Knowing Quotes

You don't deploy forces into harm's way without knowing what's going on.

The first thing you have to do is get immersed in the project, organizing yourself, knowing what you are going after and not going after.

I'm beginning to see that just knowing the piece is not enough. Having a clear technique is not enough. Having a broad repertory is not enough. I want desperately to get past all those things.

It is not so bad being ignorant if you are totally ignorant; the hard thing is knowing in some detail the reality of ignorance.

I resented my mother for guessing my innermost secrets. She was like God, everywhere at once knowing everything.

Hell was waking up alone, the sheets wet with your tears and your seed, knowing the woman you had dreamed of would never come back to you.

After all, isn't that what really draws the line between childhood and adulthood, knowing that you are solely responsible for yourself? If so, then my childhood ended at fifteen.

I turn to books for a feeling of companionship: for somebody knowing what I have known.

I've always benefited from knowing machines well, because it's freedom, it gives you freedom, I always knew that.

I open my heart, knowing that love guides my every decision. All is well.

Taking a step without knowing the end result is the only way we develop faith and not only this, it's a practice that connects us with a power greater than ourselves.

But feeling is so different from knowing. My common sense tells me all you can say, but there are times when common sense has no power over me. Common nonsense takes possession of my soul.

I think that hurting gives us a way to measure being happy. How can you know one without knowing the other.

The happy ending is hardly important, though we may be glad its there. The real joy is knowing that if you felt the trouble in the story, your kingdom isnt dead.

When I was a dancer, I felt this great sense of knowing my body and being in my body, and I think it's really easy as women to lose that and not really be one and loving it.

I had a desire to do TV and wanted to get in, in the right way, knowing that I was going to learn a lot, along the way.

Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.

Some people see what they want to see.

Knowing what I was, and wanting me, anyway.

I shall never know God if I do not wrestle with and against evil, even at the cost of life itself.

Security isn't securities. It's knowing that someone cares whether you are or cease to be.

Weakness is a great bully without knowing it.

Knowing and believing are sometimes hard to combine.

I think we're ripe for social revolution now. There is the necessary yearning, and the necessary, or at least incipient, outrage. And there is an inchoate knowing that all is not right.

Sometimes the purpose of a day is to merely feel our sadness, knowing that as we do, we allow whole layers of grief, like old skin cells to drop off us

The problem with most intimate relationships is that they are not romantic. They do not involve a deeper knowing, and thus there is diminished possibility of sacred, transformative sharing.

People sometimes see an image and without knowing the surrounding patterns draw false conclusions.

Spirituality is a kind of virgin wisdom, a knowing that comes prior to experience.

In fact, not knowing is a necessary condition of writing for me. I don't know how else to reach something unexpected. I have to be as in the dark as my characters.

Poetry is ... the physical enactment of a process of knowing by means of language.

God rewards gamblers and fools. The crucial thing, when you win, is knowing which you were.

When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what this life is - heartbreaking bereavement.

We expressed love for this dog by ... knowing without showing that we cared for him.

I like knowing about everything, and I think that really helps me in my business.

Revelation is the marriage of knowing and feeling.

I know God exits, but I don't know where.

Loving, not the beloved, is the joy of love. The beloved, knowing this, most resolutely declines to be grateful.

One of the things that's fun about that is that sometimes you grow up knowing about someone because they were famous, but you don't really know what they were like before they were famous.

Life is more a matter of choosing than knowing. He could never know the eventual destination of his path, but he could always choose in which direction to take each step.

Waiting is an expectant patience. It's a patience that says, "I don't know what God is going to do, but I know God is going to do something."

Since you know God understands, you can boldly go to him.

Being religious without knowing the cross is like owning a Mercedes with no motor. Pretty package, but where is your power?

Knowing reality is knowing that you can't lose it.

The best way to have your people be happy and satisfied is to earn the right to have them come back to work for you the next day, knowing that there are tons of other places.

Adulthood is knowing that a fully realized character is always more important than the lines.

Nothing prepared me for the loss of my mother. Even knowing that she would die did not prepare me.

The good may lose; the bad may win! Remember this! Because knowing this increases the chance of the good to win!

Life is a struggle to elevate ourselves from nobody to somebody, not ever knowing the secret beauties of being nobody!

Without knowing every single detail in a man's life, we cannot judge whether he is a good person or not!

Nothing may change in days or in years or all can change in hours and in seconds! Knowing this means that you already know many things!