Top 100 Quotes About Knowing What To Do
#1. Knowing what to do is the easy part. Finding the right person to do it with is a whole lot harder. - Josh Golden
Susan Mallery
#2. Running away was easy; not knowing what to do next was the hard part.
Glenda Millard
#3. Knowing what to do with time is the key to being productive
Sunday Adelaja
#4. To regain our morale, we need both enlightenment (knowing what to do) and encouragement (feeling confident that we can do it).
Chaitanya Charan Das
#5. Catching a fly ball is a pleasure, but knowing what to do with it after you catch it is a business.
Tommy Henrich
#6. Having an immense reserve fund of wrath to get rid of, and not knowing what to do with it, he continued to address his daughter as you instead of thou for the next three months.
Victor Hugo
#7. The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
Benjamin Disraeli
#8. I had an instinct before and maybe now I don't have that instinct as much as knowing what to do, what shots to hit, where to place the ball, things like that.
Jennifer Capriati
#9. Wisdom is knowing what to do with what you know.
Chuck Smith
#10. 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
#12. Knowing what to do is one thing. Knowing you're the one who's going to do it is something else entirely.
T. Rafael Cimino
#13. The problem in my life and other people's lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it.
Peter F. Drucker
#14. Having a routine, knowing what to do, gives me a sense of freedom and keeps me from going crazy. It's calming.
Chuck Close
#15. Knowing what to do with time is the first step to take when you lose your job
Sunday Adelaja
#16. To be crazy is not necessarily to writhe in snake pits or converse with imaginary gods. It can sometimes be not knowing what to do in the morning.
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
#17. Wisdom was knowing what to do. Skill was the ability to do it.Virtue was doing it. When wisdom didn't subdue anger, anger destroyed everything.
Eric Jerome Dicky
#18. You on the floor in a fugue state, me not knowing what to do. It's remarkable how high-functioning you are, for an insane person. I'm the only one who gets to see you on the floor.
Jonathan Franzen
#19. Do you know where you are going? Do you know what you are going to do? Do you know what you are going to say? Sometimes you better know nothing and flow freely just like a river, not knowing where to go, not knowing what to do, not knowing what to say!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#20. I can understand the dilemma of growing up in a bubble, and then not knowing what to do when unemployment beckons and reality bursts in.
Jessie Cave
#21. 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
#22. A lot of what we experience as strength comes from knowing what to do with weakness.
Nickel and Dimed On (Not) Getting By in America
Barbara Ehrenreich
#23. Awkward.
That's exactly how it was when we walked over to our sister and stood on each side of her, looking at her and feeling things and not knowing what to do.
Markus Zusak
#24. Knowing what to do is very, very different than actually doing it.
Seth
#25. Single parenting is sometimes just a case of sitting around by yourself in mild despair, not knowing what to do.
Simon Van Booy
#26. We all have something special in us, it's a matter of finding it, and knowing what to do with it.
Robert Magarian
#27. In fight, by 'knowing what to do next',
element of surprise can be overcomed.
Toba Beta
#28. You no longer have much in the way of knowing what to do in a big, epic novel about the future, because nobody knows what the hell is going to happen.
Jerry Pournelle
#29. I described the CEO job as knowing what to do and getting the company to do what you want. Designing a proper company culture will help you get your company to do what you want in certain important areas for a very long time.
Ben Horowitz
#30. Florentino Ariza was on the bed, lying on his back and trying to regain control, once again not knowing what to do with the skin of the tiger he had slain.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#31. 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
#32. Sometimes the space between knowing what to do and actually doing it is a very short walk. Other times it is an impossible expanse.
David Levithan
#33. The hardest thing about getting what you want is knowing what to do with it.
Patrick Hennessey
#35. Are we so sure that Christ always knew what to do next? He knew what had to be done. It is not always the same as knowing what to do.
Dan Simmons
#36. Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.
Herbert Hoover
#37. Knowing what to do is not usually the problem; the elusive goal becomes translating intentions into action and resolutions into results.
Dan Millman
#38. For many people, loneliness was an experience of time. 'Not knowing what to do with yourself' was the way it was usually put.
Louise Bernikow
#39. I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.
Nelson Mandela
#40. To "stand around with egg on one's face" is not to be confused with "standing around with one's thumb up one's fundament," which means not knowing what to do next, as does "not knowing whether to defecate or wind one's watch.
Kurt Vonnegut
#41. Knowing what to do and not doing it is the same as not knowing what to do.
