I Know What I Am Doing Quotes

#1. Let me offer this apology. Please excuse this self-indulgent preface. I know what I am doing. I am presenting a series of reasons as to why you should lower your expectations, so that you can be blown away by my sneaky insights about life and work. I am a grown woman. I know my own tricks!

Amy Poehler

#2. Most of my scars are not fire-related and I no longer say "I know what I am doing" at critical moments.

James Nicoll

#3. I work hard and I party hard. When I go to work, I know what I am doing and I do it to the best of my abilities. When I party, I take exactly the same rule book with me.

Rhys Ifans

#4. Journalists have sometimes looked to my Twitter account and quoted me from there, and that's fine because that's public domain. I know exactly what I'm doing when I post something on Twitter; in a way, it's saying, 'This is who I am, and I don't have anything to hide.'

Samuel Barnett

#5. I know there is a stereotype that I am naive, but I know what I want, and I know what I'm doing to get there.

Dan Shechtman

#6. I mean as long as I have been doing music I know I am only 30% of what I could be and want to be.

Tim McGraw

#7. I don't even need to know precisely what I am doing, except that I am acting for the love of God.

Thomas Merton

#8. I am much more happy doing what I know I can do than what I am not sure I could do.

Giorgio Moroder

#9. It's a full moon here tonight, which makes me think of you. Because, I know that no matter what I am doing or where I am, this moon will always be the same size as yours, half a world away.

Nicholas Sparks

#10. My faith rests not upon what I am, or shall be, or feel, or know, but in what Christ is, in what He has done, and in what He is now doing for me.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#11. It's a whole other ball game and I am glad that I fit into that space where, whatever it is that you want to do and you are doing as long as you are happy with it, then you know What the Heck!

Bootsy Collins

#12. For sure, sometimes I don't know what I am doing.

Kimi Raikkonen

#13. I know I stand visibly onstage, but my function is still unseen, because I rarely see the immediate results of what I am saying or doing or writing.

Larry Norman

#14. I don't want to make any huge decisions before I really know what I'm doing and am sure of myself.

Thomas Horn

#15. Your child, your friend your neighbor, somebody looks up and says You know what? I am going to move my life towards that type of goodness, doing that type of goodness, being that type of goodness and kindness. I think that is how someone becomes a hero.

John Assaraf

#16. I am afraid that I do not hold with the theory of 'global warming' - there will always be climate change ... Big thing here is - do we know what we are doing that is bringing about climate change? At present the answer to this is NO.

Kevin Warwick

#17. I hadn't realized the number of people that are still interested in listening to what I am doing, people I would never know about if not for being online.

Edgar Winter

#18. I don't know what I am doing tomorrow. But I know one thing for sure: the day I stop enjoying my work, I will pack up and leave.

Sonakshi Sinha

#19. Images proliferate. Am I wrong in being reminded of printing money in a period of wild inflation? Do we know what we are doing? Are we able to evaluate what we have done?

Wright Morris

#20. I stopped eating beef in high school, and in college I stopped eating poultry. I am not a huge fan of factory farming and what we're doing to animals. I try to eat as clean as possible because I want to know what I'm putting into my body.

Susanna Thompson

#21. On stage, you have to have incredible confidence, or you would stop doing it. But I don't think I will ever get to the point where I go, 'I know exactly what I am doing,' and I don't think I want to.

James Corden

#22. If men don't know what's happening, what they're doing, where they're going
what are women to do? If Richard doesn't know what kind of world he wants, how am I to help him make it? What am I to tell our sons?

James Baldwin

#23. When I don't know what I'm doing, I look like I don't know what I'm doing. When I'm excited or nervous, I look excited or nervous. And when I am lost, which is frequently, I look lost.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#24. What am I doing here, what is the point of these smiles and gestures? My home is neither here nor elsewhere. And the world has become merely unknown landscape where my heart can lean on nothing. Foreign - who can know what this word means?

Albert Camus

#25. I am completely in charge of the choices I make about what I am doing to lose weight and get healthy. And you know what? We all have this power. Don't be angry with me for something good I've done for myself. Be angry with yourself for not having the courage to do the same in your own life.

Jennifer Hudson

#26. When I feel like I'm not doing what I am supposed to as a mother, I will torture myself. I don't know how to deal with it. I find some consolation in the fact that all mommies feel it. If there was a way to cure mommy guilt, I would bottle it and be a bazillionaire.

Angie Harmon

#27. I am the anti-trend guy? I don't believe in chasing trends. And before anyone shops, I believe you benefit from doing a closet inventory. Ask yourself what am I wearing, what am I not wearing, and you'll probably discover things you didn't even know you had.

Tim Gunn

#28. I wouldn't be able to do the songs as long as I've been doing if I didn't feel the pulse of the world. But I can feel people and I know what they want. I feel like I know how they are, because I am the people. And I just have a gift.

