Not Knowing Quotes - Page 23

• we can't be creative if we refuse to be confused. Change always starts with confusion; cherished interpretations must dissolve to make way for what's new. Great ideas and inventions miraculously appear in the space of not knowing.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Change, Confused, Ideas

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2002). “Turning to One Another: Simple Conversations to Restore Hope to the Future”, p.37, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Knowing, Pagan, Silent

  Arthur Rimbaud, Louise Varèse (2011). “A Season in Hell and the Drunken Boat”, p.11, New Directions Publishing

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• Oh Christ, the exhaustion of not knowing anything. It's so tiring and hard on the nerves. It really takes it out of you, not knowing anything. You're given comedy and miss all the jokes. Every hour you get weaker. Sometimes, as I sit alone in my flat in London and stare at the window, I think how dismal it is, how heavy, to watch the rain and not know why it falls.

  Martin Amis

  Rain, Fall, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Martin Amis from Nov 26, 2011

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• When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

  Henri Nouwen

  Life, Motivational, Friendship

  "Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life". Book by Henri Nouwen, 1974.

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• A lot of women don't know how to love because there's deep reasons for them not knowing how to love. And what I mean by deep reasons is deep and dark reasons.

  Lil Wayne

  Mean, Dark, Knowing

  "Is Lil Wayne a Pop Star?"by Sophie Schillaci, Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 7, 2011.

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• Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it.

  Alan Watts

  Omnipotence, Knowing, Done

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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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• Working with great actors - being part of something of that magnitude and not knowing the business and what the business entailed or any of that. I was so wet behind the ears, I didn't know anything. It's, like, you're watching movies, and then here you are in front of those people and working with them. It was pretty interesting.

  Mekhi Phifer

  Knowing, People, Interesting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• what makes us so afraid is the thing we half see, or half hear, as in a wood at dusk, when a tree stump becomes an animal and a sound becomes a siren. And most of that fear is the fear of not knowing, of not actually seeing correctly.

  Edna O'Brien

  Fear, Animal, Knowing

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• We are too kind, too willing--too unwilling too--reaching out blindly with a grasping hand but not knowing how to ask for what we don't even know we want.

  Carol Shields

  Hands, Knowing, Want

  Carol Shields (2001). “Dressing Up for the Carnival”, p.22, Penguin

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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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• Fearlessness at twenty springs from not knowing challenges lie ahead. Fearlessness at fifty comes from having wrestled with life's challenges and learned from them.

  Kathleen Turner

  Courage, Spring, Lying

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• One of the things people always say to you if you get upset is, don't take it personally, but listen hard to what's going on and, please, I beg you, take it personally. Understand: every attack on Hillary Clinton for not knowing her place is an attack on you. Underneath almost all those attacks are the words: get back, get back to where you once belonged.

  Nora Ephron

  Knowing, People, Upset

  "Take This Advice: The Most Nakedly Honest Graduation Speeches Ever Given". Book by Sandra Bark, 2005.

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• The man who goes through life with an uncertain doctrine not knowing what he believes, what a poor, powerless creature he is! He goes around through the world as a man goes down through the street with a poor, wounded arm, forever dodging people be meets on the street for fear they may touch him.

  Phillips Brooks

  Believe, Men, Knowing

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• For better or worse we live in a very exposing [time] where, if you choose to, everyone can see everyone's business. You see what they're having for breakfast, where they are, what they're doing. Whereas I think that classic idea of mystery is very seductive. Not knowing every single thing about a person, what they're thinking, that's very powerful. And it would be a shame if we lost that totally.

  Theo James

  Powerful, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I love it [music]. I always have loved it. There's something about playing music that inspires me. When I've had some really down periods in my life, debauched beyond belief, not knowing what the hell I'm gonna do with my life, [Rolling Stones'] "Street Fighting Man" or something like that would come on the radio, and I'm pounding the dash and the rock and roll will inspire me to keep going. It inspires me. It's true.

  Creed Bratton

  Fighting, Men, Rocks

  Source: lamusicblog.com

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• I didn't know I hit that way (.625 with runners in scoring position). Maybe not knowing is my secret. If I chased numbers, maybe I wouldn't have as good results.

  Ichiro Suzuki

  Numbers, Knowing, Secret

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• Some of us pray demands. Some of us pray complaints. Some of us pray knowing, and some of us pray not knowing. But prayer is the attitude that you hold in your heart.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Prayer, Attitude, Heart

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• Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.

  Jonathan Swift

  Strength, Men, Knowing

  Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.896, Delphi Classics

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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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• I remember thinking quite logically that I didn't want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on.

  Bill Gates

  Children, Thinking, Knowing

  Interview with Scott Bevan, www.radioaustralia.net.au. February 28, 2012.

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• My methodology is not knowing what I'm doing and making that work for me.

  Stone Gossard

  Knowing, Methodology

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• I don't need to know how they make Coca-Cola. I think it tastes just fine not knowing what the ingredients are. I think there are some things that should be kept secret.

  Colin Hanks

  Thinking, Knowing, Secret

  "Colin Hanks, Tom Hanks Team Up On-Screen". Parade interview, parade.com. March 20, 2009.

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• Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?

  Sydney J. Harris

  Real, Knowing, People

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• A lot of children don't find forever homes because they're on that special-needs list, even if it's because of something as simple as her mother smoked cigarettes for a month, not knowing she was pregnant.

  Katherine Heigl

  Mother, Children, Home

  "Katherine Heigl Gets Real". Interview with Marshall Heyman, www.harpersbazaar.com. May 20, 2010.

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