Understanding Quotes
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Let's take our babies home and abide by the curfew. I want to thank you for understanding that we want to bring peace.
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The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.
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In spiritual growth, it is important to avoid imbalances between academic or intellectual learning and practical implementation. Otherwise there is a danger that too much intellectualiza tion will kill the more contemplative practices and too much emphasis on practical implementation without study will kill the understanding. There has got to be a balance.
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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.
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Our view of nature will influence the way we treat nature, and our view of human nature will affect our understanding of human responsibility.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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A weak understanding of what the Bible says about sin is tied to a weak understanding of what the Bible says is achieved by the cross.
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So while it is true that children are exposed to more information and a greater variety of experiences than were children of the past, it does not follow that they automatically become more sophisticated. We always know much more than we understand, and with the torrent of information to which young people are exposed, the gap between knowing and understanding, between experience and learning, has become even greater than it was in the past.
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Neuroscience is a baby science, a mere century old, and our scientific understanding of the brain is nowhere near where we'd like it to be. We know more about the moons of Jupiter than what is inside of our skulls.
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Successful negotiation is not about getting to 'yes'; it's about mastering 'no' and understanding what the path to an agreement is.
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I heavily overinvest in recruiting. I have an understanding with certain search firms that if you find someone great, don't wait until there's a job opening - send him to me.
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I want audiences to look at adolescent delinquents with greater understanding and more compassion.
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I set myself a rule before I actually write a tune to the lyrics, and the rule is that I've got to take the lyrics on to a level of understanding before I can actually write music to them. What I'm doing is interpretation. If I don't write the lyrics, therefore I must interpret them to the best of my ability. So my rule is that I must understand it, but I don't necessarily have to accept.
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What better can parents and children give to each other than respectful, understanding attention.
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To agree without understanding is inane. To disagree without understanding is impudent.
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Make us worthy Lord to serve our fellow men throughout the world who live and die in poverty and hunger. Give them through our hands this day their daily bread and by our understanding love, give peace and joy.
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Thus our own age is essentially one of understanding, and on the average, perhaps, more knowledgeable than any former generation, but it is without passion. Every one knows a great deal, we all know which way we ought to go and all the different ways we can go, but nobody is willing to move.
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Control is not real, and I'm really understanding that every day. It's about the acceptance of relinquishing control that makes it powerful for you.
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I tend to agree with those who say that a justice's duty is to the Constitution and that it is thus more legitimate for her to enforce her best understanding of the Constitution rather than a precedent she thinks is clearly in conflict with it.
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It's just a matter of understanding what's necessary and discipline yourself to do it.
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I left things out - my motivations, my history, my emotional responses - because I am not good at understanding them or writing about them. I tried and it was generally boring and always unconvincing. Most importantly I wanted to try to place Afghans and Afghanistan in the foreground rather than my own character.
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When I was a little kid, my parents would show me Marx Brothers' films and westerns and stuff like that. That's where all my desire to be an actor comes from and probably most of my understanding of acting comes from for sure.
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After a very busy three weeks spent in the City, I now have a much better understanding how all the different financial institutions work and how they fit together.
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Read, read, read. Read good books. You will strengthen your understanding of story. Your vocabulary will be the richer for it.
