Top 100 Knowing When Quotes
#1. I've gotten very good at scheduling my life, scheduling the scene and preparing myself for knowing, saving the energy, consuming the energy, knowing when to go for it and having the available reserves to be able to do that. You have to think about that, because it's endurance.
Tom Cruise
#2. Strength wasn't about being able to do everything alone. Strength was knowing when to ask for help and not being too proud to do it.
Karen Marie Moning
#3. Whoever is capable of knowing when they have had enough will always be satisfied.
Laozi
#4. The common bond of humanity and decency that we share is stronger than any conflict, any adversity. Fighting for your convictions is important. But finding peace is paramount. Knowing when to fight and when to seek peace is wisdom. Ubuntu was right.
Wes Moore
#5. Part of being a writer is knowing when what you write is really bad.
Reif Larsen
#6. being a real man doesn't just mean knowing when to make a move, it also means knowing when you shouldn't. "Nice
J.D. Hawkins
#7. Activity and rest are two vital aspects of life. To find a balance in them is a skill in itself. Wisdom is knowing when to have rest, when to have activity, and how much of each to have. Finding them in each other - activity in rest and rest in activity - is the ultimate freedom.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#8. 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
#9. Friendship is a combination of art and craft. The craft part is in knowing how to give and how to take. The art part is in knowing when, and the whole process only works when no one is keeping track.
E.L. Konigsburg
#10. Not knowing when to shut up was one of my greatest faults.
Boy George
#11. The trouble with doing nothing is not knowing when you're finished.
Benjamin Franklin
#12. The art of conducting consists in knowing when to stop conducting to let the orchestra play.
Herbert Von Karajan
#13. Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
Donald Trump
#14. Perfection is an admirable thing to strive for. But so is knowing when to stop.
Richelle Mead
#15. If you're going to do something that crazy, save it for when it'll make a difference, Lieutenant Skaaiat had said, and I had agreed. I still agree.
The problem is knowing when what you are about to do will make a difference.
Ann Leckie
#16. Sometimes knowing what to do is knowing when to stop.
Bill Crawford
#17. Directing, what little I know, is as much knowing when to step in as when to step out.
Robert Lorenz
#18. My best attribute is knowing when not to answer stupid questions.
Gina Gershon
#19. I'd learned balance is internal; that there really wasn't one set formula for how to live your life nor how to handle the wife-mother-businesswoman juggling act. Maybe it was just being tuned in to every role and knowing when one or the other needed to be the focus.
Kaira Rouda
#20. TIMING TOAST
Grook on how to char for yourself
There's an art of knowing when.
Never try to guess.
Toast until it smokes and then
twenty seconds less.
Piet Hein
#21. I believe in the resonance and staying power of quiet photographs. These photographs required a certain seeing, but few special techniques, and no tricks. Something though was hard. It was hard being between photographs and not knowing when or how another image would reveal itself.
William Albert Allard
#22. We all eventually find that life is a series of adjustments, but anything can be overcome when there is love around you. Once can be strong on their own, but there is greater strength in knowing when to rely on others.
Starla Huchton
#23. Fearlessness, absolutely. Discipline. You also need open-minded creativeness that lets everything in. You never want to lose a word or a phrase, yet every one should count. Always the best language possible. And, finally, knowing when to leave it alone. Stop when it's done.
Ben Harper
#24. Knowing when and where to sit is something every young executive should learn. A junior person who comes barging into a room and takes any seat he wants catches the disapproving eye of senior management.
Letitia Baldrige
#25. The mountain decides whether you climb or not. The art of mountaineering is knowing when to go, when to stay, and when to retreat.
Ed Viesturs
#26. Neil Kinnock's speeches go on for so long because he has nothing to say and so he has no way of knowing when he's finished saying it.
John Major
#28. Yeah, letting go - even just musically, aside from emotionally - I find that quite challenging. Knowing the right time for letting go of my album, for instance, was a really big challenge. Knowing when to put the red flags up and say, "It's done ... " And also, emotionally, with relationships.