R. Kelly

#29. What are we doing to each other? Because I know that I am doing to him exactly what he is doing to me. We are sometimes so happy, and never in our lives have we known more unhappiness.

Graham Greene

#30. Why am I doing this? Because it feels so good to talk like we used to, even though I know this is just a shadow of what we had. But I chase it anyway.

Daisy Whitney

#31. I don't know exactly what is my impact, but I can say I am doing fashion my own way.

Jean Paul Gaultier

#32. I don't know yet what I am capable of doing, but, by God, I have genius
I know it too well to blush behind it.

Thomas Wolfe

#33. I am someone who's been in politics for 43 years and I know what I'm doing and what I should do. Have no doubt that I know how to tell the truth and to do so elegantly.

Fidel Castro

#34. I have Tourettes and Aspergers, but Tourrets and Aspergers don't have me. You know, I'm doing what I can to suppress it and I don't let it take advantage of me. It's not who I am. You know, I'm James Durbin. Like I said in the beginning, I am here to show America who I am, and it is what it is.

James Durbin

#35. What are you doing?"
With an innocent smile, I joked, "Don't you mean, what am i thinking?"
But this time, he didn't so much as crack a smile.
"Fine" I said. "I know I'm treading on dangerous ground-"
"Deadly ground."
"Okay, I'm treading on some badass ground.

Veronica Wolff

#36. I don't know what I'm meant to do. I'm not important, am I? I'm not doing anything that makes a difference.

Karl Pilkington

#37. I've never been someone who's been given work because of the way I look or because I have some box office appeal. I get work because people know I'm swinging as hard as I can, trying to connect, giving it my level best. I have a face for radio, but here I am doing what I do.

John C. Reilly

#38. A lot of times I would go into a room and audition for whatever sitcom it was and they would expect me to do sort of what my dad was doing and I am not him so they would be disappointed and I would feel nervous and not know exactly how to do it.

Jason Ritter

#39. I don't need millions of dollars. I need to know that what I'm doing with my life is expressing who I am, and maybe making people happy. This is all we get.

Felicia Day

#40. You want to know something? Honestly, I was relieved. What a coward, huh?"
I don't think so."
"Oh, yes. I am. A big coward. That's why I just keep daring myself to do things I'm afraid of doing."
He had a notion. "Such things like?"
"Like bringing you up here to my room.

Michael Chabon

#41. Bodybuilding has been my life; if it weren't for bodybuilding, I don't know what I'd be doing. I look at bodybuilding as who I am.

Tom Platz

#42. So why the hell did I want to know her? Why were my thoughts full of nakedness and heat? What the fuck am I doing?

Pepper Winters

#43. I do feel my fan base, my community understands me and appreciates me very deeply, and that is the wind in my sails to keep doing what I am doing. I know that my work really inspires people and they tell me that all the time, and so that's wonderful.

Ondi Timoner

#44. Sometimes it just doesn't seem to matter that I know what I should be doing. I still do what I am gonna do.

Susan Andersen

#45. Do you know what I've done? What I would do again if given the chance - to you? What I enjoy doing? I can't stop. It's what I am. - X-10

Donna Galanti

#46. I rather wonder what I am doing here. I enjoy city life, you know. The glittering lights, the constant companionship, the liquid entertainment. The lack of sudden monkeys.

Cassandra Clare

#47. One sticks his fingers in my eyes. I don't know what he has on his fingertips, but whatever it is burns like hell. I think I am gonna be blind forever. He says he will keep doing it until i am completely blind.

Assata Shakur

#48. I am surprised by how not-adopted the video reply has been. What keeps other people from doing it, I think, is that they think a video comes across as 'I'm cool, look at how many e-mails I get.' That perception doesn't scare me, because I know who I am.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#49. The thing has already taken form in my mind before I start it. The first attempts are absolutely unbearable. I say this because I want you to know that if you see something worthwhile in what I am doing, it is not by accident but because of real direction and purpose.

Vincent Van Gogh

#50. The fact is I don't know what I want, and I don't know if I am doing the right thing. I've always been told what is right - and suddenly I don't know anymore. I know what I don't want, but I don't know what I want,' she said, looking down at the ice cream she had hardly touched.

Azar Nafisi

#51. I know who I am and what I'm doing in my life and what I've accomplished and continue to accomplish as a performer, as a writer, as an artist, as a person, as a human being.

Justin Bieber

#52. You might be thinking who is this Harry Potter girl? And what is she doing up on stage at the UN. It's a good question and trust me I have been asking myself the same thing. I don't know if I am qualified to be here. All I know is that I care about this problem. And I want to make it better.

Emma Watson

#53. I know I am extraordinarily lucky to be doing what I am doing. I have worked hard along the way and I have been blessed too. I have had a great life.

