Knowing Is Important Quotes

#1. Knowing is important, but understanding is everything.

Debasish Mridha

#2. Knowing his coach likes him is more important to a player than anything else. To me, it was important to be able to chew out a player for screwing up and for him to accept it because he knew I liked him anyway.

John Madden

#3. As important as finding the Why behind your Purpose and Goals is knowing the Who. We will often do more and endure more for people we love than we will endure for ourselves. Find your Why and your Who and you will endure and overcome anything.

Tom Cunningham

#4. Absolutely nothing is as important as knowing who to trust.

Radovan Kavicky

#5. Knowing what to leave out is just as important as knowing what to focus on.

Warren Buffett

#6. Life is a series of saying "yes" and "no." The important part is knowing when to say which.

Cole NeSmith

#7. I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Lucille Ball

#8. The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Theodore Roosevelt

#9. There's a window in my life which is football. I try to remember that it's not going to be there forever. That's why staying humble is important; knowing who I am and the message I'm sending out. I always try to be a person first, before I'm No. 55 on the football field.

Junior Seau

#10. What is most important subject you have to learn in life? To learn how to love. This is the challenge that life offers you: to learn bow to love. Not just to accumulate information without knowing what to do with it. But through that love, let that information bear fruit.

Pope Francis

#11. Knowing the question is more important than knowing the answer. It makes you curious, lets you think, and helps you to understand and open your mind.

Debasish Mridha

#12. Always start at the end before you begin. Professional investors always have an exit strategy before they invest. Knowing your exit strategy is an important investment fundamental.

Robert Kiyosaki

#13. Happiness is not on my list of priorities. I just deal with day-to-day things. If I'm happy, I'm happy - and if I'm not, I don't know the difference. Knowing that you are the person you were put on this earth to be - that's much more important than just being happy.

Bob Dylan

#14. Knowing the why is vastly more important than knowing the how.

Debasish Mridha

#15. The single most important tool to being in balance is knowing that you and you alone are responsible for the imbalance between what you dream your life is meant to be, and the daily habits that drain life from that dream.

Wayne Dyer

#16. Knowing English is important, but for us Venezuelans I think it would also be important to know Portuguese . For that reason, we should evaluate the possibility of it being taught in our schools.

Hugo Chavez

#17. Knowing is NOT the most important thing. To be able to FIND OUT is more important than knowing.

Sugata Mitra

#18. Knowing who to love is more important than possessing love or avoiding hate.

Daniel Marques

#19. Always try clothes on before you buy them. Stand, sit, walk and inspect yourself from all angles before you buy it so you don't regret it later. Knowing what it looks like on you is very important, as your body shape must suit the cut of the outfit.

Tena Desae

#20. The most important thing in life is knowing the most important things in life.

David F. Jakielo

#21. The second most important attribute of winners, after understanding the human dimension, is knowing what questions to ask, the rhetorical nature.

Frank Luntz

#22. You can never know everything, and part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps even the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going on anyway.

Robert Jordan

#23. So what is true for life itself is no less true for the universe: knowing where you came from is no less important than knowing where you are going.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#24. In every single job, in every single business, in every single profession - in whatever you do - there can be the satisfaction and the happiness that comes from knowing that what you do is important, that what you do makes a difference in the lives of the people you serve.

Wayne D. Dosick

#25. Life is a long drop down, Marcus. The most important thing is knowing how to fall.

Joel Dicker

#26. Hiding what you know is sometimes as important as knowing it ...

Charles Duhigg

#27. In Zen, actions speak louder than words. Doing is more important than knowing, and knowledge which cannot be translated into action is of little worth.

Thich Thien-An

#28. Being happy or unhappy - is that really the most important thing? Knowing the truth would be a different kind of happiness - a more satisfying kind, I think, even if it turned out to be a sad kind.

Ira Levin

#29. Effective leadership is doing important things first. Effective management is knowing what is important.

Debasish Mridha

#30. Next to knowing how to dress well, fire is one of the most important bush skills there are, because it is one of the few means available to make up most great deficiencies.

Mors Kochanski

#31. I'm not sure that it's up to me to sum up what I've done with it in the past. I'm not sure there's a way of knowing what we have done that is useful or important.

Gloria Steinem

#32. It's not so much a case of having to pay attention to the news of the world as it is a case of knowing when to change our filters so that the important stuff comes in.

Bill Welter

#33. On a ship, knowing when to be silent is just as important as knowing when to speak.

J.Z. Colby

#34. One of the important things about being a small-town reporter is knowing what not to put in the paper.

