Top 100 Quotes About When You Don't Know What To Do
#1. When you don't know what to do, do nothing. Get quiet so you can hear the still, small voice.
Oprah Winfrey
#2. And I often tell friends: "When you don't know what to do, do nothing. Get quiet so you can hear the still, small voice, your inner GPS guiding you to true North.
Ashwin Sanghi
#3. When you don't know what to do, do the thing in front of you.
Elisabeth Elliot
#4. Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do.
Jean Piaget
#5. When you don't know what to do, get still. The answer will come.
Oprah Winfrey
#6. Mama used to say that when you don't know what to do, do nothing. She meant you can try too hard to solve a problem. If you give it a little time, the answer might just come to you plain as day.
Amy Hill Hearth
#7. When You don't know what to do, just do whatever comes next and go from there.
Madeleine Brent
#8. Remember, when you don't know what to do, it never hurts to play Scrabble. It's like reading the I Ching or tea leaves.
Kelly Link
#9. When you don't know what to do, try something; if that doesn't work, try something else.
Richard Russo
#10. When you don't know what to do, go back to the places, the people and the promises where you know you last heard God.
Pam Farrel
#11. When you don't know what to do, do what's right and do what's in front of you. But not necessarily what's right in front of you.
Brent Weeks
#12. When you don't know what to do with yourself, do something for someone else.
Lilian Jackson Braun
#13. As I mentioned earlier, the time to do is when you know what to do. When you don't know what to do, and act anyway, you are probably acting out of habit.
Charles Eisenstein
#14. When you don't know what to do, wait for your opponent to get an idea; it is sure to be bad.
Siegbert Tarrasch
#16. When you don't know what to do, do something. I know you don't know what to do and I know you can't do everything right now, but you can do something.
Andy Andrews
#17. What do you know about women?
They smell nice, they don't like to be told they can't do something, and, when they're naked, they hold some sort of mystical power that overrides our brains and makes us do and say things that would normally be inconceivable.
Katie MacAlister
#18. There's still a lot of investors wondering what to invest in. And, of course, I think entertainment looks attractive when you read the few films that make these insane amounts of money. What they don't know is they don't always do that.
Ridley Scott
#19. You want to know the truth about drugs? You can only go one or two ways. You can go up, or you can go down. That's it. After a certain point, though, no matter what you do, what you take, you don't go anywhere, and that's when you've got to sit down and face yourself.
RuPaul
#20. I don't want to know what your favorite color is
but I do want to know what color you bleed
when you're with me.
Shinji Moon
#21. Sometimes, when you're sad you don't know what to do, it helps to be angry. But then the tears come back again all the same, and you fall asleep with the salty taste of them on your lips.
Cornelia Funke
#22. I don't know. What if I don't want to and you do?"
" I just want you and us, baby. And when the time is right, and this hospital room isn't that time, I'll ask you to marry me properly and then take you pyramid hunting all over the world. You and me, baby. That's what I want.
Lisa Renee Jones
#23. I don't like offending people, and it's easy to offend people when you don't know as much as they do. This group knows more about what it takes to lead in this way than I ever will. My goal is to push people, but I need to do it from a place of respect.
Seth Godin
#24. When I sit near you, my hands suddenly become alien things and I don't know where to put them or what they usually do, like this is the first time I've ever had hands and maybe they go in my pockets and maybe they don't.
Pleasefindthis
#25. Life is full of trials and tribulations. It's dramatic when you don't treat people right when you're in the tribulations, but I know now how to get out of it. You have to make a decision to say 'No more', and then you know what to do when the trials happen.
Mary J. Blige
#26. I don't know when we'll see each other again or what the world will be like when we do. We may both have seen many horrible things. But I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.
Arthur Golden
#27. I don't know what to do, and if I did know what to do I wouldn't tell you, because if I had to tell you today then I'd have to tell you tomorrow, and when I'm gone you'd have to get somebody else to tell you.
Myles Horton
#28. Remember what Mommy said about what to do when something scares you?" "Name it," she whispered. "Exactly." Her mother's smile softened. "If you give the monster a name, it takes away its power, because we're really just afraid of what we don't know. If
J.M. Darhower
#29. I like you so much I don't know what to do with it. My heart beats so fast when I know I'm going to see you again.
