Knowing What To Do Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Hands, Knowing, Purpose

  Roger Scruton (2007). “Culture Counts: Faith and Feeling in a World Besieged”, p.35, Encounter Books

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• 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

  Knowing, Hands, Important

  Bobb Biehl (2010). “Leading with Confidence (eBook): Practical wisdom on leadership, management, and life”, p.9, Christian Art Publishers

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• Alan Rickman was such a terrific actor, and that was such a terrific character that he played. And it was a joy to be with him. We used to laugh together because we ran out of reaction shots. They were always - when everything had been done and the children were finished, they would turn the camera around and we'd have to do various reaction shots of amazement or sadness and things. We used to say we'd got to about number 200-and-something and we'd run out of knowing what to do when the camera came around on us. But he was a joy.

  Maggie Smith

  Running, Children, Character

  Source: www.npr.org

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• We'd decided to write a book about two friends. I gave her some coffee and then we sat there not knowing what to do. How do you start writing a book together? So Kate [DiCamillo] got up after about 10 minutes into this endeavor, and said, 'Well, that was fun,' and started to head out the door. I said, 'Wait, wait, wait, no no no,' because I'm a bit more patient.

  Alison McGhee

  Fun, Coffee, Book

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Having a routine, knowing what to do, gives me a sense of freedom and keeps me from going crazy. It's calming.

  Chuck Close

  Crazy, Knowing, Giving

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• Learning is really about translating knowing what to do into doing what we know.

  John G. Miller

  Learning, Knowing, Translate

  John G. Miller (2001). “QBQ!: The Question Behind the Question”

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• 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

  Knowing, Challenges, Important

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• There is a world of difference between knowing what to do and actually doing it.

  Bill Phillips

  Differences, Knowing, World

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• 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

  Knowing, Balls, Instinct

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Morning, Knowing, Wake Up

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Wisdom often consists of knowing what to do next.

  Herbert Hoover

  Wisdom, Knowing, Next

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• Sometimes knowing what to do is knowing when to stop.

  Bill Crawford

  Knowing, Sometimes

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• Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as in knowing what to do next.

  Herbert Hoover

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Knowing

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• 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

  Knowing, America, Weakness

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• There's a difference between ad-libbing and improvising. And there's a difference between not knowing what to do and just saying something. Or making choices as an actor. As a writer also, as a person who's making a film, as a cameraman, everything is a choice. And it seems to me I don't really have to direct anyone or write down that somebody's getting drunk; all I have to do is say that there's a bottle there and put a bottle there and then they're going to get drunk.

  John Cassavetes

  Writing, Differences, Knowing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Eventually we realize that not knowing what to do is just as real and just as useful as knowing what to do. Not knowing stops us from taking false directions. Not knowing what to do, we start to pay real attention. Just as people lost in the wilderness, on a cliff face or in a blizzard pay attention with a kind of acuity that they would not have if they thought they knew where they were. Why? Because for those who are really lost, their life depends on paying real attention. If you think you know where you are, you stop looking.

  David Whyte

  Inspirational, Real, Thinking

  David Whyte (2009). “The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship”, p.88, Penguin

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• Catching a fly ball is a pleasure, but knowing what to do with it after you catch it is a business.

  Tommy Henrich

  Baseball, Knowing, Balls

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• 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

  Meaningful, Men, Knowing

  Erich Fromm (2012). “The Sane Society”, p.282, Routledge

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• 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

  Discovery, Knowing, People

  "Metallica's Kirk Hammett discusses vintage horror and geek bonding". Interview with Kenny Herzog, www.avclub.com. October 5, 2012.

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• The pain of not knowing what to do was exceeded only by that of knowing what I had done.

  Erich Segal

  Pain, Knowing, Done

  Erich Segal (1970). “Love Story”

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• When I went through a really intense break-up - you know, I was engaged - the thing that gave me the most anxiety was not knowing what to do with myself when Disney wasn't there to carry me anymore or if I didn't have him. And now I'm FREE of both of those things and I'm fine. I lay in bed at night by myself and I'm totally OK and that's so much stronger than the person three years ago, who would have thought they would have died if they didn't have a boyfriend.

  Miley Cyrus

  Night, Years, Knowing

  "Miley Cyrus reveals she suffered from depression and once had to be saved by dad Billy Ray" by Ashleigh Rainbird, www.mirror.co.uk. April 9, 2014.

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• 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

  Motivational, Jobs, Ambition

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• 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

  Morning, Crazy, Snakes

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• The difference between fear and panic is knowing what to do. If you have a reliable, effective solution then fear is an asset. You know what to do and fear just makes you do it faster. On the other hand, if you don't know what to do - or don't trust what you know - then you will freeze in terror, because you have no clear goal or way to get there. Fear helps, panic hinders. Fear is your savior, panic your nemesis.

  Marc MacYoung

  Knowing, Clear Goals, Hands

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• The art of politics is knowing what to do next.

  James P. Cannon

  Art, Knowing, Next

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