Kimbra
#29. Being smart as a whip includes knowing when not to crack it.
Vera Nazarian
#30. We should observe the place, the occasion, the temper in which we find the person who listens to us, for if there is much art in speaking to the purpose, there is no less in knowing when to be silent.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#31. There is endless merit in a man's knowing when to have done.
Thomas Carlyle
#32. Hikmah (Wisdom) is knowing when to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice.
Boonaa Mohammed
#33. Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.
Mario Puzo
#35. Knowing when and how to change course is important to success. Self-doubt is a lighthouse that will keep you from running aground. Don't become shipwrecked on the rocks of time. Be willing to rethink your decisions and change course.
Harley King
#36. Enjoying living was learning to get your money's worth and knowing when you had it.
Ernest Hemingway,
#37. true courage is not knowing when to take a life, but when to spare one"
~Gandalf
J.R.R. Tolkien
#38. I am not, by trade or character, a spotlight operator. I'm the goober with a flashlight, stumbling into corners and crannies, not looking for anything specific but knowing when I've found it.
Mary Roach
#39. Your own barometer is all you have to go by, and often what makes a good director is knowing when not to say something. On occasions you can find yourself on a film set where the person who is wearing the director's hat is only trying to justify his position.
Gary Oldman
#40. Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
Benjamin Disraeli
#41. Indeed, the key to all diplomacy was knowing when they were serious about their threats and when they were posturing. Nations were like individuals, requiring cultivation and the paying of respect.
H.W. Brands
#42. The great art of writing is knowing when to stop.
Josh Billings
#43. Knowing when to fight is just as important as knowing how.
Terry Goodkind
#44. The essence of intelligence would seem to be in knowing when to think and act quickly, and knowing when to think and act slowly.
Robert Sternberg
#45. So much of being a good friend was knowing when to keep your mouth shut.
Emma Straub
#46. It's something rebellious about picking up and leaving buying a one way ticket and not knowing when you want to return.
Turcois Ominek
#47. Everything depends on knowing how much," she said, and "Good is knowing when to stop.
Toni Morrison
#48. Running a business well means knowing when it's time to make profit.
Auliq Ice
#49. The burden of a spy, Lord Akeldama always said, was not in the knowing of things but in knowing when to tell such things to others.
Gail Carriger
#50. Lady Kimbuck's eyes gleamed. She took the package eagerly. She never lost an opportunity of reading compromising letters. She enjoyed them as literature, and there was never any knowing when they might come in useful.
P.G. Wodehouse
#51. The key is knowing when to fight. Men are full of anger, so they have trouble with this. Women less so.
Patrick Rothfuss
#52. Experience is knowing what not to do and knowing when not to do it.
Dennis Coates
#53. There are some things that are as ancient as time, and knowing when a man desires you is one of those.
Jude Deveraux
#54. I've always admired your rather formidable will, your refusal to back away from difficulties, but sometimes strength isn't about perseverance. Sometimes it's about knowing when to quit.
Jennifer Donnelly
#55. I have been a Manchester United fan all my life and fulfilled every dream I've ever had. I am disappointed that my playing days are at an end. However, it comes to us all and it's knowing when that time is and for me that time is now.
Gary Neville
#56. Wisdom is knowing when you don't know
Socrates
#57. Magic is a matter of focusing the disciplined will. But sometimes the will must be abandoned. The secret lies in knowing when to exercise control, and when to let go.
Marion Zimmer Bradley
#59. 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
#60. On a ship, knowing when to be silent is just as important as knowing when to speak.
J.Z. Colby
#61. I have to say it's a bit traumatic at times, not knowing when the next penis will appear.
Melina Marchetta
#62. We have the authority to take action, ... But responsible authority means not only being able to take action, but knowing when and how to take that action.
Janet Reno
#63. Standing up for yourself is about more than flinging barbed-wire insults around. Its about picking your battles, knowing when to fight, knowing exactly what and who is worth fighting for.
Paula Stokes
#64. Knowing when to take your losses is an essential part of eventual success.