Jenny Han
#30. The writing process is sort of like when you've got no electricity and you've gotten up in the middle of the night to find the bathroom, feeling your way along in the dark. I can't hardly tell you what I do because I really don't know.
Carolyn Chute
#31. When it gets to the part in life where you're more afraid of what your wife is going to do to you than if you box, say, Mike Tyson, you've got to get a new profession. You don't get to be a family. I know why boxers never quit, some of them. They don't have wives.
George Foreman
#32. WHEN WE know what's essential in our lives, everything else is negotiable. What are some things you don't do? What things could you intentionally leave undone so that you can focus more deeply on the things you feel called to and passionate about?
Shauna Niequist
#33. What am I to do with you?" Redd asked.
"M-maybe you could-" Jack began.
The Cat raised a paw. "I know."
"It was a rhetorical question, fools! You don't answer it! Since when do I need help making anyone suffer?
Frank Beddor
#34. It's like Jase says: when you don't know what you're doing, it's best to do it quickly!
Phil Robertson
#35. No matter how deep a study you make. What you really have to rely on is your own intuition and when it comes down to it, you really don't know what's going to happen until you do it.
Konosuke Matsushita
#36. When you find yourself at yet another crossroads, sorting out your best next step, it's as useful to know what you don't want as what you do.
Kate Bolick
#37. In my culture, there's a tradition that when you're in an overwhelming situation and you don't know what to do, you put yourself in a woman's shoes.
Ang Lee
#38. Yeah, you always have to be there and remind people of you. It's complicated when you do music, or when you do anything in general. You need time. I don't know if it's because of the weather or what, but [Canadians] seem to have a relationship to time that I like very much.
Lou Doillon
#39. Even if they don't know it consciously, people can feel when you are making them into a means to an end only. And people are much less likely to do what you want them to do - for example, to buy the car - when they feel you are reducing them into a means to an end.
Eckhart Tolle
#40. What happens when you don't know the truth but you can't believe the lies, when you can't find a way--through fact or fiction--to give meaning to your own existence? Without a narrative for your own life, do you ever really exist at all?
Maria Goodin
#41. I don't stand a chance When you look at me that way I'll do anything you want me to Anything for you And I'll shout it for the whole world to know Oh, honey, that's what you do to me And I don't mind at all
Emma Chase
#42. When you're trapped in a prison, and your heart is broken, and you can't move a finger because you don't know what to do, that's when you wake up.
Robin Gregory
#43. I don't know if acting is what I want to do for the rest of my life, it's just what I've, you know, ended up doing when I was little, and I've kinda grown up with it.
Natalie Portman
#44. When people are really great at what they do there is no aggression because they are comfortable in their own skin. They know themselves well enough that you don't have anything to prove.
Joel Edgerton
#45. My dad once told me that women know things that men don't. That sometimes they have a certain look in their eyes, but when you see it, you should never ask them what they're thinking. If you do they might tell you something you don't want to hear.
Joseph Delaney
#46. Most of the time when there's a communication problem, it's because the message being received is not the message you want. It's not that they don't know what they need to do, how we need to act as a team, whatever. If you don't like the message, then you go say there's a communication problem.
Mike D'Antoni
#47. Ah, that's because you don't know what it's like to have faith. You've no idea how amusing and exciting life becomes when you do believe. All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant. It makes life so jolly, you know.
Aldous Huxley
#48. Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today.
Malcolm X
#49. Once you've made your first feature, you know what you can do wrong and how hard it is to shoot a feature. Before you do it, you just don't know how hard it is. Once you've done it, when you're writing a second one, it's almost like you're preparing, and it's almost holding you back.
Mike Birbiglia
#50. When you've had a relationship with anybody in your life and you both know what that relationship is, you don't have to do anything to prove to anybody that you've had that relationship. It just exists.
Guy Pearce
#51. When he'd been small, people had said things like, "And what do you want to be, little man?" and he'd said, "I don't know. What have you got?
Terry Pratchett
#52. When you're trying to do character work that's different from what people expect from you, you're sort of in territory that is uncharted, and you don't know how it's playing all the time.
Mark Ruffalo
#53. To have faith doesn't mean you get any less frustrated when you don't do your best, but you know that it's not life and death. Take what you're given, and when you continue to work hard, you will see results. That will give you the confidence you need to keep going.
