Knowing Quotes

I am attracted to people who make this effort in knowing what suits them - they are individual and stylish.

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.

Evolutionary naturalism takes the inherent limitations of science and turns them into a devastating philosophical weapon: because science is our only real way of knowing anything, what science cannot know cannot be real.

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.

I understood, through rehab, things about creating characters. I understood that creating whole people means knowing where we come from, how we can make a mistake and how we overcome things to make ourselves stronger.

I don't practice, but I am still officially in paediatrics. I keep in touch with journals, and I have a very good data bank of medical information and there is a key thing for a writer knowing where to go. I know where to go to get the information that I need.

Knowing the artist helps you appreciate the work; seeing the passion they put into it and the emotions they are wrestling with.

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

The pain comes from knowing that we have never been safe, and therefore will never be safe again. It comes from knowing we can never be so ignorant again. It comes from knowing we can never be children again. Losing innocence. Remembering heaven. That was the essence of hell.

Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting.

There were scenes that just for length purposes, and knowing that the attention span of kids is not great, don't make it much longer than about 90 minutes.

Your inner knowing is your only true compass.

At Princeton I gained a great deal of pleasure from success in my classes. knowing that I could accomplish those things, and I realized that my success was directly proportionate to the work I put in.

My best attribute is knowing when not to answer stupid questions.

I think it's very hard in this day and age to raise little girls with morals, ethics and values, and them knowing that they are precious creations and that they are important.

To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.

That came from my mother. She was the biggest influence on my life. I remember once refusing to get on a bus with her because she was wearing a mink, and I thought we should be taking a taxi. She just said, 'Who cares what people think?' and I remember sitting on that bus, being utterly embarrassed, but knowing somehow that she was totally correct.

Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.

Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.

The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz.

I guess I had a suspicion of it my entire life without knowing exactly what it was - knowing that there was something different about me, which I attributed to being an artist. At 11 or 12 I started sort of clarifying for myself. It took a while.

Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.

By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.

Its all about finding the right note at the right place and knowing when to leave well enough alone. And that's a lifelong quest.

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed.

For pragmatic reasons, I love the routine. I love the structure of it. I love knowing that my days are free. I know where I'm going at night. I know my life is kind of orderly. I just like that better.