Quotes about Knowing and Doing

The greatest gap in life is the one between knowing and doing. Votes: 4

You could dismantle your destiny, dwelling in the chasm between knowing and doing. Votes: 3

I want to affirm that thinking and living, knowing and doing, theory and practice intersect. Votes: 3

My methodology is not knowing what I'm doing and making that work for me. Votes: 2

I came to parenting the way most of us do - knowing nothing and trying to learn everything. Votes: 2

You win battles by knowing the enemy's timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect. Votes: 2

It's a great feeling knowing you've helped someone. That's what I've spent my life doing and my practice. Votes: 2

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do. Votes: 2

I wake up each and every day with a smile on my face knowing I get to do something musically. Votes: 2

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know. Votes: 2

Most people do not actually know how to think for themselves, and unfortunately that prevents them from even knowing it. Votes: 2

Obviously I had gone all through high school and into college, and you don't do that not knowing how to read. Votes: 2

We can identify with Frodo and Sam, setting off not knowing quite where they are going and what they are to do. Votes: 2

I can meet any producer in Hollywood and look them in the eye, knowing I didn't sleep with them, or do drugs with them. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Having constant supporters and people who are always there and always giving back and knowing that they're loving what you're doing is always awesome to see. Votes: 2

There's a gap between people knowing what I do and really believing that I still do that - and wondering what it is I really do. Votes: 2

I'm greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn't do it, that somehow I can deliver. Votes: 2

How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions? Votes: 2

I think I'm very focused and am quite a good multitasker, and I'm quite driven in knowing what my responsibilities are to my family and knowing what I've got to do to do that. Votes: 2

Confidence, knowing for certain that the person making the call has your safety foremost in their mind. And knowing that the job you are about to take on is the right thing to do, that it makes sense. Votes: 2

It was very satisfying knowing I could come in not really knowing what I was going to do, and at the end of the session feeling that I'd really done interesting guitar work and knowing that I'd really contributed to the music. Votes: 2

Nothing feels worse than knowing that people didn't see your movie. That they wanted to and the critics loved it but nobody knew where it was because it didn't do what it was supposed to do opening weekend. It used to be that independents were allowed to stay in the theaters, build word of mouth. Votes: 2

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing Votes: 0

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing. Votes: 0

Evil is knowing better, but willingly doing worse. Votes: 0

Science is about knowing; engineering is about doing. Votes: 0

Fear of knowing is very deeply a fear of doing. Votes: 0

The Christian life is not knowing or hearing, but doing. Votes: 0

First lesson learned: Knowing doesn't hold a candle to doing. Votes: 0

Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right. Votes: 0

The freedom of knowing that you're doing something off-kilter is liberating. Votes: 0

I get enormous satisfaction from knowing I'm doing something for society. Votes: 0

Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing. Votes: 0

The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you're finished. Votes: 0

Knowing what's correct and not doing it, it's the worst cowardice. Votes: 0

The best protection against risk is knowing what you are doing. Votes: 0

It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know. Votes: 0

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. Votes: 0

Faith is knowing and thinking truths. Charity is willing and doing them. Votes: 0

Knowing what to do is very, very different than actually doing it. Votes: 0

Stress comes from knowing what is right and doing what is wrong Votes: 0

Knowledge is the beginning of practice; doing is the completion of knowing. Votes: 0

Knowing all truth is less than doing a little bit of good. Votes: 0

Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it. Votes: 0

Perhaps the worst sin in life is knowing right and not doing it. Votes: 0

Writing is very hard work and knowing what you're doing the whole time. Votes: 0

Knowing what is right is not the same as doing what is right. Votes: 0

ADHD is not about knowing what to do, but about doing what one knows. Votes: 0

Knowing and doing are two separate things, and don't always sync up in life. Votes: 0

Wisdom is knowing. Skill is know how to do it. Virtue is doing it. Votes: 0

The manipulation of statistical formulas is no substitute for knowing what one is doing. Votes: 0

Education in a deepest sense has always been about doing rather than about knowing. Votes: 0

Learning is really about translating knowing what to do into doing what we know. Votes: 0

Success is knowing what you're doing, loving what you're doing, and believing what you're doing Votes: 0

I like the idea of everybody knowing each other; you know why you're doing things. Votes: 0

