Quotes About How The World Works

#1. You did it... now you should pay... that's how the world works.

Deyth Banger

#2. There is so much wonder and joy in science, about understanding how the world works and why the world is the way it is. It's not just for academics. It is a thing that's available to everyone.

Dallas Campbell

#3. Isn't that the best of all life's ages, an old man thinks as he looks at his grandchild. When a boy is just big enough to know how the world works but still young enough to refuse to accept it. Noah

Fredrik Backman

#4. The tribal leaders saw that we were bad-asses, and they'd better get their act together, work together, and stop accommodating the insurgents. Force moved that battle. We killed the bad guys and brought the leaders to the peace table. That is how the world works.

Chris Kyle

#5. Those who make uncritical observations or fraudulent claims lead us into error and deflect us from the major human goal of understanding how the world works. It is for this reason that playing fast and loose with the truth is a very serious matter.

Carl Sagan

#6. I actually like seeing how the world - trying to figure out how the world works, how it all fits together. Also, it makes me happy when I feel like things are consistent, when there's some sort of order to the universe.

Lisa Randall

#7. In the end there's never a sanctuary. You run until there's nowhere left to run to, and then you fight, and then you die, and then it's over. That's how the world works, and if there's any way to change that, I hope someone's eventually planning to let me know.

Seanan McGuire

#8. [F]ree will seems to violate all we know of how the world works, but as long as we cannot construct a logical proof of its nonexistence we cling to it tenaciously, even desperately.

Jeffrey M. Schwartz

#9. I'm particularly interested in black swan events: unprecedented surprises that destroy the conventional wisdom about how the world works.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#10. It's funny how the world works, how we win and lose, how we can never really know what's ahead though we never stop planning. How we survive and move on. There's a sadness that comes with survival, but also more joy to be had.

Anna McPartlin

#11. I think certainly if I'd started getting published when I was in my early twenties, I was quite sheltered then and didn't know anything much about the world. I hadn't had any direct experience of how the world works.

Richard K. Morgan

#12. Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

Carl Sagan

#13. That is why the discipline of managing mental models - surfacing, testing, and improving our internal pictures of how the world works - promises to be a major breakthrough for building learning organizations.

Peter M. Senge

#14. You cannot and should not try to please everyone. Make sure that the right people like you, and it will be expected that others will not. That's how the world works.

David Maister

#15. Economists got away from really questioning how the world works, how decisions actually got made. If something doesn't conform to neoclassical models ... people are not somehow behaving themselves properly.

W. Brian Arthur

#16. It takes the wool from your eyes about how the world works, to show you that nothing's necessarily fair, and that you might have a hard life.

Cary Fukunaga

#17. Look, you have to make mistakes. That's how you learn and that's how the world works.

Naomi Campbell

#18. The arts community is generally dominated by liberals because if you are concerned mainly with painting or sculpture, you don't have time to study how the world works. And if you have no understanding of economics, strategy, history and politics, then naturally you would be a liberal.

Mark Helprin

#19. Most of the younger people I knew didn't seem to have a handle on things; they hadn't found their place, they didn't understand how the world works, they didn't understand how to treat other people, and they didn't know how to stop thinking about themselves.

Kristin Hersh

#20. The unsupervised learning is the way most people will learn in the future. You have this model of how the world works in your head and you're refining it to predict what you think is going to happen in the future.

Mark Zuckerberg

#21. Magic is something that seems like it goes against how the world works and its us magicians job to be doing that.

Jerry Andrus

#22. Writing a story requires you to understand how the world works, how characters think, how their emotions drive them to do surprising things, and so on. In other words, as a writer, you have to be more than a stylist. You need to learn to become a master of storytelling.

David Farland

#23. If you don't understand how the world works, then everything is a mystery to you. If everything is magical and mysterious, then you really don't work on logic anymore. Then, everything is all about belief.

Joy Reidenberg

#24. I was in shock. Funny how the world works. You don't get the something you really covet, but then the universe provides unexpected compensation. Here I thought you had to make a wish for it to come true.