Terry Pratchett

#35. Knowing when to keep your mouth shut is invariably more important than opening it at the right time.

Malcolm Forbes

#36. What is important is not the quantity of your knowledge but its quality. You can know many things without knowing the most important.

Leo Tolstoy

#37. The answers aren't important really ... What's important is- knowing all the questions.

Zilpha Keatley Snyder

#38. Everyone has a right to an opinion. I can arrive in England and express my opinion. If criticism were ferocious and without intellectual objectivity they should show me the way to their airport. It is important to have an opinion and not be afraid to express it, knowing there will be criticism.

Jose Mourinho

#39. Knowing the truth is important, but following the truth is much more important.

Debasish Mridha

#40. I just think that knowing about your body at any age, whether it's educating yourself on fertility, getting mammograms, going through puberty - whatever it may be, is really important. I just really encourage women empowerment and being comfortable talking about these issues.

Khloe Kardashian

#41. There's something satisfying to proclaiming humility while knowing just how important you truly are.

Michael R. Fletcher

#42. Through words we come to know the other person
and to be known. This knowing is at the heart of our deepest longings for intimacy and connection with others. How relationships unfold with the most important people in our lives depends on courage and clarity in finding voice.

Harriet Lerner

#43. But I like going to church. If you've been brought up in the Church of England, it feels like visiting an elderly relative. And I think it's important that part of the kids' education is knowing about the Bible.

Jack Dee

#44. Knowing how to see, that is the most important gift from God.

Karen Harper

#45. Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family.

Salman Rushdie

#46. You can never know everything. Part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of knowledge lies in going on anyway.

Robert Jordan

#47. It's important to get a translator who will ask the questions in a sensitive and thoughtful way. Knowing the ethnicity issues, the tribal issues in some places ... who your translator is can mean a lot.

Peter Menzel

#48. 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

#49. Learning how to recognize and act on your Inner Knowing is the greatest tool for discovering what's important now by living in the present.

John Kuypers

#50. Recovery is an important word and a vital concept. It means renewal of life and energy. Knowing how and when to recover may prove to be the most important skill in your life.

James E. Loehr

#51. The most important thing for me is having a relationship with God. To know that the owner, the creator of the universe loves you, sent His Son to die for your sins; that's very empowering. Knowing Him and knowing that He loves me gives me encouragement and confidence to move forward.

Ben Carson

#52. Knowing God is more important than knowing about God.

Karl Rahner

#53. One of Job's great strengths was knowing how to focus. " Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do, " he said. " That's true for companies, and it's true for products.

Walter Isaacson

#54. When you cover politics, you realize that knowing how to talk about character matters more and more. The way we hold ideas is more important than the ideas.

David Brooks

#55. Life's two most important questions are Why? and Why not? The trick is knowing which one to ask.

Gordon Livingston

#56. Knowing your intention is key in all things. If you want to meditate, it's important to know why you want to meditate.

Lodro Rinzler

#57. I was shocked to find out how many deaths occurred due to fires across the country and how simply they could've been avoided. Knowing how to get out of our homes is important, especially in less than 2 minutes.

Frankie J. Grande

#58. Knowing when to quit is probably a very important thing, but I just am not ready.

James Taylor

#59. It is important to say all the great thoughts again, without knowing that they have already been said.

Elias Canetti

#60. Knowing the culture is as important as knowing the demographics.

Tim Cigelske

#61. Adulthood is knowing that a fully realized character is always more important than the lines.

Megan Crane

#62. Sometimes, knowing when to let go is just as important as knowing when to hold tight.

Shelly Crane

#63. Knowing how to keep a friend is more important than gaining a new one.

Baltasar Gracian

#64. The patient person accepts a certain amount of failure knowing that it is as important a thread in the fabric of life as is success. Great individuals make great successes out of failure.

Denis Waitley

#65. Knowing the strike zone is very important, but I think the first thing is knowing yourself, knowing what things you do well.

Tony Gwynn

#66. Knowing whose advice to take and on what topic is the single most important decision an entrepreneur can make.

Vinod Khosla

#67. Knowing where you have come from is important in forming an idea of where you want to go.

Alexander Stille

#68. I only ask to go where the Lord would have me go, and only to receive what the Lord would have me receive, knowing that more important than sight is the witness that one may have by the witness of the Holy Ghost to his soul that things are so and that Jesus is the Christ, a living personage.

Harold B. Lee

#69. Change is both exciting and scary. Learning new skills is the same. Having an idea of what to expect emotionally is as important as knowing what to expect from both real and imagined limitations.

