Top 1200 Knowing And Doing Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we've done it.

I really have branched out into areas where I'm totally uncertain, which is very exciting for me. I kind of like not knowing what I'm doing.

Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when we suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth we have spoken it

Eventually we realize that not knowing what to do is just as real and just as useful as knowing what to do. Not knowing stops us from taking false directions. Not knowing what to do, we start to pay real attention. Just as people lost in the wilderness, on a cliff face or in a blizzard pay attention with a kind of acuity that they would not have if they thought they knew where they were. Why? Because for those who are really lost, their life depends on paying real attention. If you think you know where you are, you stop looking.

We all have a purpose in life and I believe this being an activist is mine, so that's one of my driving forces. The second driving force is knowing that I'm actually making a difference to people's lives. Knowing that women are saying that their young daughters are looking up to me now, knowing that I've helped someone to not commit suicide. Getting messages like that are very powerful.

When I started acting, I had a really strong discipline of knowing that you had to be on time, knowing that you had to work 12 to 16 hours a day, knowing you had to be prepared, knowing you had to be ready, and it's very interesting because if you're an artist and you're creating, you can work very, very long hours but as you're putting out that love of creation, it's almost like you're charged by it, you're charged by the process of it.

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

This is what youth must figure out: Girls, love, and living. The having, the not having, The spending and giving, And the meloncholy time of not knowing. This is what age must learn about: The ABC of dying. The going, yet not going, The loving and leaving, And the unbearable knowing and knowing

We prefer knowing to thinking, because knowing has more immediate value.

Sometimes, knowing when to let go is just as important as knowing when to hold tight.

One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.

No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken.

We are born knowing how to be just. And we die knowing we spent a lifetime pretending we didn't.

Everything depends on knowing how much,” she said, and “Good is knowing when to stop.

As early pioneers in the knowing, that when you lose your reason, you attain highest perfect knowing.

We have traditionally thought of knowing in terms of subject and object and have struggled to attain objectivity by detaching our subjectivity. It can't be done, and one of the achievements of postmodernity is to demonstrate that. What we are called to, and what in the resurrection we are equipped for, is a knowing in which we are involved as subjects but as self-giving, not as self-seeking, subjects: in other words, a knowing that is a form of love.

There are two types of knowledge. One is knowing a thing. The other is knowing where to find it.

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

Knowing yourself, knowing where you want to get, combining those things gives you the pragmatic steps.

One of the strategies for doing first-person is to make the narrator very knowing, so that the reader is with somebody who has a take on everything they observe.

That's the biggest difference from college to NFL. Everybody's so talented at this level, the difference is knowing the game - knowing where to go with the ball in my position, knowing how to execute your job to the highest level. In college, you could just get by playing ball.

So he lived, not knowing and not seeing any chance of knowing what he was and for what purpose he had been placed in the word.

My definition of freedom is knowing who you are, and then being it. No matter what anyone else is doing. And naked parties of course.

So this is how a person can come to despise himself-knowing he's doing the wrong thing and not being able to stop.

Success in business doesn't come without passion, vision, hard work, and knowing that you're doing the right thing.

You can't say, 'You're a scorer, you score. You rebound, you rebound.' Basketball is more than that. Basketball is knowing the next step, knowing the next play, knowing how to make things happen.

I think self-confidence doesn’t come so much from knowing you’re great as just knowing who you are.

Sometimes the space between knowing what to do and actually doing it is a very short walk. Other times it is an impossible expanse.

Knowing is different from doing and therefore theory must never be used as norms for a standard, but merely as aids to judgment.

For acting, classes are a necessity, but for modeling it's really just knowing who you are and knowing how to sell yourself.

Starting out really punk came from not knowing any better and listening to music like that, not knowing how to play music - well, still not knowing how to play music.

Knowing that something is wrong and doing it anyway happens very often in life, and I doubt I will ever know why.

I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.

People who used magic without knowing what they were doing usually came to a sticky end. All over the entire room, sometimes.

It is hard knowing that maybe if I was born a man and doing the exact same thing I would have more money than sense.

I think understanding your life as a story is a really terrific way of kind of knowing where you are and knowing who you are.

Always knowing you're going to die And until then knowing you've got to live.

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

Knowing something for oneself or for communication to an expert colleague is not the same as knowing it for explanation to a student.

Because what’s worse than knowing you want something, besides knowing you can never have it?

Smart is knowing if you're dumb. Knowing when to shut up and to listen to people that are smarter than you.

The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own.

Knowing you’re worthless doesn’t give you value any more than knowing you are a captive sets you free.

If you think about it enough to have a really articulate answer, you're not doing it right. That's how I feel about art. If your thought process could take you to knowing exactly what you're doing and why, there would be no point in making the art. It would become like propaganda. It's more nebulous than that.

That's what the grind is, doing all the little things knowing that something may not come out of it. It probably won't. But the goal is to get a shot at it.

Success is the inner satisfaction and peace of mind that come from knowing I did the best I was capable of doing for the group.

I went from off-off Broadway. I would direct plays in Baldwin Hills. Almost Tyler Perry-like, really trying to express myself in that and not really knowing how to, knowing acting in story, but not really knowing how to technically hold a camera.

Contentment is knowing you're right. Happiness is knowing someone else is wrong.

It's not about knowing the key to success, but knowing how to use it and which doors to open

It's hard to maintain a life when you do a play. You feel you have to pretend to go through a normal day, knowing that in the evening you'll be doing this.

We humans have two great problems: the first is knowing when to begin; the second is knowing when to stop.

Spiritual maturity is not knowing what to do with your whole life, but just knowing what to do next.

I was sure you 'd dropped the class, which made me selfishly ecstatic. Without even knowing i was doing it, i started looking for you on campus.

But it seemed to me that the American way of doing things was to obliterate a complete area, without really knowing exactly what was there and where they were.

Knowing another is endless,' Shepherd had written; 'The thing to be known grows with the knowing.

A man of knowing attains to a sense of humour. Let this always be remembered. If you see someone who has no sense of humour, know well that that man has not known at all. If you come across a serious man, then you can be certain that he is a pretender. Knowing brings sincerity but all seriousness disappears. Knowing brings a playfulness; knowing brings a sense of humour. The sense of humour is a must.

There's only what you choose, and how you can have it. If you choose peace and joy and love, you won't get much of it through what you're doing. If you choose happiness and contentment, you'll find little of that on the path of doingness. If you choose reunion with God, supreme knowing, deep understanding, endless compassion, total awareness, absolute fulfillment, you won't achieve much of that out of what you're doing.

Obviously, getting stronger is the key, and knowing how to use my body, knowing what to expect.

One of the difficulties of not knowing for so long whether we were doing a fifth season or not was that we weren't really allowed to go out shopping for work.

We have to cross the boundary between knowing and not knowing many times before we achieve understanding.