Knowing Quotes

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

I learned that I never really know the true story of my guests' lives, that I have to content myself with knowing that when I'm interviewing somebody, I'm getting a combination of fact and truth and self-mythology and self-delusion and selective memory and faulty memory.

One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go.

Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

Namely, we have no right to believe a thing true because everybody says so unless there are good grounds for believing that some one person at least has the means of knowing what is true, and is speaking the truth so far as he knows it.

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

But when you lose a family member or something tragic happens, that stays with you forever. You never get over it. Knowing that you have to deal with that for the rest of your life... Football is important, but not as important as you once thought it was.

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.

Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.

We need to recognise that what really matters isn't buying more and more consumer goods, but family, friends, and knowing that we are doing something worthwhile with our lives. Helping to reduce the appalling consequences of world poverty should be part of that reassessment.

You know, some people fall right through the hole in their lives. It's invisible, but they come to it after time, never knowing where.

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.

Without knowing this, no man can dress a horse perfectly.

Knowing that Gene and Morgan were playing those roles made it much easier to put the script together-we knew who we were writing it for. It took some mystery away.

You have to know what you own. You have to really do your homework in terms of knowing what supports your bonds.

Football is a chess game to me. If you move your pawn against my bishop, I'll counter that move to beat you. Football is the same way. I study so much film that I know exactly what teams are going to do. I love knowing what a offense is going to run and stuffing that play.

I only know that I fired twice, or perhaps several times, without knowing whether I had hit or missed.

A lot of women don't know how to love because there's deep reasons for them not knowing how to love. And what I mean by deep reasons is deep and dark reasons.

It's the way to educate your eyes. Stare. Pry, listen eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

I'd hate to be a teetotaler. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you're going to feel all day.

You know, you don't work 30 something years in this business without knowing how to push yourself. So, I just kept pushing myself and pushing myself. The other thing that happens is when your hormones get out of whack your emotions come up.

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

I made the first Moebius strip without knowing what it was.

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.

So already, you go from not having a job and thinking you're going to get fired after the pilot, to knowing that you've got a guaranteed job for 4 years.

There are two kinds of power you have to fight. The first is the money, and that's just our system. The other is the people close around you, knowing when to accept their criticism, knowing when to say no.

One of the things I realized early in my career is that you do what you believe, in knowing that if you don't, you will never like yourself. When you compromise out of fear or ambition, it eats inside you.