Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Bandura

Comparative appraisals of efficacy require not only evaluation of one;s own performances but also knowledge of how others do, cognizance of nonability determinants of their performances, and some understanding that it is others, like oneself, who provide the most informative social criterion for comparison

Albert Camus

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Annie Lennox

My first understanding of HIV and AIDS was like everybody else from my generation. In the mid-'80s, we heard about this, and it was terrifying, because we knew nothing about how to respond to it appropriately, and we didn't really understand about how the virus is passed. There was a lot of misconception about that.

Annie Dillard

If I actually believed that the progress of human understanding depended on our crop of contemporary novelists, I would shoot myself.

D. A. Carson

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.

Danny Huston

You know, the great thing about acting or, indeed, filmmaking in general, is that we're all given a reason to do research. You kind of have to, really, if you want to know what you're doing, but it opens up this whole new understanding.

Alexander MacLaren

True peace comes not from the absence of trouble, but from the presence of God and will be deep and passing all understanding in the exact measure in which we live in and partake of the love of God.

The great minds approaching understanding will admit they continually gain more questions and less answers.

Don DeLillo

If you reveal everything, bare every feeling, ask for understanding, you lose something crucial to your sense of yourself. You need to know things that others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Through knowledge and understanding we will drive from the temple of freedom all who seek to establish over us thought control - whether they be agents of a foreign power or demagogues thirsty for personal power and public notice.

E. B. White

Understanding humor is like dissecting a live frog. It can be done, but the frog tends to die in the process.

David Cronenberg

I can't imagine a life without humor. Especially if you have an existential understanding of life, you must acknowledge the absurdity of it all.

David Hawkins

One is not the victim of mentation but instead is the very originator by virtue of intention to extract projected value. With this understanding, one is free from being dominated by the false "I" of the experiencer.

Dallas Willard

Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.

Curtis White

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.

David Levithan

When the shock wears off, you always hope there's understanding underneath.

Dodie Smith

And who says you always have to understand things? You can like them without understanding them -- like 'em better sometimes.

Debbie Allen

The first thing that goes into shooting a scene is understanding whats on the page.

Amy Tan

I can never remember things I didn't understand in the first place.

Andre Gide

Please do not understand me too quickly.

Andre Gide

Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.

Andre Gide

Understanding is the beginning of approving.

Ann-Marie MacDonald

There are some stories you can't hear enough. They are the same every time you hear them. But you are not. That's one reliable way of understanding time.

Ann Richards

[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.

Angela Bassett

Of course you want to do all the research that you can, but it's impossible to take a life and the boundaries of an hour and a half, so there is hope there will be understanding about that also.

Ang Lee

Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.

Anatoly Chubais

There is a state that is able to understand the demand in the economy. That state should use prices as an instrument for implementation of this understanding.

Anatole France

Theologians and philosophers, who make God the creator of Nature and the architect of the Universe, reveal Him to us as an illogical and unbalanced Being. They declare He is benevolent because they are afraid of Him, but they are forced to admit the truth that His ways are vicious and beyond understanding. They attribute a malignity to Him seldom to be found in any human being. And that is how they get human beings to worship Him. For our miserable species would never lavish worship on a just and benevolent God from whom they had nothing to fear.

Anais Nin

I am in great terror of your understanding by which you penetrate into my world; and then I stand revealed and I have shared my kingdom with you.

Anne Frank

I had an occasional flash of understanding, but then got selfishly wrapped up again in my own problems and pleasures.

Chuck D.

When you travel the world, you have to watch and you have to listen. We're not going to come in to Ireland without an understanding that there's a history that's very sensitive.

Christopher Nolan

One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding it yourself.

Andrea Mitchell

I learned everything I ever need to know about questioning artful dodgers by covering the most artful of them all, Ronald Reagan. For Reagan, performance was as much a part of governing as understanding the details of the federal budget.