Knowing Quotes

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is.

I had to do this very aggressive, big score in a very short time, and knowing that in the beginning, middle, and end would be this very, very famous theme, but I still had to weave a score around it and make it work as a score was really challenging.

How can you interview somebody about something fairly technical if you start on the wrong foot by not even knowing his name?

They may not like us, but they can't get away from knowing who we are.

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing.

Behind every small business, there's a story worth knowing. All the corner shops in our towns and cities, the restaurants, cleaners, gyms, hair salons, hardware stores - these didn't come out of nowhere.

I think I was interested in history without knowing it and that became very clear when I arrived in France. Everything that I was really interested in was there, but I knew nothing, no education, no art education, no education beyond high school. It was extremely overwhelming and it still is.

You have to just accept your body. You may not love it all the way, but you just have to be comfortable with it, comfortable with knowing that that's your body.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

I was very blessed in always knowing what I wanted to do, and by the grace of God I've been able to succeed in my chosen career.

Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.

I guess because I had such a horrible life growing up, going from place to place not knowing what I was gonna do and ending up being homeless, there was a lot of pain and a lot of anger that was coming out through my guitar playing.

Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.

I learned to put 100 percent into what you're doing. I learned about setting goals for yourself, knowing where you want to be and taking small steps toward those goals. I learned about adversity and how to get past it.

My greatest reward is knowing for certain, as I do with many other acts and artistes, that without Jonathan King being alive and involved, Genesis would not exist, and the guys would have had careers as intended - as accountants and lawyers!

Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

I think everyone can relate to the idea of making a bad choice - and knowing it's a bad choice - but doing it anyway.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

I don't start a piece knowing exactly what effect it's going to have. There is a seed of an idea that I could never articulate, right at the beginning of the piece, literally like one cell.

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

It was one of the most exciting, perfect evenings of my life, my solo debut at Carnegie Hall. And knowing we were all there to raise money for Gay Men's Health Crisis made the evening an extraordinary experience.

The problem with speeches isn't so much not knowing when to stop, as knowing when not to begin.

These girls come; they last one season; they're completely used up and dried out and sent back home. That's not how to make a life. I want a girl to come in knowing full well what she's getting into and being able to deal and make decisions that will create a career.

The hardest part of this whole ordeal is not knowing if your children are getting what they need to survive.

I started thinking that if post modernism is about people opening up all their skeletons, I'm going the other way. I don't want anyone knowing anything about me anymore.

And I never ask what I'm doing the next day. I don't want to know what I'm doing tomorrow. It's much too overwhelming. So I just go day by day, without knowing.

The Cylons are such a frightening concept - not knowing who is real. No way.

A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.