I don't know what I'm doing and it's the not knowing that makes it interesting. Votes: 0

There is a world of difference between knowing what to do and actually doing it. Votes: 0

You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right. Votes: 0

It's not doing what is right that's hard for a President. It's knowing what is right. Votes: 0

Authentic empowerment is the knowing that you are on purpose, doing God's work, peacefully and harmoniously. Votes: 0

Knowing isn't doing; doing isn't knowing. Nothing but the knowing and the doing gets it done. Votes: 0

Love is the only endeavor in which knowing what you're doing is no help at all. Votes: 0

Authentic empowerment is the knowing that you are on purpose, doing God's work, peacefully and harmoniously Votes: 0

Practice not wanting, desiring, judging, doing, fighting, knowing. Practice just being. Everything will fall into place. Votes: 0

I'm always doing poems from a place of not-knowing, a place of ignorance in a way. Votes: 0

The worst part of fame is not always knowing what I’m doing the next day Votes: 0

I fill up the well of stories in my head - without ever knowing I'm doing it. Votes: 0

Knowing what to do and not doing it is the same as not knowing what to do. Votes: 0

Maybe that's all demons ever are. People like us, doing things without even knowing what we're doing. Votes: 0

Doing the right thing is not the problem. Knowing what the right thing is, that's the challenge. Votes: 0

I spent 26 years in the business without ever knowing what I was doing a month from now. Votes: 0

Success in business doesn't come without passion, vision, hard work, and knowing that you're doing the right thing. Votes: 0

Love doesn't mean doing extraordinary or heroic things. It means knowing how to do ordinary things with tenderness. Votes: 0

Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it." Votes: 0

Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it. Votes: 0

Real power is control. Knowing that you can do anything...and not doing it only because you can. Votes: 0

I want the joy of knowing that I am doing something with my life, the joy of battle. Votes: 0

Improvisation is the art of being completely O.K. with not knowing what the f"” you're doing Votes: 0

I want the joy of knowing that I am doing something with my life, the joy of battle, Votes: 0

Doing things in secret that you are ashamed for others to know is practical atheism. God's knowing doesn't count? Votes: 0

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not. Votes: 0

The whole thing of doing a TV series, I find it very daunting not knowing where the story's going. Votes: 0

How can you live without knowing what your spirit is doing and what your spirit is saying to you? Votes: 0

Work is most fulfilling when you're at the comfortable, exciting edge of not quite knowing what you are doing. Votes: 0

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; Skill is knowing how to do it, and Virtue is doing it. Votes: 0

No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken. Votes: 0

I'm always after putting people in extreme circumstances. I'm always after not knowing what I'm doing in those extreme circumstances. Votes: 0

Transformations require that we let go of familiar ways of doing things, without yet knowing what we will do next. Votes: 0

Trust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they're doing it because they care about the team. Votes: 0

I am gentle with myself, knowing that I am doing the best I can with the knowledge and understanding I have Votes: 0

I invite people to examine their lives without negativity, knowing that it's scary, but that not doing it is even scarier. Votes: 0

So this is how a person can come to despise himself-knowing he's doing the wrong thing and not being able to stop. Votes: 0

It is an indescribable experience knowing that what you are doing will have an impact on the lives... of millions of people. Votes: 0

Knowing that something is wrong and doing it anyway happens very often in life, and I doubt I will ever know why. Votes: 0

People who used magic without knowing what they were doing usually came to a sticky end. All over the entire room, sometimes. Votes: 0

I'm very much a believer in knowing what it is that you love doing so you can do a great deal of it. Votes: 0

you cannot confuse bravery or courage with lack of fear. Real courage, true bravery is doing things in spite of fear, knowing fear. Votes: 0

The last time you're doing something - knowing you're doing it for the last - makes it even more alive than the first. Votes: 0

You don't need to know who I'm dating. You don't need to know what I'm doing. I'm fine with everybody not knowing that. Votes: 0

There's a thrill in the midst of the hardship in knowing that I'm making the invisible real. And I'm doing what I want. Votes: 0

When it comes time to teach, teach from your experience. Go out and do, learn from the doing, then teach from the knowing. Votes: 0

Knowing is different from doing and therefore theory must never be used as norms for a standard, but merely as aids to judgment. Votes: 0

They are young and life has no limits. Nothing is impossible, nothing beyond doing or knowing. The world is theirs and everything in it. Votes: 0

