Knowing What To Do Quotes

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.

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.

When we were on breaks from recording and touring, I was kind of moping around, like not knowing what to do. It was hard to adjust back to normal life after being so busy.

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.

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as in knowing what to do next.

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

Spiritual maturity is not knowing what to do with your whole life, but just knowing what to do next.

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

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.

One of the worst forms of mental suffering is boredom, not knowing what to do with oneself and one’s life. Even if man had no monetary, or any other reward, he would be eager to spend his energy in some meaningful way because he could not stand the boredom which inactivity produces.

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.

Leadership is knowing what to do next, knowing why that’s important, and knowing how to bring the appropriate resources to bear on the need at hand.

Wisdom often consists of knowing what to do next.

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

What is most important subject you have to learn in life? To learn how to love. This is the challenge that life offers you: to learn bow to love. Not just to accumulate information without knowing what to do with it. But through that love, let that information bear fruit.

To be crazy is not necessarily to writhe in snake pits or converse with imaginary gods. It can sometimes be not knowing what to do in the morning.

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