Quotes about understand
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What one doesn't understand one doesn't possess. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
understanding tea firsts
prepare a little hot tea or broth and it should be brought to them . . . without their being asked if they would care for it. Those who are in great distress want no food, but if it is handed to them, they will mechanically take it ' ... There was something arresting about the matter-of-fact wisdom here, the instinctive understanding of the physiological disruptions... I will not forget the instinctive wisdom of the friend who, every day for those first few weeks, brought me a quart container of scallion-and-ginger congee from Chinatown. Congee I could eat. Congee was all I could eat. Joan Didion
understanding mind exit
A mind in control is always better than a mind out of control. For one thing, a controlled mind can learn much better and go much further than a chaotic one. A person with a steady-state mind has the potential to exit this life with a much greater understanding than someone who is continually learning and forgetting, gaining and misplacing knowledge. Jim Woodring
understanding waste life-is
To be mature you have to realize what you value most... Not to arrive at a clear understanding of one's own values is a tragic waste. You have missed the whole point of what life is for. Eleanor Roosevelt
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Often, if I read a story and I'm moved, I have an understanding for a character and I don't really know why. Mia Wasikowska
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Even before 9/11, the Philippines was already fighting terrorism in southwestern Philippines. That's why when 9/11 happened, we could understand the pain. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
understand work yoga
At the end of the day I'll go to a yoga class. I used to say that my work was my yoga, because it stretches everything, expands and challenges everything you know and understand and are. Elaine Pagels
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don't have a real understanding of HBO's business. Chris Albrecht
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They understand the peculiarities of their customers' IT environments and they understand the processes.
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They understand that everything they put into this may be tossed.
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They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in spirit. William Saroyan
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You should communicate with your other one. Understanding what they are on about is pretty key. Rita Ora
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You really have to see the grounds to understand how populated they are.
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They didn't understand English. They understood he had that gun. That's when they started to run. Ted White
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They didn't go for it and we don't understand why.
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It's just one of those things. We understand we are just a part of it. Mark E. Smith
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It's just bizarre. We need to understand why it happened.
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It was the climate, and that's what we wanted to do, ... only when they didn't want us to understand what they were saying.
understanding important repetition
Repeating is the whole of living and by repeating comes understanding, and understanding is to some the most important part of living. Gertrude Stein
understanding doe whole
Always it comes very slowly the completed understanding of it, the repeating each one does to tell it the whole history of the being in each one, always now I hear it. Always now slowly I understand it.
understanding trying want
We cannot understand without wanting to understand, that is, without wanting to let something be said...Understanding does not occur when we try to intercept what someone wants to say to us by claiming we already know it. Hans-Georg Gadamer
understanding music-is
Either your understanding of the meaning of music is there from the beginning or it is not. Gordon Getty
understanding asking favors
They have it wrong in asking if Schroeder favors Britain over France, or France over Britain. Schroeder favors Germany. That is what we all have to understand. Gerhard Schroder
understanding tools molecules
To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe. Jerry Garcia
understanding principles spirit
Dangerous principles impose upon our understanding, emasculate our spirits, and spoil our temper. Jeremy Collier
understanding firsts labels
The first act of insight is throw away the labels. Eudora Welty
understanding lucky snapshots
Insight doesn't happen often on the click of the moment, like a lucky snapshot, but comes in its own time and more slowly and from nowhere but within.
understanding assuming painting
This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting
understanding firsts understood
To understand is to possess the thing understood, first by sympathy and then by intelligence. Henri Frederic Amiel
understanding literature depth
...our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding. Helen Keller
understanding getting-older looking-forward
When I was younger, I was actually looking forward to getting older, to have more insight, more understanding. Cate Blanchett
understanding arise
Understanding arises through making Giambattista Vico
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In all your getting, get understanding. Jacqueline Woodson