Sarah Dessen

#25. Each of us carries within us a worldview, a set of assumptions about how the world works - what some call a paradigm - that forms the very questions we allow ourselves to ask, and determines our view of future possibilities.

Frances Moore Lappe

#26. I know how the world works. Business decisions are not made for the good of the people, but for the sake of profit, loyalty and expedience.

Christopher Fowler

#27. [I]f one asks what substantive contributions [F. A. Hayek] made to our understanding of how the world works, one is left at something of a loss. Were it not for his politics, he would be virtually forgotten.

Paul Krugman

#28. I was one of those kids who always thought that we should know how the world works around us.

Saul Perlmutter

#29. When you're reading a novel, I think the reason you care about how any given plot turns out is that you take it as a data point in the big story of how the world works. Does such-and-such a kind of guy get the girl in the end? Does adultery ever bring happiness? How do winners become winners?

Elif Batuman

#30. Science is a process for learning about nature in which competing ideas about how the world works are measured against observations.

Richard P. Feynman

#31. Gossip. The more you talk about why people do things, the more ideas you have about how the world works.

Jane Smiley

#32. Stories are in one way or another mirrors. We use them to explain to ourselves how the world works or how it doesn't work. Like mirrors stories prepare us for the day to come. They distract us from the things in darkness.

Neil Gaiman

#33. Based on my own experience, when you're going through adolescence you don't know how the world works. You can't set a story in the world you live in because you don't know what a utility bill is, or how to budget your paycheck.

Patton Oswalt

#34. I have been a figure skater for so long that when I stopped that competitive day-to-day grind, I didn't know what to do with myself. I don't know how the world works outside of being barked at by a Ukrainian woman and watching my weight.

Johnny Weir

#35. Most churches are run by preachers who went to seminaries, who decided to be preachers when they were 18, 19, 20 years old. These preachers never met a payroll. They don't know how the world works.

Rodney Stark

#36. By the time you've figured out how the world works, you've already lost about everything you've hope to keep.

Paul Pope

#37. The whole idea that people have a clue as to how the world works, is just a piece of laughable metaphysical colonialism perpetrated upon the wild country of time.

Lorrie Moore

#38. Very few recognize science as the high adventure it really is, the wildest of all explorations ever taken by human beings, the chance to glimpse things never seen before, the shrewdest maneuver for discovering how the world works.

Lewis Thomas

#39. I mean, things happen all the simultaneously all the time - and as a rule, they have nothing to do with each other. Thats how the world works.

Nicolas Barreau

#40. Some of us get lucky," Mr. McAllister said. "And some aren't needed for any job more important than packaging the food trays. It's how the world works. How it has always worked.

K.F. Breene

#41. So it's possible that someday, by understanding a little bit more about how the world works, it will come back to help us in some other way that will be surprising.

Saul Perlmutter

#42. I've never really been associated with the hackers very much. I am sympathetic to them. I understand how their mind works. It's like a child that is born and wants to explore every little - open up every little drawer there is and find out how the world works.

Steve Wozniak

#43. Obama doesn't know how to be President. He doesn't know how the world works. He's incompetent. He's an amateur!

Bill Clinton

#44. It seems fitting that the blow would leave a mark on both of us. That's how the world works.

Veronica Roth

#45. In life, if one wants seriously to understand how the world works, he must die at least once.

Giorgio Bassani

#46. I'm constantly reading and trying to enlighten myself to how the world works in its silent ways to make everything seem normal when it's actually incredibly discriminating.

Jenny Hval

#47. 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

#48. I always feel that there is a curtain, you know, that if I could just peek behind the curtain I'd see how the world really works. And since I haven't had it I have to write about it instead.

Charles De Lint

#49. If you're writing fantasy or science fiction, it's really hard to do if you don't know a lot, at least in a basic way, about how the real world works.

Tad Williams

#50. Jesus died for our sins not so that we could sort out abstract ideas, but so that we, having been put right, could become part of God's plan to put his whole world right. That is how the revolution works.

N. T. Wright

#51. It is interesting that we know how the world and the planetary systems work, but we don't know how we think and why we are conscious.

