Knowing When To Shut Up Quotes

#1. Smart is knowing if you're dumb. Knowing when to shut up and to listen to people that are smarter than you.

Chris Rock

#2. Not knowing when to shut up was one of my greatest faults.

Boy George

#3. His mom always said that 90 percent of intelligence was knowing when to shut up.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#4. The idea for Twilight came to me in a dream.

Stephenie Meyer

#5. Speechless and very nearly panting, she fell back against the wall with a thump, knowing that if she lived to be ninety, she would still carry the searing mark of that kiss on her soul.
"At last," he murmured. "A way to shut you up." Christovao Santos (Chris), Sanctuary

Sharon K. Garner

#6. A key to life is knowing what to ignore and when to shut up.

Lisa Bedrick

#7. What? You can't knit in the dark? Stuff and nonsense; anybody can. Shut your eyes. Knit one stitch. Open your eyes and look at the stitch; it's all right. Shut your eyes and knit two stitches. Open them. Shut them. Knit three stitches. Falling off a log is no comparison.

Elizabeth Zimmermann

#8. As I understand it, the Celts venerated all sorts of plexus-type things: the seashore, dawn, dusk, the edge of the forest - anything that was neither here nor there, so to speak.

Stephen R. Lawhead

#9. I just want him to shut up and stop talking like this. I just want him to get up and follow me out of here. I just want to be back at Watford in our room, knowing he's there, and that he isn't hurting anyone, and no one is hurting him.

Rainbow Rowell

#10. A sports expert is the guy who writes the best alibis for being wrong

Jimmy Cannon

#11. We all watched Al open the door. Turning, he waved to us, then passed the threshold. The door shut behind him. I waited for something to happen.
Nothing did.
"This isn't good," Quen said.
I choked back my burst of laughter, knowing it would come out sounding hysterical.

Kim Harrison

#12. By Tuesday evening, deep malaise had set in. Luke-staring-into-both-suns-of-Tatooine malaise.

Rainbow Rowell

#13. So much of being a good friend was knowing when to keep your mouth shut.

Emma Straub

#14. Be like the single blade of grass. For she too, has been trampled on, mowed down, and hit with such bitterly cold stretches that she had to shut down to survive. Yet still she stands upright with dignity, knowing that she endures, and still she dances with the wind.

Sandra Kring

#15. Your life must focus on the maximization of objectivity.

Charlie Munger

#16. So I kept talking because nothing gets me going like knowing I should shut up. Oh, I should be quiet and full of potential like all those still flowers, but I know I am a weed and I've got to blow my seeds around the garden.

Michelle Tea

#17. There appears to be value in getting past a mentality that good things can only rest in good things.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#18. Hope, for the Christian, is not wishful thinking or mere blind optimism. It is a mode of knowing, a mode within which new things are possible, options are not shut down, new creation can happen.

N. T. Wright

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

Malcolm Forbes

#20. Knowing he was suffering pained me. That's the way love tangles you up. I couldn't stop loving him, and couldn't shut off the feelings of wanting to care for him - but I also didn't have to run to answer his letters. I was hurting, too, and no one was running to me.

Paula McLain

#21. 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

#22. Hence the uselessness of logic: no one ever convinced anybody by logic; and even logicians use logic only as a source of income. To convince a man, you must appeal to his self-interest, his desires, his will.

Will Durant

#23. When I watch the Olympics I become such an emotional wreck. I've always loved the Olympics, be it the summer or the winter Olympics.

Bryn Terfel

#24. As my eyes slide shut,I'm thinking about second chances,knowing that the one I wished for tonight is lying next to me.

Rebecca Donovan

#25. Part of being friends with someone is knowing when to speak your mind and when to shut the hell up.

Christine Pope

#26. When I start a film, I can sort of shut my eyes, sit somewhere quiet and imagine the movie finished. I can imagine the camera angles, I can even imagine the type of music. Without knowing the tune, I can imagine the type of music it needs to be.

Peter Jackson

#27. For some time now Pooh had been saying "Yes" and "No" in turn, with his eyes shut, to all that Owl was saying, and having said, "Yes, yes," last time, he said "No, not at all," now, without really knowing what Owl was talking about.

A.A. Milne

#28. That was the birth of sin. Not doing it, but KNOWING about it. Before the apple, [Adam and Eve] had shut their eyes and their minds had gone dark. Now, they peeped and pried and imagined. They watched themselves.

D.H. Lawrence

#29. There's a reason people use CGI: it's cheaper and faster. I hate that.

Fede Alvarez

#30. You miss a lot of opportunities by making mistakes, but that's part of it: knowing that you're not shut out forever, and that there's a goal you still can reach.

Johnny Cash

#31. Knowing when to speak up and when to shut up will get you very far not only in business, but in life.

Sophia Amoruso

#32. The cause of America is in great measure the cause of all mankind.

Thomas Paine

#33. The testimony of every scientist is that the frontiers that are opening out ahead of us now are far wider and more spectacular than any frontier of America in the past. Our horizons are not closed. We are going to write a greater development in America than has ever been conceived.

Eric Johnston

#34. At different points in my life, I had grappled with the idea of going into the priesthood - in high school or law school. Where it ends, I'm not quite sure. Perhaps it ends with death, grappling with one's spirituality.

James McGreevey