Not Knowing Quotes - Page 5

• The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you're finished.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Funny, Knowing, Goal

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• We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.

  Dora Russell

  Children, Women, Memorable

  Hypatia ch. 4 (1925)

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• It all made sense - terrible sense. The panic she had experienced in the warehouse district because of not knowing what had happened had been superseded at the newsstand by the even greater panic of partial knowledge. And now the torment of partly knowing had yielded to the infinitely greater terror of knowing precisely

  Flora Rheta Schreiber

  Knowing, Panic, Mental Health

  Flora Rheta Schreiber (1975). “Sybil”

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• Men always want to die for something. For someone. I can see the appeal. You do it once and it’s done. No more worrying, not knowing, about tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow. I know you all think it sounds brave, but I’ll tell you something even braver. To struggle and fight for the ones you love today. And then do it all over again the next day. Every day. For your whole life. It’s not as romantic, I admit. But it takes a lot of courage to live for someone, too.

  Victor LaValle

  Struggle, Fighting, Men

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• I'm having a great time. It's like I'm on some ridiculous big roller coaster not knowing what's happening next, but just having a great time on the ride.

  Samantha Mumba

  Knowing, Next, Ridiculous

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• I'm terrified to go in lakes because you can't see the bottom, and not knowing what's there watching you is really scary to me.

  Sara Paxton

  Lakes, Knowing, Scary

  "Sara Paxton Exclusive Interview SHARK NIGHT 3D". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 31, 2011.

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• People don't want to be plagued by not knowing-they want answers.

  Michael Pitt

  Knowing, People, Answers

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• I love to be in the position of not knowing what I'm gonna do, but having rehearsed all of those so when something happens with the others actors I go with whatever that is I'm getting.

  Wayne Rogers

  Knowing, Actors, Position

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• You can make or break an outfit by not knowing your body type - certain things work on certain people. Make sure you're dressing for your leg-length, hip/chest size, etc.

  AnnaLynne McCord

  Knowing, People, Body

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

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• That's what I'm interested in: the space in between, the moment of imagining what is possible and yet not knowing what that is.

  Julie Mehretu

  Knowing, Space, Moments

  "Julie Mehretu paints chaos with chaos - from Tahrir Square to Zuccotti Park". Interview with Jason Farago, www.theguardian.com. June 20, 2013.

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• Living in the world without insight into the hidden laws of nature is like not knowing the language of the country in which one was born.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Country, Knowing, Law

  Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sayings of Hazrat Inayat Khan”, Library of Alexandria

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• Cabin Fever was murder. There was a lot of psychological stress, like not knowing if we were going to finish the movie. The day we arrived to start rehearsals, our main investors pulled out.

  Rider Strong

  Stress, Knowing, Cabins

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• Never feel dumb. Not knowing who or what is no sin. Ignorance is simply the measure of what you haven't got to yet. I find writers and works every day that I haven't got to, haven't even heard of.

  Thomas C Foster

  Ignorance, Knowing, Stupidity

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• While the dogmatist is harmful, the sceptic is useless ...; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or of ignorance. Knowledge is not so precise a concept as is commonly thought. Instead of saying 'I know this', we ought to say 'I more or less know something more or less like this'. ... Knowledge in practical affairs has not the certainty or the precision of arithmetic.

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Ignorance, Knowledge

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• I think it sits quite happily with me, the condition of being an actor. I see some people getting quite eaten up with it, with the insecurities. There are times when I long for continuity and stability, but I also love the idea of not knowing what I'll be doing next - or even if I'm going to work.

  Matthew Macfadyen

  Thinking, Ideas, Knowing

  "Matthew Macfadyen: 'I do have a good eye'" by Harriet Lane, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2010.

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• But the thing that stands eternally in the way of really good writing is always one: the virtual impossibility of lifting to the imagination those things which lie under the direct scrutiny of the senses, close to the nose. It is this difficulty that sets a value upon all works of art and makes them a necessity. The senses witnessing what is immediately before them in detail see a finality which they cling to in despair, not knowing which way to turn. Thus this so-called natural or scientific array becomes fixed, the walking devil of modern life.

  William Carlos Williams

  Art, Lying, Writing

  William Carlos Williams (1920). “Kora in Hell: Improvisations”

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• I quickly said that, because of my loyalty to 'Star Trek' and also just being a fan, I wouldn’t even want to be involved in the next version of those things. I declined any involvement very early on. I’d rather be in the audience not knowing what was coming, rather than being involved in the minutiae of making them.

  J. J. Abrams

  Loyalty, Stars, Knowing

  "J.J. Abrams: I Turned Down 'Star Wars: Episode VII'" by Jordan Zakarin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 26, 2012.

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• The flow of writing is always a surprise and a challenge. Click the computer on and I am 17 again, wanting to write and not knowing if I can.

  Don Murray

  Writing, Knowing, Challenges

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• Man is in fact nailed down - like Christ on the Cross - to a grid of paradoxes. He balances between the torment of not knowing his mission and the joy of carrying it out, between nothingness and meaningfulness. And like Christ, he is in fact victorious by virtue of his defeats.

  Vaclav Havel

  Men, Christ On The Cross, Knowing

  "Václav Havel: Heir to a Spiritual Legacy" by Richard L. Stanger. Christian Century article, pp.368-370, www.religion-online.org. April 11, 1990.

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• Pride comes from not knowing yourself and the world. The older you grow, and the more you see, the less reason you will find for being proud. Ignorance and inexperience are the pedestal of pride; once the pedestal is removed - pride will soon come down.

  J. C. Ryle

  Ignorance, Pride, Knowing

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• 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

  Writing, Knowing, Doe

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• One of the worst things about being an actor, besides people being nice to you and getting free stuff all the time - but really, one of the worst things is not knowing what's coming next. You could shoot a pilot, and they could have you on hold for six months waiting to find out what is going to happen with the show, and you're locked into it.

  Nick Kroll

  Nice, Knowing, People

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. October 29, 2009.

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• For the most part we humans live with the false impression of security and a feeling of being at home in a seemingly familiar and trustworthily physical and human environment. But when the expected course of everyday life is interrupted, we realize that we are like shipwrecked people trying to keep their balance on a miserable plank in the open sea, having forgotten where they came from and not knowing whether they are drifting. But once we fully accept this, life becomes easier and there is no longer any disappointment.

  Albert Einstein

  Disappointment, Home, Sea

  "Albert Einstein, The Human Side: New Glimpses From His Archives". Book by Albert Einstein, p. 72, 1979.

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• Life's most persistent and urgent question is: what are you doing for others? Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Life Changing, Knowing, Littles

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• It's like being on Death Row in an American jail. You are waiting for the door handle to turn, not knowing whether it's a reprieve or just your final breakfast before being executed.

  Howard Wilkinson

  Doors, Knowing, Jail

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