Debasish Mridha

#52. 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

#53. Discovering various economists, economic works, reading financial periodicals and keeping up on current events in geopolitics and economics around the world opened my eyes to many facets of how the extended order works.

Kurt Bills

#54. For me, I think the greatest achievements of science is to allow humanity to realize that our world is comprehensible. Through science, rational thinking, we can understand how the universe works.

Jim Al-Khalili

#55. Everything is clear to me - outline, details, future, emotion. Not like the world, where everything is muddy and messed, and nothing ever works out the way you mean it to - no matter how skilful or how honourable you are, no matter how vile your enemy. When

Kelly Gardiner

#56. Hmmm. See, in this world, Xirena, the Simi does what she wants and akri, he say, 'Okay, Simi, whatever you want, Simi.' Unless it involves eating people; then he usually says no, but that's the only time. Other than that, he do what the Simi says. See how that works? (Simi)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#57. For me, what all these years of psychedelic taking came to was a new model of how reality works, a new model of what the world is.

Terence McKenna

#58. This is exactly how the World Wide Web works: the HTML files are the pithy description on the paper tape, and your Web browser is Ronald Reagan.

Neal Stephenson

#59. This is how it works, she thought. When the world becomes something new, it seems always to have been that way.

Carolyn Turgeon

#60. I like this other world, this forgetting of myself. The actor works in order to escape, not to find himself. You become an actor by leaving yourself, and then you have to keep acting. How tragic!

Sylvia Kristel

#61. 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

#62. The thing I'm absolutely convinced of, no matter how crazy - technological the world is getting, is that people feel more connected through the good works. Entertainment, and the sort of soporific effect it has on people and their stress, is one thing.

Edward Norton

#63. Everything we think of as great has come to us from neurotics. It is they and they alone who found religions and create great works of art. The world will never realize how much it owes to them and what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it.

Marcel Proust

#64. I think it's sad to me that I had to make a decision to not play the game that I feel like I'm best at and that I love. But if it was just about the game itself, I'd be there in a heartbeat. But that's not how the real world works.

Tiffeny Milbrett

#65. I believe democracy requires a 'sacred contract' between journalists and those who put their trust in us to tell them what we can about how the world really works.

Bill Moyers

#66. I've always loved science, as far back as I can remember. I was very, very curious about how everything worked: the world, the physical universe, chemistry, law. So it was only natural to be curious about how our mind works.

Leonard Mlodinow

#67. How much value do you want to get out of life? You get out what you put in.

Approach your life with intent, courage, faith and hard work, and you'll reap the beautiful value those sacrifices provide. That's the way our strange world works.

Richie Norton

#68. Maybe this is how madness works. At first you're worried you're going crazy, but in the end you don't even care. You embrace it; it's the only thing you've got left. The only thing you can trust when the rest of the world has gone to shit.

Cat Clarke

#69. Nothing in these abstract economic models actually works in the real world. It doesn't matter how many footnotes they put in, or how many ways they tinker around the edges. The whole enterprise is totally rotten at the core: it has no relation to reality.

Noam Chomsky

#70. I think we all want to know where we came from and how we fit into the world, but some of us need to know how it all works in great detail.

George Smoot

#71. What's wrong with that is that it's not how the real
world works. That's why, sometimes, it's good to be
flexible. When you don't get what you want, you make
other plans.

Katie Klein

#72. Although scientific revolutions in how we see the world do occur, the bulk of our scientific understanding comes from the cumulative impact of numerous incremental studies that together paint an increasingly coherent picture of how nature works.

Michael E. Mann

#73. Whatever you eye falls on - for it will fall on what you love - will lead you to the questions of your life, the questions that are incumbent upon you to answer, because that is how the mind works in concert with the eye. The things of this world draw us where we need to go.

Mary Rose O'Reilley

#74. The Bronx are great. I have a lot of respect for those guys, they know more about music and how that world works than most of the players out there.

Coeur De Pirate

#75. One of the most fascinating things about the world of fashion is that practically no one knows who inhabits it or why it exists. There are a few people who know how it works, but they won't tell.

