Knowing Quotes

The whole celebrity culture thing - I'm fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it.

Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it.

No film should try to follow a trend, and do what film people think the public wants. There's no such thing as knowing what the public wants.

One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying.

If you don't know your blood pressure, it's like not knowing the value of your company.

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

And I don't have any specific steps to take because I don't start the same way every time. But there is a knowing when it's enough and you can leave it alone.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is.

I had to do this very aggressive, big score in a very short time, and knowing that in the beginning, middle, and end would be this very, very famous theme, but I still had to weave a score around it and make it work as a score was really challenging.

How can you interview somebody about something fairly technical if you start on the wrong foot by not even knowing his name?

When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.

For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in.

I really understand where Alice is coming from - I've been in exactly the same place coming from a small town and knowing that I need to do other things, that I have to leave.

In my first year as governor, we solved some of the problems that had begun to undermine the Open Records Act. We gave the act teeth by providing criminal penalties for knowing violations.

I have the satisfaction of knowing I did something useful for society.

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

I think there's a difference between ditzy and dumb. Dumb is just not knowing. Ditzy is having the courage to ask!

When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.

Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.

I guess because I had such a horrible life growing up, going from place to place not knowing what I was gonna do and ending up being homeless, there was a lot of pain and a lot of anger that was coming out through my guitar playing.

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

I learned to put 100 percent into what you're doing. I learned about setting goals for yourself, knowing where you want to be and taking small steps toward those goals. I learned about adversity and how to get past it.

My greatest reward is knowing for certain, as I do with many other acts and artistes, that without Jonathan King being alive and involved, Genesis would not exist, and the guys would have had careers as intended - as accountants and lawyers!

Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

I think everyone can relate to the idea of making a bad choice - and knowing it's a bad choice - but doing it anyway.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

I don't start a piece knowing exactly what effect it's going to have. There is a seed of an idea that I could never articulate, right at the beginning of the piece, literally like one cell.

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.