Knowing Quotes

Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff.

When I first got the job, I was told nothing about my character. She's an anthropologist and she's tough, she's a female Indiana Jones. That's what I went into [Lost] knowing.

Part of being a writer is knowing when what you write is really bad.

I think the joy of wanting to direct is having that nervous anxiety knowing your film is about to be shown and you're sitting right there with everyone.

I want my movies to be commercial, fun thrill rides but I also want them to have substance to them. The fun part is knowing how to roll up your sleeves and get it done.

You are free to smile in the midst of massive tests and challenges, knowing that you have chosen to play this game, and that you have dominion over all the appearances of earth.

The greatest gap in life is the one between knowing and doing.

Knowing that a paradox is required for life as we know it to exist allows me to give up trying constantly to understand it and instead just feel it and enjoy it.

Nature introduces children to the idea—to the knowing—that they are not alone in this world, and that realities and dimensions exist alongside their own.

Each of us-adult or child-must earn nature's gift by knowing nature directly, however difficult it may be to glean that knowledge in an urban environment.

One of my students told me that every time she learns the name of a plant, she feels as if she is meeting someone new. Giving a name to something is a way of knowing it.

One does not, by knowing all the physical laws as we know them today, immediately obtain an understanding of anything much. I love only nature, and I hate mathematicians.

The sin of the desert is knowing where the water is and not sharing it.

Eloquence is relative. One can no more pronounce on the eloquence of any composition than the wholesomeness of a medicine, without knowing for whom it is intended.

Life and death were so unpredictable. So close to each other. We existed moment to moment, never knowing who would be the next to leave this world.

I couldn’t help it,” I said, knowing how lame that sounded. It was as bad as Angeline’s “it’s not my fault” mantra.

Suspecting and knowing are not the same.

Once you establish a foundation of knowing what the greatest recording artists of all time were Wouldn't you want your kids to know this stuff?

Certainty and similar states of ‘knowing what we know’ arise out of involuntary brain mechanisms that, like love or anger, function independently of reason.

Knowing is higher than believing. Knowing means that there is NO doubt.

Look in, and know the mind is all that is; And knowing, feeling it is all, Then have ye all.

The greatest style is when you can't see the style though you walk away knowing it was there. It's like a perfume - there but not there.

I suppose I will die never knowing what pumpkin pie tastes like when you have room for it.

For some it is love undeniably. For others it is making it work, never actually knowing what it is.

Oh well, I will say here, knowing each man, let you find a good wife too, and love her as hard as you can.

We're worse off than Freud thought, because many actions proceed without our knowing anything about them.

Man was made to lead with his chin; he is worth knowing only with his guard down, his head up and his heart rampant on his sleeve.

Summary riposte To the dreary wail There's no knowing what Love is all about. Poets know a lot.

May those who have touched our canvas with their eyes and hearts grow knowing the joy and wonder of an artist of life.

Very little worth knowing is taught by fear.

I want to go out at the top, but the secret is knowing when you're at the top, it's so difficult in this business, your career fluctuates all the time, up and down, like a pair of trousers.

It is from that region of silence, that wordless knowing comes.

A knowing of what needs to be done or what needs to be said or what needs to happen at any given time. That is wisdom and wisdom does not come from the accumulation of knowledge.

If I am to be known for anything, I would like it to be for encouraging Canadians, for knowing a little bit about their daily, extraordinary courage. And for wanting that courage to be recognized.

Acting is not about knowing all this stuff; it's about character.

In my first year as governor, we solved some of the problems that had begun to undermine the Open Records Act. We gave the act teeth by providing criminal penalties for knowing violations.

The more perfect our means of direct experience, the more easily we are caught by the dangerous illusion that perceiving is tantamount to knowing and understanding.

To me, only that which makes me wise is worth knowing.

Disputational knowing wants customers. It has no soul.

Even when I think I'm wrong I'm right. I am all-knowing.

I hope you will attain enlightenment. I am here to tell you that you already have! But you don't know... The difference between the Buddha and us is the confidence in knowing that he was enlightened.

You take that leap of faith. You have to be willing to follow, blindly, wherever it takes you. If you know where you're going beforehand, you're not going to end up with anything worth knowing.

Every working mother struggles with the BlackBerry, knowing the boss can call.

Not all of us know what we are. Some of us die without ever knowing. Some of us know, and never get caught. But we're out there. Trust me.

I say me, knowing all the while it's not me.

The general remedy of those who are uneasy without knowing the cause is change of place.

The most powerful place you can come from is just having a really deep knowing of who you are and what you want for yourself.

I'll put into words my experience as it is unfolding now in my life... in such a way that I might find comfort in knowing that someone else has the same thoughts and experiences.

Knowing the right questions is better than knowing all the right answers" Caleb from Pretty Little Liars (TV Show)

If I can find out God, then I shall find Him,If none can find Him, then I shall sleep soundly,Knowing how well on earth your love sufficed me, A lamp in darkness.