Nancy Knowlton Quotes

Hope has more to do with how you feel that human society is going to respond, rather than whether there are solutions.

Nancy Knowlton

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• I think there is an enormous sea change happening in the global workforce. It has a lot to do with globalization. I think that people used to have a hope for a career or meaningful employment, and its been reduced to internships, part-time work or just grossly underpaid work.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I hope to do multiple characters throughout my life that are separate from me. I think it's a cop-out if you play yourself in everything.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Yourself

• When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • Real
  • Hope

• What works for me is knowing the character in an emotional sense. I wish I was more logical but it doesn't work for me like that. I need quite a lot of time; it's why I always worry when I'm doing more than one thing at a time. I hope that some sort of magic will kick in.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Time
  • Work
  • Why

• Bollywood music is definitely a big part of Indian music and can be a great way to introduce people to the sound. But I hope to continue to incorporate other types of Indian music into my work.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Hope
  • Despair
  • Blues

• For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Hope
  • Person
  • Politics

• Kids take work, effort, love, blood, sweat and tears and are a full time job. You have to commit, for better or worse and then give your all and hope for the best. The one thing you can never, ever do is give up and say, 'Oooops, never mind, my bad, you can take this one back!'

  

  Dale Archer
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• I hope to have more than one main weapon. I have the Phenomenal Forearm as we're calling it now, the Calf Crusher - the Styles Clash is still available. I like to have a lot of alternative moves to hit people with, and whatever seems to work is what I'll go with.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • People
  • Work
  • Hope

• I hope that I can maintain my skating as long as possible.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Long
  • Hope
  • Possible

• Christian Apocalyptic offers us no such hope. It does not even foretell, (which would be more tolerable to our habits of thought) a gradual decay. It foretells a sudden, violent end imposed from without; an extinguisher popped onto the candle, a brick flung at the gramophone, a curtain rung down on the play - 'Halt!'

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Hope
  • Christian

• I'd like to say 'thank you' on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we passed the audition.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Hope

• I hope you will understand my hesitation in writing to one whom I admire as the greatest representative of a philosophy to which I want to dedicate my whole life.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Hope

• Well, the problem I've had with all the interviews I've had in America - I had meetings with about nine labels - and they all say to me 'Will your new songs fit in with what is popular and what is in the chart?' And I say 'Good God, I hope not!'

  

  Morrissey The Smiths
  • Good
  • God
  • America

• It doesn't give me any satisfaction to think that my concerns will be validated by my grandchildren's generation. I would love to be wrong in everything. My grandchildren are my stake in the near future, and it's my great hope that they might one day say, 'Grandpa was part of a great movement that helped to turn things around.'

  

  David Suzuki
  • Great
  • Hope
  • Future

• When I was in elementary school, I used to write letters to myself. I'd write letters and go 'Dear Kristen-at-16-years-old, happy birthday. I hope you're doing something.'

  

  Kristin Kreuk
  • School
  • Happy
  • Hope

• Few things give me more pride and hope for our future than when I see women, of all ages and backgrounds, in leadership roles. We need even more women in elected office, running businesses, and guiding organizations.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • Women
  • Hope
  • Future

• I couldn't continue to live in a bubble and hope to be an empathic actor. It doesn't work.

  

  Cole Sprouse
  • Work
  • Live
  • Hope

• One of the greatest gifts we can give people is the hope that their death is nothing to fear - you know, not that it has no fear in it, but the promise of scripture is that God will lead us through the valley of the shadow of death.

  

  Max Lucado
  • People
  • God
  • Hope

• We just keep on having to save each other", he says. "We ever gonna be even?" "I hope not," I say.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Hope
  • Keep
  • Save

• We can start with housing, the sturdiest of footholds for economic mobility. A national affordable housing program would be an anti-poverty effort, human capital investment, community improvement plan, and public health initiative all rolled into one.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Community
  • Health
  • Effort

• Many people, men in particular, just can't not be active. I guess our minds demand that we seek other challenges.

  

  Jerry West
  • People
  • Men

• The key to the future of the world, is finding the optimistic stories and letting them be known.

  

  Pete Seeger
  • World
  • Future
  • Optimistic

• Hope has more to do with how you feel that human society is going to respond, rather than whether there are solutions.

  

  Nancy Knowlton
  • Hope
  • Solutions
  • Respond