Understanding Quotes
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To fight against this lack of understanding, against a whole world of non-understanding, was impossible.
Franz Kafka -
Next to the coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one.
George Etherege
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The one who follows the thought is also a thought! The one who follows the thought IS in thought. When you know that both are thoughts, you are home. You are not at home, you ARE home. Then allow thoughts to arise and allow them to be followed. You remain as That unmoved and unconcerned Being. This is the highest understanding.
H. W. L. Poonja -
I have a hard time understanding how cutting the program in our country that provides healthcare to working families by $800 billion can be classified as mercy.
Joe Kennedy III -
I would say what Mad Men has taught me has been a super elevated evaluation of text in general, and understanding subtext, and understanding where a character comes from - what he means by this or by that.
Ben Feldman -
I do have an innate understanding of where a story should or shouldn't go, in a way that I don't think can be taught.
Peter Morgan -
Time which diminishes all things increases understanding for the aging.
Plutarch -
When I was married to an abuser, he'd tell me he wouldn't have to get so angry if only I'd be less demanding, more supportive, more understanding. I hid the truth from everyone, especially myself.
Luanne Rice
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I just don't know that shame and fear need to be our teachers; rather, compassion, understanding, and love should be our guides.
Kyan Douglas -
Everyone is always going through tough things, the irony in it is that everyone thinks what they're going through is just as hard as what you are. Life isn't about surviving this, it's about understanding this.
Nicholas Sparks -
The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.
Black Elk -
Nerds get caught up in minutiae, because there is a tremendous and fulfilling sense of control in understanding every single detail of a thing more than any other living creature.
Chris Hardwick -
The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment of all ethical standards.
Johan Huizinga -
I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding from the people I have met in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cutthroat, competitive world in which I spent my life.
Anthony Perkins
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Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience - I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed.
CeeLo Green -
The road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons. If indeed they come to an understanding of them at all.
Cormac McCarthy -
No matter what I write or speak about, it always has some connection to how our spiritual understanding impacts the world we live in. Whether I'm writing or teaching about nutrition, pilates, green living or meditation, all topics simmer down to self thought and intention.
Marianne Williamson -
People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards.
Oscar Wilde -
We understand nature by resisting it.
Gaston Bachelard -
To me, one of the big silver linings of the Simpson trial is the advances we've made in understanding domestic violence as a lethal problem. Before that trial, I think there was a widespread sense that it was a family affair, a normal part of a relationship, not really a crime. The reality is that it's very much a crime, and a very serious one.
Marcia Clark
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When you're used to being at a point where you're deadlifting close to 600 pounds, getting to be 5.5 percent body fat and seeing veins in places you shouldn't see them, it kind of skews your understanding of what is normal and OK.
Matt McGorry -
My writing is about connecting ways of talking to human relationships. My purpose is to show that linguistics has something to offer in understanding and improving relationships.
Deborah Tannen -
My prime interests are in evolution and development. I use the cellular slime molds as a tool to seek an understanding of those twin disciplines.
John Tyler Bonner -
It's cool to be a nerd. There's a general understanding that smartphones didn't come from jocks. The digital age was foreseen by a group of short-sleeved, buttoned-down, white-shirted guys and their female equivalents designing the very stuff that's now ubiquitous.
J. J. Abrams