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  • Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long. -- Walker Evans
  • It's the way to educate your eyes. Stare. Pry, listen eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long. -- Walker Evans
  • But you can't stop knowing something, can you? -- Ellen Ullman
  • Faith is knowing something that no-one else does. -- Phil Pringle
  • Ignorance is not, not knowing something. It is knowing what isn't so. -- Mark Twain
  • The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it. -- Samuel Johnson
  • Study the rules so that you won't beat yourself by not knowing something. -- Babe Didrikson Zaharias
  • If there's one thing that really annoys a god, it's not knowing something. -- Terry Pratchett
  • What use is it that knowledge mounts? It's knowing something good that counts. -- Friedrich von Logau
  • I just don't like the feeling of knowing something that somebody else doesn't. -- Scarlett Johansson
  • I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something. -- Richard P. Feynman
  • I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all. -- Vladimir Nabokov
  • There is no shame in not knowing something. The shame is in not being willing to learn. -- Alison Croggon
  • How do we know imagination isn't just a different way of knowing something? A message from outside. -- Stephanie S. Tolan
  • If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Learning and knowing something is cool, but superb knowledge comes when you leave your books and become the inner world's friend. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
  • I've become to realize there's a world of difference between knowing something happened, even knowing why it happened, and believing it. -- Gayle Forman
  • I know I have to stop. We all have to stop. Funny how knowing something's a bad idea doesn't make a difference. -- Sara Ryan
  • It was different, though, knowing something in your thoughts and then hearing it confirmed, made real, planted in the world like a tree -- Guy Gavriel Kay
  • I knew it was beautiful, but knowing something is beautiful and caring about it are two very different things, and I didn't care. -- Maureen Johnson
  • Courage is feeling fear, not getting rid of fear, knowing something is more important than fear and taking action in the face of fear. -- Roy Bennett
  • The binding factor between knowing something and doing it is "passion". When your passion is concentrated in what you know, your work output will bind well. -- Israelmore Ayivor
  • Faith means being sure of what we hope for now. It means knowing something is real, this moment, all around you, even when you don't see it. -- Joni Eareckson Tada
  • You can't do a machine without knowing something about how it's going to work. As for the romantics, the costumes bored me and I don't enjoy doing period clothes. -- Boris Vallejo
  • We can know nothing of humankind without knowing something of ourselves. Self-knowledge is the property of those people whose passions have their full play, but who ponder over their results. -- Benjamin Disraeli
  • I lay there knowing something eerie ties us to the world of animals. Sometimes the animals pull you backward into it. You share hunger and fear with them like salt in blood. -- Barry Lopez
  • Cooking is an art, but all art requires knowing something about the techniques and materials. Using modernist techniques, you get more control, and that allows you to be more artistic, not less! -- Nathan Myhrvold
  • Cognitive insight (knowing something) is not like emotional insight (feeling something). It has no psychodynamic effects. It does not affect the narcissist's behavior patterns, or his interpersonal interactions - the products of well entrenched and rigid defense mechanisms. -- Sam Vaknin
  • The Resurrected/Glorified, God-man Jesus and the angelic beings obviously have knowledge with which to think/reason/articulate/communicate. In my opinion, it seems to me there is 'another way' of knowing something. Yet, they have no physical/organic brain?~R. Alan Woods [2012] -- R. Alan Woods
  • Knowing how people will use something is essential. -- Donald Norman
  • I get enormous satisfaction from knowing I'm doing something for society. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • I have the satisfaction of knowing I did something useful for society. -- John Cameron
  • There's something about knowing life is finite that makes it so precious. -- Ethan Hawke
  • I've always felt robbed of something by people not knowing I was a Jew. -- Piper Laurie
  • There is something about street dogs, about rescues; they have this knowing sense about them. -- Hayden Panettiere
  • Raining Diamonds' talks about knowing there's something better out there. You don't have to just settle. -- Ricki-Lee Coulter
  • I want the joy of knowing that I am doing something with my life, the joy of battle. -- Francis Chan
  • I wake up each and every day with a smile on my face knowing I get to do something musically. -- Two Chainz
  • There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it. -- Charles Kettering
  • How can you interview somebody about something fairly technical if you start on the wrong foot by not even knowing his name? -- Trevor McDonald
  • There's something about being under-rested and knowing that the situation is going to remain that way for quite some time that makes things more meaningful. -- Henry Rollins
  • Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it. -- Charles Kettering
  • I'm greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn't do it, that somehow I can deliver. -- Alan Alda
  • I love to do things like sail and hike, but they don't give me the satisfaction of knowing the potential of something you've learned in the lab. -- Craig Mello
  • If I leave this Earth, I want to leave this Earth just knowing I've tried to give something back and tried to do something worthwhile with myself. -- Patrick Swayze
  • It seems to me that we often commit ourselves wholly to something while knowing almost nothing concrete about it. Another word for that, I suppose, is 'faith.' -- Zadie Smith
  • Knowing what you're up against is part of the strength of writing something that is even, I guess, considered halfway original, knowing what's out there to begin with. -- Phil Anselmo
  • Knowing how people will use something is essential -- Donald A. Norman
  • It's one thing thinking something and another thing knowing it. -- François Lelord
  • It's one thing thinking something and another thing knowing it. -- François Lelord
  • Knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing. -- Mitch Albom
  • I really look forward to knowing that something is always possible. -- Tara Reid
  • Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaWisdom: Something you can learn without knowing it. -- Idries Shah
  • The freedom of knowing that you're doing something off-kilter is liberating. -- David Krumholtz
  • Being a good director is knowing sometimes when not to say something. -- Gary Oldman
  • Knowing when to say something and when not to say something is important. -- Josh Radnor
  • There's something very full in knowing that your partner accepts you as is. -- Esther Perel
  • Not knowing you can't do something, is sometimes all it takes to do it. -- Ally Carter
  • Ive always felt robbed of something by people not knowing I was a Jew. -- Piper Laurie
  • There is something I do not know, the knowing of which could change everything. -- Werner Erhard
  • Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it. -- Walter Darby Bannard
  • The best feeling in the world is knowing that you actually mean something to someone. -- Will Smith
  • Because what's worse than knowing you want something, besides knowing you can never have it? -- James Patterson
  • That's the funny thing about knowing you can't have something. It makes you desperate. -Leah -- Stephenie Meyer
  • Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations. -- Vladimir Nabokov
  • Living is struggling to do something impossible; To succeed or die, knowing that you had tried. -- Anne McCaffrey
  • Knowing the cause of something is not going to help you to be free of it. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • 'Raining Diamonds' talks about knowing there's something better out there. You don't have to just settle. -- Ricki-Lee Coulter
  • Bravery and courage is walking into pain and knowing that something better is on the other side -- Kanye West
  • there's something nice about knowing that i'm not the only one who doesn't quite fit the part. -- Jodi Picoult
  • facing consequences for something done without knowing it, try to overcome or just get rid of it. -- rah_U
  • Losing would be painful, but not as painful as knowing there was something else you could've done. -- Joe Trippi
  • I became convinced that knowing lots of people was kind of skill, something that the diligent can overcome. -- Malcolm Gladwell
  • I want the joy of knowing that I am doing something with my life, the joy of battle, -- Francis Chan
  • Knowing when you're not good at something and knowing when you are good at something is an art-form. -- Glenda Bailey
  • Knowing something is not as good as liking it. Liking something is not as good as rejoicing in it. -- Confucius
  • Knowing makes all the difference... It's the difference between just trying to keep alive, and having something to live for -- John Wyndham
  • Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different..." from Two or Three Things i Know For Sure -- Dorothy Allison
  • Instead of facing consequences for something you done without knowing it, try to overcome or just get rid of it. -- rah_U
  • Any experience can be transformed into something of value. [ - worthy of enjoying by knowing it could have been worse.] -- Vash Young
  • it's something rebellious about picking up and leaving buying a one way ticket and not knowing when you want to return. -- Turcois Ominek
  • I was able to change my life by knowing that if somebody does something good for you, you have to respond. -- Nelson Mandela
  • There are few more frustrating things in life than being told something that you already know but cannot admit to knowing. -- Helen Cresswell
  • What's the good of having mastery over cosmic balance and knowing the secrets of fate if you can't blow something up? -- Terry Pratchett
  • Knowing something may be a terrible burden to bear, but it holds no danger to them as aren't afraid of truth. -- Orson Scott Card
  • If you hate something thoroughly without knowing why, you can be sure there is something of it in your own nature. -- Christian Friedrich Hebbel
  • Happiness, Success, Excellence: They are not something you get for knowing the path; they are something you experience by walking it. -- Steve Maraboli
