful.
Ledisi
#63. I'm not his bodyguard," said Isabelle. "I'm his girlfriend. Which gives me the right to kick your ass if you bother him. That's how it works.
Cassandra Clare
#64. Life is a book of changes. It should be read only to understand how it works. You can't help the changes in life; they must come whether they are good or bad because the good must follow the bad and the bad must follow the good. T
Yogi Bhajan
#65. Because a place can do many things against you, and if it's your home or if it was your home at one time, you still love it. That's how it works.
Cristina Henriquez
#66. I don't know how it works, the science and math of it all, but I know that love given is courage gained.
Annie F. Downs
#67. You play the game to the end. That's how it works; play to the end.
Stephen King
#68. I didn't watch the Emmys because - well, for one, I have been to awards shows, and I understand how it works. For another, sour grapes. Actually, that's probably number one.
Kurt Fuller
#69. I've been part of running a label since I was a kid, so I understand how it works. But the more and more I learn about it, the less and less interested I am in it.
Conor Oberst
#70. There are moments where we forgot what got us to where we are now ... We stopped moving the ball. We know how it works. We are playing a great team with great players, and we've got to be close to perfect to win.
Manu Ginobili
#71. Anyone who's an executive at a record label does not understand what the Internet is, how it works, how people use it, how fans and consumers interact - no idea. I'm surprised they know how to use e-mail.
Trent Reznor
#72. We can learn so much from nature by simply observing how it works through a flower. The flower knows it is part of nature' we have forgotten that.
Thomas Sterner
#73. A.: Whatever; you must know how it works. An artifact containing... raw feelings, unprocessed sights and sounds and pains that the brain interprets- is that too crazy?
DR. BELKNAP: No. It has existed for thousands of years. It's called a book.
Edgar Cantero
#74. I don't ever go on the Internet. I don't even know how it works.
Beverly Cleary
#75. What more delightful avocation than to take a piece of land and by cautious experimentation to prove how it works. What more substantial service to conservation than to practice it on one's own land?
Aldo Leopold
#76. When you look at a commodities market you need hedgers and speculators. If you don't have one, you don't have a market. That's how it works.
T. Boone Pickens
#77. That is not how it works in Ravenclaw, Draco! If you have to push someone into a wall it means your brain is too weak to beat them the right way and everyone in Ravenclaw knows that -
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#78. Warren Buffett once wrote that value investing is like an inoculation
it either takes or it doesn't
and when you explain to somebody what it is and how it works and why it works and show them the returns, either they get it or they don't.
Seth Klarman
#79. I laugh at people who say things like 'I'm a good person, I just do bad things.' No, that's not how it works. What you do IS who you are.
Tucker Max
#80. If you don't know how it works, find out. If you're not sure if it will work, try it. If it doesn't make sense, play with it until it does. If it's not broken, break it. If it might not be true, find out.
Seth Godin
#81. Power is a fickle mistress, easy to seduce, but even easier to lose. That's how it works. One moment she is your closest confidant, whispering the secrets of the universe into your ear; the next, she is your vilest oppressor - and once her ears close to your plights you are well and truly screwed.
Nenia Campbell
#82. Say there are three identical-looking pizza joints on a street. Two of those will always be empty. The third will have a line of people patiently waiting, checking their phones. There's always one place that's the place. That's how it works.
Hari Kunzru
#83. Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
Steve Jobs
#84. If we as a society do not understand 'the cloud,' in all its aspects - what data it holds, how it works, what the bargains are we make as we engage with it, we'll all be the poorer for it, I believe.
John Battelle
#85. Learning a language is not interesting than knowing how it works.
Ritesh Shrivastav
#86. Sometimes ideas just come to me. Other times I have to sweat and almost bleed to make ideas come. It's a mysterious process, but I hope I never find out exactly how it works.
J.K. Rowling
#87. I know you all think I'm a magician, but I'm not. The magic comes out of the books
themselves, and I have no more idea than you or any of your men how it works.
Cornelia Funke
#88. It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works.
Terry Pratchett
#89. A man can eat his dinner without understanding exactly how food nourishes him. A man can accept what Christ has done without knowing how it works: indeed, he certainly would not know how it works until he has accepted it.
C.S. Lewis
#90. Of course I am," Wax said. "This is my second marriage. I'm an old hand at the practice by now." Wayne grinned. "Oh, is that how it works? 'Cuz in my experience, marryin' is the one thing people seem to get worse at the more they do it. Well, that and bein' alive.
Brandon Sanderson
#91. You set me up," I say. "One big con. You can't blame me because I turned out not to be gullible enough. You can't blame the mark. That's not how it works. Have some respect for the nature of the game.
Holly Black
#92. Love is the kind of thing that's already happening by the time you notice it, that's how it works, and no matter how old you get, that doesn't change. Except that you can break it up into two entirely distinct types
love where there's an end in sight and love where there isn't.
Banana Yoshimoto
#93. Design is a funny word. Some people think Design means how it looks. But, of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works. - Steve Jobs
John Morgan
#94. Working out is a healthy habit: it helps you stay light and energetic. At least, that is how it works for me, and over the years it has been one of my greatest passions.
Rohit Shetty
#95. People hurt each other. That's how it works. At least you were trying to do something good. Not everyone can say that much.
Tana French
#96. Better is the most important step to becoming your best. If you want to be your best, you need to start by getting better. Start doing better. Good, better, best. That's how it works.
Mark Sanborn
#97. That's the trouble with the conventional doctors. They always say, 'How does it work?' but often there isn't any neat little answer ... Something simply works ... We don't really know how it works. We say we do. We know one or two things we can see and measure ...
John Bradshaw
#98. Disasters are funny to me. As a comedian you learn from failure, so I'm always trying to put myself in a situation that does not seem ideal for my comedy and see how it works.
Anthony Jeselnik
#99. As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. That is how it works in a democratic system and mass fear becomes the ticket to destroy rights across the board.
James Bovard
#100. That's how it works. You snake on a deal, you get fanged.
Elle Casey
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