Understanding Quotes
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We never understand what we're praying, and God, in His mercy, does not answer our prayers according to our understanding, but according to His wisdom.
Rich Mullins -
The more knowledge you've got, the more understanding you have, the better you are able to implement and pass it on to others.
Tony Orlando
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Being educated in the United States gave me a good understanding of American culture. I think I got a lot of influence from the entrepreneurial mind in the United States.
Masayoshi Son -
The Bible grows more beautiful, as we grow in our understanding of it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
The ancient practice of allowing land to remain fallow for a season is now exploded, and a succession of different crops found preferable. The case is similar with regard to the understanding, which is more relieved by change of study than by total inactivity.
William Benton Clulow -
The less apparent the means and manner of the artist, the more directly will his work appeal to the understanding and the feelings.
Asher Brown Durand -
There is nothing like understanding that your work has touched somebody. That is the sole purpose of acting. To be able to move and inspire. If I can do that for one person it is already changing the world and that makes me feel accomplished.
Scott Cohen -
The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.
John Ruskin
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The habit of doing more than you are paid for can benefit any business that sells a product or service. Learning and understanding the principle of the mastermind philosophy of networking can increase the value of your network and your net worth.
Clay Clark -
When I left college I thought - based on a staggeringly inadequate understanding of how the world worked - that I might like to go into book publishing.
Lev Grossman -
Every day we make more progress toward understanding the concert hall.
Esa-Pekka Salonen -
Every one of us sees 'green' differently. So everything is an approximation of understanding.
Nick Bantock -
We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
I have been brought to my emotional knees, but not in regard to the science of this topic, ... I am a devastated, broken, grieving mother, but I am not second-guessing or questioning my understanding of the issue.
Christine Maggiore
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Teens are by nature, experimental learners. There is no real understanding of biology without the lab.
Wendy Mogel -
I beg of you always to dwell upon the necessity of a thorough understanding of principles, in order to stop the vivacity of his mind, and please do not forget to meditate upon the subject of our discussion.
Nicolas Malebranche -
Reality can be experienced only with the eye of understanding, not just by a scholar.
Adi Shankara -
I had to learn that slower is faster. If you practice every day with patience and correctness, you will get there. It's like preparing for a jump. You can't rush. You must summon the appropriate energy with split-second timing and have an understanding of purpose to get up in the air. It requires training, confidence and mental effort. You can't have a vocabulary without the alphabet. Balanchine used to say, "Do you want to be a poet of gesture or do you want to be a physical entity?"
Edward Villella -
If we do not take this road of dialogue and understanding then I fear for the next generation. There are enough people preaching hatred, which encourages violence. We are living in times when technology, biology and chemistry have created the possibility of killing in large numbers. And, unfortunately, the cruelty and killing are often justified through a distorted interpretation of religion.
Akbar S. Ahmed -
A science of all these possible kinds of space [the higher dimensional ones] would undoubtedly be the highest enterprise which a finite understanding could undertake in the field of geometry... If it is possible that there could be regions with other dimensions, it is very likely that God has somewhere brought them into being.
Immanuel Kant
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I've never formally trained for pain management, but I have a good understanding of how to conquer it. I just analyze the pain, feel it in the moment, and then mentally become numb to it.
Criss Angel -
Before we have children, we think most of the parents sitting in sacrament meeting ought to “do something about their kids.” Once we have kids, we think everyone ought to be a lot more understanding about what we’re trying to survive during the meeting. And once our kids are grown, we think, “I never let my kids get away with that.” We really all need to chill out.
Dean Hughes -
They're talking about things of which they don't have the slightest understanding, anyway. It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.
Franz Kafka -
You can cultivate taste, as you can the intellect. Full understanding whets the appetite and desire, and, later, sharpens the enjoyment of possession.
Baltasar Gracian