Elizabeth Hawes

#76. And I wondered then, how do we ever know what beauty lies inside of people, and the strange ways this world works to lure that beauty outward?

Douglas Coupland

#77. At Harvard, direct cinema was the core of the film department, and most of the students were trying to make socially conscious works, but I was trying to combine fiction and non-fiction to show how our seemingly factual world is constituted through fantasy and stories.

Joshua Oppenheimer

#78. The Connection Machine was the most powerful supercomputer in the world. It is a complex supercomputer and it will take forever to completely describe how it works.

Philip Emeagwali

#79. To me, it is better to "guess" at how something works, experiment, fail, guess again, fail, and keep repeating that process over and over again until you either figure it out or you discover a multiplicity of other cool tricks along the way.

Trey Ratcliff

#80. I believe that understanding what is good is obtained by looking at the way the world works and figuring out how to operate in harmony with it to help it evolve.

Ray Dalio

#81. We Queerfolk are big-picture types. You have to be, to see how the Queerness of the World works itself through everything.

Catherynne M Valente

#82. But here's how it works: when the world has told you once too often and once and for all that you are nothing nothing nothing then you come to the conclusion that others may be nothing too.

J.W. Horton

#83. It's a good idea to pay attention to the world and try to understand how it works rather than how you would like it to work.

Matthew Crawford

#84. In the 21st century, somebody or something has changed the rules about how our world works.

Eddie Obeng

#85. Maps can be a remarkably powerful tool for understanding the world and how it works, but they show only what you ask them to.

Max Fisher

#86. The story world isn't a copy of life as it is. It's life as human beings imagine it could be. It is human life condensed and heightened so that the audience can gain a better understanding of how life itself works.

John Truby

#87. Verse. Chorus. Verse.
I'm sorry. We know how it works. The world is no longer mysterious.

Richard Siken

#88. I think the biggest mistake you can make in creator owned work is having info-dumps like, "Here's how this world works!" It's just like someone playing dungeon master and boring me with the backstory of their f***ing world. Just bring me into you story and get it cooking.

Rick Remender

#89. The sort of formality that goes into my artwork I would not expect from everybody in the world. I'm sort of pushing that point to its limit, in my mind, but I think there's absolutely nothing wrong with using a laptop so long as we have some understanding of how it works a little bit.

Tristan Perich

#90. It's funny how that works. Sometimes not speaking says more than all the words in the world. Sometimes my silence is saying I don't know how to speak to you. I don't know what you're thinking. talk to me. Tell me everything you've ever sad. All the words. Starting from your very first one.

Colleen Hoover

#91. I just really like ants, and I really like science. I was interested and curious about the quantum world and the physics behind how it all works.

Evangeline Lilly

#92. You are about to find out what it takes, how the world is, how it works and how it changes when you are a parent. Good luck and God help the child.

Toni Morrison

#93. Knowledge of the natural world and how it works should be counted as fundamental to informed governance. You can't have a functioning democracy, if the electorate is under-informed or, worse, mis-informed.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#94. They're old enough to know how the world really works, so why are they so stupid? It's easy to talk big, but the important thing is whether or not you can clean up the shit.

Haruki Murakami

#95. I'd had the theater background for so long that I know that world inside out; I just didn't know the pace of how a TV set works, like how a show shoots.

Sutton Foster

#96. Often in business we take decisions based on how we interpret the situation, not being sure of whether the call we have taken will work or not. When it works, we are often taken by surprise. But the world at large demands an explanation.

Devdutt Pattanaik

#97. Writing is incredibly important to me as a way of handling the world, understanding how it works.

Romesh Gunesekera

#98. The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think

Gregory Bateson

#99. Do you ever think about how weird it is that we run into each other all the time?" he asked, eyes unreadable
"No," I admitted. "Isn't that the way the world works? In a city of millions you'll always see the same person."
"But how often is it the person you most want to see?

Christina Lauren

#100. By the time you figure out how the world really works, you've already lost about everything you'd hope to keep

Paul Pope