Knowing Quotes - page 88

In an ideal world, nobody's work would be just about the money. People could pursue excellence in what they do, take pride in achievement, and derive meaning from knowing that their work improved the lives of others. (Barry Schwartz)
Believe me, nurse, the difficulty of beginning will be nothing to the difficulty of knowing how to stop. View quote
Agatha Christie
The near cousin of optimism is hope: knowing the steps needed to get to a goal and having the energy to pursue those steps. It is a primal motivating force, and its absence is paralyzing. View quote
Daniel Goleman
The best way to live is by not knowing what will happen to you at the end of the day. View quote
Donald Barthelme
My parents survived the Great Depression and brought me up to live within my means, save some for tomorrow, share and don't be greedy, work hard for the necessities in life knowing that money does not make you better or more important than anyone else. So, extravagance has been bred out of my DNA. View quote
David Suzuki
Truly religious people always make jokes about their religion; their faith is so strong that they can afford it. Much of the secret of life consists in knowing how to laugh, and also how to breathe. View quote
Alan Watts
The Beautiful Poem" I go to bed in Los Angeles thinking about you. Pissing a few moments ago I looked down at my penis affectionately. Knowing it has been inside you twice today makes me feel beautiful. View quote
Richard Brautigan
... Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean]... View quote
Jonathan Safran Foer
Turning back the pages of my sweet shattered dream, I wonder if she'll ever do the same; And the thing that I call living is just being satisfied With knowing I've got no one left to blame. View quote
Gordon Lightfoot
If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well. View quote
Alexander Smith
To me, the definition of focus is knowing exactly where you want to be today, next week, next month, next year, then never deviating from your plan. Once you can see, touch and feel your objective, all you have to do is pull back and put all your strength behind it, and you'll hit your target every time. (Bruce Jenner)
I think maybe the rural influence in my life helped me in a sense, of knowing how to get close to people and talk to them and get my work done. View quote
Gordon Parks
Oh Master of the Beautiful, Creating us from hour to hour, Give me this vision to the full To see in lightest things thy power! This vision give, no heaven afar, No throne, and yet I will rejoice, Knowing beneath my feet a star, Thy word in every wandering voice. View quote
George William Russell
Knowing the slow processes by which the Deity brings about great results, he does not expect to reap as well as sow, in a single lifetime. It is the inflexible fate and noblest destiny, with rare exceptions, of the great and good, to work, and let others reap the harvest of their labors. View quote
Albert Pike
I saw myself,” Taran answered. "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. In this, alas, I saw myself a man like any other. "But this, too, I saw,” he went on. "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. View quote
Lloyd Alexander
Jerry Springer: Please meet GG Allin. GG has been arrested more than 52 times in over 12 states for the nudity, obscenity and violence that are part of his music performances. He says the fans love the thrill of coming to his show knowing that their lives are in danger. View quote
GG Allin
When it falls on your head, then you are knowing it is a rock. View quote
Tad Williams
Faith is that which, knowing the Lord's will, goes and does it or, not knowing it, stands and waits, content in ignorance as in knowledge, because God wills neither pressing into the hidden future, nor careless of the knowledge which opens the path of action. View quote
George MacDonald
But what matter whether I was born or not, have lived or not, am dead or merely dying. I shall go on doing as I have always done, not knowing what it is I do, nor who I am, nor where I am, nor if I am. View quote
Samuel Beckett
There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used. View quote
Zig Ziglar
"You err, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God" This canon is the mother of all canons against heresy; the causes of error are two; the ignorance of the will of God, and the ignorance or not sufficient consideration of his power. (Francis Bacon)
To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them. View quote
Jacob Bronowski
Coming up through the ranks of any calling can be rough, but that battered soul who survives the early years of courting the comic muse comes close to knowing what only the soldier knows: What combat is like. View quote
Dick Cavett
Knowing heaven is what heals us on earth. View quote
Mitch Albom
This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work. View quote
Mitch Albom