Knowing Quotes

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.

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.

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.

In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the words of the poem.

It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

I spent 26 years in the business without ever knowing what I was doing a month from now.

Knowing lots of answers but being a millisecond slow on the buzzer is indeed very frustrating.

There's a confidence that comes from youth and not knowing better. But there comes a point, as an actor, when you do know better, and that is when the fear starts.

Knowing how people will use something is essential.

There are great municipal investments out there, but on a blanket basis you have to be really careful about knowing what cash flows are supporting your investments.

Sjogren's is something you live with your whole life. The good news for me is now I know what's happening after spending years not knowing... I feel like I can get better and move on.

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.

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.

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.