#not knowing

The problem with speeches isn't so much not knowing when to stop, as knowing when not to begin. ↗

— Frances Rodman

#knowing #much #not knowing #problem #speeches

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

— Alan Watts

#done #everything #how #just #knowing

Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one. ↗

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

#feeling #investigating #knowing #maybe #not knowing

Less than an hour before he'd congratulated himself on escaping all the traps of Earth, all the snares of Man. Not knowing that the greatest trap of all, the final and the fatal trap, lay on this present planet. ↗

— Clifford D. Simak

#earth #escaping #fatal #final #greatest

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

#fine #how #i #i think #ingredients

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

#cabin #day #fever #finish #going

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

#although #few #gold #know #knowing

That night at Carnegie Hall was a great experience. When the thing was first put up to me I was a little dubious, not knowing just what would be expected of us. ↗

— Benny Goodman

#carnegie hall #dubious #expected #experience #first

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#intolerable #knowing #life #makes #next

Pollock said several times that he couldn't separate himself from his art. Not knowing much about modern art when I began to read about him, I was much more his persona - his struggles as a human being - that was interesting to me. ↗

— Ed Harris

#art #began #being #him #himself