Top 1200 Knowing And Doing Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it.

Real power is control. Knowing that you can do anything...and not doing it only because you can.

First lesson learned: Knowing doesn't hold a candle to doing.

Knowing God without knowing our own wretchedness makes for pride. Knowing our own wretchedness without knowing God makes for despair. Knowing Jesus Christ strikes the balance because he shows us both God and our own wretchedness.

The motive that impels modern reason to know must be described as the desire to conquer and dominate. For the Greek philosophers and the Fathers of the church, knowing meant something different: it meant knowing in wonder. By knowing or perceiving one participates in the life of the other. Here knowing does not transform the counterpart into the property of the knower; the knower does not appropriate what he knows. On the contrary, he is transformed through sympathy, becoming a participant in what he perceives.

Evil is knowing better, but willingly doing worse.

It's a great feeling knowing you've helped someone. That's what I've spent my life doing and my practice.

Sometimes, not knowing what you're doing allows you to do things you never knew you could do.

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

It's kind of hard for you to be doing huge things and still be knowing what's happening on the street level.

It is an indescribable experience knowing that what you are doing will have an impact on the lives... of millions of people.

The freedom of knowing that you're doing something off-kilter is liberating.

I just tried to go out there and play with attitude, doing what I was supposed to do and knowing my role on the team. Doing what my team expected me to do every night, not just once a week. It was all about work and I was just a tough guy who would knock somebody down.

It's a kind of limbo, knowing what you want but not being quite sure how to go about doing it.

I do what I love to do at the moment. If I wake up tomorrow and decide I want to dance, that's what I'd do. Or design clothes. I think I'd throw myself into whatever I'm doing now. It's not about abandoning what I was doing before, or giving up. It's about knowing that if I die tomorrow, I lived the way I wanted to.

I get enormous satisfaction from knowing I'm doing something for society.

I hated this. I hated knowing what I wanted and knowing what was right and knowing they weren't the same thing.

I gave my life to this without knowing what I was doing. I was very little when I started in 5H: I was 16.

I'm greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn't do it, that somehow I can deliver.

Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it.

It's good to be able to be the same no matter who you're playing, knowing what you're doing, having consistency.

Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion, and empathy.

To know another human being in their essence, you don’t really need to know anything about them - their past, their history, their story. We confuse knowing about with a deeper knowing that is non-conceptual. Knowing about and knowing are totally different modalities. One is concerned with form, the other with the formless. One operates through thought, the other through stillness.

Just as important as knowing what gift God has given you is knowing which gifts He hasn't give you. Many Christians try for years to function with gifts they never had in the first place, and this doesn't do the Lord's work much good. It's like trying to hear something with your knee or throw a ball with your nose. Knees and noses are better off doing other things.

It was very satisfying knowing I could come in not really knowing what I was going to do, and at the end of the session feeling that I'd really done interesting guitar work and knowing that I'd really contributed to the music.

Improvisation is the art of being completely O.K. with not knowing what the f— you’re doing

Faith is knowing and thinking those truths: charity is willing and doing them.

Wisdom is knowing. Skill is know how to do it. Virtue is doing it.

Actually, the fun part was not knowing what the heck I was going to be doing.

You stayed up on the record business by knowing who was doing what. You watched the Phil Spectors. That's what told you what to do, what was hot.

Love is the only endeavor in which knowing what you're doing is no help at all.

Knowing all truth is less than doing a little bit of good.

Knowing has two poles, and they are always poles apart: carnal knowing, the laying on of hands, the hanging of the fact by head or heels, the measurement of mass and motion, the calibration of brutal blows, the counting of supplies; and spiritual knowing, invisibly felt by the inside self, who is but a fought-over field of distraction, a stage where we recite the monotonous monologue that is our life, a knowing governed by internal tides, by intimations, motives, resolutions, by temptations, secrecy, shame, and pride.

The worst part of fame is not always knowing what I’m doing the next day

Independence is doing what you want to do, knowing that you're happy with the decisions you're making and that it's the best for you.

The whole thing of doing a TV series, I find it very daunting not knowing where the story's going.

Authentic empowerment is the knowing that you are on purpose, doing God's work, peacefully and harmoniously.

Confidence comes from knowing what you're doing. If you are prepared for something, you usually do it. If not, you usually fall flat on your face.

Living a life of faith means never knowing where you are being led - but it does mean loving and knowing the One who is leading. It is literally a life of FAITH, not of understanding and reason- - a life of knowing Him who calls us to go.

I fill up the well of stories in my head - without ever knowing I'm doing it.

I invite people to examine their lives without negativity, knowing that it's scary, but that not doing it is even scarier.

Transformations require that we let go of familiar ways of doing things, without yet knowing what we will do next.

Real success is not being on the cover of a magazine; it's knowing that you've done, and enjoyed doing, what you set out to do.

By diminishing the value of silence, publicity has also diminished that of language. The two are inseparable: knowing how to speak has always meant knowing how to keep silent, knowing that there are times when one should say nothing.

The Columbus Day Parade was held Monday in New York. Columbus was the world's first Democrat. He left not knowing where he was going, arrived not knowing where he was, went home not knowing where he had been, and he did it all on government money.

There's a difference between knowing God and knowing about God. Knowing about God is all of the stuff we've been told and all of the books we've read and all of our religious experiences and what others have told us and tried to convince us of. But knowing God is when we make conscious contact.

Knowing is not thinking. Knowing begins when thinking ceases, having finished its work. Every new knowing is a joy, for it is a new experience of unity.

I like the idea of everybody knowing each other; you know why you're doing things.

I am doing what I am supposed to be doing right now. I smile knowing that I have the most wonderful husband, family, and friends. I work with friends whom I can learn from and whom I respect and who respect me.

Perhaps the worst sin in life is knowing right and not doing it.

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.

Work is most fulfilling when you're at the comfortable, exciting edge of not quite knowing what you are doing.

There's a thrill in the midst of the hardship in knowing that I'm making the invisible real. And I'm doing what I want.

I'm very much a believer in knowing what it is that you love doing so you can do a great deal of it.

Doing things in secret that you are ashamed for others to know is practical atheism. God's knowing doesn't count?

The manipulation of statistical formulas is no substitute for knowing what one is doing.

Learning is really about translating knowing what to do into doing what we know.

The risk that is involved in trusting is stepping forth with willingness with a knowing that you can lose something or fail, and doing it anyways

Writing is very hard work and knowing what you're doing the whole time.

I think you get most of the most interesting work done in fields where people don't think they're doing art but are merely practicing a craft and working as good craftsmen. Being literate as a writer is good craft, is knowing your job, is knowing how to use your tools properly and not to damage the tools as you use them.