Knowing What To Do Quotes

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

  Chuck Smith

  Knowing, Knows

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Running away was easy; not knowing what to do next was the hard part.

  Glenda Millard

  Running, Knowing, Next

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• Knowledge is knowing a fact, wisdom is knowing what to do with that fact.

  B. J. Palmer

  Knowing, Facts

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• We all start not knowing what to do.

  Anne McKevitt

  Knowing, Not 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I thought what would be really just choice for a revamp and a reboot is 'The Greatest American Hero.' I think I'd be just that kind of perfect not prepared for this kind of thing, but thrust into circumstances he's not prepared for... that's another niche of mine. Unpreparedness. Not knowing what to do. I'm good at being that guy.

  Nathan Fillion

  Hero, Thinking, Knowing

  "Nathan Fillion Talks Castle, Firefly, and What’s Next". Interview with Jenna Busch, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2010.

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• Knowing what to do is very, very different than actually doing it.

  Seth

  Change, Knowing, Different

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• ADHD is not about knowing what to do,
  but about doing what one knows.

  Russell Barkley

  Knowing, Adhd, Knows

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• The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspiration, Knowledge, Men

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• You no longer have much in the way of knowing what to do in a big, epic novel about the future, because nobody knows what the hell is going to happen.

  Jerry Pournelle

  Epic, Knowing, Way

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• We have so much information but maybe we don’t know what to do with that information. So we run the risk of becoming museums of young people who have everything but not knowing what to do with it. We don’t need young museums but we do need holy young people.

  Pope Francis

  Running, Museums, Knowing

  "FULL TEXT: Pope Francis' message, youth encounter, UST". Pope Francis' speech at the University of Santo Tomas in Manila, www.rappler.com. January 18, 2015.

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• for many people, loneliness was an experience of time. 'Not knowing what to do with yourself' was the way it was usually put.

  Louise Bernikow

  Loneliness, Knowing, People

  Louise Bernikow (1986). “Alone in America: the search for companionship”, Harpercollins

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• Knowing what to do is useless without the emotional strength to do what you know.

  Keith Raniere

  Emotional, Knowing, Useless

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• The whole value of the dime is in knowing what to do with it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Money, Knowing, Dimes

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.236, Harvard University Press

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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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