  • Look for opportunities to help someone else, but don't give expecting something in return. Give knowing that if we give we receive. -- David
  • Knowing that something is wrong and doing it anyway happens very often in life, and I doubt I will ever know why. -- Daniel Handler
  • Her shut-eyed smile transformed itself into something else: the smile of someone brave and knowing, someone whose pain had made her wise. -- Wally Lamb
  • Knowing this to be a worthless life to live, why do I keep living on? Because this life contains something called beauty7. -- Kafu Nagai
  • A man in a desert can hold absence in his cupped hands, knowing it is something that feeds him more than water. -- Michael Ondaatje
  • The thing that makes me feel most alive is knowing that there's something that I have to do that I'm afraid of. -- India.Arie
  • Sometimes, I don't know that words for things, how to write down the feeling of knowing that every dying person leaves something behind. -- Jacqueline Woodson
  • Knowing something for oneself or for communication to an expert colleague is not the same as knowing it for explanation to a student. -- Hyman Bass
  • Sometimes being an artist means knowing when to let someone see something in you that is there that you can't hear or see. -- Michael Buble
  • There's something very special about knowing what you want to do and knowing the story you want to tell, but finding it together. -- John Ridley
  • [perfectionism leads to] a tendency to apologize preemptively for one's efforts, knowing from experience that there's sure to be something wrong with them. -- William Westney
  • The last time you're doing something - knowing you're doing it for the last - makes it even more alive than the first. -- Gloria Naylor
  • I was lucky. I grew up knowing that hard work and smart work has a greater impact on results than being passionate about something. -- Mark Cuban
  • Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do. Strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do. -- Savielly Tartakower
  • As far as I'm concerned, if something is so complicated that you can't explain it in 10 seconds, then it's probably not worth knowing anyway. -- Bill Watterson
  • All people have the common desire to be elevated in honour, but all people have something still more elevated in themselves without knowing it. -- Mencius
  • To me, nothing is more vibrant than having the power to do something but not having the experience of knowing what's right and what's wrong. -- Tibor Kalman
  • But no man's a hero to himself. I've lived with me a lifetime. I know everything worth knowing about myself--" ~Something Wicked This Way Comes -- Ray Bradbury
  • There is something I want-something I have come to get, and she fell deeper and deeper without knowing quite what it was, with her eyes closed. -- Virginia Woolf
  • The risk that is involved in trusting is stepping forth with willingness with a knowing that you can lose something or fail, and doing it anyways -- Mike Brown
  • Planning my food a bit helps me. Knowing what I'm going to be eating for lunch helps, instead of getting hungry and then looking for something. -- Sasha Alexander
  • My parents didn't exercise, so it was not something I saw was good for you or fun. I wish I had grown up knowing to do that. -- Christina Hendricks
  • There's just something you can relate to immediately, even without knowing a woman. It's an inherent thing, an inherent connection. I'm really appreciating it and valuing that. -- Dakota Fanning
  • Sometimes you make up your mind about something without knowing why, and your decision persists by the power of inertia. Every year it gets harder to change. -- Milan Kundera
  • Perhaps well-to-do women and unemployed ghetto teenagers have something in common. Neither group has been allowed to develop the self-confidence that comes from knowing you can support yourselves. -- Gloria Steinem
  • I've always thought that reviews and knowing how much your fans appreciate or don't like something, that's the sugar coating. I'm trying not to think about those things. -- Chaz Bundick
  • Duty is a very personal thing. It is what comes from knowing the need to take action and not just a need to urge others to do something. -- Mother Teresa
  • Those who are the most happy appear to know it the least; happiness is something that for the most part seems to mainly consist in not knowing it. -- Joyce Brothers
  • I get a special joy in knowing people feel comfortable if they see me in Wal-Mart or in a no-frills section trying to get something on a discount. -- Angie Stone
  • It's exciting not knowing what I'm doing next, but it won't be long before I'm going to feel like I needed to be doing something, whatever it is. -- Mick Garris
  • Knowing how to live is not something we have to teach children. Knowing how to live is something we have to be careful not to take away from them. -- Colin Beavan
  • We are all thinking, willing, knowing,conscious centers of Life. We are surroundedby, immersed in, and there is flowing through us a creative something... call it what you will. -- Ernest Holmes
  • There's nothing more noble than a father and mother making an opportunity for their child, knowing that their life is gonna be hard. There's something incredibly heroic about that. -- Kevin Costner
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