Robin Sharma
#42. The pain of not knowing what to do was exceeded only by that of knowing what I had done.
Erich Segal
#43. Knowledge is knowing a fact, wisdom is knowing what to do with that fact.
B. J. Palmer
#44. Knowing what to do but not doing it will not produce results
Tori Bouwer
#45. ADHD is not about knowing what to do,
but about doing what one knows.
Russell Barkley
#46. Wisdom is knowing what to do next; Skill is knowing how to do it, and Virtue is doing it.
David Starr Jordan
#47. Knowing what to do is useless without the emotional strength to do what you know.
Keith Raniere
#48. It isn't always easy to act on what's in your head instead of what's in your heart. And it isn't always right to. The whole trick to knowing what to do is deciding when to make yourself listen to your head, and when it's okay to just follow your feelings.
Steven Brust
#49. Getting sequestered and not really knowing what to do with your time and then discovering, 'Oh, I can watch a bunch of horror movies' has probably played out in a lot of people's discovery of horror.
Kirk Hammett
#51. There's a difference between knowing what to do when you're rehearsing it, and being able to do it once you're adrenalized and emotional. That's when the injuries occur. Actors all want to try to pretend that they're experts at everything, but we're not.
Antony Starr
#52. Once you're lost, you panic. You're in total despair, not knowing what to do. I hate it when that happens. Sex can be a real pain that way, 'cause when you get in the mood all you can think about is what's right under your nose - that's sex, all right.
Haruki Murakami
#53. It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
Tony Robbins
#54. The difficulty was not that of following a moral principle at personal cost; the difficulty was that of knowing what to do when there is more than one principal, and when the principles clash.
Elton Trueblood
#56. This "knowing what to do" ... is a matter of having the right purpose, the purpose appropriate to the situation in hand ... The one who "knows what to do" is the one on whom you can rely to make the best shot at success, whenever success is possible.
Roger Scruton
#57. Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.
Herbert Hoover
#59. Sometimes knowing what to do is knowing when to stop.
Bill Crawford
#60. Don't let not knowing what to do prevent you from doing anything at all
Victoria Alexander
#62. Spiritual maturity is not knowing what to do with your whole life, but just knowing what to do next.
Henri Nouwen
#63. I had heard the wind from the mountains calling me last night, telling me it was my time to go, and I woke up, knowing what to do.
V.C. Andrews
#64. Acting was a way out at first. A way out of not knowing what to do, a way of focusing ambitions. And the ambition wasn't for fame. The ambition was to do an interesting job.
Harrison Ford
#65. Learning is really about translating knowing what to do into doing what we know.
John G. Miller
#66. 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 Tartakover (Polish GM)
Katherine Neville
#67. I describe the CEO job as knowing what to do and getting the company to do what you want. Designing
Ben Horowitz
#68. One of the worst forms of mental suffering is boredom, not knowing what to do with oneself and one's life. Even if man had no monetary, or any other reward, he would be eager to spend his energy in some meaningful way because he could not stand the boredom which inactivity produces.
Erich Fromm
#69. Knowing and knowing what to do about it were two different things.
Richard Russo
#70. When you love, you are not lonely. The sense of loneliness arises only when you are frightened of being alone and of not knowing what to do. When you are controlled by ideas, isolated by beliefs, then fear is inevitable; and when you are afraid, you are completely blind.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#71. Do you really want to know what it's like, being a spy? Never sure to whom you're giving your allegiance, and knowing that most of your colleagues will die gruesomely, often by your hand? Fine. Let me show you.
Delilah S. Dawson
#72. What do you think will be more effective when it comes to succeeding, believing you can or KNOWING you will? Let today be the last day you took timid steps of belief and start taking confident steps of purpose-driven knowing!
Steve Maraboli
#73. Nothing feels worse than knowing that people didn't see your movie. That they wanted to and the critics loved it but nobody knew where it was because it didn't do what it was supposed to do opening weekend. It used to be that independents were allowed to stay in the theaters, build word of mouth.
Allison Anders
#74. I'm not very good at time off. I'm happier when I'm working. It's something to do with not knowing what the next job is, so you appreciate it while it's there. I thrive on it, actually. But now I do it to please myself.
Emilia Fox
#75. President Bush admitted that the United States went to war in Iraq based on bad intelligence. But he says knowing what we know now he would still do it again. So at least we're learning from our mistakes.