Tom Lehman
#54. Don't try to convince anyone of anything. When you don't know something, ask or go away and find out. But when you do act, be like the silent, flowing river and open yourself to a greater energy. Believe
that's what I said at our first meeting
simply believe that you can.
Paulo Coelho
#55. The British capitalize on their accent when they don't want you to know what they're saying. But if you wake them up at 4 A.M., they speak perfect English, the same as we do.
Henry A. Kissinger
#56. When you do something that works you have a happiness, but I don't know if it's a feeling of power. Power is a frightening thing and that's not what I'm interested in. I want to do certain things and make them right in my mind and that's it.
David Lynch
#57. When you work for other people you'll find ... that they do know what's best for them, and for the company. And you should listen to them and be respectful, but they don't know what's best for you.
Mike Judge
#58. We can't keep living with what other people want for us, or don't want for us," Yena said. "We have to live for what we want. But everything that's in your head, the things you've been told to believe and do, you can't just throw it all out like bathwater, even when you know it's hurting you. So
Foz Meadows
#59. Hess laughed. "You know, I thought you were a mousy little thing when I first saw you, Claire, but you're not, are you? Not underneath."
Oh, I am mousy," she said."All this scares the hell out of me. But I don't know what else to do, sir, except try.
Even a mouse bites.
Rachel Caine
#60. As women, we have to realize what we bring to the table. What do you want to do for the world? How do you want to change it? And when you know that, you don't have to compare yourself to anybody else.
Kelly Rowland
#61. Here's the deal, though. Real men watch girly shit with their wives, and they don't bitch about it. Because you know what? When you're done watching that girly shit, your woman is happy. And what do happy women do? They take you to bed and bang your brains out.
Jasinda Wilder
#62. Sometimes, when you're so sad you don't know what to do, it helps to be angry.
Cornelia Funke
#63. The next thing you do when the plug's pulled, after panicking, is run to the nearest window. You don't know why exactly. It's that better-see-what's-going-on feeling. The world works from the outside in. So if the lights go off, you look outside.
Rick Yancey
#64. I wanted to do the whole album in black and white, and it really killed me that when you see it in the light it's got green in it. I don't know what the hell that was about.
Nuno Bettencourt
#65. I have been doing this since I was 10 years old. It wasn't like I was an overnight hit. I think when that happens to some actors - they just don't know what to do with themselves. You don't know how to cope with friends and all of a sudden not being able to go out. It's such a shock to your system.
Eliza Dushku
#66. The two men who bring guns to the ghetto don't know what to do since when music hit you can't hit it back.
Marlon James
#67. Do you think it will always be this way?"
"What?"
"I mean, when do we start feeling like the world belongs to us?"
I wanted to tell him that the world would never belong to us. "I don't know," I said. "Tomorrow.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#68. But you don't know how to read anymore! When you open a book, you do it in the faith and assurances that you are already master of what it contains and that the author has written only so you may prove him wrong!
Philip Wylie
#69. Kids should be allowed to break stuff more often. That's a consequence of exploration. Exploration is what you do when you don't know what you're doing.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#70. When I do a cooking class now, I tell people that the most important part is to read the recipe many times so you know what you're doing. What I don't tell them, though, is that sometimes I do parties where I'm rushing so much I don't have time to follow my own advice.
Wolfgang Puck
#71. My parents were lovely. They've always been supportive. When you love your child, you don't know what to do with someone who wants to do what no one else does successfully. If I had someone younger I loved, I'd be worried for them too if I didn't have guidance to give them.
Lana Del Rey
#72. When you absolutely don't know what to do anymore, it is time to panic
John Van Der Wiel
#73. I don't know who the good guys are anymore. But I do know what the enemy is. It's the compromise of principles. You lose the war when you lose your principles. And the first principle is to look out for your comrades.
Karen Traviss
#74. What I'm trying to do is be righteous. And when I say "righteous," I don't mean God. You know? God- Righteous. I mean just when I wake up, I know I was honest to myself.
Patrice O'Neal
#75. You don't expect me to know what to say about a play when I don't know who the author is, do you? ... If it's by a good author, it's a good play, naturally. That stands to reason.
George Bernard Shaw
#76. Really, you might make an effort. Honestly, I don't know what's the matter with all of you!
I do, Tiffany thought. You're like a dog worrying sheep all the time. You don't give them time to obey you and you don't let them know when they've done things right. You just keep barking.
