Knowing Quotes
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For me, performance is about forgetting what I'm wearing. Just putting it on and knowing it's right.
Debbie Harry Blondie
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All men contain several men inside them, and most of us bounce from one self to another without ever knowing who we are.
Paul Auster
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Wisdom consists in knowing what not to want as well as what to want.
Napoleon Hill
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If anyone should want to know my name, I am called Leah. And I spend all my time weaving garlands of flowers with my fair hands, t o please me when I stand before the mirror; my sister Rachel sits all the day long before her own, and never moves away. She loves to contemplate her lovely eyes; I love to use my hands to adorn myself: her joy is in reflection, mine in act.
Dante Alighieri
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Knowledge is the beginning of practice; doing is the completion of knowing.
Wang Yangming
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Success is knowing what you're doing, loving what you're doing, and believing what you're doing.
Napoleon Hill
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Knowing things halfway is a greater success than knowing things completely: it takes things to be simpler than they really are andso makes its opinions more easily understandable and persuasive.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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You must achieve the confidence of knowing that you possess absolute, unbending, unimpeachable integrity. Everyone must know that. Above all else, it is integrity that defines your character.
Dave Calhoun
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The secret of great battles consists in knowing how to deploy and concentrate at the right time.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Knowing others is wisdom; Knowing the self is enlightenment; Mastering others requires force; Mastering the self needs strength.
Lao Tzu
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This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there.
C. S. Lewis
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Knowing that your sense of fashion and the culture it's connected to is valid really makes it a stronger thing for you.
Winston Duke
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Descartes, the Frenchman, had little trouble knowing that he existed.
N.D. Wilson
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Whoever wants to love is better knowing nothing than too much.
Adrienne von Speyr
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He never reckoned much to schooling and that. He said you could learn most what was worth knowing from keeping your eyes and ears peeled. Best way of learning, he always said, was doing.
Michael Morpurgo
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There is only one favorable moment in war; talent consists in knowing how to seize it.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Lawyers are shy of meddling with the Law on their own account: knowing it to be an edged tool of uncertain application, very expensive in the working, and rather remarkable for its properties of close shaving than for its always shaving the right person.
Charles Dickens
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I quickly said that, because of my loyalty to 'Star Trek' and also just being a fan, I wouldn’t even want to be involved in the next version of those things. I declined any involvement very early on. I’d rather be in the audience not knowing what was coming, rather than being involved in the minutiae of making them.
J. J. Abrams
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The future is beyond knowing, but the present is beyond belief.
William Irwin Thompson
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Then there's the joy of getting your desk clean, and knowing that all your letters are answered, and you can see the wood on it again.
Lady Bird Johnson
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To despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do without knowing what one does, and to speak without knowing what one says.
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
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An enlightened ruler doesnot worry about people not knowing him; he worriesabout not knowing people.
Zhuge Liang
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Can you imagine being bilingual? Or even knowing anybody that was? I'm not even unilingual. Actually, I shouldn't say that. I don't give myself enough credit. I know enough English to, you know, get by. I can order in restaurants and stuff.
Brian Regan
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I teach at Georgetown, and I see that the students have so many different interests. The main thing is to match your passion with your knowledge, because you can't just be passionate without knowing the facts, and facts are really boring without passion.
Madeleine Albright