Knowing What To Do Quotes

• 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 Drucker

  Knowing, People, Action

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• 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

  Knowing, Discipline, Way

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• It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Passion, Knowledge

  Twitter post from Apr 25, 2011

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• Wisdom is knowing what to do with what you know.

  Chuck Smith

  Knowing, Knows

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• Spiritual maturity is not knowing what to do with your whole life, but just knowing what to do next.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Maturity, Knowing

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• Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

  David Starr Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  David Starr Jordan (1929). “The Trend of the American University”, p.71, Stanford University Press

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• Knowing what to do and not doing it is the same as not knowing what to do.

  Robin Sharma

  Inspirational, Success, Knowing

  Twitter post from Nov 28, 2015

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 Tartakower

  Knowing, Tactics, Strategy

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• Look at the earth crowded with growth, new and old bursting from their strong roots hidden in the silent, live ground, each seed according to its own kind...each one knowing what to do, each one demanding its own rights on the earth. So artist, you too from the depths of your soul...let your roots creep forth, gaining strength.

  Emily Carr

  Spiritual, Strong, Artist

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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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• 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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• Knowing and knowing what to do about it were two different things.

  Richard Russo

  Knowing, Two, Different

  Richard Russo (2017). “Mohawk”, p.138, Atlantic Books

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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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• 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

  Knowing, Space, Impossible

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.114, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The most unhappy people in the world are those who face the days without knowing what to do with their time. But if you have more projects than you have time for, you are not going to be an unhappy person. This is as much a question of having imagination and curiosity as it is of actually making plans.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Unhappy Person, Knowing, People

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.55, Westminster John Knox Press

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• When we were on breaks from recording and touring, I was kind of moping around, like not knowing what to do. It was hard to adjust back to normal life after being so busy.

  Petra Haden

  Knowing, Normal, Kind

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

  James P. Cannon

  Art, Knowing, Next

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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