Happiness for me is totally just being at peace knowing that, everything I'm doing, God is pleased with that. It's complete peace for me. Votes: 0

Sometimes the space between knowing what to do and actually doing it is a very short walk. Other times it is an impossible expanse. Votes: 0

Our problem is not the lack of knowing; it is the lack of doing. Most people know far more than they think they do Votes: 0

I don't like everybody knowing what I'm doing, unless it's related to a movie. I don't like speaking to the press. I never did. Votes: 0

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The thing I'm most afraid of is me. Of not knowing what I'm going to do. Of not knowing what I'm doing right now Votes: 0

Success is the inner satisfaction and peace of mind that come from knowing I did the best I was capable of doing for the group. Votes: 0

I love stories about people who are smart enough to know that what they're doing is destroying them, but that knowing that doesn't help them. Votes: 0

I really don't like the idea of people knowing what I am doing. I find telling everybody what you had for breakfast is really uninspiring. Votes: 0

In Zen, actions speak louder than words. Doing is more important than knowing, and knowledge which cannot be translated into action is of little worth. Votes: 0

I really dont like the idea of people knowing what I am doing. I find telling everybody what you had for breakfast is really uninspiring. Votes: 0

Discipline in football occurs on the field, not off it. Discipline is knowing what you're supposed to do and doing it as best you can. Votes: 0

My definition of freedom is knowing who you are, and then being it. No matter what anyone else is doing. And naked parties of course. Votes: 0

I think everyone can relate to the idea of making a bad choice - and knowing it's a bad choice - but doing it anyway. Votes: 0

Real success is not being on the cover of a magazine; it's knowing that you've done, and enjoyed doing, what you set out to do. Votes: 0

I actually got really interested in traveling to India after studying yoga. I have this wanderlust and don't like doing things without knowing about the history. Votes: 0

I really have branched out into areas where I'm totally uncertain, which is very exciting for me. I kind of like not knowing what I'm doing. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Unlike Hillary Clinton, who voted for the war without knowing what she was doing, I would not have had our people in Iraq. Iraq was disaster. Votes: 0

The binding factor between knowing something and doing it is "passion". When your passion is concentrated in what you know, your work output will bind well. Votes: 0

The risk that is involved in trusting is stepping forth with willingness with a knowing that you can lose something or fail, and doing it anyways Votes: 0

Good character consists of knowing the good, desiring the good, and doing the good habits of the mind, habits of the heart, and habits of action. Votes: 0

The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness. Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing. Votes: 0

When man resolved to imitate walking, he invented the wheel, which does not look like a leg. In doing this, he was practicing surrealism without knowing it. Votes: 0

I was sure you 'd dropped the class, which made me selfishly ecstatic. Without even knowing i was doing it, i started looking for you on campus. Votes: 0

I think it is always tough no matter where you are in your journey. Always staying focused and knowing why you are doing what you are doing. Votes: 0

I was sure you 'd dropped the class, which made me selfishly ecstatic. Without even knowing i was doing it, i started looking for you on campus." Votes: 0

It's exciting not knowing what I'm doing next, but it won't be long before I'm going to feel like I needed to be doing something, whatever it is. Votes: 0

There's one thing I've always known: You can let people suspect anything else about you, but you must never let them suspect you of knowing what you're doing. Votes: 0

Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together - and they call the result intuition. Votes: 0

Cooking is for chefs. Science informs us and lets us cook while knowing what we are doing, but it is not a replacement for the skills of a chef. Votes: 0

But it seemed to me that the American way of doing things was to obliterate a complete area, without really knowing exactly what was there and where they were. Votes: 0

One of the strategies for doing first-person is to make the narrator very knowing, so that the reader is with somebody who has a take on everything they observe. Votes: 0

You can't do a machine without knowing something about how it's going to work. As for the romantics, the costumes bored me and I don't enjoy doing period clothes. Votes: 0

False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing. Votes: 0

Saba used to say there was a difference between bravery and courage. Bravery was doing something dangerous without thinking. Courage was walking into danger, knowing full well the risks. Votes: 0

Trying to motivate yourself with fear is like screaming at a child, "Do something, dammit!" You'll either freeze up or act in counterproducti ve ways. Fear widens the knowing-doing gap. Don't use it. Votes: -1