Melinda West Seifert

#70. People form close friendships by knowing private things about each other, and the reason most people don't make close friends is because they're too embarrassed to share anything really important about themselves.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#71. Having the courage to speak one's mind is as important as knowing when the time is right to do so.

Nana Awere Damoah

#72. It isn't about knowing the most stories, child. It is about carrying the ones that are most important and passing them along.

Ishmael Beah

#73. While knowing how to value businesses is essential for investment success, the first and perhaps most important step in the investment process is knowing where to look for opportunities

Seth Klarman

#74. I don't know you very well, and i'm almost afraid to know you better. Maybe i love you because i don't know you. Maybe if i knew what you were really like and what you wanted out of life and what you think is important, I wouldn't care for you at all and that would be the end of this.

Elliot Mabeuse

#75. The happy ending is hardly important, though we may be glad it's there. The real joy is knowing that if you felt the trouble in the story, your kingdom isn't dead.

Lynda Barry

#76. A child should be allowed to take as long as she needs for knowing everything about herself, which is the same as learning to be herself. Even twenty-five years if necessary, or even forever. And it wouldn't matter if doing things got delayed, because nothing is really important but being oneself.

Laura Riding

#77. Knowing where you stand in your quest to accumulate enough money for retirement is an incredibly important part of the planning process.

Jean Chatzky

#78. Leadership is knowing what to do next, knowing why that's important, and knowing how to bring the appropriate resources to bear on the need at hand.

Bobb Biehl

#79. You can try to control people, or you can try to have a system that represents reality. I find that knowing what's really happening is more important than trying to control people.

Larry Page

#80. 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

#81. It's more common than not that bipolar illness will start in the teens. One of the reasons I spend a lot of time on college campuses is exactly that reason. It's terribly important to talk to students about knowing these things in advance.

Kay Redfield Jamison

#82. Knowing "why" (an idea) is more important than learning "what" (the fact).

James D. Watson

#83. I don't look up. It's such a little thing - knowing where to put cutlery - but I feel like I've failed an important test. A little piece of me is gone.

Emma Healey

#84. Science is not an intelligence test. Intuition is important, knowing what kind of questions to ask. The other thing is a passion for getting to the core of the problem.

Torsten Wiesel

#85. Being strong is important. But knowing who you can count on is equally important

Niki Burnham

#86. A song or an album is never really done. You can work on it forever, but knowing when to call it a day and knowing when to walk away from it is extremely important.

G-Eazy

#87. I think teaching keeps me honest because if I'm up in front of a class talking about what I think is important about fiction while knowing I myself have just failed to do that hours earlier at my computer - it's a good and humbling reminder.

Aimee Bender

#88. We all know our dates of birth but ... every year there is another date that we pass over without knowing what it is but it is just as important it is the other date the death date.

Ali Smith

#89. On the other hand, the 'heart' is just as important in that it is the 'other' way of knowing and experiencing".

~R. Alan Woods [2012]

R. Alan Woods

#90. That isn't about money, fame, or power. It's about will, dedication, commitment, and knowing your self-worth. You can be poor as dirt and have those traits. Money can't buy you values. You just need to know what is important to you and then feel secure in your pursuit to achieve that.

Jennifer Hudson

#91. One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.

Kahlil Gibran

#92. I have no way of knowing whether or not you married the wrong person. But I do know that if you treat the wrong person like the right person, you could well end up having married the right person after all. It is far more important to BE the right kind of person than it is to marry the right person.

Zig Ziglar

#93. Great changes are about to take place in the whole universe. It will not be a comfortable time. It is important that each one has no fear, no concern, knowing that this great upheaval is necessary before the next step can be taken.

Eileen Caddy

#94. If this validates anything, it's that learning how to bunt and hit and run and turning two is more important than knowing where to find the little red light at the dug out camera.

Ryne Sandberg

#95. Knowing the songs - and I'm still learning - lets one envision birds you can hear but can't see. And as always, the ability to envision what is just out of sight is more important than merely seeing what's right in front of you.

Carl Safina

#96. Knowing when to say something and when not to say something is important.

Josh Radnor

#97. Knowing that what you are doing is the most important thing for you to be doing at that moment is surprisingly powerful.

Daniel J. Levitin

#98. My parents have always been very concerned of making sure we know who we are and where we come from. I have to give them credit for that. Knowing your roots is quite important.

Dilshad Vadsaria

#99. First, knife skills. Then, knowing how to control heat. Most important is choosing the right product .. the rest is simple.

Justin Quek

#100. You are your own teacher. Looking for teachers can't solve your own doubts. Investigate yourself to find the truth - inside, not outside. Knowing yourself is most important.

Ajahn Chah