Gary Lineker

#54. Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I am doing.

Wernher Von Braun

#55. I wish I were less awkward around strangers. I never know what to say when someone asks me who I am and what the hell I'm doing in their house.

Andy Ihnatko

#56. I feel like I am doing a lot, but if someone asks me what exactly I have accomplished, I don't know ... putting my son to sleep, feeding him, taking care of things in the house amount to a lot of work. But, yes, I haven't arrested 14 criminals in one day or saved the world or anything of that sort!

Kajol

#57. If the prior distribution, at which I am frankly guessing, has little or no effect on the result, then why bother; and if it has a large effect, then since I do not know what I am doing how would I dare act on the conclusions drawn?

Richard Hamming

#58. My last book was speculative. I just don't quite know what I am doing. But I'll get there. I have a list of things I would love to write.

Jami Attenberg

#59. I came alone and I go as a stranger. I do not know who I am, nor what I have been doing.

Aurangzeb

#60. You're not going to see a new Bernard Hopkins. I'm too old for that crap. I think what you will see is something different that I know I am capable of doing.

Bernard Hopkins

#61. When you notice an unhelpful emotion or a shift in mood, or when you notice that you're doing something you know can cause problems (being snappy, for example, or drinking too much), that could act as a cue to examine your own thoughts - "what am I thinking?".

Peter Kinderman

#62. I know now that everybody in the arts is forever a beginner. Experience counts for a great deal and very little. Every night onstage I feel I am starting from scratch, still not quite sure what I am doing and where I am going, thrown by the simplest thing that goes wrong.

Joan Rivers

#63. I do not need the musing of the philosophers to tell me what I am doing. It would be more interesting to let me know why I am doing it.

Louise Bourgeois

#64. As an actor, I still don't really know exactly what I am doing most of the time.

Sam Riley

#65. You keep me here. You can't live in a world where you don't know where and what I am doing. We inside each others souls.

Chimnese Davids

#66. We laughed at the hollyhocks together and then I sprayed them with lye. Forgive me. I simply do not know what I am doing.

William Carlos Williams

#67. When I finished touring 'Fur and Gold,' I was just like, 'What am I doing? What do I have? Where is my home?' I didn't really know where it was, so I went to New York to try and make it there.

Bat For Lashes

#68. I am very lucky because when I come back home, I have a completely normal life. I can relax, playing golf, fishing - doing what I want. I know when I finish a tournament, I am going to relax at home.

Rafael Nadal

#69. Any day now, I told myself, I am going to wake up and know what I am doing. It

Jodi Picoult

#70. Bubble gum on a turd, Madison! You're a tutti-frutti enforcer. I am a warden. Trust me, I know what I'm doing.

Rebecca Chastain

#71. There are long stretches of time when I don't know what I am doing,
or what I have done - nothing mostly, but sometimes
it would be nice to know what kind of nothing that was ...

Anne Enright

#72. I just really love doing what I do. I know every career is fleeting and there will be time periods when I don't get the opportunities that I'm getting right now, so I am taking advantage of them.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#73. But it still feels like it's a reach for me. I am more comfortable doing a drama. I feel like I know what I'm doing a bit better there. But it's good to be scared.

Kate Beckinsale

#74. Artistically I am still a child with a whole life ahead of me to discover and create. I want something, but I won't know what it is until I succeed in doing it.

Alberto Giacometti

#75. Does it bother you that I'm not a virgin?" He hesitated a moment before answering.
"Well, no," he said slowly, "so long as it doesna bother you that I am." He grinned at my drop-jawed expression, and backed toward the door.
"Reckon one of us should know what they're doing.

Diana Gabaldon

#76. And what am I doing?"
"You?" he eyed me appreciatively. "You'd just stand around and look pretty."
"And?"
"Give me blow jobs."
I punched him in the arm.
"What?" he laughed. "I know you love the cock."
"Shut up.

Karina Halle

#77. I think the thing about film is, as it gets proved by a lot of young filmmakers now, that the medium will just go on reinventing itself, and so you just hope to be a part of that and not a part of some kind of endless regurgitation or 'Here I am doing what you know I do' kind of thing.

Alan Rickman

#78. I want to know the age. The sex. Most of all, the fingerprints. I'd like to identify who it is.
After he had agreed, and I had left the office, walking to calm myself, I thought: And who am I? Please tell me who I am and what I'm doing.

Paul Theroux

#79. Do the other angels know what they are doing? Am I the only confused one? Maybe I am unfinished, an unfinished angel.

Sharon Creech

#80. I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it again.

Flannery O'Connor

#81. But I know that if I don't at least try, I'll stay the way I am till it kills me. Till I kill me, I mean. I never really accept that that's what I'm doing - I say it, but I don't believe it.

Deborah Hautzig