Jay Leno
#76. It doesn't really matter what a person decides to do, or how radically a person plays with gender. What matters, I think, is how aware a person is of the options. How sad for a person to be missing out on some expression of identity, just for not knowing there are options
Kate Bornstein
#77. You are - remarkable. Every day, I think I am going to be surprised by how remarkable you are, but I am not. Because this is what it means to be you. It means knowing no bounds. Being limitless in all that you do.
Renee Ahdieh
#78. My film school is making movies. But, I do think that being an actor has served me immensely, as both a writer and director, in terms of knowing what is playable and what will be fun to play, for actors, and also how to communicate to actors on set, and not screw them up and get them in their head.
Josh Radnor
#79. Today knowledge is free. It's like air, it's like water ... There's no competitive advantage to knowing more than the person next to you. The world doesn't care what you know. What the world cares about is what you can do with what you know.
Tony Wagner
#80. The writer is one who, embarking upon a task, does not know what to do ... Writing is a process of dealing with not-knowing, a forcing of what and how.
Donald Barthelme
#81. Knowing what you can do at any given time to look and feel better is pretty powerful.
Bobbi Brown
#82. You can work for other people and still be a #GIRLBOSS; it's more about a state of mind and knowing yourself well enough to know when you're making decisions for yourself or because the world expects them of you. And guess what? It's okay to do that sometimes, too.
Sophia Amoruso
#83. To despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do without knowing what one does, and to speak without knowing what one says.
Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle
#84. Ingredients to success: know what you do well, know what to do well, and know someone who's swell.
Criss Jami
#85. We can travel a long way in life and do many things, but our deepest happiness is not born from accumulating new experiences. it is born from letting go of what is unnecessary, and knowing ourselves to be always at home.
Sharon Salzberg
#86. I am just another blind man. I do not get the whole picture of what transpires in all places. I am blind and limited. I would be a fool to think myself wise. And so, not knowing what the universe means, I can only try to be responsible with the knowledge, the strength, and the time given to me.
Jim Butcher
#87. But do we really live? To live without knowing what life is - is that living?
Fernando Pessoa
#88. Who born so poor,
Of intellect so mean, as not to know
What seem'd the best; and knowing not to do?
As not to know what God and conscience bade,
And what they bade not able to obey?
Robert Pollok
#89. Human beings ate well and kept themselves healthy for millennia before nutritional science came along to tell us how to do it; it is entirely possible to eat healthily without knowing what an anti-oxidant is.
Michael Pollan
#90. The writer,' said Donald Barthelme, 'is one who, embarking upon a task, does not know what to do.' In this mode of not-knowing, the thick-torsoed, literal, and crew-cut mind is moved to the sidelines in favor of the swinging, perceptive, light-footed, tutu-wearing subconscious.
George Saunders
#91. This is what it means to be human "in the image of God." It means being free to make choices instead of doing whatever our instincts
would tell us to do. It means knowing that some choices are good, and others are bad, and it is our job to know the difference.
Harold S. Kushner
#92. What is yoga ? In simple words, it is taking your attention to the Spirit. This is yoga. What does the kundalini do ? She raises your attention and takes it to the Spirit. Only after knowing the Spirit you can know God.
Nirmala Srivastava
#93. It's not easy waking up every single morning knowing what you're going to put your body through and having to do it. We don't have days off.
Bryan Clay
#94. My parents taught me that I could do anything I wanted and I have always believed it to be true. Add a clear idea of what inspires you, dedicate your energies to its pursuit and there is no knowing what you can achieve, particularly if others are inspired by your dream and offer their help.
Pete Goss
#95. No one can buy me. It allows me to devote myself completely to what I do. Knowing that I'm comfortable removes a big burden off my shoulders.
Pauline Marois
#96. Islam deals not only with what man must and must not do, but also with what he needs to know. In other words, Islam is both a way of acting and doing things and a way of knowing.
Osman Bakar
#97. That's what gets me through the day. Knowing that I could do it. That I'm strong enough to do it and I can get it done.
Ned Vizzini
#98. What hurts the most
Was being so close
And having so much to say
And watching you walk away
And never knowing
What could have been
And not seeing that loving you
Is what I was tryin' to do
Rascal Flatts
#99. Basically no, I mean I think that it's very easy to like I say, smoke a joint or even to wear a Chairman Mao button, or do a lot of these things with out knowing what's behind it, and what it really means.
Lester Bangs
#100. 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
