Knowing Quotes

Having a routine, knowing what to do, gives me a sense of freedom and keeps me from going crazy. It's calming.

I'm just going to go out there knowing my teammates are depending on me to get the job done. I've got to go out and get it done, no letting down.

He who has seen everything empty itself is close to knowing what everything is filled with.

[on education] It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.

Fear is ... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.

When I use the camera, I often feel likeI know part of the people or places I come in contact with.

Knowing that we are primates, I think, is a fascinating discovery, and a very interesting and rather cheering one.

People see what they want to see.

The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously, and those who have produced immortal works have done so without knowing how or why.

For the record, knowing when people are only pretending to like you isn't such a great skill to have.

The first secret of getting what you want is knowing what you want.

O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do.

Myth is necessary because reality is so much larger than rationality...man is fundamentally mythic...His real health depends upon his knowing and living his metaphysical totality.

Up from the sea, the wild north wind is blowing, under the sky's gray arch. Smiling, I watch the shaken elm boughs, knowing It is the wind of March.

But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.

Knowing when to take your losses is an essential part of eventual success.

I want to feel deeply, and whenever I am brokenhearted I emerge more compassionate. I think I allow myself to be brokenhearted more easily, knowing I won't be irrevocably shattered [p. 59]

If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.

Authenticity and knowing who you are is fundamental to being an effective and long-standing leader.

I have a brother who's a psychologist. He says three-quarters of the world are born feeling that they will be affected by the world; one quarter are born knowing that they will affect the world

Faith is the profound knowing that comes before reality confirms it.

The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it.

The more we get to know God, the more we want to know him better.

I get a special joy in knowing people feel comfortable if they see me in Wal-Mart or in a no-frills section trying to get something on a discount.

Sjogren's is something you live with your whole life. The good news for me is now I know what's happening after spending years not knowing... I feel like I can get better and move on.

Depth of feeling and clarity of thought isn’t the same as knowing.

Inexperienced leaders are quick to lead before knowing anything about the people they intend to lead. But mature leaders listen, learn and then lead.

An actor shouldn't undergo psychoanalysis, because there are a lot of things you're better off not knowing.

Showed good business judgment, knowing that these continued lawsuits would be the untimely death of the gun industry.

I'm actually interested and enthusiastic. Even when I walk into a show not knowing much about my guest, I always come away as more of a fan or enthusiast.

In stillness, we find our peace. Knowing peace at home, we bring peace into the world.

In short, individual freedom of speech leads to a stronger society. But knowing that principle is not enough. You have to know how to put it to use on the Net.

When the bad imitate the good, there is no knowing what mischief is intended.

I insist on knowing the names, on being interested only in books left ajar, like doors; I will not go looking for keys.

I have so strong a sense of creation, of tomorrow, that I cannot get drunk, knowing I will be less alive, less well, less creative the next day.

You must achieve the confidence of knowing that you possess absolute, unbending, unimpeachable integrity. Everyone must know that. Above all else, it is integrity that defines your character.

But I like it when my patients are impressed not knowing that I was an Olympian.

He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own.

Taylor Swift is pretty hip...She seems pretty honest. I think that’s hip. She’s promoting knowing yourself, and that’s the best idol.

I loved being asked 2,000 questions a day, storyboarding every move, knowing as though by instinct exactly where the camera had to be, because it was my story.

No real blood flows in the veins of the knowing subject constructed by Locke, Hume, and Kant, but rather the diluted extract of reason as a mere activity of thought.

We can identify with Frodo and Sam, setting off not knowing quite where they are going and what they are to do.

Never feel dumb. Not knowing who or what is no sin. Ignorance is simply the measure of what you haven't got to yet. I find writers and works every day that I haven't got to, haven't even heard of.

To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.

I want to know God's thoughts.

A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.

Knowing what matters most, what I call "being real," is the alpha and omega for leaders.

The knowing, I told myself, is only a vapor of the mind, and yet it can wreck havok with one's sanity.

I feel accomplished knowing that I'm still the same at heart.

But it seemed to me that the American way of doing things was to obliterate a complete area, without really knowing exactly what was there and where they were.