Not Knowing Quotes - Page 11

• Paranoia plays into all of us. Trust is a terrifying idea of not knowing who we can rely on.

  Eric Christian Olsen

  Play, Ideas, Knowing

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• When I first discovered it it was so weird because I was doing all these positions, they're called Asanas, and I was thinking 'But I used to do this when I was a kid. I used to do shoulder stands and upside down positions.' So I think I used to do it as a child subconsciously, but not knowing what it actually was.

  Jayne Middlemiss

  Children, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• Being blocked, being uncertain, sitting there not knowing, waiting, abiding with it: this is the work. If you don't have the tolerance for that you're in great trouble. If you want to call it a writer's block... that doesn't seem a very useful name for that kind of abiding that I think is the essence of the work.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Block, Thinking, Essence

  Big Think Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. September 25, 2010.

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• Both good and evil, when they are full grown, become retrospective...That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporary suffering, 'No future bliss can make up for it,' not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory. And of some sinful pleasure they say 'Let me but have this and I'll take the consequences': little dreaming how damnation will spread back and back into their past and contaminate the pleasure of the sin.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Dream, Religious

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• I think we have to trust ourselves in the darkness of not knowing. The God out of which we came and into which we go is an unknown God. It's the luminosity of that darkness and that unknowing that is, I think, the most human - and the most sacred - place of all.

  Sam Keen

  Thinking, Knowing, Darkness

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• I don't feel frightened by not knowing things.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Mysterious Universe, Knowing, Frightened

  "No Ordinary Genius". Book by Christopher Sykes (p. 239), 1994.

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• I cannot speak so confidently about the fighting qualities of the Eastern men, or what are called Yankees - not knowing myself particularly to whom the appellation belongs - but this I do know - if the Southerners think that man for man they are better than our Illinois men, or western men generally, they will discover themselves in a grievous mistake.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Mistake, Fighting, Men

  Abraham Lincoln (2002). “Conversations With Lincoln”, p.158, Transaction Publishers

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• I've never made an excuse of not knowing my father, because I've had great people in my life.

  Naomi Campbell

  Father, Knowing, People

  Interview with Tony Shafrazi, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 20, 2010.

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• The Columbus Day Parade was held Monday in New York. Columbus was the world's first Democrat. He left not knowing where he was going, arrived not knowing where he was, went home not knowing where he had been, and he did it all on government money.

  Argus Hamilton

  Monday, New York, Home

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• Into this universe, and why not knowing
  Nor whence, like water willy-nilly flowing;
  And out of it, as wind along the wate,
  I know not whither, willy-nilly blowing.

  Omar Khayyam

  Wind, Knowing, Water

  Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald, Christopher Decker (1997). “Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition”, p.150, University of Virginia Press

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• Fear is the result of a lack of confidence. A lack of confidence is the result of not knowing what you can do. A lack of knowing what you can do is caused by a lack of experience. A lack of experience is caused by a lack of doing something new.

  Dale Carnegie

  Knowing, Something New, Results

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• There's the anti-intellectual movement in society and I don't blame them entirely for feeling that way because we all know people, I have many colleagues where you try to hang out with them and they make you feel bad for not knowing what they know. If that's how you interact with people, why would anyone want to be that.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Knowing, People, Feelings

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• I personally love to see films not knowing very much about them. When you see it, it's like a flower opening up. I deliberately never read about films before I see them.

  Andrea Arnold

  Flower, Opening Up, Knowing

  Interview with Jonathan Crocker, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. September 9, 2009.

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• Intense pain often pushed me to make changes. The pain of the eating disorder pushed me into recovering from eating-disordered behaviors, and then the emotional turmoil I experienced without those behaviors (not knowing how to cope with perfectionism, feelings, and life in general) took me even further, so that I ultimately found serenity.

  Jenni Schaefer

  Pain, Emotional, Knowing

  Jenni Schaefer (2009). “Goodbye Ed, Hello Me: Recover from Your Eating Disorder and Fall in Love with Life”, p.5, McGraw Hill Professional

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• So rather than someone coming to my stu- dio and saying, like, "Thank you for your time. I'll see you later," and me not knowing why they don't like my work, I understand now why they don't like it.

  Josh Smith

  Knowing, Dio

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm always after putting people in extreme circumstances. I'm always after not knowing what I'm doing in those extreme circumstances.

  Danny Boyle

  Knowing, People, Circumstances

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 26, 2008.

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• Your first film is always your best film, in a way. There's something about your first film that you never ever get back to, but you should always try. It's that slight sense of not knowing what you're doing, because the technical skills you learn - especially if you have a film that works, that has some kind of success - are beguiling. The temptation is to use them again, and they're not necessarily good storytelling techniques.

  Danny Boyle

  Skills, Knowing, Temptation

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. November 26, 2008.

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• 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

  Growing Up, Reality, Knowing

  "My jailed Harry Potter co-star is the victim of a make-believe world" by Jessie Cave, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2012.

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• I love not knowing. It keeps me guessing.

  Nestor Carbonell

  Knowing, Guessing

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• Even some rock star girls, which I didn't really know her name. I will probably find out and probably get slaughtered for not knowing her name, but she brought some of her clothes that she used to wear on stage. I wore one of the corsets and stuff. I don't know why I'm blanking. It was not Pat Benatar. It's like Debbie Gibson, Pat Benatar, Joan Jett, I know those girls.

  Julianne Hough

  Girl, Stars, Clothes

  "Julianne Hough & Diego Boneta Interview, Rock of Ages". www.moviesonline.ca.

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• We live our lives by the water and if you don't know how to swim in Australia, it's like not knowing how to cross a road. It's an incredible survival thing that you really must learn when you're a child.

  Eric Bana

  Children, Knowing, Australia

  "Eric Bana Interview, Hanna". Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

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• Your Letters concerning Miss N. have given me as much Concern as they ought-not knowing the Character nor what to advise, but feeling all a Fathers Tenderness, longing to be at home that I might enquire and consider and take the Care I ought.

  John Adams

  Family, Father, Home

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• I often prefer the shapes within the raw materials to ‘do their thing’, as this makes it movre interesting for me. Sometimes a piece of hubcap fits in such a way that the shark becomes almost alive in my hands, climbing, twisting or just hanging motionless and predatory, and this gives me a buzz. It makes me feel like a vehicle for the creation process rather than a controller, and not knowing the exact outcome is exciting.

  Ptolemy

  Knowing, Climbing, Sharks

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• In 1688 England contracted to the Netherlands the highest debt that one nation can owe to another. Herself not knowing how to recover her liberties, they were restored by men of the United Provinces.

  George Bancroft

  Men, Knowing, History

  George Bancroft (1875). “History of the United States: From the Discovery of the American Continent”, p.59

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• But I had not quite fixed whether to make him [Don Juan] end in Hell-or in an unhappy marriage,-not knowing which would be the severest.

  Lord Byron

  Marriage, Knowing, Unhappy

  Lord Byron, Donald A. Low (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.333, Routledge

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