Top 1200 Knowing Myself Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

Though I play at the edges of knowing, truly I know our part is not knowing, but looking, and touching, and loving

The pain of not knowing what to do was exceeded only by that of knowing what I had done.

When I'm by myself asking the questions that many of us do at some point in our lives, I look to the stars knowing that the answers are somewhere out there waiting to be discovered.

It should begin with friendship, I think. Suddenly I cannot look at him. It should begin with friendship and truly knowing who a person is, knowing his flaws and hopes and strengths and fears, knowing all of it. And admiring and caring for- loving the person because of all of those things... I know that now.

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

When I left college, I though that I would be immediately embraced by the film world and instead found myself sitting in a squat for three years not knowing what to do with my life.

Perhaps knowing one place intimately is to have a way of knowing all places.

Knowing how to swim doesn't come from someone else showing you or someone else telling you or watching movies of other people swimming. It comes from having been in the water, knowing how to move yourself through the water and not sink. And it's true of virtually everything in our lives: knowing comes from direct experience.

Teaching, like any truly human activity, emerges from one's inwardness, for better or worse. As I teach I project the condition of my soul onto my students, my subject, and our way of being together. The entanglements I experience in the classroom are often no more or less than the convolutions of my inner life. Viewed from this angle, teaching holds a mirror to the soul. If I am willing to look in that mirror and not run from what I see, I have a chance to gain self-knowledge-and knowing myself is as crucial to good teaching as knowing my students and my subject.

Ain't only three things to gambling: knowing the 60-40 end of the proposition, money management, and knowing yourself.

The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.

Knowing is better than not knowing. Every time.

The pain comes from more than the facts of circumstance, or the deeds of others. It comes from within. From understanding what we lost. It comes from knowing how foolish we were - vain, arrogant children - when we thought ourselves happy. It comes from knowing how fragile and doomed the old ways were, just when we thought them and ourselves, secure!. The pain comes from knowing we have never been safe, and therefore will never be safe again. It comes from knowing we can never be children again.

I have high expectations for myself - as an athlete, as a man, as an individual - and wrestling has helped me build a lot of character knowing that I have to remain humble but also fight complacency.

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do. Strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do.

No one can buy me. It allows me to devote myself completely to what I do. Knowing that I'm comfortable removes a big burden off my shoulders.

But in the end she merely shrugged, knowing at the very least it would be interesting. Knowing, in her gut, it might just be the beginning.

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.

When I went through a really intense break-up - you know, I was engaged - the thing that gave me the most anxiety was not knowing what to do with myself when Disney wasn't there to carry me anymore or if I didn't have him. And now I'm FREE of both of those things and I'm fine. I lay in bed at night by myself and I'm totally OK and that's so much stronger than the person three years ago, who would have thought they would have died if they didn't have a boyfriend.

You paint the way you have to in order to give. That's life itself, and someone will look and say it is the product of knowing, but it has nothing to do with knowing, it has to do with giving.

Real courage is knowing what faces you and knowing how to face it.

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.

Knowing is higher than believing. Knowing means that there is NO doubt.

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

I saw myself. . . in the time I watched, I saw strength and frailty, pride and vanity, courage and fear. Of wisdom, a little. Of folly much. Of intentions many good ones; but many more left undone. On this alas, I saw myself a man like any other. But this too I saw . . . Alike as men may seem, each is different as flakes of snow, no two the same.You told me you had no need to seek the Mirror, knowing you were Annlaw Clay-Shaper. Now I know who I am: myself and none other. I am Taran.

Knowing and knowing what to do about it were two different things.

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as in knowing what to do next.

Having to deal with people all of a sudden knowing who we were and knowing our music and all the rest of it was definitely something that we had to get used to.

There is a peace deep within myself from knowing that all things are held within and sustained by the love of God.

The strangest of our powers Is the courage to live Knowing that we will die, Knowing nothing more true.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

With that strange knowing that comes over me, like a clairvoyance, I know that I am sure of myself and my enormous and alarmingly timeless love for you; which will always be.

Like teenagers, we appear to have gone from knowing nothing about the world to knowing too much all but overnight.

That’s when this warm feeling buzzes through you and you smile to yourself, knowing God’s watching you, knowing that He knows you’re trying to be strong to please Him.

[on education] It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.

Knowing when to fight is just as important as knowing how.

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.

It's a lot easier knowing you can't do something than knowing you shouldn't.

A song or an album is never really done. You can work on it forever, but knowing when to call it a day and knowing when to walk away from it is extremely important.

We all [on Aladdin] have a passion to perform and a lot of us trained to do this and there's a certain gratification from knowing that you did your best work and knowing that you are at the level that you are at.

Knowing what you're up against is part of the strength of writing something that is even, I guess, considered halfway original, knowing what's out there to begin with.

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

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

Knowing what to leave out is just as important as knowing what to focus on.

People see you on TV every day, they start knowing your name. You know, I was always just the guy from Maroon 5 until I became myself.

My songs are about not knowing who to be and not knowing how to act.

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

The one thing that’s missing, but that will soon be developed, is a reliable e-cash, a method whereby on the Internet you can transfer funds from A to B, without A knowing B or B knowing A.

Knowing that you are nothing is Wisdom, Knowing that you are everything is Love.

I will never be able to go back to Sweden without knowing inside myself that I'd done all a man could do to save as many Jews as possible

I'm not very good at time off. I'm happier when I'm working. It's something to do with not knowing what the next job is, so you appreciate it while it's there. I thrive on it, actually. But now I do it to please myself.

I will probably always cry myself to sleep, but knowing this, someday the tears won't be sad, or filled with regret. Maybe they will be joyful

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.

It is never wise to turn aside from knowing, however the knowing comes.

As I walk'd by myself, I talk'd to myself, And myself replied to me; And the questions myself then put to myself, With their answers I give to thee.

It's all about controlling the huddle one play at a time and knowing my assignment, knowing my progression and where I've got to go with the ball.

Sold my house in LA, packed myself up and moved to New York, not knowing anybody. Friends are very hard to make after a certain age.