Alice Coltrane

When looking through the spiritual eye, or the third eye encased within the human mind, one can see vividly beyond the ken of human eyesight, beyond the material atom, and into the future, thereby transcending the limitations of time and space.

American Musician

Erica Jong

Ken, my husband, just smelled like he belonged to me. I'm not talking about hygiene. I'm talking about when you hug him, he either feels like a member of your tribe or not. It's their scent.

American Novelist

Jess Phillips

Ken Livingstone appears incapable of contrition. That is why he must be thrown out of the Labour party. He is so certain he is right about everything, he won't come close to change.

British Politician

Ken Jeong

I do think 'Dr. Ken,' at its heart, is about a great doctor who's a bit burned out. But even when I was a burned-out doctor, I was still happy and had a life outside of work.

American Actor

Kevin Feige

In the case of 'Thor,' it was just casting the best people for the part. Ken Branagh had the idea to cast Idris Elba as Heimdall, and we didn't blink at that chance to do it.

American Producer

Robert Kiyosaki

Ken Lay, the disgraced former chairman of Enron, found a way to escape his legal problems: He died after being convicted of fraud and conspiracy charges.

American Author

Ann-Margret

Ken Russell was wonderful to me. I'd heard all these things about how he'd yell and scream at people, but I found him to be a very nice, normal person.

Swedish Actress

Michael Ramsey

Ken Lay has, does and will continue to accept responsibility for the fall of Enron. He was the man at the controls. But failure is not a crime.

English Clergyman

Reggie Jackson

Ken Holtzman could pitch a game in ninety minutes. Wouldn't throw a breaking ball. And he had a great breaking ball.

American Athlete

Gillian Jacobs

American Actress

Use 'ken' to spotlight limits of understanding in technical or abstract discussions.

Contextual Importance

'Ken' can metaphorically suggest comprehension of complex or broad subjects.

Metaphorical Use

Use 'ken' to express intellectual humility about the limits of one's knowledge.

Intellectual Humility

'Ken' in the sense of view is poetic, best suited to literary or creative writing.

Poetic Expression

Use 'ken' to emphasize the limit of visual range or understanding in a poetic way.

Visual Scope

'Ken' as a verb is archaic, often found in historical texts or for a stylistic touch.

Archaic Verb Usage

In Scotland, 'ken' as a verb is more common and used in present day.

Scottish Connection

Use the verb 'ken' to convey a deep, intuitive understanding rather than simple knowledge.

Understanding Nuance

 Just year after year -- and I finally realized the students were showing the killer app of personal fabrication is products for a market of one person. You don't need this for what you can get in Wal-Mart; you need this for what makes you unique. Ken Olsen famously said, nobody needs a computer in the home.

Neil Gershenfeld: The...

 freezer ice is cloudy because of trapped air bubbles and ken told me his lake ice is clear because the way it freezes eliminates air bubbles the ice starts freezing on top and freezes down so lake ice freezes from the top down yeah and that unidirectional freezing process it helps keep the bubbles away

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 cicadas come out every year when i hear cicada songs i know it's summer or i'm watching a ken burns documentary cicadas have been around for hundreds of millions of years they even lived alongside the dinosaurs today there are thousands of different species spread all over the world

How Cicadas Become...

 and the rest is history ken grew up in the bronx and now he lives in nashville tennessee tara says he's kind of a hometown hero like some some people as they get older they begin to shut down and they begin to narrow like the world becomes about sort of the small space that's around

The Search for History’s...

 that degree program a few months later ken it's me again I've got four classmates and we'd really like to design a bridge with you for an honors project hopefully a third time's charm Ken its Avery we have support from the engineering department and a plan to

Building bridges and...

 what we know about them the first life is the pleasant life and it's simply as best we can find it it's having as many of the pleasures as you can as much positive emotion ken and learning the skills savoring mindfulness that amplify them that

On positive psychology -...

 hour and no one does anyway so geographic came to me at the time and i remember having a conversation with my editor for the story who was ken geiger and he phoned me up and he said hey we're going to do a kind of quirky funny story

Legends of Kingfishers,...

 themselves in for on the board there was a separate notice typed which said in so many words volunteers wanted to help find a cure for the common cold by volunteering ken earl becomes an unsuspecting guinea pig

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 have that idea of ken a which is the pattern and they you call them people have Ronan the great serpent it's an important animal for them

Storytellers Summit Day...

 during his life ken kesey was at once a counterculture and literary hero best known for his book One Flew Over the

Ken

The range of what one can know or understand.

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One's sight or view.

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To know (something).

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Metaphorical Use

Intellectual Humility

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