Understanding Quotes - page 19

The unexplainable thing in nature that makes me feel the world is big fat beyond my understanding - to understand maybe by trying to put it into form. To find the feeling of infinity on the horizon line or just over the next hill. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
We can love someone without understanding that person. View quote
Dorothy Rowe
The first step toward maintaining autonomy in any programmed environment is to be aware that there's programming going on. It's as simple as understanding the commercials are there to help sell things. And that TV shows are there to sell commercials, and so on. View quote
Douglas Rushkoff
I swear, I have no understanding of other human beings. View quote
E. Lockhart
Some leaders want to jump right to planning and fixing their issues, without understanding exactly what the problems are. Others want to skip the training phase since it means pulling people out of their jobs. The point is, each phase is important to enhancing culture and driving real change. View quote
Adrian Gostick
It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found. View quote
Alice Hoffman
Living gives you a better understanding of life. I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities. Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art. View quote
Alan Dean Foster
Human passions, like the forces of nature, are eternal; it is not a matter of denying their existence, but of assessing them and understanding them. Like the forces of nature, they can be subjected to man's deliberate act of will and be made to work in harmony with reason. View quote
Leon Bourgeois
The trade unions, far from being content with these declarations, established international liaisons and supported every policy based on pacification and understanding. View quote
Leon Jouhaux
An understanding of Jesus is not a mere matter of intelligence. He has to be accepted by faith. View quote
Lloyd C. Douglas
If I were asked what education should give, I would say it should offer a breadth of view, ease of understanding, tolerance for others, and a background from which the mind can explore in any direction. (Louis L'Amour)
The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture. View quote
Louis L'Amour
Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it. View quote
Michael Fox
Though there are things beyond our understanding, for the most part we are the architects of our own unhappiness. View quote
Yasmina Khadra
But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind. View quote
Bodhidharma
To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding. View quote
Bodhidharma
The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors. View quote
Mary Catherine Bateson
It's like you asked me about the depression thing: you grope towards an understanding of whatever it is your going through, and it's not personal, there are forces in play around you, and you seek to understand them and that way you can go on. View quote
Bob Geldof
If you really want to contribute to our theoretical understanding of physical laws - and it is an exciting experience if you succeed! - there are many things you need to know. First of all, be serious about it! View quote
Gerardus 't Hooft
Language has no independent existence apart from the people who use it. It is not an end in itself; it is a means to an end of understanding who you are and what society is like. View quote
David Crystal
I knew you had to go in and audition and maybe they'd hire you, and that's where you start. I had a good understanding about press: that it's the actor's responsibility to publicize his or her films. (Laura Dern)
I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it. View quote
Barbara Jordan
The social sciences offer equal promise for improving human welfare; our lives can be greatly improved through a deeper understanding of individual and collective behavior. But to realize this promise, the social sciences, like the natural sciences, need to match their institutional structures to today's intellectual challenges. View quote
Nicholas A. Christakis
Admiration is the emotion furthest from understanding. ~Sosuke Aizen. View quote
Tite Kubo
For me context is the key - from that comes the understanding of everything. View quote
Kenneth Noland