Understanding Quotes
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It's frustrating sometimes: as an athlete, you're thrust into the spotlight, and you know, I think this team has always done a really amazing job of understanding that we have this incredible platform; let's do something good with it.
Megan Rapinoe
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Love is family, support, priority, and understanding.
Gary Kemp
Spandau Ballet
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Skill at helping people grow spiritually, like skill at playing chess, depends on understanding and valuing differences.
John Ortberg
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Standards wars involve lots of variables, and understanding them often seems more an art than a science. They generally involve just two big players, and end in a winner-take-all situation.
James Surowiecki
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The year 1915 was one of meager results, the advantages remaining on the side of the Central Powers, with this understanding, however: The Allies were growing stronger because Great Britain was making rapid progress in marshaling her resources for war.
Kelly Miller
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We must start human society from scratch; as Francis Bacon said, we must recreate human understanding.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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I make no bones about it. I have no understanding of pastry.
Michael Symon
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We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
William Hazlitt
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In the midst of a burning-hot shaming, calling for patience and context and understanding and empathy can really land you in trouble.
Jon Ronson
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I see it in a lot of period pieces where everybody is standing and talking, in a stilted, archaic way, instead of being loose in the world. So, I try to do a little bit of research, just so that I can feel like I'm grounded, but then I try to bring as much of my human understanding that I can, under the filter of it being 1865.
Ato Essandoh
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Artists don't like the business side. None of us were born understanding money. We all had to learn how to do it. So it's just something creative people need to get familiar with... not really so scary.
Adam Leipzig
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People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.
Raoul Vaneigem
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The beginning of knowledge is the intention, then listening, then understanding, then action, then preservation, and then spreading it.
Abdullah ibn Mubarak
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Muscle mass does not always equal strength. Strength is kindness and sensitivity. Strength is understanding that your power is both physical and emotional. That it comes from the body and the mind. And the heart.
Henry Rollins
Black Flag
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Much modern art is, at first sight, unnerving... in the contemporary world, we have come to expect instant response and immediate understanding.
Nicholas Serota
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...we are all inclined to ... direct our inquiry not by the matter itself, but by the views of our opponents; and, even when interrogating oneself, one pushes the inquiry only to the point at which one can no longer offer any opposition. Hence a good inquirer will be one who is ready in bringing forward the objections proper to the genus, and that he will be when he has gained an understanding of the differences.
Aristotle
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I pray for a more friendly, more caring, and more understanding human family on this planet. To all who dislike suffering, who cherish lasting happiness, this is my heartfelt appeal.
Dalai Lama
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Making photographs that dealt with the understanding of who I am as a gay man and dealt with the process of accepting that, and also accepting what I'm into sexually, what sexually arouses me. So I was making these images not necessarily knowing what they were about, but just putting it out there - that mode of thinking or consideration of my own desires, and also the much larger conversation around images that deal with ideas of sexuality and how those images are distributed and then accepted or understood by whoever is viewing those images.
Wardell Milan
