Knowing Quotes · Page 125

Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone's knowing how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier.

— John Dewey

True tolerance is not a total lack of judgment. It's knowing what should be tolerated, and refusing to tolerate that which shouldn't.

— Charles Colson

I write linearly without knowing the full story. I discover it as I write it.

— Gautham Menon

I firmly believe that knowing too much too soon can color your performance in a not good way. I just don't want…

— Joshua Morrow

I prefer every time a picture composed and painted outdoors. The thing is done without your knowing it.

— Winslow Homer

There's something so empowering about knowing I can pick up an axe and split a piece of wood.

— Rain Dove

Our success is a direct result of knowing how to market a brand and having the right people representing the brand.

— Greg Norman

“They don’t need to be no rocket scientist, but knowing the difference between "their", "there", and "they’re" might be a great start.”

— Bob N. Boguslavski

But sometimes, too, you have this little feeling of knowing, this fuzzy, gnawing sense that someone will become a major something in…

— Deb Caletti

“and then you stopped. And looked at me. And I knew then exactly what was going to happen. You kissed me, yes.…

— Nicholas Sparks

When our dreams seem to go sour or remain unfulfilled, hopelessness can dominate our lives-or we can hold on with open hands,…

— Sheila Walsh

Perry, Jeremy, Man, Just knowing that you guys look up to me, And I can help you out so much, I could…

— Kevin Durant

Our knowledge springs from two fundamental sources of the mind; the first is the capacity of receiving representations (receptivity for impressions), the…

— Immanuel Kant

I lost my dad way too early and it was agonisingly awful. I missed him so much and I hated knowing that…

— Monica Seles

Prepare by knowing your walk away [conditions] and by building the number of variables you can work with during the negotiation... you…

— Max Keiser

A mature mind is one who understands the impossibility of knowing the ultimate, and with this understanding there is a new dimension:…

— Rajneesh

Being blocked, being uncertain, sitting there not knowing, waiting, abiding with it: this is the work. If you don't have the tolerance…

— Jonathan Lethem

I remember reading in a comedy book very long ago when I first started, a person said there's a difference between a…

— Baron Vaughn

Nin knew how much humans loved money, riches, and material things-though he never really could understand why. The more technologically advanced the…

— Jess C Scott

I was at a dinner party many years ago,sitting along from Tom Stoppard, who in those days smoked not just between courses,but…

— Stephen Fry

The individual, by means of the discipline imposed on him by sport, not only plays and finds relaxation from the various compulsions…

— Jacques Ellul

I can't take not knowing what the next day will bring- the uncertainty is sawing me in two. The room is dark.…

— Pittacus Lore

A God who kept tinkering with the universe was absurd; a God who interfered with human freedom and creativity was a tyrant.…

— Karen Armstrong

Before I started working on a computer, writing a piece would be like making something up every day, taking the material and…

— Joan Didion

Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are…

— Alexander Pope

My favorite thing about being engaged is your partner knowing what you want. For us, we love going out to eat.

— Waka Flocka Flame

I figured that when there's no way of knowing what the future holds it's just as easy to believe it'll be good…

— Jean Ferris

“Life wants you to know that feelings are more important than facts, and you should never hurt someone just to be right.”

— Bryant McGill

I think beauty comes from actually knowing who you are. That's real beauty to me.

— Ellen DeGeneres

Our rash faults Make trivial price of serious thing we have, Not knowing them until we know their grave.

— William Shakespeare

Knowing without any doubt that the newly elected cannot help but be his zombies, Obama is the cat who swallowed the canary.

— Judi McLeod

I started at GM knowing very little about that particular business. Not being an expert means you have to learn everything, starting…

— Edward Whitacre, Jr

Knowing what I know now, any photographer worth his salt could make some beautiful things with pinhole cameras.

— Ansel Adams

Nothing prepared me for the loss of my mother. Even knowing that she would die did not prepare me.

— Meghan O'Rourke

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

— David Levithan

I been talking to myself lately, I'm starting to get too know myself better.

— Destiny Lashay

The computer is your passport, not only to the future but to knowing what's going around you.

— Michael Nutter

The flow of writing is always a surprise and a challenge. Click the computer on and I am 17 again, wanting to…

— Don Murray

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

— John G. Miller

Confidence equals contentment with self; contentment is knowing you have all you need for the present circumstances.

— John C. Maxwell