Terry Pratchett
#77. I have to ask, because in my experience, women will tell you to do something and then slit your fucking throat when you actually do it. Since you were supposed to know they didn't really want you to do it. That they don't really mean what they say.
Emma Chase
#78. I'm not in a rush to do anything. And I wouldn't say I pick and choose. When it comes to producers picking people for roles I don't think it's between me and Tom Cruise, do you know what I mean?
Matt LeBlanc
#79. When you get to be nearly 60, you do take stock. You don't know what's around the corner.
Annie Lennox
#80. Vic stared at her, incredulous. "What do you mean you don't know why?" Vic asked her. "He isn't coming home because of you, Mom. Because he can't stand you. Because all you ever do is bitch at him, stand there and bitch when he's tired and wants to be left alone.
Joe Hill
#81. If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route.
Malcolm Forbes
#82. Rather than admitting you don't know what to do next, you fake it in public and feel lost when you're alone.
Emily P. Freeman
#83. God stared at his feet a little longer. He sighed, "Do you mean when it comes to the job itself? I don't know. It isn't what it used to be.
Dylan Callens
#84. I'm forty-six years old and I don't care who knows it, but what I will tell you is that when a woman is forty-six and has lived her life the way she's wanted to live it, she knows everything there is to know about what to do in the sack.
Viet Thanh Nguyen
#85. It's mind-boggling when you think about how important it is to do what you feel is right. You don't know what you'll be missing when you make a bad choice.
Jay Alton
#86. There are very few players who know what to do when they're not marked. So sometimes you tell a player: that attacker is very good, but don't mark him.
Johan Cruijff
#87. It really is a pleasure to work with someone who you admire. Whatever you do in front of the camera, and I don't know what it is, but actors have this thing that you recognize someone that makes you better. When you do that, it's a great feeling.
Benicio Del Toro
#88. One day that is what will happen, West. And it will be incredibly hard. But what you can do now is make the most out of the time you have left. Talk to him even if he can't talk back. Hold his hand. Tell him everything you want him to know. So when he's gone you don't have regrets.
Abbi Glines
#89. Well it totally freaks them out, what do you think? And I just about die of the embarrassment. I don't ever know what to say. What do you say if you just shouted "Victory for the Forces of Democratic Freedom!" right when you came?
David Foster Wallace
#90. Yes, you don't have to collect conversations when you travel, but if you encounter that rare soul with whom you share a connection, no matter where they're from, you'll know what to do.
Wya Soquiet
#91. You get to know what you should have done better regretfully when you watch others take the stage enthusiastically to do what you should have done better
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#92. Don't keep your greatness; exhibit it to the admiration of all but note however also to keep your precious something hidden for discovery. When it is discovered, it shall win awe and admiration, and it shall be an inspiration!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#93. I don't know if it's revolutionary not to work," she had told me, "but it's better. When you sell your body you are what you do. You're yourself and you get paid for it," or so she had thought at the time,
Rachel Kushner
#94. When you are in control of what the final product is, there is kind of no limitation to what you feel like you can do because you know that if you don't like it, you can just cut it out.
Rachael Taylor
#95. Don't take the high ground and assume you already know what you'll do. The truth is, when it comes to someone you love, you'll find there isn't anything you won't do.
Richelle Mead
#96. When the going gets tough, I'm not always sure what you do. I'm not saying that I know how to fix everything when the going gets tough, but I do know this: when the going goes tough, you don't quit. And you don't fold up. And you don't go in the other direction.
John Madden
#97. I think if anyone tells you the odds are slim, just keep walking. Just do whatever the hell you want to do, because they don't know what they're talking about. When you love something, and you work really really hard at it, you can do it.
Melissa McCarthy
#98. Josh, do you know what my favorite thing is? she asked. I mean, my very favorite thing?
I'm not sure.
It's when the whole family comes for a holiday and you kids just sit around and laugh together. You don't have any idea what that feels like for me. There's nothing I look forward to more.
Josh Hanagarne
#99. Do you know what people want more than anything? They want to be missed. They want to be missed the day they don't show up. They want to be missed when they're gone.
Seth Godin
#100. Love you, Amy." I stilled completely. He felt it. "I don't care if that's too soon for you," he announced. "You do with it what you want. Keep it and hold it to you and hope like fuck you give it back when you're ready. But you gotta know, it's yours.
Kristen Ashley
