Knowing Quotes
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I know a famous violinist who told me he can't compose because he knows too many pieces. So, when he starts thinking of a note, an existing piece immediately comes to mind. Just starting out, one of your biggest strengths is not knowing how things are supposed to be.
Natalie Portman
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And yet the artist will go on with his work without knowing in some way if any of his representations are sound or unsound. The artist knows nothing worth mentioning about the subjects he represents, and that art is a form of play, not to be taken seriously.
Plato
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So we can only know God well by knowing our iniquities. Therefore those who have known God, without knowing their wretchedness, have not glorified Him, but have glorified themselves.
Blaise Pascal
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We can't walk where we want to walk or be who we want to be or dress the way we want to dress or go anywhere any time of day. I am talking about the freedom that comes with just knowing that you're okay, and that you have value and you have identity, and you don't have to keep proving yourself.
Eve Ensler
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Some nights, alone, he thinks of her, and some nights, alone, she thinks of him. Some night these thoughts, separated by miles and time zones, occur at the same objective moment, and Ray and Mirabelle are connected without ever knowing it.
Steve Martin
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Without knowing this, no man can dress a horse perfectly.
William Cavendish
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All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room.
Blaise Pascal
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Worry not that no one knows you; seek to be worth knowing.
Confucius
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You won't know the meaning of success without knowing how it feels to fail.
Kazu Kibuishi
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I love not knowing what's going to happen next. With work, you never know. You rehearse and strive and get it right sometimes, and still you never know. Some people are like that with their marriages. They work and strive and labour and toil at them. God, what a bore! What an unromantic bore!
Celia Imrie
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New Yorkers are nice about giving you street directions; in fact, they seem quite proud of knowing where they are themselves.
Katharine Brush
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All knowing that goes beyond the immediate experience of the moment is a matter of faith.
Egon Friedell
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I think guys overtrain and they burn out. And also just knowing what your body needs. Again, I think rest is really important.
Andre Reed
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“Well," Isaid finally, knowing he was waiting, “you make me laugh.” He nodded. “And?” “You're pretty good-looking." ""Pretty good-looking? I called you beautiful." "You want to be beautiful?" I asked him. "Are you saying I'm not?"
Sarah Dessen
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In my research, I learned that the way these twenties pieces are constructed, in one garment, can be very simple, and in others they can be very complicated. That's what made an elusive fit that we can't always get these days. Knowing this, I would like to share some of these secrets and use them in a collection.
Mark Bridges
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You appear to know more of my private history than I have the pleasure of knowing of yours. Pray, sir, may I—but, bless me! are you unwell?” I asked this in some alarm, because the little man was rolling about in his seat, holding his sides, and growing very red in the face.
R. M. Ballantyne
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Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
Blaise Pascal
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If you don't believe your general, you're not going to go into battle knowing you're going to die.
Genndy Tartakovsky
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Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
Moliere
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I used to have very good sixth sense - knowing exactly where someone was without seeing them.
Chris Pronger
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We are surrounded by pictures; we have an abundance of theories about them, but it doesn't seem to do us any good. Knowing what pictures are doing, understanding them, doesn't seem necessarily to give us power over them.
William J. Mitchell
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There is a world of difference between knowing what to do and actually doing it.
Bill Phillips
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I want to go out at the top, but the secret is knowing when you're at the top, it's so difficult in this business, your career fluctuates all the time, up and down, like a pair of trousers.
Rod Stewart