Understanding Quotes

• Accept complete responsibility both for understanding and for being understood.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Responsibility
  • Understanding
  • Accepting

• People not only gain understanding through reflection, they evaluate and alter their own thinking.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Reflection

• There is so much wonder and joy in science, about understanding how the world works and why the world is the way it is. It's not just for academics. It is a thing that's available to everyone.

  

  Dallas Campbell
  • World
  • Wonder
  • Everyone

• The average, vague understanding of being can be permeated by traditional theories and opinions about being in such a way that these theories, as the sources of the prevailing understanding, remain hidden.

  

  Martin Heidegger
  • Understanding
  • Theories
  • Sources

• 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
  • World
  • Understanding
  • Period

• Humility comes from understanding that the obstacles in front of you are not going to go away.

  

  Sarah Ferguson
  • Understanding
  • Humility
  • Obstacles

• The improvement of the understanding is for two ends; first, for our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver and make out that knowledge to others.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Knowledge
  • Understanding
  • Improvement

• The Web 2.0 world is defined by new ways of understanding ourselves, of creating value in our culture, of running companies, and of working together.

  

  John Battelle
  • World
  • Together
  • Culture

• God grant that as our horizon of duty is widened, our minds may widen with it; that as our burden is increased, our shoulders may be strengthened to bear it. God grant to us that spirit of wisdom and understanding, uprightness, and godly fear, without which, even in greatest things there is nothing; with which, even in the smallest things there is every thing.

  

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
  • Wisdom
  • Spirit
  • Minds

• Consumer habits are key to understanding how to launch a product.

  

  Charles Duhigg
  • Understanding

• I'm suspicious of too much certainty in the pursuit of understanding just because I think people are limited in their understanding.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Understanding

• It really is understanding how to use money, and not let money use you.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Money
  • Understanding

• Many injuries and deaths can be prevented through an understanding of the dangers of power lines, electrical appliances, extension cords, and lightning.

  

  Richard Neal
  • Understanding
  • Electrical
  • Appliances

• Many people treat their bodies as if they were rented from Hertz - something they are using to get around in but nothing they genuinely care about understanding.

  

  Chungliang Al Huang
  • People
  • Care
  • Body

• I think there's a difference between calling people out and understanding the role that the press plays in a free society.

  

  Sean Spicer
  • Society
  • Free
  • Difference

• There's a learning curve to understanding how the Senate operates.

  

  Luther Strange
  • Learning
  • Understanding

• Relativity was a highly technical new theory that gave new meanings to familiar concepts and even to the nature of the theory itself. The general public looked upon relativity as indicative of the seemingly incomprehensible modern era, educated scientists despaired of ever understanding what Einstein had done, and political ideologues used the new theory to exploit public fears and anxieties-all of which opened a rift between science and the broader culture that continues to expand today.

  

  David C. Cassidy
  • Political
  • Science
  • Culture

• In all civilizations we've studied, all cultures that we know of across the Earth and across time have invested some kind of attempt to understanding where where, where they come from, and where they are going.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Time
  • Earth
  • Understanding

• This "human thing" is the permanent process of seeking the sacred through revealing what is hidden. It is an ever ongoing and indefinite process of understanding and interpretation.

  

  Curtis White
  • Humans
  • Process
  • Sacred

• Religion has been an important part of my understanding, my inquiry into what it means to be human.

  

  Ayad Akhtar
  • Important
  • Understanding

• We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Heart
  • Nature
  • Eye

• With comedians, you have that understanding that we're trying to get laughs.

  

  Colin Quinn
  • Trying
  • Understanding

• Unless a player has an 'understanding chess' rating of at least 2400, the amount of significant knowledge that he can impart on others is limited.

  

  Edmar Mednis
  • Player
  • Chess
  • Coaches

• The transition strategies are more important than understanding what the outcome state will be.

  

  Sean Parker
  • Understanding
  • Strategies

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