Tom Peters
#65. Knowing when to keep your mouth shut is invariably more important than opening it at the right time.
Malcolm Forbes
#66. Children have an unerring instinct for knowing when they are being patronized. They go immediately on the defensive against head-patting adults who treat them like strange beings.
Art Linkletter
#67. It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.
Jack Benny
#68. We have 2 big problems here: 1] knowing when to start 2] knowing when to stop
Paulo Coelho
#69. If there's one piece of knowledge that is of less use to a fellow than knowing when he's beat, it's knowing when he's done just enough work to keep from being fired.
George Horace Lorimer
#70. The science of psychotherapy is knowing what to say, the art is knowing when to say it. (36)
Jonathan Kellerman
#71. That we arrived at fifty years together is due as much to luck as to love, and a talent for knowing, when we stumble, where to fall, and how to get up again.
Ruby Dee
#72. The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is knowing when to use it.
Daniel Gilbert
#73. We know the principles of coaching. The art is knowing when to apply them.
James Counsilman
#74. We can save ourselves a lot of distress and accusation by knowing when, where, to whom, and how to talk about spiritually mature things.
Richard Rohr
#75. Knowing when it is over is the beginning of a new life and the end of an old one.
Michael Penn
#76. Far more difficult than implementing change is figuring out what works, understanding why it works, grasping when to change, and knowing when not to.
James C. Collins
#77. Sometimes, it seemed, the business of a Witch or a Godmother was not so much using magic as knowing when not to use it.
Mercedes Lackey
#78. The real power of a wolf isn't in its fearsome jaws, which can clench with fifteen hundred pounds of pressure per square inch. The real power of a wolf is having that strength, and knowing when not to use it.
Jodi Picoult
#79. Culture isn't knowing when Napoleon died. Culture means knowing how I can find out in two minutes.
Umberto Eco
#80. I squinted against the light pouring into the room. I couldn't sleep all night, knowing when the sun came up, it would be all over. Abby stirred, and my teeth clenched. The few hours we spent together wasn't enough. I wasn't ready for it to be over.
Jamie McGuire
#81. The key to greatness is knowing when to take the hand that has been offered.
Sam Crescent
#82. Sometimes being a nice person is all about knowing when to be an asshole.
John Cheese
#83. It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth
and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up
that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
#84. Life is about knowing when to let go and when to hold on.
Bijou Hunter
#85. Actually, abortion is part of being a mother and of caring for children, because part of caring for children is knowing when it's not a good idea to bring them into the world.
Katha Pollitt
#86. Sisters and brothers are the truest, purest forms of love, family and friendship, knowing when to hold you and when to challenge you, but always being a part of you.
Carol Ann Albright-Eastman
#87. One advantage of getting older is knowing when to worry.
Lorne Michaels
#88. Peace is an art as much as war is, and knowing when and how to negotiate peace is the art's highest form.
Wick Allison
#89. Knowledge is the barrier to knowing. When knowledge is dropped, knowing flowers.
Rajneesh
#90. I've won plenty of games by knowing when to take out my pitcher; whom to replace him with; or how to place my infield or outfield to defend properly against the opposing hitter.
Walter Alston
#91. Women have an infallible instinct for knowing when a man has fallen madly in love with them, especially when the male in question is both a complete dunce and a minor.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#93. It's a bit like walking down a long, dark corridor never knowing when the light will go on.
Neil Lennon
#94. Knowing when to speak up and when to shut up will get you very far not only in business, but in life.
Sophia Amoruso
#95. Discipline is knowing what to do. Knowing when to do it. Doing it to the best of your abilities. Doing it that way every single time.
Bobby Knight
#96. Love is when he is hungry and you feed him. Love is knowing when he is hungry.
Paullina Simons
#97. Knowing when you're not good at something and knowing when you are good at something is an art-form.
Glenda Bailey
#98. I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#99. The hard part about playing 'chicken' is knowing when to flinch.
Scott Glenn
#100. Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.
Muhammad Ali
