„Don't be in such a hurry to condemn a person because he doesn't do what you do, or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today.“

„You'll do what you think you want to do, or what you think you ought to do. If you're very lucky, luckier than anybody I know, the two will coincide.“

—  Wallace Stegner, kniha Angle of Repose

Zdroj: Angle of Repose

„Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.“

—  Ernest Hemingway, kniha The Old Man and the Sea

Varianta: Now is no time to think of what you do not have.
Think of what you can do with that there is
Zdroj: The Old Man and the Sea (1952)

„"Well," said Pooh, "what I like best—" and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.“

—  A.A. Milne, kniha The House at Pooh Corner

Zdroj: The House at Pooh Corner (1928), Chapter Ten.

„I think half the point of painting a picture is that you don't know what will happen … that if painters did know what was going to happen they wouldn't bother to do it.“

—  Lucian Freud British painter and engraver 1922 - 2011

Interview with Martin Gayford, Independent on Sunday 26 May 2002
Other

„When you expect the world to end at any moment, you know there is no need to hurry. You take your time, you do your work well.“

—  Thomas Merton Priest and author 1915 - 1968

„If your not cheering for me, for what I'm doing, don't cheer for me. Don't cheer cause you think I'm cute, you know what I'm saying, screw that. Cheer for me for what I'm doing, for what I stand for, and when I go to jail you should cheer louder.“

—  Tupac Shakur rapper and actor 1971 - 1996

1990s, Ed Gordon interview (1994)

„For a short time, I hated them. But when you think about it, what good does that do? It takes so much to hold on to hate—you lose your grip on what's important, you know?“

—  Harlan Coben, kniha Caught

Zdroj: Caught

„"I know you don't have to help us out-it's a favor-"
"Stop. I don't do favors, Alec. I do things for you because-- well, why do you think I do them?“

—  Cassandra Clare, The Mortal Instruments

Alec and Magnus, pg. 406
The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)

„(On creating) And you get that little endorphin buzz, it's great. Why do you think Einstein looked like that? I don't think he was going "You know this is some dynamite weed! It's all relative you know."“

—  Robin Williams American actor and stand-up comedian 1951 - 2014

Inside the Actors Studio (2001)

„How could you disguise your own thoughts so even you didn't know what you were thinking?“

—  Orson Scott Card American science fiction novelist 1951

Homecoming saga, The Memory Of Earth (1992)

„I don't know if there is a gene for comedy, but my dad was a very funny man. … He just didn't know it. He was a naturally funny character, and when my brother and I would laugh at things he said and did, he would say, 'What do you think is so funny?“

—  Jim Belushi American actor, comedian, singer, and musician 1954

Zdroj: Rick Kogan. " Belushis: Funny is in their bones: Jim, son Robert and stand-up Kyle Lane team up to create intimate Comedy Bar on Ontario Street http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-10-26/entertainment/ct-ae-1028-kogan-sidewalks-20121026_1_stand-up-comedy-improv-funny-guyThe," in: The Chicago Tribune, October 26, 2012.

„You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think.“

—  Marianne Williamson American writer 1952

Zdroj: A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

„Do you take me for such a fool to think I'd make contact with one that tries to hide what he don't know to begin with.“

—  Bob Dylan American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist 1941

Song lyrics, Highway 61 Revisited (1965), Positively 4th Street

„Do you know what I think about crying? I think some people have to learn to do it. But once you learn, once you know how to really cry, there's nothing quite like it. I feel sorry for those who don't know the trick. It's like whistling or singing.“

—  Anne Rice, kniha Memnoch the Devil

Zdroj: Memnoch the Devil

„I don't know what you think you're trying to do, but the krauts ought to pin a medal on you for helping them mess up discipline for us.“

—  George S. Patton United States Army general 1885 - 1945

During a March 1945 meeting with Bill Mauldin, complaining about his "Willy and Joe" cartoons; as quoted in The Brass Ring (1971) by Bill Mauldin

„…There’s two sides of the coin: One where people don't expect you to do anything and won't let you do anything because they think you don't know how, and then the other side is when you're fucking up but they won't tell you because you're a girl. Then you don’t learn.“

—  Esperanza Spalding American jazz bassist and singer 1984

On how recording in the studio can be a double-edged sword in “Esperanza Spalding: Insubordinate by Nature” https://pitchfork.com/features/interview/9830-esperanza-spalding-insubordinate-by-nature/ in Pitchfork (2016 Mar 8)

„Do not think I do not know that Cecily wants you to return home with her. And do not think I do not know that you remain for Jem's sake."

"And yours," he said before he could stop himself.“

—  Cassandra Clare, kniha Clockwork Princess

Zdroj: Clockwork Princess

„Do what you think is interesting, do something that you think is fun and worthwhile, because otherwise you won't do it well anyway.“

—  Brian W. Kernighan Canadian computer scientist 1942

An Interview with Brian Kernighan from the PC Report Romania http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mihaib/kernighan-interview/.

„There are times when you don't know yourself. There are times when you don't want to know yourself. There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.“

—  Aidan Chambers British children's writer 1934

Zdroj: This is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn